Roderick Quotes in Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

Elmont: Well, she's not in the house. This is the only other place she could have gone.

Crawe: If she climbed down, we would have seen her.

Elmont: [notices a footprint in the mud] She didn't climb down. She climbed up.

Roderick: Why would she do that?

Crawe: If she were cold.

Elmont: Or hungry.

Jack: [to himself] Or looking for an adventure.

Roderick: Did you really think you were the hero of this story? Don't you know we all think that?

[he tries to stab Elmont's hand, but he takes the blade and stabs his own hand, which goes through Roderick's foot]

Elmont: I may not be the hero of this story, but at least I get to see the end of it!

[first lines]

Clarinda: [TV soap opera scene] It doesn't make sense, I don't understand how something like this happened. I don't know what I'm going to do. This has been my whole life, and now it's gone I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Pendleton Industries is all I've ever known, and now it's all been taken away.

Danica: When someone sees a weakness in me, I turn that weakness into a strength.

[holds up a gun]

Clarinda: Danica, you're so strong. I don't think I can do anything like this.

Danica: You can imagine changing your life by fighting for the deed to the land, Clarinda. Which is possible only if Bartholomew is no longer living.

Bartholomew: [entering] You will never get the deed to the land again, I will never allow it. Put down that gun, you silly girl.

Danica: Watch your step, Bartholomew, Ridge is on the way, and he's still in love with Clarinda. And Jared loves

Roderick: [entering] Clarinda, it's true. I'm here for you.

[dramatic beat]

Mimi: [narrating over snowy landscape] This is the story of Joy, as told by me, her grandmother. Everybody starts with a some kind of dream of what life will be. Joy dreams started at this metal garage her father ran. My granddaughter had a best friend, Jackie... a half-sister, Peggy... a dog... a father... a mother... who is my daughter... a grandmother, that's me. She made many beautiful things in her world, magic. Some people love to make things. They have the patience and the focus to figure it out with their hands. Joy was one of those people who rejoiced in making things.

Young Joy: [in her room with her friend] And *I* open the door to the big green meadow. And *I* go into the forest. And there I conquered many dangers: A wolf and other scary things. And I started to build my very own house, where I would live and make wonderful creations for all the world, to see and have. And maybe for the Prince and Princess who lived across the forest in a castle. See? And they were in love. And maybe they'd invite me over because of the things that I made.

Young Jackie: You need a handsome prince, that's what you need: a prince.

Young Joy: No, I don't need a prince, this is a special power, I don't need a prince.

Roderick: Alice Walker said, "There's nothing more important than how we enter this world." And I agree with her. My mom had a hospital birth. The stirrups, the machines, the drugs. And she wonders why I can't walk into a dry cleaner's without vomiting.

Burt Farlander: Okay, can that maybe be the last bit of parental advice we get tonight?

Burt Farlander: Why the seahorses, Rod?

LN: In the seahorse community, the males gives birth.

Roderick: The female inserts her ovipositor into the male's brood pouch. That's where she deposits her eggs.

LN: If I could, I would lay my eggs in your brood pouch.

Roderick: I know you would.

Roderick: Winter's coming in and the wolves coming with it.