Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Kate Beckinsale: Hero
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Quotes
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Beatrice : Is Signior Mountanto returned from the wars or no?
Messenger : I know none of that name, lady.
Hero : My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.
Messenger : Oh, he's returned and as pleasant as ever he was.
Beatrice : I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed? For indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.
Messenger : He hath done good service and a good soldier too, lady.
Beatrice : And a good soldier to a lady. But what is he to a lord?
Messenger : A lord to a lord. A man to a man, stuffed with all honorable virtues.
Beatrice : It is so, indeed. He is no less than a stuffed man.
Leonato : You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her. They never meet, but there's a skirmish of wit between them.
Beatrice : Who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.
Messenger : He is most in the company of the right and noble Claudio.
Beatrice : O lord! He will hang upon him like a disease. He is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! If he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand pound ere he be cured.
Messenger : I will keep friends with you, lady.
Beatrice : [Chuckles] Do, good friend.
Leonato : You will never run mad, niece.
Beatrice : No, not till a hot January.
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Benedick : Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice?
Beatrice : [Pushed out of crowd by Antonio. Removes veil, clears throat] I answer to that name.
[Appraoches Benedick]
Beatrice : What is your will?
Benedick : Do not you love me?
Beatrice : Why, no. No more than reason.
Benedick : Well, then your Uncle, the prince and Claudio have been deceived. They swore you did.
Beatrice : Do not you love me?
Benedick : Why, no. No more than reason.
Beatrice : Why, then my cousin, Margaret, and Ursula are much deceived for they swear you did.
Benedick : They swore you were almost sick for me.
Beatrice : They swore you well nigh dead for me.
Benedick : 'Tis no such matter. Then... you... do not love me?
Beatrice : No, truly, but in friendly recompense.
[Shakes Benedick's hand]
Leonato : Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.
Claudio : I'll be sworn upon he loves her, for here's a paper written in his hand a halting sonnet of his own pure brain, fashioned to Beatrice.
Hero : And here's another...
Beatrice : No!
[Slaps Hero's hand]
Hero : ...writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket containing her affection unto Benedick.
Benedick : A miracle! Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee. But, by this light, I take thee for pity.
Beatrice : I would not deny you. But, by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption.
Benedick : Peace! I will stop your mouth.
[Kisses Beatrice]
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Hero : Nature never framed a woman's heart of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice - disdain and scorne ride sparkling in her eyes.
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Hero : [discussing Don John] He is of a very melancholy disposition.
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Leonato : Are you yet determined to marry with my brother's daughter?
[Claudio nods]
Leonato : Call her forth, brother. Here's the friar ready.
[Four veiled ladies are presented]
Claudio : Which is the lady I must seize upon?
Antonio : [Brings forth one lady] This same is she and I do give you her.
Claudio : Sweet, let me see your face.
Leonato : No, that you shall not till you take her hand before this friar and swear to marry her.
Claudio : [Kneels] Give me your hand, before this holy friar. I am your husband if you like of me.
Hero : [Removes veil]
Don Pedro : Hero that is dead.
Leonato : She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.
Hero : And when I lived, I was your other wife. And when you loved you were my other husband. One Hero died defiled, but I do live and surely as I live, I am a maid.