Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

Ewan McGregor: Cricket

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Quotes 

• Cricket : I want to tell you a story. It's a story you may think you know, but you don't. Not really. You see, I, Sebastian J. Cricket, was there. As a matter of fact, I lived, actually lived, in the heart of the wooden boy.

• Pinocchio : What's a burden?

  Cricket : It's something painful you must carry, even though it hurts you very much.

• Cricket : [after being hugged between Geppetto and Pinocchio]  Love hurts.

• Cricket : [after being smashed by a book]  Oh, the pain... life is such hideous pain.

• Cricket : Sometimes fathers feel despair, like everyone else. And they say things, things they only think they mean in the moment. But with time, they learn that... well, that they never really meant it at all.

• Cricket : I'm not a governess, madam. I am an author, a raconteur.

• Cricket : What happens, happens, and then we are gone.

• [first lines] 

  Cricket : [narrator]  By the time master Geppetto made Pinocchio, he had already lost a son. Now this was quite a few years before my time, but I learnt the story. And then it became my story.

  Cricket : Geppetto lost Carlo during the Great War. They'd been together only ten years. But it was as if Carlo had taken the old man's life with him.