Azula quotes from Avatar: The Last Airbender

Azula

The Avatar? My lucky day!

Azula

Don't you know that fans only make flames stronger?

Azula

It's terrible when you can't trust the people who are closest to you.

Azula

[After winning a game of beach volleyball/"Kuai Ball"] Yes! We defeated you for all time! You will never rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation! [pause] Well, that was fun.

Azula

Hey, beach bums, we're going next. [To Ty Lee] Ty Lee, get over here now!

Azula

It's never too early for a sitting with the court painter, Zuko. (Sarcastically) Make sure he gets your good side.

Azula

(To Aang, Sokka and Toph) Oh, looks like the firebending's back on.

Azula

You mean it's not obvious yet? I am about to celebrate becoming an ONLY CHILD!

Azula

(laughs maniacally) I'd really rather have our family physician look after little Zuzu if you don't mind.

Long Feng

Now comes the part where I double cross you. Dai Li, arrest the Fire Nation princess. [pauses out as The Dai Li don't move] I said arrest her! [short pause as The Dai Li Agents don't move again; failed] What is wrong with you?!

Azula

It's because they haven't made up their minds. They're waiting to see how this is going to end.

Long Feng

What are you talking about?!

Azula

I can see your whole history in your eyes. You were born with nothing, so you've had to struggle, and connive, and claw your way to power. But true power, the divine right to rule, is something you're born with. The fact is, they don't know which one of us is going to be sitting on that throne, and which one is going to be bowing down. But I know, and you know. [She sits on the Earth King's throne] Well? [She and Long Feng lock eyes; after a long moment, Long Feng kneels before her]

Long Feng

... You've beaten me at my own game.

Azula

Don't flatter yourself. You were never even a player.

Zuko

Uncle, I don't understand. What are you doing with the Avatar?

Aang

[glares at him] Saving you, that's what.

Iroh

It's time we talked. [to Aang] Go help your other friends. We'll catch up with you. [Aang and Katara leaves]

Zuko

[not looking Iroh directly in the eye] Why, Uncle?

Iroh

[seriously] You're not the man you used to be, Zuko. You are stronger, and wiser, and freer than you have ever been. And now you've come to the crossroads of your destiny. It's time for you to choose. It's time for you to choose good.

Azula

[enters followed by two Dai Li Agents] I expected this kind of treachery from Uncle. But Zuko, Prince Zuko. You're a lot of things, but you aren't a traitor, are you?

Zuko

Release him immediately!

Azula

[slyly] It's not too late for you, Zuko. You could still redeem yourself.

Iroh

The kind of "redemption" she offers is not for you!

Azula

[glares at him] Why don't you let him decide, Uncle? I need you, Zuko. I've plotted every move of this day, this glorious day in Fire Nation history, and the only way we win is together. At the end of this day, you will have your honor back. You will have Father's love. You will have everything you want.

Iroh

Zuko, I am begging you. Look into your heart and see what it is you truly want.

Azula

You are free to choose.

Ty Lee

[startled] What are you doing?

Zuko

What does it look like I'm doing?

Ty Lee

But... it's a portrait of your family.

Zuko

You think I care?

Ty Lee

I think you do-

Zuko

You don't know me, so why don't you just mind your own business?!

Ty Lee

...I know you.

Zuko

No, you don't! You're stuck in your little Ty Lee world, where everything is great all the time!

Mai

Zuko, leave her alone.

Zuko

"I'm so pretty, look at me! I can walk on my hands! Woo!" [flops down in the sand, facing away] Circus freak!

Ty Lee

[tearful and angrily] Yes, I'm a circus freak! Go ahead and laugh all you want! You wanna know why I joined the circus?

Azula

Here we go...

Ty Lee

Do you have any idea what my home life was like, growing up with six sisters who looked exactly like me?! It was like, I didn't even have my own name! I joined the circus because I was scared of spending the rest of my life as a matched set! At least I'm different now! "Circus Freak" is a compliment!

Mai

I guess that explains why you need ten boyfriends, too.

Ty Lee

I'm sorry, what?

Mai

Attention issues? You couldn't get enough attention when you were a kid, so you're trying to make up for it now.

Ty Lee

Well, what's your excuse, Mai? You were an only child for fifteen years, but even with all that attention, your aura is just this dingy, pale, grey-

Mai

I don't believe in auras.

Zuko

Yeah... you don't believe in anything.

Mai

[sarcastically] Oh, well, I'm sorry I can't be as crazy and high-strung as the rest of you.

Zuko

I'm sorry, too; I wish you would be high-strung and crazy for once, instead of keeping all your feelings bottled up inside. She just called your aura dingy, are you gonna take that?

Mai

What do you want from me? You want a teary confession about how bad my childhood was? Well, it wasn't. I was a rich only child who got anything I wanted... as long as I behaved. And sat still. And didn't speak unless spoken to. My mother said I had to keep out of trouble. We had my dad's political career to think about.

Azula

Well, that's it then: you had a controlling mother with certain expectations, and if you strayed from them, you were shut down. That's why you're afraid to care about anything... and why you can't express yourself.

Mai

[stands up, angrily] You want me to express myself? LEAVE ME ALONE!

By decree of Phoenix King Ozai, I now crown you Fire Lord...

Azula

What are you waiting for?! Do it!

Zuko

Sorry, but you're not gonna become Fire Lord today. [jumps down] I am.

Azula

[laughs] You're hilarious.

Katara

And you're going down!

Azula

Wait. You want to be Fire Lord? Fine. Let's settle this; just you and me, brother. The showdown that was always meant to be! Agni Kai!

Zuko

...You're on. [Azula grins]

Katara

[to Zuko] What are you doing? She's playing you! She knows she can't take us both, so she's trying to separate us!

Zuko

I know, but I can take her this time.

Katara

But even you admitted to your uncle that you would need help facing Azula!

Zuko

... There's something off about her. I can't explain it, but she's slipping. And this way, no one else has to gets hurt.

Azula

[sneering] I'm sorry it has to end this way, brother.

Zuko

[grimly] No, you're not.

Azula

Do the tides command this ship?

I'm afraid I don't understand.

Azula

You said the tides would not allow us to bring the ship in. Do the tides command this ship?

No, Princess.

Azula

And if I were to have you thrown overboard, would the tides think twice about smashing you against the rocky shore?

No, Princess.

Azula

Well then, maybe you should worry less about the tides, who've already made up their mind about killing you, and worry more about me, who's still mulling it over.

Azula

In my country, we exchange a pleasant hello before asking questions. Have you become uncivilized so soon, Zuzu?

Zuko

Don't call me that!