Chicken Run (2000)

Miranda Richardson: Mrs. Tweedy

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Quotes 

• Mr. Tweedy : [being attacked by chickens]  Mrs. Tweedy! The chickens are revolting!

  Mrs. Tweedy : [with her back turned]  Finally, something we agree on.

• Mr. Tweedy : Ooh, that's champion, that is. What is it?

  Mrs. Tweedy : It's a pie machine, you idiot. Chickens go in, pies come out.

  Mr. Tweedy : Ooh! What kind of pies?

  Mrs. Tweedy : Apple.

  Mr. Tweedy : My favorite!

  Mrs. Tweedy : Chicken pies, you great lummox! Imagine it. In less than a fortnight, every grocers' in the county will be stocked with box upon box of Mrs. Tweedy's Homemade Chicken Pies.

  Mr. Tweedy : Just... "Mrs."?

  Mrs. Tweedy : Woman's touch. Makes the public feel more comfortable.

• Mr. Tweedy : Oh, yes. Those chickens are up to something.

  Mrs. Tweedy : Quiet. I'm onto something.

  Mr. Tweedy : They're organised, I know it.

  Mrs. Tweedy : I said quiet.

  Mr. Tweedy : And that Ginger one, I reckon she's their leader.

  Mrs. Tweedy : [losing her patience and slamming her fist on the table]  Mr. Tweedy! I may finally have found a way to make us some real money around here and what are you on about? Ridiculous notions of escaping chickens!

  Mr. Tweedy : [stammering]  But... but...

  Mrs. Tweedy : It's all in your head, Mr. Tweedy. Say it!

  Mr. Tweedy : It's all in me head. It's all in me head.

  Mrs. Tweedy : Now, you keep telling yourself that because I don't want to hear another word about it! Is that clear?

  Mr. Tweedy : Yes, love. But you know that Ginger one...

  Mrs. Tweedy : They're *chickens*, you dolt! Apart from you, they're the most stupid creatures on this planet. They don't plot, they don't scheme, and they are *not* organised!

• Mr. Tweedy : What... what... what's all this, then?

  Mrs. Tweedy : This is our future, Mr. Tweedy. No more wasting time with petty egg collecting and minuscule profits.

  Mr. Tweedy : No more eggs? But we've always been egg farmers. Me father, and his father, and all their fathers, they was all...

  Mrs. Tweedy : Poor. Worthless. Nothings. But all that is about to change. This will take Tweedy's farm out of the Dark Ages and into full-scale automated production. Melisha Tweedy will be poor no longer.

• Mrs. Tweedy : He's valuable, you say?

  Circus Man : Sure.

  Mrs. Tweedy : [to Mr. Tweedy]  Get the torch.

• Mrs. Tweedy : [after Ginger escaped]  Mr. Tweedy.

  Mr. Tweedy : Eh?

  Mrs. Tweedy : What is that chicken doing outside the fence?

  Mr. Tweedy : Oh!

  [chuckles] 

  Mr. Tweedy : I don't know, love. I...

  Mrs. Tweedy : Just deal with it. Now!

  [slams the door shut]