Elizabeth I (2005)
Helen Mirren: Elizabeth I
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Quotes
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Queen Elizabeth I : What in God's name do we have in common with the Dutch?
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester : Our religion, ma'am!
Queen Elizabeth I : The Dutch have no religion, they have cheese.
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Queen Elizabeth I : If you can't read my silence, you're nothing.
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Queen Elizabeth I : The hardest thing to govern is the heart.
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Queen Elizabeth I : I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King! And a King of England, too!
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[last lines]
Queen Elizabeth I : Fetch me a priest, girl. I'm minded to die.
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[Elizabeth is going to visit Mary Stuart at Fotheringay Castle]
Queen Elizabeth I : I understand she's grown very fat. Well, she's had nothing to do but eat and sleep.
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester : And plot, Your Majesty.
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Queen Elizabeth I : A man can be a good Catholic and a good Englishman.
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester : Not at the same time, Ma'am.
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Queen Elizabeth I : I lack the assurance of youth. I question everything.
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[Elizabeth is visiting Mary Stuart secretly]
Mary Queen of Scots : You were not announced.
Queen Elizabeth I : I am not here.
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Queen Elizabeth I : Princes never cheat at cards. They simply have the rules altered to suit their needs.
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William Cecil, Lord Burghley : For 19 years, Your Majesty, this council has implored you to secure your succession by marriage. You have refused all suitors, but now...
Queen Elizabeth I : I do not say I will not marry, Lord Burghley. The question before us is whom.
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Queen Elizabeth I : Oh Robin, I'm set about by enemies and I know not who to trust.
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester : Well, not France, I beg you.
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Queen Elizabeth I : [to Leicester] The only thing that will kiss in this affair are lawyers' pens and lawyers' papers.
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Queen Elizabeth I : Great things hang on a kiss, Robin, when princes are involved...
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Queen Elizabeth I : Come ladies, we are going to watch the Earl of Essex at his favourite pastime, which is trying to kill people.
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[Signing Mary's death-warrant]
Queen Elizabeth I : I want to hear no more of this... but someone is to give me an account of it when it is done.
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Queen Elizabeth I : I will die at a time of my own choosing, and not before.
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[talking about Sir Francis Bacon]
Queen Elizabeth I : Bacon, people who compliment me on my breasts, even in Latin, run the risk of being thought impertinent.
[to Essex]
Queen Elizabeth I : We understand he's fond of the company of pretty youths. No wonder he's the Member for *Middlesex*!
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Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex : How can I read when you look at me like that?
Queen Elizabeth I : How do I look at you?
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex : As if you are deciding whether to eat me.