Kevin Kline credited as playing...
Phoebus
- Phoebus: [to the Parisians] Citizens of Paris! Frollo has persecuted our people, ransacked our city. And now he has declared war on Notre Dame herself! Will we allow it?
- Phoebus: [to Esmeralda] Candlelight, privacy, music. Can't think of a better place for hand-to-hand combat.
- Phoebus: [upon realising that Frollo knows where Esmeralda is hiding and that he will attack, Quasimodo feels as though he should help. Phoebus groans from under the table from which he was hidden from Frollo. Once Frollo leaves, he gets out] We' have to find the Court of Miracles before daybreak. If Frollo gets there first...
- [starts walking, but Quasimodo does not follow; he just looks at Phoebus with the saddened realisation that Esmeralda loves Phoebus, not him; Phoebus turns to him]
- Phoebus: Are you coming with me?
- Quasimodo: [looks down, still saddened] I can't.
- Phoebus: [as Quasimodo gets to his feet] I thought you were Esmeralda's friend!
- Quasimodo: [frowns] Frollo's my master. I *can't* disobey him again.
- [grabs his shoulders and turns his back on Phoebus]
- Phoebus: She stood up for you! You've got a funny way of showing gratitude.
- [Quasimodo does not respond; Phoebus stares disapprovingly at him as he grabs his left arm]
- Phoebus: Well, *I'm* not going to sit by and watch Frollo massacre innocent people.
- [walks to the stairs and looks back to Quasimodo]
- Phoebus: You do what you think is right.
- [leaves; Quasimodo remains silent, then turns to see Victor, Hugo and Laverne shooting him disappointed looks]
- Quasimodo: [shrugs] What? What am I supposed to do?
- [frustrated and sarcastic tone, in an arm-flailing manner]
- Quasimodo: Go out there and rescue the girl from the-- from the Laws of Death, and the *whole town* will cheer like I'm some kind of a *hero*? She already *has* her knight on shining armour, and it's not me!
- [sighs]
- Quasimodo: Frollo was right.
- [shrugs]
- Quasimodo: Frollo was right about everything.
- [looks down]
- Quasimodo: And I'm *tired* of trying to be something that I'm not.
- [upon looking down, he catches a glimpse of his left hand; recalls what Esmeralda told him about not having "monster lines," then looks down at the smouldering wooden figure of Esmeralda that Frollo burned earlier; pulls out the amulet Esmeralda gave him and stares ahead with hope and realisation; Laverne taps his shoulder and offers his hooded cloak]
- Quasimodo: [whispering as he hesitantly grabs his cloak and hurries away to catch up with Phoebus] I must be out of my mind.
- Frollo: The Gypsies live outside the normal order. Their heathen ways inflame the people's lowest instincts. And they must be stopped.
- Phoebus: I was summoned from the wars to capture fortune-tellers and palm readers?
- Frollo: Ah, the real war, Captain, is what you see before you. For twenty years I have been "taking care" of the Gypsies...
- [squashes ants on the sill]
- Frollo: ...one by one. And yet, for all my success, they have thrived.
- [lifts block to expose a swarm of bugs]
- Frollo: I believe they have a safe haven within the walls of this very city. A nest, if you will. They call it the Court of Miracles.
- Phoebus: What are we going to do about it, sir?
- [Frollo smashes the block over the bugs]
- Phoebus: You make your point quite vividly, sir.
- Frollo: [after locking the miller and his family in their windmill home] Burn it.
- Phoebus: *What*?
- Frollo: Until it smoulders, these people are traitors, and must be made examples of.
- [hands Phoebus a burning torch]
- Phoebus: [takes the torch] With all due respect, sir, I was not trained to murder the innocent.
- Frollo: But you *were* trained to follow *orders*!
- [Phoebus backs towards the house as if to set it ablaze, but douses it in a barrel of water]
- Frollo: Insolent coward.
- [takes a second torch and burns a windmill blade, setting the whole house on fire]
- Phoebus: Easy, easy, I just shaved this morning.
- Esmeralda: Oh really? You missed a spot.
- Phoebus: Alright, alright, just-just-just calm down, just give me a chance to apologize.
- Esmeralda: For what?
- Phoebus: [kicking her to the floor] That, for example.
- Esmeralda: You sneaky, son of a...
- Phoebus: Ah-ah-ah! Watch it. We're in a church.
- Esmeralda: Are you always this charming, or am I just lucky?
- Phoebus: Ah-ah-ah-ah, candlelight! Privacy! Music... can't think of a better place for hand to hand combat... You fight almost as well as a man!
- Esmeralda: Funny. I was going to say the same thing about *you*!
- Phoebus: That's hitting a little below the belt, don't you think?
- Esmeralda: No. This is.
- Phoebus: Touche! Oof!... I didn't know you had a kid.
- Esmeralda: He doesn't take kindly to strangers.
- Phoebus: I'm sorry sir, she claimed sanctuary. There's nothing I can do.
- Frollo: Then drag her outside and...
- The Archdeacon: Frollo! You will not touch her!
- [addressing Esmeralda]
- The Archdeacon: Don't worry. Minister Frollo learned years ago to respect the sanctity of the church.
- Frollo: [supervising someone being whipped, just as Phoebus arrives] Stop.
- Torturer: Sir?
- Frollo: Ease up. Wait between lashes. Otherwise, the old sting will dull him to the new.
- Torturer: Yes, sir.
- Frollo: [turns to Phoebus] Ah, so this is the gallant Captain Phoebus, home from the wars.
- Phoebus: Reporting for duty as ordered, sir.
- Frollo: Your service record precedes you, Phoebus. I expect nothing but the best from a war hero of your caliber.
- Phoebus: And you shall have it, sir. I guarantee it.
- Frollo: Yes. You know, my last captain of the guards was, um, a bit of a disappointment to me.
- [whip crack, followed by screaming]
- Frollo: Well, no matter, I'm sure you'll... *whip* my men into shape.
- Phoebus: Well, that's a great... tremendous honor, sir.
- Phoebus: [as the guards chase after Esmeralda and pass behind Phoebus' horse, Achilles] Achilles, sit!
- Brutish Guard: Hey - whoa!
- Phoebus: Oh - dear, I'm sorry! Naughty horse! Naughty! He's just impossible, really; I can't take him anywhere!