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Quotes of Movie: The Last Unicorn [1982]
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Mommy Fortuna: Oh she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that *I* caught her, and *I* held her prisoner. So there's my immortality, hey? (unknown)
Mommy Fortuna: The harpy's as real as you are, and just as immortal. And she was just as easy to catch, if you want to know.
Unicorn: Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage, and she hears you.
Mommy Fortuna: Oh, she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that I caught her, and I held her prisoner. So there's my immortality, eh?
Unicorn: Let me go. And let her go too. I cannot bear to see her caged. We are two sides of the same magic... The harpy and me, we are not for you. (unknown)
Unicorn: I am no longer like the others, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but now I do. I regret. (unknown)
[the unicorn has just looked at all the "horrors" in the other cages at the carnival and discovered that they are not real; they are only illusions]
Unicorn: That one is real. That is the harpy, Selano.
Schmendrick: Yes, the old woman caught her by chance, the same way she took you. Oh, she should never have meddled with a real harpy! Or a real unicorn for that matter. Because the truth melts her magic, always. (unknown)
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Amalthea: Who am I? Why am I here? What is it that I'm searching for in this strange place, day after day? (unknown)
Schmendrick: It's a very rare person who is taken for what he truly is. (unknown)
King Haggard: You are losing my interest, and that is very dangerous. (unknown)
Mabruk: Haggard, I would not be you for all the world. You have let your doom in by the front door, but it will not depart that way! Farewell, poor Haggard! (unknown)
The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course. (unknown)
Amalthea: But I'm always dreaming, even when I'm awake; it is never finished. (unknown)
Molly Grue: Why won't you help me? Why must you always speak in riddles?
The Cat: Because I be, what I be. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, mum, but I be a cat. And no cat anywhere, ever gave anyone a straight answer. (unknown)
Molly: No, it can't be. Can it be? Where have you been? Where have you been? Damn you! Where have you been?
Schmendrick: Don't you talk to her that way!
Unicorn: I'm here now.
Molly: And where were you twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am this!
[Weeps]
Schmendrick: Can you really see her? Do you know what she is?
Molly: If you had been waiting to see a unicorn, as long as I have...
Schmendrick: She's the last unicorn in the world.
Molly: It would be the last unicorn that came to Molly Grue. It's all right, I forgive you. (unknown)
King Haggard: The last! The last! I knew you were the last! (unknown)
Haggard: What are you looking at?
Amalthea: The sea.
Haggard: Ah yes, the sea is always good. There is nothing I can look at for very long, except the sea. (unknown)
Haggard: What is the matter with your eyes? Why can I not see myself, in your eyes? (unknown)
Schmendrick: If we run away then all the unicorns of the world will remain prisoners forever except one. And she will grow old and die.
Amalthea: Everything dies! I want to die when you die.
[looks at Lir]
Amalthea: I'm no unicorn, no magical creature. I'm a woman, and I love you, Lir. Don't let him change me! Lir, I will not love you when I'm a unicorn.
Prince Lir: Amalthea, don't...
Schmendrick: Then let the quest end here! I don't think I could change you back, even if you wished it. Marry the prince, and live happily ever after.
Amalthea: Yes, that is my wish.
Prince Lir: No. My lady, I am a hero. Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
Molly Grue: But what if there isn't a happy ending?
Schmendrick: There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.
Molly Grue: Schmendrick, let her stay the way she is. Let her be...
Schmendrick: That's not in the story. Lir know that, and so does she.
Molly Grue: You don't care! You don't care what happens to her or to the others, just so you're a real magician at last. You don't care-"
Schmendrick: Well I wish I didn't care! I wish to God I didn't care about anything but my magic! But I do! I do. (unknown)
Schmendrick: My lady, you are free! (unknown)
Unicorn: You may come if you like. But I wish you had asked some other reward for setting me free
Schmendrick the Magician: I thought about it. But you couldn't give me what I really wanted.
Unicorn: No. I cannot change you into something you are not. I cannot make you a real magician.
Schmendrick the Magician: Ah its ok. Don't worry about it.
Unicorn: Oh I won't. (unknown)
Selano: Set me free. We are sisters you and I. (unknown)
Schmendrick the Magician: Come with me.
Molly Grue: I will. (unknown)
Molly Grue: Please! Please do something!
Schmendrick the Magician: What can I do? Do you think the Red Bull likes card tricks? If I could, I would change her into some other creature, some beast too humble for the Bull to be concerned with. But that would take a real magician with real magic, and I can't pretend anymore...
Molly Grue: But you do. You have magic. Maybe you can't find it, but it's there. You called Robin Hood, and there is no Robin Hood. You have all the power you need if you dared to look for it. (unknown)
Ruhk: Okay, Schmendrick, I give up. Why *is* a raven like a writing desk? Heh? (unknown)
Unicorn: You are a true wizard now, as you always wished. Does it make you happy?
Schmendrick: Well, men don't always know when they're happy. But I-I think so. And you?
Unicorn: I am a little afraid to go home. I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am no longer like the others, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I now I do. I regret.
Schmendrick: I am sorry. I have done you evil and I cannot undo it.
Unicorn: No. Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me with that joy-save one. And I thank you for that part, too. Farewell good magician. I will try to go home. (unknown)
Unicorn: I have forgotten that men cannot see Unicorns. If men no longer know what they're looking at, there may be other unicorns in the world yet, unknown, and glad of it. (unknown)
Schmendrick: I know you. If I were blind I'd know what you are. (unknown)
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Movie: The Last Unicorn [1982] | [2]
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