Carey Mulligan credited as playing...
Daisy Buchanan
- Daisy Buchanan: I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
- Daisy Buchanan: [after a long pause] Well, I'm certainly glad to see you again.
- Jay Gatsby: I-I'm certainly glad to see you, as well.
- Daisy Buchanan: I wish we could just run away.
- Jay Gatsby: Run away? No. Daisy, darling, that... that wouldn't be respectable. We're gonna live here, in this house. You and me.
- Daisy Buchanan: Open another window.
- Nick Carraway: There aren't any more.
- Daisy Buchanan: Then telephone for an axe.
- Jay Gatsby: If it wasn't for the mist, we could see the green light.
- Daisy Buchanan: What green light?
- Jay Gatsby: The one that burns all night at the end of your dock.
- Nick Carraway: [narrating] Possibly, it had occurred to Gatsby that the colossal significance of that light had vanished forever. Now it was once again just a green light on a dock and his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.
- Daisy Buchanan: I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. I've had a very bad time, Nicky. I'm pretty cynical about everything.
- Nick Carraway: Ah. Your daughter, I suppose she talks and eats and everything?
- Daisy Buchanan: Pammy? Oh, yes. Listen, Nick, when she was born, Tom was God knows where... with God knows whom. And I asked the nurse if it was a boy or girl. And she said it was a girl and I wept, "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool. That's the best thing a girl in this world can be. A beautiful little fool." All the bright precious things fade so fast. And they don't come back.
- Jay Gatsby: [Daisy cries after Gatsby showers her with fancy shirts] What is it? Daisy, Daisy darling, what is it?
- Daisy Buchanan: It... it makes me sad.
- Jay Gatsby: Why?
- Daisy Buchanan: Because...
- Nick Carraway: [narrating] Five lost years struggled on Daisy's lips, but all she could manage was...
- Jay Gatsby: Why?
- Daisy Buchanan: [laughs] Because I've never seen such beautiful shirts before.
- Daisy Buchanan: [dancing with Gatsby] All my life. I wish it could always be like this.
- Jay Gatsby: It will be.
- Nick Carraway: [narrating] If only if it'd been enough for Gatsby just to hold Daisy. But he had a grand vision for his life and Daisy's part in it.
- Tom Buchanan: Civilization is going to pieces! Have you read "The Rise of the Colored Empires" by this fellow, Goddard? Everybody ought to read it. The idea is it's up to us, the dominant race, to watch out or these
- [points to black servant]
- Tom Buchanan: other races will have control of things.
- Daisy Buchanan: Tom's very profound lately. He reads deep books with long words in them.
- Tom Buchanan: It's been proved. It's scientific.
- Daisy Buchanan: We've got to beat them down.
- Daisy Buchanan: [Daisy narrating letter] We can't lose each other. And let all this glorious love end in nothing. Come home. I'll be here waiting and hoping for every long dream of you to come true.
- Tom Buchanan: You know, a lot of these newly rich people are just filthy bootleggers?
- Daisy Buchanan: Not Gatsby. He's a businessman. He owned a lot of drugstores.
- Tom Buchanan: [scoffs] Businessman!