Elizabeth (1998)
Joseph Fiennes: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
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Quotes
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Lord Robert : Remember who you are. Do not be afraid of them.
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Lord Robert : For God's sake, you are still my Elizabeth.
Elizabeth : I am not your Elizabeth. I am no man's Elizabeth. And if you think to rule, you are mistaken.
Elizabeth : [to all]
Elizabeth : I will have one mistress here... and no master.
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Lord Robert : Marry me.
Elizabeth : On a night such as this, could any woman say no?
Lord Robert : On a night such as this, could a queen say no?
Elizabeth : Does not a queen sit under the same stars as any other woman?
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Lord Robert : When you are Queen...
Elizabeth : I am not...
[whispering]
Elizabeth : I am not Queen yet!
Lord Robert : You will be. Elizabeth, Queen of England. A court to worship you, a country to obey you, poems written celebrating your beauty, music composed in your honor, and they will mean nothing to you. I will mean nothing to you.
Elizabeth : [laughs gaily] How could you ever be nothing to me? Robert, you know you are everything to me.
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Elizabeth : Just tell me why.
Lord Robert : Why? Madam, is it not plain enough to you? 'Tis no easy thing to be loved by the queen. It would corrupt the soul of any man.
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Lord Robert : You blush, Lady Knollys. Are you in love?
Isabel Knollys : No, my lord.
Lord Robert : Then you should be, or waste all that beauty.
[the ladies-in-waiting giggle]
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Lord Robert : Monsignor Alvaro! Monsignor Alvaro! Monsignor Alvaro, tell me. As well as ambassador, are you not also a bishop?
De la Quadra : I am, my lord.
Lord Robert : [referring to himself and Elizabeth] Then you can marry us!
De la Quadra : Marry *you*?
Elizabeth : [laughing] Perhaps he does not know enough English to perform the ceremony!
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Elizabeth : He then said that this King would marry me but would not expect to share my bed more than two or three times a year.
Lord Robert : As much as that?
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Lord Robert : The King is a fool. What could ever be important enough to keep him from your bed?
Elizabeth : Robert, you should not say such things.
Lord Robert : Then I shall only think them.
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Lord Robert : When may I see you in private?
Elizabeth : In private? Have you forgot, my Lord? I am Queen now.