Elizabeth (1998)

Joseph Fiennes: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

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Quotes 

• Lord Robert : Remember who you are. Do not be afraid of them.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

• 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] 

• 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!

• 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?

• 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.

• Lord Robert : When may I see you in private?

  Elizabeth : In private? Have you forgot, my Lord? I am Queen now.