Elizabeth (1998)

Kathy Burke: Queen Mary Tudor

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Quotes 

• Queen Mary : Why will you not confess your crimes against me?

  Elizabeth : Because, Your Majesty, I have committed none.

  Queen Mary : You speak with such sincerity. I see you are still a consummate actress. My husband is gone. They have poisoned my child. They say it is a tumor.

  [Moans in pain] 

  Elizabeth : Madam, you are not well.

  Queen Mary : They say this cancer will make you queen, but they are wrong. Look there, it is your death warrant. All I need do is sign it.

  Elizabeth : Mary, if you sign that paper, you will be murdering your own sister.

• Queen Mary : [shouting]  My sister was born of that whore, Anne Boleyn! She was born a bastard! She will never rule England!

• Queen Mary : You will promise me something? When I am gone, you will do everything in your power to uphold the Catholic faith. Do not take away from the people the consolations of the Blessed Virgin.

  Elizabeth : When I am Queen I promise - to act as my conscience dictates.

  Queen Mary : Well, do not think to be Queen at all.

• Queen Mary : When I look at you I see nothing of the king, only that whore, your mother. My father never did anything so well as to cut off her head.

  Elizabeth : Your Majesty forgets he was also my father.

• Queen Mary : Do not deprive my people of the consolations of the Holy Virgin Mother.