The Shape of Water Quotes
Giles: [interpreting Elisa]When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I - am, as I am. He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every day. Now, I can either save him... or let him die.
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[last lines] Giles: If I told you about her, what would I say? That they lived happily ever after? I believe they did. That they were in love? That they remained in love? I'm sure that's true. But when I think of her - of Elisa - the only thing that comes to mind is a poem, whispered by someone in love, hundreds of years ago: Unable to perceive the shape of You, I find You all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with Your love, It humbles my heart, For You are everywhere.
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Strickland: [to Elisa]What'd you say to me?
Elisa: [in sign language]F - U - C - K
Strickland: What is she saying?
Elisa: Y - O - U
Zelda: Uh, I, I didn't catch it.
Strickland: [kicks the desk; pointing at Elisa]WHAT IS SHE SAYING?
Zelda: She, she is sayin' Thank you!
Elisa: [in sign language]F - U - C - K
Strickland: What is she saying?
Elisa: Y - O - U
Zelda: Uh, I, I didn't catch it.
Strickland: [kicks the desk; pointing at Elisa]WHAT IS SHE SAYING?
Zelda: She, she is sayin' Thank you!
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[first lines] Giles: If I spoke about it - if I did - what would I tell you? I wonder. Would I tell you about the time? It happened a long time ago, it seems. In the last days of a fair prince's reign. Or would I tell you about the place? A small city near the coast, but far from everything else. Or, I don't know... Would I tell you about her? The princess without voice. Or perhaps I would just warn you, about the truth of these facts. And the tale of love and loss. And the monster, who tried to destroy it all.
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Giles: Oh! God, to be young and beautiful. If I could go back [Elisa nods]
Giles: to when I was 18 - I didn't know anything about anything - I'd give myself a bit of advice.
Elisa: [in sign language]What would you say?
Giles: I would say: Take better care of your teeth and fuck, a lot more. [Elisa smiles and gently nudges him]
Giles: Oh no, no, that's very good advice.
Giles: to when I was 18 - I didn't know anything about anything - I'd give myself a bit of advice.
Elisa: [in sign language]What would you say?
Giles: I would say: Take better care of your teeth and fuck, a lot more. [Elisa smiles and gently nudges him]
Giles: Oh no, no, that's very good advice.
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Giles: We can do nothing! I'm sorry! But this, this, this is just - Oh God, it's not even human. God! [Elisa follows Giles into the hallway and hits the wall to get his attention]
Giles: What?
Elisa: [in sign language]If we / do nothing / neither are we.
Giles: What?
Elisa: [in sign language]If we / do nothing / neither are we.
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Zelda: Man is as silent as the grave. But if farts were flattery? Honey, he'd be Shakespeare.
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Strickland: [Elisa offers him a towel]Oh, no. No, a man washes his hands before or after tending to his needs. It tells you a lot about a man. [eats a candy]
Strickland: He does it both times - points to a weakness in character.
Strickland: He does it both times - points to a weakness in character.
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Zelda: [to Elisa]Yeah. That's good. Keep that up. Lookin' like you don't know anything.
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Hoffstetler: I'm not competitive, I don't want an intricate, beautiful thing destroyed!
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Giles: [to Elisa]I have no one. And you are the only person that I can talk to. Now, whatever this thing is, you need it. [choking up]
Giles: So, you just tell me what to do.
Giles: So, you just tell me what to do.
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[from trailer] Strickland: The natives in the Amazon worshipped it. Like a god. We need to take it apart, learn how it works.
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Zelda: Some of the best minds in the country peein' all over the floor in this here facility.
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Fleming: Now. I don't want to bolster or overstate the matter, but uh, this may very well be *the* most sensitive asset ever to be housed in this facility.
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Giles: [to the Amphibian Man sitting in the bathtub]Have you always been alone? [pause]
Giles: Did you ever have someone? Do you know what happened to you, do you? Because I don't. I don't know what happened to me. [laughs]
Giles: I don't know! I look in the mirror and the only thing I recognize, are these eyes. In this old man's face. You know sometimes I think I was either born too early or too late for my life. Maybe we're both just relics.
Giles: Did you ever have someone? Do you know what happened to you, do you? Because I don't. I don't know what happened to me. [laughs]
Giles: I don't know! I look in the mirror and the only thing I recognize, are these eyes. In this old man's face. You know sometimes I think I was either born too early or too late for my life. Maybe we're both just relics.
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Zelda: Elisa honey, make a sound on the phone if you can hear. [Elisa taps on the receiver]
Zelda: OK, good. He's comin' for you. You gotta go now and you gotta take that thing with ya.
Zelda: OK, good. He's comin' for you. You gotta go now and you gotta take that thing with ya.
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Strickland: What am I doing, interviewing the fucking help? The shit cleaners. The piss wipers.
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Giles: Y'know, uh - cornflakes were invented to prevent masturbation. It didn't work.
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Zelda: Short people are mean. I never met a short man that stays nice all the way through. No sir. Mean little backstabbers, all of 'em. Maybe it's the air down there. Not enough oxygen or somethin'.
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Zelda: [Elisa looks noticeably happier]Why you smilin', hon? Well stop lookin' like that. What happened? [Elisa shakes her head to say nothing]
Zelda: Why? How? How? Does he - have a...? [Elisa nods and uses her hands to describe what the Amphibian Man's penis looks like]
Zelda: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. [pause]
Zelda: Lor'...! Never trust a man. Even when he looks flat down there. [laughs]
Zelda: Why? How? How? Does he - have a...? [Elisa nods and uses her hands to describe what the Amphibian Man's penis looks like]
Zelda: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. [pause]
Zelda: Lor'...! Never trust a man. Even when he looks flat down there. [laughs]
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Hoffstetler: [speaking Russian]As Lenin said, / There is no profit in last week's fish.
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Hoyt: A man has the decency not to fuck up. Now that's one thing. That's real decent of him. But the other kind of decency - it doesn't really matter. We sell it, but it's an export. We sell it because we don't use it.
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Strickland: You may think, That thing looks human. Stands on two legs, right? But - we're created in the Lord's image. You don't think that's what the Lord looks like, do you?
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Strickland: [to Zelda and Elisa]Let me say this up front: You clean that lab, you get out. The thing we keep in there is an affront. Do you know what an affront is, Zelda?
Zelda: Something offensive?
Strickland: That's right. And I should know, I dragged that... filthy thing... out of the river muck in South America all the way here. And along the way we didn't get to like each other much. Now. You may think, That thing looks human. Stands on two legs, right? But - we're created in the Lord's image. You don't think that's what the Lord looks like, do you?
Zelda: Something offensive?
Strickland: That's right. And I should know, I dragged that... filthy thing... out of the river muck in South America all the way here. And along the way we didn't get to like each other much. Now. You may think, That thing looks human. Stands on two legs, right? But - we're created in the Lord's image. You don't think that's what the Lord looks like, do you?
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