Elizabeth (1998)

Christopher Eccleston: Duke of Norfolk

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Quotes 

• Norfolk : So cut off my head, and make me a martyr. The people will always remember it.

  Walsingham : No... they will forget.

• [about Elizabeth] 

  Norfolk : She is just a child and yet still you piss yourselves!

• Sir Francis Walsingham : Your Grace is arrested. You must go with these men to the Tower.

  Norfolk : I must do nothing by your orders. I am Norfolk!

  Sir Francis Walsingham : You were Norfolk.

  Sir Francis Walsingham : [shows him his own signature on the treasonous letter from Rome] 

  Sir Francis Walsingham : The dead have no titles.

• Norfolk : [Removes Mary's Signet Ring]  Give it to her.

• [regarding Elizabeth's impending reign] 

  Unseen Gentleman : Your Grace, Protestants are already returning from abroad.

  Norfolk : Yes. And have made plans to massacre every Catholic in England. There would be butchery indeed if such a plan were even conceivable.

  Norfolk's Man : They say Walsingham will return from France.

  Norfolk : Walsingham is nothing!

  [aside to Norfolk's Man as he is leaving the room] 

  Norfolk : Be sure he does not.

• [Mary, on her deathbed, is refusing to sign a warrant for Elizabeth's execution] 

  Norfolk : Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?

• Norfolk : To the North, I present Elizabeth, your undoubted Queen!

• Norfolk : In the future...

• Norfolk : The Queen!