The Favourite (2018)

Olivia Colman: Queen Anne

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Quotes 

• Lady Sarah : Abigail has done this. She does not love you.

  Queen Anne : Because how could anyone? She wants nothing from me. Unlike you.

  Lady Sarah : She wants nothing from you. And yet somehow she is a lady. With 2000 a year, and Harley sits on your knee most nights.

  Queen Anne : I wish you could love me as she does!

  Lady Sarah : You wish me to lie to you? "Oh you look like an angel fallen from heaven, your majesty." No. Sometimes, you look like a badger. And you can rely on me to tell you.

  Queen Anne : Why?

  Lady Sarah : Because I will not lie! That is love!

• Queen Anne : Did you just look at me?

  [the servant shakes his head sideways] 

  Queen Anne : Did you? Look at me! Look at me!

  [the servant looks at her] 

  Queen Anne : How dare you! Close your eyes!

• Queen Anne : Some wounds do not close; I have many such. One just walks around with them and sometimes one can feel them filling with blood.

• [repeated line] 

  Queen Anne : Rub my legs.

• Lady Sarah : Anne, you are too sensitive.

  Queen Anne : And you are too mean and uncaring, some days.

  Lady Sarah : Some days I'm quite lovely though. Let's think on them!

• Queen Anne : [after her fall]  They were all staring, weren't they? I can tell even if I can't see. And I heard the word fat! Fat and ugly!

  Lady Sarah : Anne, no one but me would dare and I did not.

• Lady Sarah : You do not lisp but you are mad. Giving me a palace?

  Queen Anne : I have been wanting to give you something for quite some time now. Seemed like the perfect opportunity with Marlborough winning.

  Lady Sarah : It is a monstrous extravagance, Mrs. Morley. We are at war.

  Queen Anne : We won!

  Lady Sarah : Oh, it is not over. We must continue.

  Queen Anne : Oh. Oh, I did not know that.

• Queen Anne : I like it when she puts her tongue inside me.

• Lady Sarah : I love you, but that I will not do.

  Queen Anne : If you love me...

  Lady Sarah : Love has limits.

  Queen Anne : It should not.

• [last lines] 

  Abigail : You should lie down.

  Queen Anne : You shall speak when asked to! I feel dizzy, I need to hold on to something.

  [she grabs Abigail's hair] 

• Queen Anne : What happened to your dress?

  Abigail : Wolves.

• Abigail : You're so beautiful.

  Queen Anne : Stop it, you mock me.

  Abigail : I do not. If I were a man, I would ravish you! Rrrrravish!

• Lady Sarah : None for the queen.

  Queen Anne : What?

  Lady Sarah : Well you cannot have hot chocolate. Your stomach, the sugar inflames it.

  Queen Anne : Abigail, hand me that cup!

  Lady Sarah : [casually]  Do not.

  Abigail : I'm sorry. I do not know what to do.

  Lady Sarah : Oh fine, give it to her. And you can get a bucket and mop for the aftermath.

• [first lines] 

  Queen Anne : How was my speech?

  Lady Sarah : You were brilliant.

  Queen Anne : Did I lisp?

  Lady Sarah : You don't lisp.

  Queen Anne : I know. That was what was so troubling about it. The thought that I suddenly did.

• Lady Sarah : I am not food! You cannot just eat and eat!

  Queen Anne : And yet you are tasty and salty.

• Queen Anne : Oh it is fun to be queen sometimes!

  Harley : One can only imagine.

• Queen Anne : Are the people really angry about the land tax?

  Lady Sarah : They'll be angrier when the French are sodomising their wives and planting their fields with garlic.

• Queen Anne : [in a mud bath]  It is so strange to be in this.

  Abigail : It is good for you. The doctor says it will leach the toxins.

  Queen Anne : What if I should fall asleep and slip under?

  Abigail : Oh, just imagine it is hot chocolate.

  Queen Anne : Oh, then I shall die happy.

• Lady Sarah : I started looking over some of the many, many, many letters you've written to me. 'I long for your embrace', 'I long for the heat from your naked body on mine.' It's very intense. Very - explicit. I thought I'd misplaced some of them the other day. It was quite a fright. What if say that son of a bitch Jonathan Swift got his hands on them? In his newspaper the next day? You would be ruined.

  Queen Anne : You would never.

  Lady Sarah : You have no idea what I would do for my country.

• Queen Anne : I think she means to vex me.

• Queen Anne : She is my servant, she is not dismissed. I have made her my Maid of the Bedchamber.

• Queen Anne : We should ask people. Get some people in from the villages and ask them.

  Lady Sarah : That is not how matters of state are dealt with. People are led, they do not lead.

• Queen Anne : You are a dear Abigail. I shall retire for the evening.

  Abigail : Shall I prepare your bed Queen Anne?

  Lady Sarah : Or shall you and I adjourn to your apartments for sherry?

• Queen Anne : I do not like this, you will lodge this unknowable thing in my brain and it will eat me with horrible possibilities.