Elle Fanning: Winnie Portley-Rind

The Boxtrolls

Winnie Portley-Rind

Winnie: [explaining to Eggs, who has been raised as a Boxtroll since he was a baby, how to act around humans] When you meet someone, you must look them in the eye, and shake hands.
[a confused Eggs does jazz hands]
Winnie: What are you doing?

Winnie: [on seeing Eggs rubbing his crotch] No!... You don't scratch there in public. That's why they're called
[whispers]
Winnie: privates.

Winnie: [she has fallen down a deep hole, that leads to the Boxtrolls underground hide-out] Where are the rivers of blood, and the mountains of bones? I was promised mountains of bones!

Eggs: I told you, we don't eat people.
Winnie: [challenging] Why do you keep saying "we"? You're not one of them. You're a BOY.
Eggs: [denying it] No I'm not, I'm a Boxtroll.
Winnie: Oh, really? Let's see you fit in your box.
Eggs: [making excuses] I can't right now. I'm long-boned.
Winnie: And you don't talk like them.
Eggs: I have a speech impediment.
Winnie: Your ears aren't pointed.
Eggs: I slept on them funny.
Winnie: [when Eggs keeps insisting he's a Boxtroll] Oh, for goodness sake, give me your hand. I don't bite.
Winnie: [compares Eggs' hand to that of a Boxtroll's hand, who only has 3 fingers, and the middle finger is huge] See? You're not like them.
Winnie: [places her hand against his hand, and their fingers line up] You're one of us. You're a boy, Eggs.

Winnie: [Eggs is examining himself in a full-length mirror, he is now dressed in human clothes] You look more like a proper boy.
Eggs: [bemused] Me, proper boy?

Winnie: [When Eggs states that he is a Boxtroll] Oh... really? Then let's see you fit into your box!
Eggs: Err... I can't right now.
Winnie: [nods head] Ummhmm.
Eggs: I'm long boned.

Winnie: You're the worst pickpocket I've ever seen.
Winnie: [Eggs is cowering in a trashcan, Winnie drops a coin on his nose] Here. Buy a book on how to be a better thief.

Eggs: Please help us.
Winnie: [exhales resignedly] If I agree to help, you have to do exactly as I say.
Eggs: I promise.
Winnie: All right, first things first. Off with the box.
Winnie: [Eggs recoils in shock; quick cut to all the Boxtrolls screaming at Eggs not wearing his box] Stop that!
Winnie: [to all the Boxtrolls] Alright, you petty thieves, bring me your loot.

Winnie: [addressing the outdoor audience, standing on the same stage that Madame Frou Frou used to] And there I was, trapped in his sweaty armpit, until he swelled like a balloon and POP!
Winnie: [audience applauds] An ocean of guts exploded over us like a hurricane of yuck!

Winnie: You were with the Boxtrolls last night?
Eggs: Yes.
Winnie: [gets real excited] Oh. I knew it. I knew it! I knew it! Father didn't believe me, but I knew it! How did you escape?
Eggs: We went underground.
Winnie: Did they drag you down to their hideous cave?
Eggs: [shocked by her question] Huh?
Winnie: [morbidly excited] Were there mountains of baby bones? And rivers of blood?
Eggs: [aghast by her questions] What?
Winnie: Did they eat your family, and did they let you watch?
Eggs: What?
Winnie: I mean, MAKE you watch? Tell me everything!