Christian Bale credited as playing...
Laurie
- Laurie: I have loved you since the moment I clapped eyes on you. What could be more reasonable than to marry you?
- Jo March: We'd kill each other.
- Laurie: Nonsense!
- Jo March: Neither of us can keep our temper-...
- Laurie: I can, unless provoked.
- Jo March: We're both stupidly stubborn, especially you. We'd only quarrel!
- Laurie: I wouldn't!
- Jo March: You can't even propose without quarreling.
- Younger Amy March: I don't want to die. I've never even been kissed. I've waited my whole to be kissed - and what if I miss it?
- Laurie: I tell you what. I promise to kiss you before you die.
- Laurie: Someday you'll find a man, a good man, and you'll love him, and marry him, and live and die for him. And I'll be hanged if I stand by and watch.
- Amy March: Do you hear from Jo? She has befriended a German professor.
- Laurie: Yes, well, no doubt he's showing her the ways of the world.
- Amy March: I do not wish to be courted by someone who is still in love with my sister!
- Laurie: I'm not in love with Jo.
- Amy March: Then how do you explain your jealousy?
- Laurie: I envy her happiness. I envy his happiness. I envy John Brooke for marrying Meg. I hate Fred Vaughn. And if Beth had a lover I would despise him too. Just as you have always known that you would never marry a pauper, I have always known I should be part of the March family.
- Amy March: I do not wish to be loved for my family.
- Laurie: Any more than Fred Vaughn wishes to be loved for his 40,000 a year!
- Laurie: Fellow artists, may I present myself as an actor, a musician, and a loyal and very humble servant of the club.
- Jo March: We'll be the judge of that.
- Laurie: In token of my gratitude and as a means of promoting communication between adjoining nations, shouting from windows being forbidden, I shall provide a post office in our hedge, to further incourage the bearing of our souls and the telling of our most appalling secrets. I do pledge never to reveal what I recieve in confindence here.
- Meg March: Well, then. Do take your place Rodrigo.
- Jo March: Sir Rodrigo.
- Laurie: Meg?
- Meg March: Please don't tell Jo how I've behaved.
- Laurie: As long as you won't tell anyone how I've behaved.
- Meg March: I was just playing a part. To see what it felt like to be Belle Gardiner with four proposals and 20 pairs of gloves.
- Laurie: You're worth ten of those girls.
- Boston Matron: Did you see the way that March girl has gone after the Laurence heir?
- Boston Matron: Best thing that could happen to the Marches.
- Meg March: This ridiculous dress, I've been tripping over it all night.
- Laurie: Tie something around your neck where it can do you some good.
- Laurie: Dear Jo. I swear I'll be a saint. I'll let you win every argument. I'll take care of you and your family. I'll give you every luxury you've ever been denied. You won't have to write. Unless you want to. Grandfather wants me to learn the business in England. Can't you see us bashing around London?
- Jo March: London. Oh, Teddy, I'm not fashionable enough for London. You need someone who's elegant and refined.
- Laurie: I want you.