Anastasia (1956)
Helen Hayes: Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Boris Adreivich Chernov : Your Majesty, I beg you. They're all waiting down there. What shall we say to them? What can we say to them?
Dowager Empress : [emphatically] Nothing. Paul, your arm. I will speak to them.
Boris Adreivich Chernov : Oh, thank you, your Majesty.
Boris Adreivich Chernov : [calling everyone to attention by clapping] Everybody, please.
Prince Paul von Haraldberg : [the Prince escorting the Dowager Empress down the hallway toward the ballroom full of guests] Forgive me Marie, but what will you say?
Dowager Empress : Say? Oh, I will say, 'The play is over. Go home.'
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Dowager Empress : So, Bounine is still attractive.
Baroness Elena von Livenbaum : Yes, Your Majesty.
Dowager Empress : *Madly* attractive.
Baroness Elena von Livenbaum : *Yes*, Your Majesty.
Dowager Empress : Lievenbaum, your voluptuous fancies are disgusting! To a woman of your age, sex should mean nothing but gender.
Baroness Elena von Livenbaum : Yes, Your Majesty.
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Dowager Empress : We are most of us lonely, and it is mostly of our own making, but no masquerade can fill the emptiness.
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Dowager Empress : But oh please, if it should not be you, don't ever tell me.
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Dowager Empress : I am the past. I like it. It's sweet and familiar. And the present is cold and foreign. And the future? Fortunately, I don't need to concern myself with that.
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Dowager Empress : There are not enough years left for me to see every madwoman with a royal obsession. If she must see me, show her my photographs again.
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Dowager Empress : I have received too many appeals from resurrected Romanovs. The firing squads were such poor shots it's amazing the Revolution succeeded.
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Baroness Elena von Livenbaum : Your Majesty, I cannot wait for you to look down into the ballroom. You'll weep absolute tears. Everyone's there. And the gowns and the uniforms. It's incredibly like it used to be.
Dowager Empress : Yes, I can smell the mothballs.
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Dowager Empress : Your Majesty, forgive me.
Dowager Empress : I did once, when I heard you'd been shot.
General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine : I was sentenced twice.
Dowager Empress : By whom? The whites or the reds?
General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine : As I recall, by both.
Dowager Empress : Good for them, but you are still here.
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Dowager Empress : I have lost everything I have loved: my husband, my family, my position, my country. I have nothing but memories. I want to be left alone with them.
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Dowager Empress : You are less of a knave than I thought, but very much more of a fool.
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Dowager Empress : The world moves on, and we must move on with it or be left to moulder with the past.
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Boris Adreivich Chernov : Excuse me. If Your Majesty will permit me to explain the ceremony and......
Dowager Empress : Livenbaum.
Baroness Elena von Livenbaum : We discussed the ceremony this morning.
Boris Adreivich Chernov : Yes, but...
Baroness Elena von Livenbaum : The *but* we'll discuss later.
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Dowager Empress : Truth serves only a world that lives by it.