Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Margot Robbie: Queen Elizabeth I
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Quotes
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Queen Elizabeth I : I was jealous. Your beauty. Your bravery. Your motherhood. You seemed to surpass me in every way. But now I see there is no cause for envy. Your gifts are your downfall.
Mary Stuart : What now, sister?
Queen Elizabeth I : You will still have my protection. Under my terms.
Mary Stuart : Until you have me killed?
Queen Elizabeth I : I will do no such thing.
Mary Stuart : Wouldn't you? As Henry killed your mother?
Queen Elizabeth I : I am not my father.
Mary Stuart : But, you share his blood.
Queen Elizabeth I : As long as you do not provoke my enemies, you have nothing to fear. Your fate rests in your own hands.
Mary Stuart : If I seek to help your enemies, tis only because you pushed me to their arms. And should you murder me, remember that you murder your sister - and you murder your Queen.
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Queen Elizabeth I : How cruel men are.
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Mary Stuart : Be my sister. Be my boy's Godmother. Together we could conquer all of those who doubt us. Do not play into their hands. Our enmity is precisely what they hope for. I know your heart has more within it than the men who counsel you.
Queen Elizabeth I : I am more man than woman now. The throne has made me so. But I have no enmity with you.
Mary Stuart : Except to seed rebellion and to deceive me time and time again.
Queen Elizabeth I : If you still seek my protection, you would do well to watch your words.
Mary Stuart : I will not be scolded by my inferior.
Queen Elizabeth I : Your inferior?
Mary Stuart : I am a Stuart, which gives me greater claim to England than you possess.
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Mary Stuart : I have been abandoned by so many. I am utterly alone.
Queen Elizabeth I : As am I. Alone.
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Queen Elizabeth I : Tell me what to do?
William Cecil : We must make civil war in Scotland.
Queen Elizabeth I : You would have me depose the sister monarch?
William Cecil : It is either civil war there. Or civil war here.
Queen Elizabeth I : I want to know nothing of it.
William Cecil : The arrangements shall me mine, alone.
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William Cecil : Madam, we cannot let her name your successor. She has no right.
Queen Elizabeth I : When I am dead and you are dead and she is dead, it matters not what names we did or did not say. The world will decide for itself.
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Queen Elizabeth I : England is not Scotland.
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Queen Elizabeth I : Only with suffering do we know joy.
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William Cecil : Mary is our foe! We must not bow to her as we bow before you!
Queen Elizabeth I : You have the boldness to doubt my judgement!
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Queen Elizabeth I : No Prince's revenues be so great that they satisfy the insatiable ambition of men.
William Cecil : This I understand.
Queen Elizabeth I : Which is why you are the closest thing I shall ever have to a wife.
William Cecil : [laughs] I shan't mention your proposal to Lord Dudley.
[Elizabeth laughs]
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Robert Dudley : The news is urgent.
Queen Elizabeth I : What news do I want from Scotland? Bloodshed? Go conspire among yourselves.
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Queen Elizabeth I : It is my choice. God would have a woman be a wife and mother.
William Cecil : So you defy his will.
Queen Elizabeth I : No - I choose to be a man.
