Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Michael Keaton: Dogberry

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• Conrade : You are an ass, you are an ass.

  Dogberry : Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect my years? O that he were here to write me down an ass. But masters, remember that I am an ass: though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

• Dogberry : A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help us! it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith, neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man; an two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest soul, i' faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever broke bread; but God is to be worshipped; all men are not alike; alas, good neighbour!

  Leonato : Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you.

• Don Pedro of Aragon : Officers, what offense have these men done?

  Dogberry : Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly; they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

  Don Pedro of Aragon : What is your offense, masters? This learned constable is too cunning to be understood.

• Dogberry : Thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this.

• Dogberry : Are you good men and true?

  All : Yea.

  Dogberry : Being chosen for the Prince's watch. This is your charge: You are to bid any man stand, in the prince's name.

  Francis Seacole : How if a' will not stand?

  Dogberry : Why, then take no note of him, but let him go.

  Verges : If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none of the prince's subjects.

  Dogberry : True. and we are to meddle with none but the prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in the streets.

  George Seacole : We will rather sleep than talk.

  Dogberry : Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman, for I cannot see how sleeping should offend.

• Dogberry : Were I as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all on Your Worship.

  Leonato : All thy tediousness on me?

• Dogberry : And Master, sir, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall assert, that I am an ass.