Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

Natalie Portman: Padmé

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• Anakin : When I got to them we got into aggressive negotiations.

  Padme : Aggressive negotiations? What's that?

  Anakin : Ah, well, it's negotiations with a lightsaber.

• Padme : We used to come here for school retreat. We would swim to that island every day. I love the water. We used to lie out on the sand and let the sun dry us and try to guess the names of the birds singing.

  Anakin : I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.

• Anakin : You call this a diplomatic solution?

  Padme : No, I call it aggressive negotiations.

• Anakin : If you are suffering as much as I am, please tell me.

  Padme : I can't... We can't... It's not possible.

  Anakin : Anything is possible, Padme, listen to me.

  Padme : No you listen! We live in a real world, come back to it. You're studying to become a Jedi, I'm... I'm a senator. If you follow your thoughts through to conclusion, it will take us to a place we cannot go, regardless of the way we feel about each other.

  Anakin : Then you do feel something!

  Padme : I will not let you give up your future for me.

  Anakin : You're asking me to be rational. That is something that I know I cannot do. Believe me, I wish I could just wish away my feelings, but I can't.

• Padme : Please don't look at me like that.

  Anakin : Why not?

  Padme : Because it makes me feel uncomfortable.

  Anakin : Sorry my lady.

• [Anakin and Padme are about to be carted into the arena] 

  Anakin : Don't be afraid.

  Padme : I'm not afraid to die. I've been dying a little bit each day since you came back into my life.

  Anakin : What are you talking about?

  Padme : I love you.

  Anakin : You love me? I thought we had decided not to fall in love. That we'd be forced to live a lie and that it would destroy our lives.

  Padme : I think our lives are about to be destroyed anyway. I truly... deeply... love you and before we die I want you to know.

• Padmé Amidala : You're not all-powerful, Ani.

  Anakin Skywalker : Well, I should be.

• Padme : You're making fun of me!

  Anakin : Oh, no, I'd be too frightened to tease a senator!

• Padme : To be angry is to be human.

  Anakin : I'm a Jedi. I can be better than this.

• Padme : Ani? My goodness, you've grown.

  Anakin : So have you, grown more beautiful... for a senator, I mean.

  Padme : Ani, you'll always be that little boy I knew on Tatooine.

• Anakin : It doesn't have to be that way. We could keep it a secret.

  Padme : We'd be living a lie. One we couldn't keep, even if we wanted to. I couldn't do that. Could you, Anakin? Could you live like that?

• Padme : It must be difficult having sworn your life to the Jedi... not being able to visit the places you like... or do the things you like.

  Anakin : Or be with the people I love.

  Padme : Are you allowed to love? I thought that was forbidden for a Jedi.

• Padme : We'd be living a lie. I couldn't do that. Could you Ani?

• Padme : I do not like this idea of hiding.

  Anakin : Sometimes we must do what is requested of us.

• Padme : You'll be fine.

  DormÈ : It's not me, M'lady. I'm worried about you. What if they realize you left the capital?

  Padme : [regarding Anakin]  Well, then my Jedi protector will have to prove how good he is.

• Padme : All mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults than we would like. It's the only way we grow.

• Palpatine : Master Jedi, may I suggest the Senator be placed under the protection of your graces.

  Sen. Bail Organa : You really think that is a wise decision during these stressful times?

  Padme : Chancellor, if I may comment, I do not believe...

  Palpatine : The situation is that serious? Oh, but I do, Senator. I realize all too well that additional security might be disruptive for you, but... perhaps someone you're familiar with. An old friend, like... Master Kenobi.

• Padme : Do you have any idea who's behind these attacks?

• C-3PO : Master Owen, may I present two most important visitors?

  Anakin : I'm Anakin Skywalker.

  Owen Lars : [intrigued, but wary, tone]  Owen Lars. This is my girlfriend, Beru.

  Beru : Hello.

  Padme : I'm Padme.

  Owen Lars : Well... I guess I'm your stepbrother. I had a feeling you might show up someday.

  Anakin : Is my mother here?

  [a one-legged Cliegg Lars appears] 

  Cliegg Lars : No, she's not. Cliegg Lars. Shmi is my wife. Come inside, we've got a lot to talk about.

• Obi-Wan : It's a great pleasure to see you again, milady.

  Padme : It has been far too long, Master Kenobi. Ani? My goodness you've grown.

  Anakin : So have you. Grown more beautiful, I mean. Well, for a Senator I mean.

• Padme : We live in a real world, Ani. Come back to it.

• Padme : Sometimes there are things no one can fix.

• Padme : If the Senate votes to create an army, I'm sure it's going to push us into a civil war.

  Gov. Sio Bibble : It's unthinkable! There hasn't been a full-scale war since the formation of the Republic!

  Queen Jamillia : Do you seen any way to bring the Seperatists back into the Republic through negotations?

  Padme : Not if they feel threatened. My guess is that they will turn to the Trade Federation or even the Commerce Guilds for help.

  Gov. Sio Bibble : It's hard to belive that after four trials in the Supreme Court, Nute Gunray is still the viceroy of the Trade Federation. I feel that the senate is powerless to prevent this crisis from getting any further.

• Queen Jamillia : We have to keep our faith in the Republic. The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it.

  Padme : Let's pray that day never comes.

• Padme : And now, if you will excuse me, I will retire.

• Padmé Amidala : Jar-Jar, I don't mean to hold you up...