- [after listening to Bohemian Rhapsody]
- Ray Foster: It goes on forever, six bloody minutes!
- Freddie Mercury: I pity your wife if you think six minutes is forever.
- Freddie Mercury: [Quoting Zoroaster] Good thoughts, good words, good deeds. Just like you taught me, papa.
- [Bomi embraces Freddie]
- John Reid: So, tell me. What makes Queen any different from all of the other wannabe rockstars I meet?
- Freddie Mercury: Tell you what it is, Mr. Reid. Now we're four misfits who don't belong together, we're playing for the other misfits. They're the outcasts, right at the back of the room. We're pretty sure they don't belong either. We belong to them.
- [after listening to Bohemian Rhapsody]
- Ray Foster: Bohemian...
- Brian May: Rhapsody. It's poetic.
- Ray Foster: What on earth is it about? Scaramouche? Galileo? Beelzebub? And that Ismallah business?
- Freddie Mercury: Bismillah.
- Freddie Mercury: You give me a chance to get my pitchy little vocal chords in order and we'll go and punch a hole through the roof of that stadium.
- John Deacon: Actually, Wembley doesn't have a roof.
- Freddie Mercury: All right...
- Brian May: He's right, it doesn't.
- Freddie Mercury: Then we'll punch a hole in the sky.
- Freddie Mercury: [on his illness] If any of you fuss about it or frown about it, or worst of all, if you bore me with your sympathy, that's just seconds wasted. Seconds that could be used making music, which is all I want to do with the time I have left. I don't have time to be anybody's victim, AIDS poster boy or cautionary tale. No, I decide who I am. I'm going to be what I was born to be: a performer that gives the people what they want: a touch of the heavens! Freddie fucking Mercury.
- [Freddie approaches bandmates wearing extravagant outfit, Brian May's eyes widen]
- Brian May: Wow! I didn't know it was fancy dress, Fred.
- Freddie Mercury: I've got to make an impression, darling!
- Brian May: You look like an angry lizard!
- [Freddie invites Roger over to his new mansion]
- Freddie Mercury: What do you think?
- [Roger looks at Freddie's mustache]
- Roger Taylor: Gayer.
- Brian May: I wanna give the audience a song that they can perform. So what can they do?
- [Brian stomps his foot twice and claps, he and other band members follow along to the beat of We Will Rock You]
- Brian May: Imagine... thousands of people... doing this in unison. Hmm?
- Freddie Mercury: What's the lyric?
- Ray Foster: We need a song teenagers can bang their heads to in a car. Bohemian Rhapsody is not that song.
- Young Man at Clinic: [as Freddie passes him by] Ay-oh?
- Freddie Mercury: [Stopping and looking back at him] Ay-oh.
- [from trailer, recording operatic section of Bohemian Rhapsody]
- Roger Taylor: [singing in high pitch] Galileo!
- Freddie Mercury: Do it again.
- Roger Taylor: [singing in high pitch] Galileo!
- Freddie Mercury: One more.
- Roger Taylor: HOW MANY MORE GALILEOS DO YOU WANT?
- [from trailer, Brian May finishes Bohemian Rhapsody guitar solo in studio]
- Brian May: So now what?
- Freddie Mercury: Oh, this is when the operatic section comes in.
- Brian May: Ah. The operatic section, yeah...
- [from trailer]
- Mary Austin: [to Freddie] I love the way you move on stage. The whole room belongs to you. Don't you see what you can be?
- Freddie Mercury: [Freddy is trying to warm up his vocals before Live Aid. He looks behind and sees one of his cats staring at him] What, you think you can do better?
- [the cat walks offf]
- Freddie Mercury: Everybody's a critic...
- Roger Taylor: [debating which song is better; Sweet Lady or I'm in Love with my Car] "You call me sweet like I'm some kind of cheese"
- Brian May: It's good.
- Roger Taylor: WOW!
- Brian May: Is that, you know, "with my hands on your grease gun". That's very subtle isn't it?
- Roger Taylor: It's a METAPHOR Brian!
- John Deacon: It's just a bit weird Roger. What exactly are you doing with that car?
- Roger Taylor: [singing in high pitch] Galileo!
- Freddie Mercury: Higher!
- Roger Taylor: If I go higher, only dogs will hear it!
- [from trailer]
- Freddie Mercury: We can be. We believe in each other... that's everything. We are going to do great things. It's an experience - love, tragedy, joy... it's something that people will feel belongs to them.
- [after the band meets Mary's husband David]
- Freddie Mercury: What do we think of David?
- [pause]
- Brian May: [sighs] Nice chap.
- Freddie Mercury: I think he's gay.
- John Reid: [Introducing Jim Beach to Ray Foster] And here's the bands lawyer Jim Beach.
- Jim Beach: Hello.
- Freddie Mercury: You MUST stop calling him that.
- John Reid: That's his name.
- Freddie Mercury: No, we can NOT keep calling him Jim Beach. Now that's absurd, not to mention unspeakably boring.
- [thinks]
- Freddie Mercury: Miami! From now on I dub thee MIAMI Beach!
- Reporter 2: Freddie, uh, your teeth! Why don't you get your teeth fixed?
- Freddie Mercury: I live in Britain. I don't want to stand out.
- Freddie Mercury: You know when you know you've gone rotten? Really rotten? Fruit flies. Dirty little fruit flies. Coming to feast on what's left.
- Ray Foster: Bohemian...
- Brian May: Rhapsody.
- Ray Foster: Rhapsody. What is that?
- Freddie Mercury: An epic poem.
- Ray Foster: It goes on forever, six bloody minutes!
- Freddie Mercury: I pity your wife if you think six minutes is forever.
- [pause]
- Freddie Mercury: And you know what? We're going to release it as our single.
- Ray Foster: [laugs] Not possible. Anything over three minutes, and the radio stations won't program it. John?
- John Reid: Yeah, we need radio. Format is three minutes.
- Ray Foster: What about 'I'm in Love with My Car'?
- [disappointed look on Queen's faces before Freddie kicks Ray's desk]
- Ray Foster: Well, that's the kind of songs teenagers can crank up the volume in their car and bang their heads to. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' will never be that song.
- Mary Austin: So, the new name is Queen?
- Freddie Mercury: As in Her Royal Highness, and because it's outrageous, and I can't think of anyone more outrageous than me!
- [Roger threatens to throw a coffee machine at Brian and John]
- Brian May, John Deacon: Not the coffee machine!
- Freddie Mercury: No looking back. Only forward.
- Bomi Bulsara: So now the family name is not good enough for you.
- Jer Bulsara: It's just a stage name.
- Freddie Mercury: No, it it's not. I've changed it legally. Had a new passport and everything.
- Freddie Mercury: [Asking Mary to sign to her deaf father] Please tell your father it's nice to meet him.
- Mary Austin: I have.
- Freddie Mercury: Well then, thank him for the lovely birthday cake.
- Mary Austin: I have.
- Freddie Mercury: [half-whispering, sarcastically] Then tell him his daughter's an EPIC shag.
- Mary Austin: Freddie. He can read lips.
- Mary's Father: [death glare]
- Freddie Mercury: Mmm. They say money can't buy happiness, darlings! But it does allow you to give it away!
- Jim Hutton: So, all your friends have left you alone.
- Freddie Mercury: They're not my friends. Not really. Just distraction.
- Jim Hutton: From what?
- Freddie Mercury: The in-between moments, I suppose. I find them intolerable. All of the darkness you thought you left behind comes creeping back in.
- [after Mary leaves Freddie, driving away in the rain]
- Paul Prenter: Freddie? What are you doing? You'll catch your death.
- Freddie Mercury: Why didn't you tell me about Live Aid?
- Paul Prenter: The Africa charity gig? It'd be an embarrassment. I didn't want to waste your time.
- Freddie Mercury: You should have told me.
- Paul Prenter: Of course I did. You forgot. You're always forgetting things. Come in now and have a drink.
- Freddie Mercury: You're out.
- Paul Prenter: What do you mean?
- Freddie Mercury: I want you out of my life.
- Paul Prenter: 'Cause I'm the only one left, now you're blaming me for everything?
- Freddie Mercury: I blame myself.
- Paul Prenter: So I'm out? Just like that? After everything we've been through? Just think of the photos I have. I know who you are, Freddie Mercury!
- Freddie Mercury: [angry, firmly] You know when you gone really rotten? Really rotten? Fruit fly. Dirty, little, fruit fly. Coming to feast on what's left. Well, there isn't much left for you to feast on anymore!
- [Under Pressure begins playing]
- Freddie Mercury: [enraged] So, fly off! Do what you like with your photographs and your stories... but promise me one thing... that I never want to see your face again... ever.
- [from trailer]
- Ray Foster: Mark these words: NO ONE will play Queen.
- Jim Beach: Fortune favors the bold.