The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Charles Laughton: The Hunchback Quasimodo
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Quotes
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[Last lines]
Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : [to one of the stone gargoyles] Why was I not made of stone - like thee?
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : Sanctuary! Sanctuary!
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : I never realized till now how ugly I am, because you're so beautiful... I'm not a man! I'm not a beast! I'm about as shapeless as the man in the moon! I'm deaf, you know, but you can speak to me by signs.
Esmeralda : Why did you save me?
Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : You ask me why I saved you? Oh, I tried to carry you off, and the next day you gave me a drink of water and little pity.
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : She gave me water.
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : [half-laughing, half-weeping] I'm about as shapeless as the man in the moon!
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : Ohh, you asked me why I saved you. I tried to carry you off, and the next day, you gave me a drink of water, and a little pity.
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : [holding Esmeralda over his head, to the crowd] Sanctuary! Sanctuary!
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : You must never leave the church. They... they will hang you. And that'd kill me.
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Court Clerk : [in the courtroom] You are accused with disturbing the peace, abducting a woman, and resisting the King's guards. What is your defense...
[he points his finger at Quasimodo]
Court Clerk : ... quick, and to the point?
Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : [at the top of his lungs] Quasimodo!
Court Clerk : So, you plead guilty?
Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : Twenty-five next month!
Court Clerk : For that you shall be *whipped*!
Quasimodo, the bell-ringer : Bell ringer of Notre Dame!
Procurator : Your Honor, the prisoner is deaf. He hears nothing.
Court Clerk : That's different.