- Ella's Mother: I have to tell you a secret that will see you through all the trials that life can offer. Have courage and be kind.
- Fairy Godmother: I'm your Hairy Dogfather... Oh! I mean, your Fairy Godmother.
- [after Cinderella finds her outside and asks who she is]
- Cinderella: Mr. Lizard, I'm scared. I'm only a girl, not a princess.
- Lizard Footman: And I'm only a lizard, not a footman. Enjoy it while it lasts.
- Captain: Madam, there is no other maiden in your house?
- Lady Tremaine: No!
- Captain: Then has your cat learned to sing?
- [from TV spot and deleted scene]
- Lady Tremaine: What on earth have you been doing?
- Cinderella: Nothing, dreaming, that's all.
- Lady Tremaine: Well then, *wake up*!
- Cinderella: [while she and Kit are dancing at the ball] They're all looking at you.
- Prince Charming: Believe me - they're all looking at you.
- Lady Tremaine: [from trailer] Wouldn't you prefer to eat when all the work is done, Ella?
- Cinderella: Yes, stepmother.
- Lady Tremaine: You needn't call me that; Madam will do.
- Ella's Mother: Do you still believe that they understand you?
- Ella: Don't they, Mother?
- Ella's Mother: Oh yes. I believe that animals listen and speak to us if we only have the ear for it. That's how we learn to look after them.
- Ella: Who looks after us?
- Ella's Mother: Fairy godmothers, of course.
- Ella: And do you believe in them?
- Ella's Mother: I believe in everything.
- Ella: Then I believe in everything, too!
- [last lines]
- Fairy Godmother: [narrating] And so Kit and Ella were married. And I can tell you, as her fairy godmother, that they were counted to be the fairest and kindest rulers the kingdom had known. And Ella continued to see the world not as it is, but as it could be, if only you believe in courage, and kindness, and occasionally, just a little bit...
- [whispers]
- Fairy Godmother: of magic.
- Captain: [to Cinderella] Miss. You are requested and required to present yourself to your king.
- Lady Tremaine: I forbid you to do this!
- Captain: And I forbid you to forbid her! Who are you to stop an officer of the king? Are you an empress? A saint? A deity?
- Lady Tremaine: I am her mother.
- Cinderella: [curtly] You have never been... and you never will be my mother.
- Cinderella: I shouldn't.
- Prince Charming: You should.
- Cinderella: I shouldn't!
- Prince Charming: You should!
- Cinderella: I will.
- [She and Kit kiss]
- Prince Charming: Who are you?
- Cinderella: I am Cinderella. Your Majesty, I am no princess. I have no carriage, no parents, no dowry. I do not even know if that beautiful slipper will fit But, if it does--will you take me as I am? A good honest country girl who loves you?
- Prince Charming: Of course, I would. But only if you'll take me as I am, an apprentice still learning his trade. Please...
- [Prince Charming invites Ella to sit on a nearby chair as the Grand Duke watches in fear, the Captain looks on with a smile as he places the slipper on Ella's foot. It fits perfectly! He takes Ella by the hand and is just about to kiss her when Drizella and Anastasia burst into the room]
- Drizella: [apologetically] Cinderella! Ella! My dear sister! I'm sorry, so very sorry.
- [the two curtsy to Cinderella and the prince]
- Cinderella: [from trailer] It was my mother's old dress.
- Lady Tremaine: It would be an insult to take you to the palace dressed in these old rags.
- Lady Tremaine: [to Cinderella, after she, Drisella, and Anastasia tear Cinderella's mother's dress] Mark my words: you shall *not* go to the ball!
- Cinderella: [as they're heading to the palace balcony to greet their kingdom's people during their wedding] Are you ready?
- Prince Charming: For anything, so long as it's with you.
- Fairy Godmother: At the last stroke of midnight, the spell will be broken.
- Cinderella: Midnight?
- Fairy Godmother: Midnight.
- Cinderella: That's more than enough time!
- Grand Duke: I'm sure your father spoke to you about your behavior in the forest.
- Prince Charming: Is that any business of yours, Grand Duke?
- Grand Duke: Your business is my business, Your Royal Highness. It would not do to let the stag go free.
- Prince Charming: Just because it's what's done, doesn't mean it's what's should be done. Or something like that.
- Cinderella: [sighs as she and Kit look at portraits of their parents in the gallery before going onto the balcony to greet their kingdom's people] They would have loved each other.
- Prince Charming: We must have a portrait of you painted.
- Cinderella: [giggles] Oh no, I do *hate* myself in paintings.
- Prince Charming: Be kind.
- Cinderella: [giggles again] And have courage.
- Prince Charming: And all will be well.
- Cinderella: [after Lady Tremaine shatters her glass slipper on the wall; horrified and angry] Why? Why are you so *cruel*? I don't understand it. I've tried to be kind to you.
- Lady Tremaine: You? Kind to me?
- Cinderella: Yes. And though *no one* deserves to be treated as you have treated me. Why do you do it? WHY?
- Lady Tremaine: Why? Because YOU are *young*, and *innocent*, and *good*, and I...
- [she furiously turns to leave, locking Cinderella in her room]
- Cinderella: No! No!
- [the King is dying]
- Prince Charming: Father, don't go.
- King: I must.
- [pause]
- King: You needn't be alone. Take a bride. The Princess Chelina. What if I commanded you to do so?
- Prince Charming: I love and respect you, but I will not. I believe that we need not look outside of our borders for strength or guidance. What we need is right before us, and we need only have courage and be kind to see it.
- King: Just so. You've become your own man. Good. And perhaps, in the little time left to me, I can become the father you deserve. You must not marry for advantage. You must marry for love. Find that girl. Find her. The one they're all talking about. The forgetful one...
- Prince Charming: Who loses her shoes.
- King: [laughs] Loses her shoes...
- [the Prince laughs, and cries too]
- King: Be cheerful, boy.
- Prince Charming: Thank you, Father.
- King: I love you, Kit.
- Prince Charming: I love you, Father.
- Lady Tremaine: [points at Ella's breakfast plate] Who's this for? Is there someone we've forgotten?
- Cinderella: [smiles] It's my place.
- Lady Tremaine: Oh, it seems too much to expect you to prepare breakfast, serve it and to sit with us. Wouldn't you prefer to eat when all the work is done, Ella? Or should I say, *Cinder*-Ella? Hmm?
- Cinderella: Fairy godmother?
- Fairy Godmother: Yes, what?
- Cinderella: My dress, I can't go in this dress. Can you mend it?
- Fairy Godmother: Mend it? No-no, I'll turn it into something new.
- Cinderella: Oh no, please, don't. This was my mother's, and... and I'd like to wear it when I go to the palace. It's almost like - taking her with me.
- Fairy Godmother: I understand. But I don't think she'd mind if I - gee it up a bit? Wouldn't mind a nice blue?
- Cinderella: [whispering] No.
- [Using her magic wand, the Fairy Godmother turns Cinderella's torn pink dress into a dazzling blue ballgown]
- Fairy Godmother: [smiles in satisfaction] There!
- Cinderella: [also smiles] It's beautiful! She'd love it!
- Fairy Godmother: [narrating as Ella and Kit leave Ella's house as Lady Tremaine watches them from the stairwell with a disapproving look on her face] Forgiven or not, Cinderella's stepmother and her daughters would soon leave with the Grand Duke, and never set foot in the kingdom again.
- Lady Tremaine: [holding the glass slipper] Are you looking for this? There must be quite a story to go with it. Won't you tell me? Hm? Very well, I shall tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a *beautiful* young girl who married for love. And she had two loving daughters. All was well. But, one day, her husband, the light of her life, died. The next time, she married for the sake of her daughters. But that man, too, was taken from her. And she was doomed to look every day upon his beloved child. She had hoped to marry off one of her beautiful, stupid daughters to the prince. But his head was turned by a girl with glass slippers. And so, I lived unhappily ever after. My story would appear to be ended.
- Lady Tremaine: Now, here is how you will pay me, if you are to have what you desire. No one will believe you, a dirty servant girl without a family, if you lay claim to the Prince's heart. But with a respectable gentlewoman to put you forward, you will not be ignored. When you are married, you will make *me* the head of the royal household. Anastasia and Drizella we will pair off with wealthy lords, and *I* shall manage that boy.
- Cinderella: But he's not a boy.
- Lady Tremaine: And who are you? How would *you* rule a kingdom? Best to leave it to me; that way we all get what we want.
- Cinderella: No.
- Lady Tremaine: No?
- Cinderella: I was not able to protect my father from you, but I will protect the prince *and* the kingdom, no matter what becomes of me.
- [Anastasia is struggling to put on the glass slipper, which is far too small for her foot]
- Anastasia: [prolonged, unlady-like grunt] *IT FITS ME!*
- Cinderella: But... *All* the ladies in the land are invited, by order of the king.
- Lady Tremaine: It is the *king* I'm thinking of. It would be an insult to the royal personage to take you to the palace dressed in these old rags.
- Cinderella: [appalled] Rags? This was my mother's.
- Lady Tremaine: [Tremaine inches closer to Ella] Oh... Sorry to have to tell you, but your mother's taste was questionable. This *thing* is so old-fashioned, it's practically falling to pieces.
- [Tremaine tugs harshly the sleeve of Ella's dress causing the sleeve to rip completely]
- Cinderella: [crying after Lady Tremaine, Drizella, and Anastasia tear up her mother's dress and leave for the ball without her] I'm sorry, mother. I'm sorry. I know I said I'd have courage but I don't. Not anymore. I don't believe anymore!
- Fairy Godmother: Why are you crying?
- Cinderella: Oh, it's nothing.
- Fairy Godmother: Nothing? Nothing. What is a bowl of milk? Nothing. But kindness makes it everything.
- Lady Tremaine: [Captain and Lady Tramaine walking into Cinderella's room] There, see? I told you there is no one of any importance.
- Captain: [to Lady Tremaine] We'll see about that.
- [to Cinderella]
- Captain: Miss, you are requested and required to present yourself to your king.
- Cinderella: Please don't let them hurt him.
- Prince Charming: But we're hunting, you see. It's what's done.
- Cinderella: Just because it's what's done doesn't mean it's what should be done!
- Cinderella: [skeptical of the Fairy Godmother's claim of her identity] You can't be.
- Fairy Godmother: Why not?
- Cinderella: They don't exist. They're just made up for children.
- Fairy Godmother: Didn't your own mother believe in them? Don't say no, 'cause I heard her.
- Cinderella: You heard her?
- Fairy Godmother: Oh, fiddle-faddle, fiddle-faddle. Right! First things first. Let me slip into something more comfortable.
- Captain: [getting the best of Kit while fencing] Wake up, Your Royal Highness. You're in a daze.
- Prince Charming: Oh, sorry.
- Captain: You've been off since the hunt.
- Prince Charming: It's that wonderful girl. I can't stop thinking about her.
- Captain: Well, there are plenty of girls.
- Prince Charming: But her spirit, her goodness...
- Captain: You don't suppose she has a sister, do you?
- Prince Charming: I don't know. I don't know anything about her.
- Captain: Perhaps your mystery girl may come to the ball. That is why you threw the doors open, is it not?
- Prince Charming: Captain. It was for the benefit of the people.
- Captain: Of course. How shall of me.
- Prince Charming: And if she comes, then what?
- Captain: Then you will tell her you're a prince. And a prince may take whichever bride he wishes.
- Prince Charming: Ha!
- Captain: Ha?
- Prince Charming: Yes, "ha". You know my father and the Grand Duke will only have me marry a princess.
- Captain: Well, if this girl from the forest is as charming as you say, they may change their minds.
- Cinderella: [making her entrance at the ball] Mr. Kit.
- Prince Charming: It's you, isn't it?
- Cinderella: Just so.
- Cinderella: What's wrong?
- Prince Charming: When I go back, they will try to pair me off with a lady of their choosing. I'm expected to marry for advantage.
- Cinderella: Oh. Well, whose advantage?
- Prince Charming: That is a good question.
- Cinderella: Well, surely you have a right to your own heart.
- Prince Charming: And I must weigh that against the king's wishes. He's a wise ruler and a loving father.
- Cinderella: Well, perhaps he'll change his mind.
- Prince Charming: I fear he hasn't much time to do so.
- Cinderella: Poor Kit.
- Ella's Father: What would you like me to bring you home from abroad? You know, your sisters... uh, stepsisters, have asked for parasols and lace. What... what will you have?
- Cinderella: Bring me the first branch your shoulder brushes on your journey.
- Ella's Father: That's a curious request.
- Cinderella: Well, you'll have to take it with you on your way and think of me when you look at it. And when you bring it back, it means that you'll be with it. And that's what I really want. For you to come back. No matter what.
- Ella's Father: Ella, while I'm away, I want you to be good to your stepmother and stepsisters, even though they may be... trying at times.
- Cinderella: I promise.
- Ella's Father: Thank you. I always leave a part of me behind, Ella. Remember that. A-And-And your... your mother's here, too, though-though you see her not. She's the very heart of this place. And that's why we must cherish this house, always, for her.
- Cinderella: I miss her. Do you?
- Ella's Father: Very much.
- Prince Charming: Miss, what do they call you?
- Cinderella: Never mind what they call me.
- Prince Charming: You shouldn't be this deep in the forest alone.
- Cinderella: I'm not alone. I'm with you, Mr... what do they call you?
- Prince Charming: You don't know who I am? That is... they call me Kit. Well, my father does, when he's in a good mood.
- Cinderella: And... where do you live, Mr. Kit?
- Prince Charming: At the palace. My father's teaching me his trade.
- Cinderella: You're an apprentice?
- Prince Charming: Of a sort.
- Fairy Godmother: [narrating] Perhaps it was just as well that Ella's stepsisters were cruel. For had she not run to the forest, she might never have met the prince.
- Prince Charming: Well, how is he?
- King's Doctor: Your Majesty...
- King: Never mind. If it takes that long to work out a way to say it, I already know.
- Cinderella: Would you like a tour of the house?
- Drizella: What did she say?
- Anastasia: She wants to show us around her farmhouse. She's proud of it, I think.