Beowulf (2007)

Anthony Hopkins: Hrothgar

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Quotes 

• King Hrothgar : [referring to the Royal Dragon Horn, but looking at his Queen]  I wonder how many men have died for love of her beauty.

  Beowulf : Can you blame them?

  King Hrothgar : If you destroy my Grendel for me, she'll be yours forever and ever and ever.

  Beowulf : [takes the horn in his hands]  You do me great honor.

  Wealthow : [asuming they are talking about her]  It is we who are honored.

• Beowulf : How many monsters must I slay? Grendel's mother, father, Grende's uncle? Must I hack down a whole family tree of demons?

  King Hrothgar : She is the last of them. Whith her gone, demonkind will slip back into the darkness from whence it came.

  Wiglaf : And where it belongs.

  Beowulf : And the mother's mate? Where is Grendel's father?

  King Hrothgar : Grendel's father can do no harm to man.

• King Hrothgar : When I am gone, Beowulf, son of Edgethow, shall be king!

• King Hrothgar : Fight me! Fight me! You fight me, damn you.

  Grendel : ...Nay.

• King Hrothgar : [Wealthow refuses to sleep with him]  My kingdom needs an heir, I need a son! It's time you did your duty!

  Wealthow : How could I ever lay with you, knowing you laid with her?

  King Hrothgar : I should never have told you. I should never have told you.

• [first lines] 

  King Hrothgar : I want mead! Give me some mead, my queen!

• King Hrothgar : Did you kill her?

  Beowulf : Would you like to hear the story of my struggle against this monstrous hag?

  King Hrothgar : She's no hag, Beowulf. We both know that. But answer me, did you kill her?

  Beowulf : Would I have been able to escape her, had I not?

  King Hrothgar : Grendel is dead. That's all that matter to me. He can bother me no more. The mother, the hag... She's not my curse, not anymore. Not anymore.

• Wealthow : [after Grendel has attacked the Great Hall for the first time]  What *was* that?

  King Hrothgar : Grendel!

• King Hrothgar : I have spoken... I have spoken!

• King Hrothgar : [during Grendel's attack]  A sword! Give me a sword!

• King Hrothgar : What we need is a hero.