Lily James: Cinderella

Cinderella

Cinderella

Cinderella: [while she and Kit are dancing at the ball] They're all looking at you.
Prince Charming: Believe me - they're all looking at you.

Lady Tremaine: [from trailer] Wouldn't you prefer to eat when all the work is done, Ella?
Cinderella: Yes, stepmother.
Lady Tremaine: You needn't call me that; Madam will do.

Captain: [to Cinderella] Miss. You are requested and required to present yourself to your king.
Lady Tremaine: I forbid you to do this!
Captain: And I forbid you to forbid her! Who are you to stop an officer of the king? Are you an empress? A saint? A deity?
Lady Tremaine: I am her mother.
Cinderella: [curtly] You have never been... and you never will be my mother.

Prince Charming: Who are you?
Cinderella: I am Cinderella. Your Majesty, I am no princess. I have no carriage, no parents, no dowry. I do not even know if that beautiful slipper will fit But, if it does--will you take me as I am? A good honest country girl who loves you?
Prince Charming: Of course, I would. But only if you'll take me as I am, an apprentice still learning his trade. Please...
[Prince Charming invites Ella to sit on a nearby chair as the Grand Duke watches in fear, the Captain looks on with a smile as he places the slipper on Ella's foot. It fits perfectly! He takes Ella by the hand and is just about to kiss her when Drizella and Anastasia burst into the room]
Drizella: [apologetically] Cinderella! Ella! My dear sister! I'm sorry, so very sorry.
[the two curtsy to Cinderella and the prince]

Cinderella: [from trailer] It was my mother's old dress.
Lady Tremaine: It would be an insult to take you to the palace dressed in these old rags.

Cinderella: [as they're heading to the palace balcony to greet their kingdom's people during their wedding] Are you ready?
Prince Charming: For anything, so long as it's with you.

Fairy Godmother: I almost forgot. Remember, the magic will only last so long. With the last echo of the last bell, at the last stroke of midnight, the spell will be broken and all will return to what it was before.
Cinderella: Midnight?
Fairy Godmother: Midnight.
Cinderella: That's more than enough time!

Cinderella: [sighs as she and Kit look at portraits of their parents in the gallery before going onto the balcony to greet their kingdom's people] They would have loved each other.
Prince Charming: We must have a portrait of you painted.
Cinderella: [giggles] Oh no, I do *hate* myself in paintings.
Prince Charming: Be kind.
Cinderella: [giggles again] And have courage.
Prince Charming: And all will be well.

Cinderella: [after Lady Tremaine shatters her glass slipper on the wall; horrified and angry] Why? Why are you so *cruel*? I don't understand it. I've tried to be kind to you.
Lady Tremaine: You? Kind to me?
Cinderella: Yes. And though *no one* deserves to be treated as you have treated me. Why do you do it? WHY?
Lady Tremaine: Why? Because YOU are *young*, and *innocent*, and *good*, and I...
[she furiously turns to leave, locking Cinderella in her room]
Cinderella: No! No!

Lady Tremaine: [points at Ella's breakfast plate] Who's this for? Is there someone we've forgotten?
Cinderella: [smiles] It's my place.
Lady Tremaine: Oh, it seems too much to expect you to prepare breakfast, serve it and to sit with us. Wouldn't you prefer to eat when all the work is done, Ella? Or should I say, *Cinder*-Ella? Hmm?

Cinderella: Fairy godmother?
Fairy Godmother: Yes, what?
Cinderella: My dress, I can't go in this dress. Can you mend it?
Fairy Godmother: Mend it? No-no, I'll turn it into something new.
Cinderella: Oh no, please, don't. This was my mother's, and... and I'd like to wear it when I go to the palace. It's almost like - taking her with me.
Fairy Godmother: I understand. But I don't think she'd mind if I - gee it up a bit? Wouldn't mind a nice blue?
Cinderella: [whispering] No.
[Using her magic wand, the Fairy Godmother turns Cinderella's torn pink dress into a dazzling blue ballgown]
Fairy Godmother: [smiles in satisfaction] There!
Cinderella: [also smiles] It's beautiful! She'd love it!

Lady Tremaine: Now, here is how you will pay me, if you are to have what you desire. No one will believe you, a dirty servant girl without a family, if you lay claim to the Prince's heart. But with a respectable gentlewoman to put you forward, you will not be ignored. When you are married, you will make *me* the head of the royal household. Anastasia and Drizella we will pair off with wealthy lords, and *I* shall manage that boy.
Cinderella: But he's not a boy.
Lady Tremaine: And who are you? How would *you* rule a kingdom? Best to leave it to me; that way we all get what we want.
Cinderella: No.
Lady Tremaine: No?
Cinderella: I was not able to protect my father from you, but I will protect the prince *and* the kingdom, no matter what becomes of me.

Cinderella: [crying after Lady Tremaine, Drizella, and Anastasia tear up her mother's dress and leave for the ball without her] I'm sorry, mother. I'm sorry. I know I said I'd have courage but I don't. Not anymore. I don't believe anymore!

Cinderella: But... *All* the ladies in the land are invited, by order of the king.
Lady Tremaine: It is the *king* I'm thinking of. It would be an insult to the royal personage to take you to the palace dressed in these old rags.
Cinderella: [appalled] Rags? This was my mother's.
Lady Tremaine: [Tremaine inches closer to Ella] Oh... Sorry to have to tell you, but your mother's taste was questionable. This *thing* is so old-fashioned, it's practically falling to pieces.
[Tremaine tugs harshly the sleeve of Ella's dress causing the sleeve to rip completely]

Cinderella: Please don't let them hurt him.
Prince Charming: But we're hunting, you see. It's what's done.
Cinderella: Just because it's what's done doesn't mean it's what should be done!

Fairy Godmother: Why are you crying?
Cinderella: Oh, it's nothing.
Fairy Godmother: Nothing? Nothing. What is a bowl of milk? Nothing. But kindness makes it everything.