The Iron Lady
Movie Quote Quiz

Margaret Thatcher: Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, because they become actions. Watch your actions, because they become habits. Watch your habits, because they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become.

Margaret Thatcher: Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that. And I think I am fine.

Airey Neave: If you want to change this party, lead it. If you want to change the country, lead it.

Margaret Thatcher: It's time to get up! It's time go to work! It's time to put the great back into Great Britain.

Alexander Haig: So you are proposing to go to war over these islands. They're thousands of miles away, a handful of citizens, politically and economically insignificant, if you'll excuse me.
Margaret Thatcher: Just like Hawaii... I imagine.

Margaret Thatcher: It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

Factual error: In the medicine cabinet, when Margaret is emptying it, a box of Rite-Aid Bandages is visible. Rite-Aid is an American chain of drug stores, not in the UK. And the Brits call the product plasters.

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