Charlie Hunnam aufgeführt in der Rolle von...
Nicholas Nickleby
- John Browdie: Wait. I say Wait. I've come from the schoolhouse. Mr Squeers says he was attacked. Beaten, and nearly sensless. When he said it was thee who did it, I knew thee must nor be allowed to leave...
- Nicholas: We will not be stopped.
- John Browdie: ...without my shaking your hand and saying to thee, "Job well done". Give us thee hand, will you?
- [At the assembly to see Smike flogged for running away]
- Mr. Squeers: Is every boy here? Get back! You too Nickleby!
- [to Smike]
- Mr. Squeers: And you. Have you anything to say?
- Smike: [Crying] Please, sir, spare me.
- Mr. Squeers: I'll spare you. I'll flog you to within an inch of your life, and I'll spare you then.
- [Squeers strikes him once, Smike cries out in pain]
- Nicholas: Stop! This must not go on. I will not allow it.
- Mr. Squeers: You dare to challenge my authority! Stay back!
- Nicholas: Touch him at your peril! I will not stand by and see it done.
- Mr. Squeers: You will do as you're told!
- Nicholas: If you raise the devil within me, the consequences shall fall on your own head! Once I begin, God help you!
- [Nicholas grabs the stick and starts hitting Squeers with it]
- Mr. Squeers: Stop! No, please, wait!
- Nicholas: I do not know why, but I am going to show you what you have never shown any boy in this room... Pity.
- [Nicholas cuts down Smike and helps him out]
- Nicholas: Does your friend think I'm in love with her?
- Tilda: Does she think so? Of course.
- Nicholas: But I have made no such declaration.
- Tilda: Your eyes said what your mouth could not.
- Nicholas: Perhaps my mouth should say what my eyes have not. I have scarcely seen the lady three times but should I have seen her 30 or 30,000, it would be the same. I have not one thought, hope or wish connected with her unless it is part of the picture I keep in my mind of one day being able to turn my back upon this accursed place and never to think of it again with any feeling but loathing and disgust.
- Nicholas: That's John Browdie.
- Newman Noggs: Is he good or bad.
- Nicholas: He gave me money when he heard I'd beaten Squeers.
- Newman Noggs: Oh, than he's good.
- John Browdie: [of the kidnapped Smike] He's in the schoolmaster's room, next to Tilda's and my room.
- Nicholas: What is the way in?
- John Browdie: You must go through the inn, but the schoolmaster is sitting in the front room just by the stairs.
- Newman Noggs: Oh dear. It's impossible.
- John Browdie: I could distract the schoolmaster, you could slip past and go to my room, there is a door adjoining the schoolmaster's, go through it, get the lad. I'll watch the stairs and again try to disrtact him when you come out.
- Newman Noggs: If I could offer an opinion in regards to this scheme? It seems, uh, foolhardy, riddled with danger, and doomed to failure. Otherwise I can find no fault with it.
- Nicholas: It is for Smike.
- Nicholas: [to Sir Mulberry Hawk] I am your equal in education and birth and, I trust, your superior in everything otherwise!
- Nicholas: [to Ralph Nickleby] Your curse has no power over me. The structures you raised all through your misspent life are crumbling into dust. This day, this very day, 10000 pounds of your hoarded wealth are gone in one great crash. Your day is done. Night is coming fast for you.
- Mrs. Nickleby: We feel he died of a broken heart.
- Ralph Nickleby: Pooh, there's no such thing.
- Nicholas: [resentfully] Indeed, if you have no heart to break.
- Mrs. Nickleby: [Nicholas' father, Ralph's brother, died] Mine was no common loss.
- Ralph Nickleby: I was no uncommon loss. Husbands die every day. And wives.
- Nicholas: Brothers also.
- Ralph Nickleby: Yes, and puppies, too.
- Smike: Tomorrow where will you go?
- Nicholas: Perhaps to Liverpool. I could find work on a ship. Do not be anxious. Before I do anything I will get you to your home. Where is it?
- Smike: You are my home.
- Nicholas: [affectionately] Smike.
- Smike: Please may I go with you to sea? I will be your faithful, hardworking servant, I will. Promise I will. I want only to be near you.
- Nicholas: Smike, the wall that separates us shall never be set by me. And I promise you, from this night forward, the world shall deal by you as it does by me.
- Nicholas: [on the Squeers treating Smike badly because he is friends with Nicholas] You will do better when I am gone.
- Smike: [alarmed] Gone? When are you going?
- Nicholas: I would go tomorrow if I could.
- Smike: Tell me, is the world as bad as this place?
- Nicholas: [smiles] Oh no.
- Smike: Should I ever meet you there?
- Nicholas: Well, yes I'm sure at...
- Smike: No, no tell me. Tell me that I should be sure to find you.
- Nicholas: [affirmatively] You would and I would help you and aid you. I would not bring fresh sorrow on you as they have done here.
- Nicholas: [on why he must leave the theatre troupe] Tis a family drama.
- Mrs. Crummles: Those are always popular.
- Mr. Crummles: But there is tragedy in the family.
- Nicholas: The pony's family?
- Mr. Crummles: Yes... the father drank. Ended up in the circus, drinking port wine with the clowns. Got greedy, couldn't quit and choked on the bottle.
- [Gasps]
- Mr. Crummles: At any rate, I'd Iove to bring you and your friend out.
- Mr. Crummles: And this is the infant phenomenon. She is but 10 years old.
- Nicholas: [the Infant Phenomenon is clearly older] Not... older?
- Mr. Crummles: [Raises eyebrow] Not a day.
- Nicholas: My father told me that the great journey of my life would be to find such a person. But, I am nearly 20 years of age and I fear he may be wrong.
- Nicholas: Father, please don't Iet them find him. If they do, let him be dead - his last breath a free one.