Once Upon a Time (TV Series)
Hat Trick (2012)
Sebastian Stan: Jefferson, The Mad Hatter
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Quotes
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Jefferson : You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic.
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Emma Swan : You've clearly glommed onto my kid Henry's thing. They're just stories! The Mad Hatter is in Alice in Wonderland, a book - a book I actually read.
Jefferson : Stories. Stories! What's a story? When you were in high school, d'you learn about the Civil War?
Emma Swan : Yeah, of course.
Jefferson : How? D'you read about it, perchance, in a book? How's that any less real than any other book?
Emma Swan : History books are based on history.
Jefferson : And storybooks are based on what? Imagination. Where does that come from? It has to come from somewhere.
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Emma Swan : This is it. This is the real world.
Jefferson : *A* real world. How arrogant are you to think yours is the only one? There are infinite more. You have to open your mind. They touch one another, pressing up in a long line of lands, each just as real as the last. All have their own rules. Some have magic, some don't. And some need magic. Like this one. And that's where you come in.
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Jefferson : It's hard enough to live in a land where you don't belong, but knowing it... holding conflicting realities in your head... will drive you mad.
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Jefferson : I'm not crazy. This is real.
Emma Swan : Maybe. Maybe it is.
Jefferson : You believe?
Emma Swan : If what you say is true... that woman in the other room... is my mother. And I want to believe that more than anything in the world. So maybe you're right. Maybe I need to open myself up more. Maybe if I want magic... I have to start believing.
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The Mad Hatter : I hate Wonderland.
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Evil Queen : I have a job for you.
The Mad Hatter : I don't do that anymore.
Evil Queen : Yes, I heard you hung up your hat. Why? Is it because of your sweet daughter Grace?
The Mad Hatter : Because of my work, she lost her mother. I don't want her to lose her father, too.
Evil Queen : So now you're foraging for fungus. What kind of future does your daughter have here with you? Do this one last favor for me, and you can give her the life she deserves.
The Mad Hatter : That's why I'm staying. You don't abandon family. *That's*... what she deserves.
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Queen of Hearts , Jefferson : [respectively] Off with his head.
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Jefferson : For the last 28 years, I've been stuck in this house, day after day, always the same, until one night, you, in your little yellow bug, roll into town, and the clock ticks and things start to change. You see I know what you refuse to acknowledge, Emma. You're special. You brought something precious to Storybrooke... magic.
Emma Swan : You're insane.
Jefferson : Because I speak the truth?
Emma Swan : Because you're talking about magic.
Jefferson : I'm talking about what I've seen. Perhaps you're the one that's mad.
Emma Swan : Really?
Jefferson : What's crazier than seeing and not believing? Because that's exactly what you've been doing since you got to our little Hamlet.
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The Mad Hatter : ...Get it to work. Get it to work. Get it to work. Get it to work...!
