The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

Eric Bana: Henry Tudor

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Quotes 

• King Henry VIII : [Before the hunt]  With no man to hold onto how do you plan to stay on your horse?

  Anne Boleyn : [She gets on her own horse]  As you do Your Grace, with my thighs.

• King Henry VIII : Anne, have you considered what I've asked? Is there hope?

  Anne Boleyn : How could I ever trust you, when I've seen how you betray first your wife, now my sister?

• King Henry VIII : [to Anne]  I have torn this country apart for YOU!

• Mary Boleyn : [in Henry's bedchamber]  So, this is it?... Where the king of England sleeps?

  King Henry VIII : And reads and writes. Finds a few moments each day to himself.

  Mary Boleyn : [nervously]  And yet you invite me here?

  King Henry VIII : Because I like you and trust you.

  Mary Boleyn : You hardly know me.

  King Henry VIII : I have lied to a hundred times a day. Petitioned. Lobbied. One learns how to decifer a face.

  [caresses Mary's face] 

  King Henry VIII : Yours is as the sun. One shouldn't gaze too long.

  [pauses] 

  King Henry VIII : My flattery makes you uncomfortable?... Because compliments in your family are usually for someone else. The elder sister... That's something I understand. What it is to be the second child. Forever in the shadows... I'm making you uncomfortable again.

  [Mary smiles, shaking her head as Henry leans in and kisses her] 

• Lady Elizabeth : [after the King marches in, angry]  Your Grace.

  King Henry VIII : Your daughter, where is she?

  Lady Elizabeth : [Quietly to her servants]  Leave us.

  King Henry VIII : Where is she?

  Lady Elizabeth : Which one?

  [Stares coldly as she walks forward] 

  Lady Elizabeth : Your Grace, which one?

• King Henry VIII : I have torn this country apart for you!

  Anne Boleyn : For which you should thank me, not be angry!

  King Henry VIII : Broken with Rome...

  Anne Boleyn : Freed yourself, more like, from the decadence of a corrupt church

  King Henry VIII : Got rid of a good woman in the queen...

  Anne Boleyn : And with Spanish blood shackles you to Rome

  King Henry VIII : Of which I would be excommunicated...

  Anne Boleyn : And instead, become head of a new church! The Church of England!

• King Henry VIII : So forgiveness, you say, makes a man great. What else?

  Anne Boleyn : Generosity. Humility. The ability to recognize his match in others and not be threatened by it.

• King Henry VIII : You believe that? That women can be the match of men?

  Anne Boleyn : It's a question women have asked themselves for some time. But we concede men do have some value. So we accept them as equal.

• King Henry VIII : [talking in secret]  Your sister is gone as you wished. Will you give yourself to me now?

  Anne Boleyn : No. When you are loyal to me above all others.

  King Henry VIII : But I am.

  Anne Boleyn : No. You are loyal to the queen above all others.

  King Henry VIII : I barely see Katherine.

  Anne Boleyn : But she sits on a throne beside you. Your right hand in matters of state.

  King Henry VIII : For appearances' sake only.

  Anne Boleyn : Still, she is your queen. And ever present.

  [pauses] 

  Anne Boleyn : I feel her eyes on me. And those of her spies. Look at us. Forever reduced to meeting in secret like this. Speaking in whispers. Hardly conducive to passion.

  King Henry VIII : What would you have me do, then?

• King Henry VIII : [during a supper in the banquet hall, to Anne]  What's so amusing?

  Anne Boleyn : I was merely offering my thoughts on the new French king. With such great power, yet such meager authority as a man.

  King Henry VIII : [intrigued]  Continue.

  Anne Boleyn : [slowly walking forward]  His pettiness is astounding. He will bear a mortal grudge at the mildest of slights. Spoiled cub with a spike in his paw. Riveted with resentment. Unable to forgive or forget. A great king, a great man rises above such things.

  King Henry VIII : And what would you know of great men?

  Anne Boleyn : [never taking her eyes from Henry's]  I've read enough books and heard enough talk to believe I'd know one if he were before me.

  King Henry VIII : Then look about you. I am curious. Do you see one here?

  Anne Boleyn : [approaches him, still not looking away]  Looking my lord... still looking, my lord.

  [pauses in front of the King] 

  Anne Boleyn : Ah! There. Found one.

  King Henry VIII : [laughs to himself as the subjects in the room start to laugh] 

• King Henry VIII : Anne!

  Anne Boleyn : Your Grace?

  King Henry VIII : You received my gifts?

  Anne Boleyn : Yes

  King Henry VIII : And? Do they not please you?

  Anne Boleyn : On the contrary, my lord, they please me greatly

  King Henry VIII : Then why do you insult me by returning them?

  Anne Boleyn : Because you insult me by sending them at all!

• King Henry VIII : I would do nothing to hurt any part of you.

  [a grateful Mary kneels down to him, he looks away] 

  King Henry VIII : Go

• King Henry VIII : May God have mercy on Anne's soul.

• King Henry VIII : [Refering to Anne]  I need to be certain, can I trust her?

  Mary Boleyn : Why would you not?

  King Henry VIII : Usually my instincts are sharp, but with your sister, she has a power over me.

• King Henry VIII : [to Mary]  I'm asking you because I trust you. And because I believe, perhaps mistakenly, that you care for me, and that you would put a matter of this importance before family ambition.

• King Henry VIII : Why are you here for her?

  Mary Boleyn : Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me.

• King Henry VIII : If I gave your husband an assignment that took him away from court - would you object?

  Mary Boleyn : I would not presume to interfere in affairs of State.

• King Henry VIII : I find you much changed, Mistress Anne.

  Anne Boleyn : Then my prayers have been answered.

• King Henry VIII : I hope you kept your ears shut.

  Anne Boleyn : I did. And a cross - close to my heart - at all times.

• King Henry VIII : Another talent picked up in France?

  Anne Boleyn : The Queen offers her ladies a broad education.

• King Henry VIII : Will you give yourself to me now?

  Anne Boleyn : My Lord. I desire nothing more. But, as long as we remain unmarried, any child I gave you would be dubbed "bastard." And I a whore. Do you really wish that for me?

• King Henry VIII : You don't think he'll miss court? A young ambitious man.

  Mary Boleyn : He says not, Your Majesty. But if he ever changed his mind, as his wife, of course, I would do his bidding.