Billy Elliot (2000)
Jamie Bell: Billy
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Quotes
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Tutor 1 : What does it feel like when you're dancing?
Billy : Don't know. Sorta feels good. Sorta stiff and that, but once I get going... then I like, forget everything. And... sorta disappear. Sorta disappear. Like I feel a change in my whole body. And I've got this fire in my body. I'm just there. Flyin' like a bird. Like electricity. Yeah, like electricity.
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Mrs. Wilkinson : This'll sound strange, Billy, but for some time now I've been thinkin' of the Royal Ballet School.
Billy : Aren't you a bit old, miss?
Mrs. Wilkinson : No, not me... you! I'm the bloody teacher!
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Mrs. Wilkinson : She must've been a very special woman, your mother.
Billy : No she was just me mam.
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Billy : Just because I like ballet doesn't mean I'm a poof, you know.
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Billy : I don't want a childhood. I want to be a ballet dancer.
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Billy : So, what's it like, like?
Dad : What's what like?
Billy : London.
Dad : I don't know, son. I never made it past Durham.
Billy : Have you never been?
Dad : Why would I want to go to London?
Billy : It's the capital city!
Dad : Well, there are no mines in London.
Billy : Jesus Christ, is that all you think about?
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Billy : Miss, you don't fancy me do, do you?
Mrs. Wilkinson : No, Billy. Funnily enough, I don't. Now piss off!
Billy : [smiling] Piss off yourself.
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Billy : All right, all right, don't lose your blob!
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NCB Official : Can you tell us why you first became interested in ballet?
Billy : Don't know.
[pauses]
Billy : Just was.
NCB Official : Well was there any particular aspect of the ballet which caught your imagination?
Billy : The dancin'.
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Mrs. Wilkinson : So. Do we get the pleasure of your company next week?
Billy : It's just, I feel like a right sissy.
Mrs. Wilkinson : Well don't act like one. 50p please. And if you're not coming again give us your shoes.
Billy : [thinks] No, you're all right.
Mrs. Wilkinson : Right.
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Billy : My hands are freezing.
Michael : 'Gizzem here.
Billy : [Michael takes his hands and puts them in his jacket] What are you doing?
Michael : Nothin'. Just warmin' your hands up.
Billy : [pause] You're not a poof or owt?
Michael : [deadpan] What gave you that impression?
Billy : Aren't me hands cold?
Michael : I quite like it.
[kisses Billy on the cheek; they stare at each other]
Billy : Just because I like ballet, doesn't mean I'm a poof, you know.
Michael : You won't tell anyone, will you?
Billy : [pauses, then grins] Come on.
Michael : [stares after him longingly]
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Billy : I don't want to do your stupid fucking audition! You only want me to do it for your own benefit!