I want to say to my wife, Berenice Bejo, who’s here, that I love you, but it’s not just that, it’s about the movie. You inspired the movie, and you’re the soul of the movie, the positive feeling of the movie. Thank you for this, in the movie, and in my life.

— Michel Hazanavicius, Best Picture acceptance speech for The Artist

EXCUSE ME, SIR, BUT YOUR FACE IS RIDICULOUS
→ Jean Dujardin in The Artist

EXCUSE ME, SIR, BUT YOUR FACE IS RIDICULOUS
→ Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music

Do you know when I first started loving you?
That night at the dinner table when you sat on that ridiculous pine cone.

You are the space in between
What I thought and I what I said

When it’s over you’re the start
You’re my head and you’re my heart

ANNA: I’m Anna, the head housemaid.
BATES: How do you do.

ANNA: Thought it was you.
BATES: Hello.

— Downton Abbey 1x01 & 2x04

This is an antique fire brick, I’d say pre-Civil War. Note the uneven orange hue and the embossment on the back. Quite a nifty little piece of Americana. You could get 50, 60 bucks for it from the right collector.

I watch a lot of Antiques Roadshow.

They tell us Trojan Helen’s lips
Made every man her slavey
If her face launched a thousand ships
Well, yours could launch a navy

And where, may I ask, did they get these, uh, these…