A Christmas Carol (2009)
Colin Firth: Fred
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Quotes
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Fred's Wife : [playing an animal guessing game] Is it a horse?
Fred : No.
Guest #3 : A cow?
Fred : No.
Guest #4 : A dog?
Fred : No.
Guest #2 : An ass?
Fred : Well... yes, and no...
Fred's Wife : Oh, I know who it is, Fred! It's your Uncle Scrooge!
Fred : Yes!
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Fred : A Merry Christmas to you, uncle!
Ebenezer Scrooge : Bah! Humbug... What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough.
Fred : What reason have you to be so dismal? You're rich enough.
Ebenezer Scrooge : BAH! Humbug!
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Fred : Don't be cross, Uncle!
Ebenezer Scrooge : What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!
Fred : Uncle!
Ebenezer Scrooge : Nephew! Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.
Fred : But you don't keep it!
Ebenezer Scrooge : Let me leave it alone, then. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!
Fred : There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round - apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!
[Cratchit applauds]