Astrid Quotes in How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

Astrid: [about Toothless] I bet he's really frightened now... what are you gonna do about it?

Hiccup: Ehhh... probably something stupid.

Astrid: Good, but you've already done that...

Hiccup: [after a pause] Then something crazy...!

[he runs off]

Astrid: *That's* more like it!

[she follows him]

Astrid: It's a mess. You must feel horrible. You've lost everything. Your father, your tribe, your best friend...

Hiccup: Thank you for summing that up.

[silence]

Hiccup: Why couldn't I have killed that dragon when I found him in the woods? Would've been better, for everyone...

Astrid: Yep. The rest of us would have done it. So why didn't you?

[pauses]

Astrid: Why didn't you?

Hiccup: I don't know... I couldn't.

Astrid: That's not an answer.

Hiccup: *Why* is this so important to you all of a sudden?

Astrid: Because I want to remember what you say, *right now*.

Hiccup: Oh, for the love of... I was a coward! I was weak! I wouldn't kill a dragon!

Astrid: You said *wouldn't*, that time.

Hiccup: Agh, whatever... I *wouldn't*! Three hundred years, and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon!

[pause]

Astrid: First to ride one, though. So...?

Hiccup: I wouldn't kill him, because he looked as frightened as *I* was. I looked at him... and I saw myself.

Astrid: [punches Hiccup] That's for kidnapping me.

[Kisses Hiccup]

Astrid: That's for everything else.

Astrid: [punches Hiccup] That's for scaring me!

Hiccup: Oh wha- wait, what is it always going to be this way? 'Cause...

[Astrid grabs him and kisses him deeply]

Hiccup: ...I could get used to it.

Astrid: [hanging from a tree branch] Hiccup! Get me *down* from here!

Hiccup: [pleading] You have to give me a chance to explain!

Astrid: I am not listening to *anything* you have to say!

Hiccup: Then I won't speak. Just let me *show* you. Please, Astrid.

[Astrid lifts herself up and gingerly climbs onto Toothless's back]

Astrid: Now get me down.

Hiccup: Toothless, down. *Gently.*

[Toothless spreads his wings, and the wind slowly lifts them into the air]

Hiccup: See? Nothing to be afraid of...

[Toothless launches himself into the sky at top speed, Astrid screams]

Hiccup: Augh! Toothless! What is *wrong* with you? Bad dragon! A-ha, he's uh, he's not usually like this... Oh no...

[Toothless rolls to the side and dives straight down, plunging in and out of the waves; Astrid screams]

Hiccup: Toothless, what are you doing, we need her to *like* us!

[Toothless soars up again and starts doing aileron rolls]

Hiccup: And now, the spinning. Thank you for *nothing*, you useless reptile!

Astrid: [terrified] Okay, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Just get me off of this thing!

[Toothless looks back at her, pleased, then spreads his wings and rises gently into the sky]

[during the final rounds of dragon training, Astrid notices Hiccup next to her and yanks his shield down, thrusting her face next to his]

Astrid: Stay out of my way! I'm winning this thing!

Hiccup: Uh... please, by all means.

[Astrid approaches the Gronkle stealthily]

Astrid: This time! This time, for sure!

[She springs up and charges with a yell... only to see that Hiccup has already "subdued" it. The crowd cheers]

Astrid: [swinging her axe wildly in anger] NO! YOU SON OF A HALF-TROLL, RAT-EATING, MUNGE-BUCKET!

Hiccup: [to Toothless] We're leaving! Let's pack up. Looks like you and me are taking a little vacation. Forever.

[he bends over his pack]

Hiccup: Ah man.

[looking up, he sees Astrid sitting on a boulder, sharpening her axe]

Hiccup: Agh! What the... uh, uh, what are you doing here?

Astrid: I want to know what's going on.

[she jumps down and menaces him with the axe]

Astrid: No one just *gets* as good as you do. *Especially* you. Start talking! Are you training with someone?

Hiccup: Uh, uh, training? I didn't...

Astrid: [grabbing his flight gear] It better not involve *this*...

Hiccup: I, I know, this... looks really bad, but, you see, this is uh...

[there's a rustling behind them and she looks over his shoulder toward the noise]

Hiccup: [trying to distract her] Uh, you're right! You're right, you're right. I, I'm through with the lies, I've been making... outfits! So, you got me. It's time everyone knew. Drag me back, go ahead... here we go...

[she twists his arm, throwing him to the ground]

Hiccup: OW! Why would you *do* that?

Astrid: That's for the lies! And *that's*...

[she drops the butt of her axe on his chest]

Astrid: ... for everything else!

[Toothless emerges a few feet away]

Hiccup: Oh man...

Astrid: [gasps and throws them both to the ground] Get down!

[Toothless charges, she pushes Hiccup away and raises her axe]

Astrid: RUN! RUN!

Hiccup: [grabbing the axe and throwing it away] No! No! It's okay, it's okay!

[to Toothless]

Hiccup: She's a friend.

[to Astrid, holding Toothless back]

Hiccup: You scared him.

Astrid: *I* scared *him*? Who is "him"?

Hiccup: Uh... Astrid, Toothless! Toothless, Astrid.

[Toothless snarls, Astrid shakes her head in bewilderment and runs off]

Hiccup: Duh-duh-duh, we're dead!

[Hiccup prepares to open one of the dragon pens]

Fishlegs: If you're planning on getting eaten, I'd definitely go with the Gronkle.

[Hiccup turns in surprise and sees his entire class lined up behind him]

Tuffnut: [approaching] You were wise to seek help from the world's most deadly weapon...

Hiccup: Um...

Tuffnut: It's me.

Snotlout: [shoves Tuffnut aside] I love this plan!

Hiccup: I... didn't...

Ruffnut: [shoves Snotlout aside] You're crazy!

[leans in, flirtatiously]

Ruffnut: I like that...

Astrid: [firmly yanks her away] So... what is the plan?

[riding on Toothless's back with Hiccup]

Astrid: All right, I admit it. This is pretty cool. It's... *amazing*. He's amazing.

Snotlout: If that dragon shows either of its faces, I'm gonna... there!

[He and Tuffnut throw their buckets of water]

Ruffnut, Astrid: AH!

[the gas clears]

Ruffnut: Hey! It's us, idiots!

Tuffnut: Your butts are getting bigger! We thought you were a dragon!

[laughs]

Snotlout: Not that there's anything wrong with a dragon-esque fig...

[Astrid punches Snotlout, Ruffnut throws her bucket at Tuffnut's head]

[a Gronkle is let out into the training ring]

Gobber: Today is about survival. If you get blasted, you're dead. Quick! What's the first thing you're going to need?

Hiccup: A doctor?

Fishlegs: Plus five speed?

Astrid: A shield!

Gobber: Shield! Go!

[the teens scramble around to grab shields]

Gobber: Your most important piece of equipment is your shield! If you must make a choice between a sword or a shield, take the shield!

Astrid: Careful with that dragon.

Hiccup: [looking at his father] It's... not the dragon I'm worried about.

Astrid: What are you gonna do?

Hiccup: Put an end to this. I have to try. Astrid, if something... goes wrong, just make sure they don't find Toothless.

Astrid: I will. Just... promise me it won't go wrong.

Snotlout: [to Astrid, during training] So anyway, uh, I moved into my parents' basement? You should come by some time to work out. You look like you work out!

[his shield is knocked out by a Gronkle's fireball]

Gobber: Snotlout, you're done!

Hiccup: [to Astrid] So I guess it's just you and me, huh?

Astrid: Nope, just you.

[she dodges away and Hiccup's shield is hit by the Gronkle's fire]

Gobber: Welcome to Dragon Training!

Astrid: No turning back.

Tuffnut: I hope I get some serious burns!

Ruffnut: I'm hoping for some mauling, like, on my shoulder or lower back.

Astrid: Yeah, it's only fun if you get a scar out of it.

Hiccup: [deadpan] Yeah, no kidding, right? Pain. Love it.

Tuffnut: Oh great, who let *him* in?

[after his latest "victory," in the final round of dragon training]

Hiccup: So, later!

Gobber: [catches him] Oh-oh, not so fast.

Hiccup: Uh, I'm kind of late for...

Astrid: [livid, jams her axehead into his throat] What? Late for *what*, exactly?

Hiccup: [to Eret, who's riding on Stormfly with Astrid] Welcome aboard, dragon rider.

Eret: Thanks! I think!

Astrid: [to Hiccup] Where have YOU been?

Hiccup: Oh, you know. Catching up with Mom.

[Hiccup looks up. Astrid follows his gaze and sees Valka on Cloudjumper, summoning her Bewilderbeast]

Astrid: [aghast] THAT'S your MOTHER?

Hiccup: [smiles] Well, now you know where I get my dramatic flair.

[He flies off with Toothless]

Eret: [approaches Hiccup after he saves Berk] That was some pretty fine dragon-wrangling back there. You'd make a good trapper.

[Skullcrusher nudges him playfully]

Eret: Whoa!

[He chuckles]

Hiccup: You know, Skullcrusher's gonna need somebody to look after him now.

Eret: [surprised] Me?

[Hiccup nods]

Eret: I'd be honored.

Valka: [comes over to Hiccup] Your father would be every bit as proud as I am.

Hiccup: Thank you. I'm really glad you're here, Mom.

Valka: And here I'll stay.

Astrid: [walks up to Hiccup] See? I told you it was in here.

[She points to his heart and then presses the button which releases the fin in his back]

Hiccup: [laughs] You're still doing that one. That's hilarious. Come here, you.

[He kisses Astrid]

Astrid: [hits Snotlout on the helmet] What are you doing, Snotlout? They're gonna win now!

Snotlout: She's my princess! Whatever she wants, she gets!

Astrid: [confused] Ruffnut? Didn't she try to bury you alive?

Snotlout: Only for a few hours!

Eret: [to Drago, after the dragon riders have been captured] They wouldn't know where you're hiding. I promise you that.

Astrid: Oh, yes, they will! They know we're missing and they have tracking dragons. If you so much as touch us, Hiccup is gonna kick...

Drago: Hiccup?

Eret: He's no problem. Really. Trust me.

Astrid: He's only the son of Stoick the Vast, his heir to the throne of Berk, and the greatest dragon master this world has ever seen!

Drago: Dragon master? I alone control the dragons!

Tuffnut: Nope, mm-mm.

Fishlegs: SORRY!

[the dragon riders laugh]

Astrid: And unless you let us go, right now, he will blast through here on his Night Fury and blow your entire fleet of ships to splinters.

Ruffnut: Then they'll be crying like babies!

Astrid: I don't like it. They should have been back with Hiccup by now.

Ruffnut: I don't like it either. Eret, Son of Eret, was the man of my dreams. My everything!

Snotlout: [touches his beard] But, baby, I grew facial hair for you.

Fishlegs: [also touches his beard] Me, too.

Astrid: Tell me something, John Lennon. When you are rich and famous, when you are number one, when your name is in lights and everybody wants to be your friend, when somebody asks you, "Do you remember Astrid in Hamburg?" what will you say?

John Lennon: I'll say she was the girl I always wanted. The girl of me dreams, like Brigitte Bardot with better manners. I might have fallen in love with her. But she fell in love with me best friend. And that was the end of that.

Astrid: I love him, John.

[pauses]

Astrid: I do.

John Lennon: Yeah. Don't we all?

Astrid: How can you be such an asshole?

John Lennon: Practice.

Bjarne: I haven't got any tea... But I got lots of pot if that's okay?

Astrid: That's okay, with milk and sugar please.

Tracy: All of the sudden Medina has a ghetto booty?

Evie: I think she stuffs.

Astrid: That slut ain't got shit compared to these double cheeseburgers.

[shakes her butt]

Medina: Shake it, don't break it, bitch.

Astird: Fuck her.

Tracy: [Tracey walks into the bathroom in a huff and Astrid looks over] So, um, you just wanna go to the boardwalk and sell some shit?

Astrid: [while putting stickers on her face in the mirror] I can't. Um, I'm late for my biology actually and we're doing a play and I'm a mermaid.

Tracy: [raises her eyebrows and walks out of bathroom]

Astrid: [stares into the mirror and keeps applying her makeup]

Astrid: Everybody asks why I started at the end and worked back to the beginning, the reason is simple, I couldn't understand the beginning until I had reached the end. There were too many pieces of the puzzle missing, too much you would never tell. I could sell these things. People want to buy them, but I'd set all this on fire first. She'd like that, that's what she would do. She'd make it just to burn it. I couldn't afford this one, but the beginning deserves something special. But how do I show that nothing, not a taste, not a smell, not even the color of the sky, has ever been as clear and sharp as it was when I belonged to her. I don't know how to express the being with someone so dangerous is the last time I felt safe...

Astrid: How long were you gone?

Ingrid: About a year, give or take a few months.

Astrid: My God.

Ingrid: You're not asking the right question. Don't ask me why I left. Ask me why I came back.

Astrid: You should have been sterilized.

Ingrid: I could have left you there, but I didn't. Don't you understand? For once, I did the right thing! When I came back, you knew me. You were sitting by the door, and you looked up, and you reached for me. It was as if you had been waiting for me all along.

Astrid: I was always waiting for you, mother. That's the constant in my life. Waiting for you. Will you come back? Will you forget that you tied me in front of a store or left me on a bus?

Ingrid: Are you still waiting?

Astrid: No. I stopped when Claire showed me what it felt like to be loved. What did you think, that I would amuse you? That's what babies are like, mother. What'd you think? We'd exchange thoughts on Joseph Brodsky?

Ingrid: I thought Klaus and I would live happily ever after. That's what I thought, Adam and Eve in a vine-covered shack. I must have been out of my mind.

Astrid: You were in love with him.

Ingrid: YES, I was in love with him. ALRIGHT? I was in love with him, and baby makes three, and all that crap!

Astrid: Then why did you leave him? Why did you leave him?

Ingrid: I didn't leave him! He left me. You wanna know about your father? He left us when you were six months old for another woman, and I never saw him again until he showed up looking for you when you were eight years old.

Astrid: He came to see me?

Ingrid: Yes, he came to see you but it was a little late, wasn't it? Why should I let him see you after what he did to me?

Astrid: Because it wasn't about you! It was about me, and I wanted to see him! My whole life, I've wanted to see him. That decision was MINE, not yours. Everything's always been about you, never about me. I knew you were gonna kill Barry, but you didn't even care. You didn't give a damn about what that would do to me. I'll say whatever Susan wants me to say, but I gotta get outta here.

Ingrid: No! No, no, no. You don't just walk away from me. I made you, I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go!

Astrid: Then let me go. You look at me and you don't like what you see, but this is the price, mother. The price of belonging to you.

Ingrid: If I could, I'd take it all back. I would.

Astrid: Then tell me you don't want me to testify. Tell me you don't want me like this. Tell me you would sacrifice the rest of your life to have me back the way I was.

Astrid: Looks don't interest me.

Paul: That's easy for you to say, you've never been ugly.

Astrid: Never let a man spend the night, she said. Never apologize, never explain. She was breaking all her rules, and it would change everything.

Astrid: You look at me mother and you don't like what you see. But this is the price... the price of belonging to you.

[last lines]

Astrid: No matter how much she damaged me... no matter how flawed she is... I know my mother loves me.

Astrid: There's nothing wrong with being a Christian.

Ingrid: Are you out of your mind? How did this happen? I raised you, not a pack of Bible-thumping trailer trash. I raised you to think for yourself.

Astrid: No you didn't. You raised me to think like you.

Paul: I was born addicted to heroin.

Astrid: And what was that like?

Paul: I don't know - I was out of rehab by the time I was six months old.

Astrid: Beauty was my mothers law, her religion.

Astrid: My mother was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was also the most dangerous.

Starr: Astrid, those are ugly shoes.

Astrid: Snakes don't bite above ankle.

Starr: Well, take my word for it, you better being bitten by snakes then dressin' for them.

Claire Richards: What was the best day of your life?

Astrid: Today.

Paul: What happened?

Astrid: She let me go.

Paul: I get this feeling like... you're not interested in guys.

Astrid: You're right, I'm not.

Ingrid: I made you. I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go

Astrid: Then let me go

Astrid: But...

Starr: Don't "But" me. He is a man, and he sees what he sees, and does what he can.

Astrid: The Next time you and your friends jump me, I'll cut your throats when you're sleeping.

Astrid: You're either an artist or you're not. You are.

Ingrid: You don't go anywhere until I let you go.

Astrid: Then let me go.

Astrid: You look at me, and you don't like what you see. But this is the price, Mother - the price of belonging to you.

Astrid: We're all lost souls Vivian,

[pause]

Astrid: at least we're lost together.

Astrid: I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hateful as the other.

Astrid: When l was 19, l was pregnant. lt was my choice. And what l found was it's best to stay where you belong.

Vivian: lf you know where you belong.

Astrid: [Thousands of weary refugees trudge through the deep snow of the road. Young Thomas and Astrid join the trek. They are shocked at the size of the exodus. Astrid stops a woman] Excuse me, where does this road lead?

Refugee: It leads westwards, to Frankfurt I think.

[the woman shivers walking on]

Astrid: [Astrid turns to Thomas who is looking around. They walk on] I've got relatives in Leipzig, Thomas. I think so long as we head West, we'll be safe. Even if we fall into British or American hands.

[they pick up the pace, looking about apprehensive at the long column of misery]