Helena Bonham Carter credited as playing...
Corpse Bride
- Victor Van Dort: [alone in the forest, practicing his vows] With this hand I will lift your sorrows. Your cup will never empty, for I will be your wine. - Ah, Mrs. Everglot. You look ravishing this evening. What's that, Mr. Everglot, call you "Dad"? If you insist, Sir. - With this candle, I will light your way in darkness. With this ring, I ask you to be mine.
- [He places the ring on what he thinks is a root. As he turns away, the root shoots out, grabs Victor's arm and almost pulls him into the ground. Victor pulls himself free and finds a detatched skeletal hand gripping his arm. He watches as the ground gives way and an unearthly female figure, wearing a dishevelled wedding dress, rises from beneath the tree. She pulls back her veil]
- The Corpse Bride: I do.
- The Corpse Bride: I was a bride. My dreams were taken from me. But now - now I've stolen them from someone else. I love you, Victor, but you are not mine.
- The Corpse Bride: I've spent so long in the darkness, I'd almost forgotten how beautiful the moonlight is.
- [the Corpse Bride recognizes Lord Barkis]
- The Corpse Bride: You!
- Barkis Bittern: Emily?
- [Lord Barkis and Emily are shocked to see each other]
- The Corpse Bride: You!
- Barkis Bittern: But, but I left you.
- The Corpse Bride: For dead!
- [last lines]
- Victor Van Dort: Wait. I made a promise.
- The Corpse Bride: You kept your promise. You set me free. Now I can do the same for you.
- The Corpse Bride: Get out!
- Barkis Bittern: Oh, I'm leaving.
- [evil laugh]
- Barkis Bittern: [picking up the wine goblet] But first! A toast, to Emily. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride! Tell me, my dear, can a heart still break once it's stopped beating? Hm?
- Maggot: [singing] What does that wispy little brat have that you don't have double?
- Black Widow Spider: [singing] She can't hold a candle to the beauty of your smile!
- The Corpse Bride: How about a pulse?
- Maggot: Overrated by a mile!
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overvalued! Overblown! If he only knew the you that we know!
- Black Widow Spider: [singing] And that silly little creature isn't wearing his ring.
- Maggot: [singing] And she doesn't play piano,
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Or dance, or sing. No she doesn't compare!
- The Corpse Bride: But she still breaths air...
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: Who cares?
- Maggot: Unimportant!
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overrated! Overblown! If only he could see how special you can be; if he only knew the you that we know.
- The Corpse Bride: [singing] If I touch a burning candle, I can feel no pain. If you cut me with a knife, it's still the same. And I know her heart is beating, and I know that I am dead; yet the pain here that I feel, try and tell me it's not real, and it seems that I still have a tear to shed.
- Maggot: [singing] The sole redeeming feature from that little creature is that she's alive.
- Black Widow Spider: Overrated!
- Maggot: Overblown!
- Black Widow Spider: [singing] Everybody knows that's just a temporary state, which is cured very quickly when we meet our fate.
- Maggot: Who cares?
- Black Widow Spider: Unimportant!
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overrated! Overblown! If only he could see how special you can be; if he only knew the you that we know.
- The Corpse Bride: If I touch a burning candle, I can feel no pain. In the ice or in the sun, it's all the same. Yet I feel my heart is aching; thou it doesn't beat, it's breaking; and the pain here that I feel, try and tell me it's not real. I know that I am dead; yet it seems that I still have some tears to shed.
- The Corpse Bride: We need to go up. Upstairs? To visit the land of the living.
- Elder Gutknecht: Land of the living? Oh, my dear.
- The Corpse Bride: Please, Elder Gutknecht.
- Elder Gutknecht: Now, why go up there when people are dying to get down here?
- Victor Van Dort: Sir, I beg you to help. It means so much to me... us.
- Elder Gutknecht: I don't know. It's just not natural.
- The Corpse Bride: Please, Elder Gutknecht. Surely there must be something you can do.
- Elder Gutknecht: Let me see what I can do.
- The Corpse Bride: [about Victor's dead dog, Scraps] What a cutie.
- Victor Van Dort: You should have seen him with fur.
- The Corpse Bride: [after her hand escapes her arm and dances up Victor's arm] Pardon my enthusiasm.
- Victor Van Dort: [snapping her hand into place] I like your enthusiasm.
- Victor Van Dort: What's going on here? Where am I? Who are you?
- The Corpse Bride: Well, that's kind of a long story.
- Bonejangles: What a story it is. A tragic tale of romance, passion and murder most foul.
- The Corpse Bride: [meeting Victoria] Darling, I just wanted to meet... Darling, who's this?
- Victoria Everglot: Who is she?
- The Corpse Bride: I'm his wife.
- [She proudly holds out her hand with the ring on it]
- Victoria Everglot: Victor?
- Victor Van Dort: Victoria, wait. You don't understand. She's dead. Look!
- The Corpse Bride: [about Victor, showing the wedding ring on her fingerbones] He's not my boyfriend, he's my husband.
- [Victor flees the Corpse Bride in panic, finally he makes it out of the forest and begins to relieve]
- The Corpse Bride: [cornering him] You may kiss the bride.
- The Corpse Bride: Maybe perhaps he does belong with her.
- [sarcastic tone]
- The Corpse Bride: Little Miss Living, with her rosy cheeks and beating heart.
- Victor Van Dort: But I don't even know your name.
- Maggot: [from inside the Corpse Bride's head] Well, that's a great way to start a marriage.
- The Corpse Bride: [grasps head and hisses] Sshh! Shut up!
- [smiles at Victor]
- The Corpse Bride: It's Emily.
- Victor: Look, I am terribly sorry about what's happened to you and I would like to help. But I really need to get home.
- The Corpse Bride: This is your home now.
- Elder Gutknecht: Just remember, when you want to come back, say "Hopscotch."
- The Corpse Bride: Hopscotch?
- Elder Gutknecht: That's it.