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Anastasia (1997 film) Quotes

Anastasia (1997 film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Anastasia stopped airing in 1970.

It features Don Bluth as producer, and David Newman (composer) in charge of musical score.

Anastasia (1997 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Anastasia (1997 film) is 94 minutes long. Anastasia (1997 film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Charity James as Anastasia, John Cusack as Dimitri, Hank Azaria as Bartok, Bernadette Peters as Sophie, Kelsey Grammer as Vladimir, Christopher Lloyd as Rasputin, and Rick Jones as Czar Nicholas.

Anastasia (1997 film) Quotes

Bernadette Peters as Sophie

  • (Bernadette Peters) "It's a perfect ending."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "No. It's a perfect beginning."

John Cusack as Dimitri

  • (John Cusack) "That, uh, that dress looks really good on you."
  • (Charity James) "Do you think so?"
  • (John Cusack) "Yeah. I mean, it looked nice on the hanger but it's even better on you. Y-you, you should wear it."
  • (Charity James) "I am wearing it."
  • (John Cusack) "Oh, oh yes, I was just, um, trying to give you a -- a --"
  • (Charity James) "Complement?"
  • (John Cusack) "Yeah."
  • (Kelsey Grammer) "It's one, two, three/ And suddenly/ I see it at a glance/ She's radiant/ And confidant/ And born to take this chance/ I taught her well/ I planned it all/ I just forgot/ Romance/ Vlad, how could you do this?/ How will we get through this?/ I never should have let them/ Dance."
  • (Charity James) "I feel a little -- dizzy."
  • (John Cusack) "Kind of -- light-headed?"
  • (Charity James) "Yeah --"
  • (John Cusack) "Me too. Probably from all the spinning."
  • (John Cusack) "Maybe we should stop."
  • (Charity James) "We have stopped."
  • (John Cusack) "Anya, I --"
  • (Charity James) "Yes?"
  • (John Cusack) "May I present -- Her Royal Highness, the Grand Duchess Anastasia."
  • (Charity James) "Pooka, we are going to Paris."
  • (John Cusack) "Uh, the dog stays."
  • (Charity James) "I'm talking about the dog goes."
  • (John Cusack) "No, the dog is not going."
  • (Charity James) "I say he's going."
  • (John Cusack) "I'm allergic to dogs."
  • (Hank Azaria) "Anastasia? Yeah, just one problem there, fella. Anastasia's dead. All the Romanovs are dead. They're dead. Dead, dead, dead. Am I right, my friend?"
  • (Hank Azaria) "I mean, how could that be Ana --."
  • (Hank Azaria) "Oh, come on. Am I supposed to believe that thing woke up after all these years, just because some guy claims she's a Romanov? OK, OK, I get the message. Enough already with the glowing and the smoke people."
  • (Hank Azaria) "If that thing's come back to life, that must mean -- Anastasia's alive."
  • (John Cusack) "Just leave the dog."
  • (Charity James) "I am not leaving the dog."
  • (Hank Azaria) "And that's her."
  • (John Cusack) "I don't want your money."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "What do you want then?"
  • (John Cusack) "Unfortunately, nothing you can give."
  • (John Cusack) "Please inform Her Majesty, the Dowager Empress, that I have found her granddaughter, the Grand Duchess Anastasia. She's waiting to see her just outside the door."
  • (Bernadette Peters) "I'm very sorry, young man, but the Dowager Empress, she will see no one."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "You may tell that impertinent young man that I have seen enough Grand Duchess Anastasias to last me a lifetime."
  • (Bernadette Peters) "You'd better go."
  • (John Cusack) "Please, let me just --"
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "Now if you'll excuse me, I wish to live out the remainder of my lonely life in peace."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "Ilya, slow down."
  • (John Cusack) "I'm not Ilya, and I won't slow down, NOT until you listen."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "You -- how dare you. Stop this car immediately. STOP THIS CAR."
  • (Anastasia Impostor) "Grandma, it's me, Anastasia."
  • (John Cusack) "Oh, brother."
  • (John Cusack) "What do they teach you in those orphanages?"
  • (John Cusack) "I hate trains. Remind me never get on the train again."
  • (John Cusack) "Look I think we got off on the wrong foot."
  • (Charity James) "Well, I think we did, too. But I appreciate your apology."
  • (John Cusack) "Who said anything about an apology? I was just saying that --"
  • (Charity James) "Please don't talk anymore, it's only going to upset me."
  • (John Cusack) "Fine, I'll be quiet if you be quiet."
  • (Charity James) "Alright, I'll be quiet."
  • (John Cusack) "Fine."
  • (Charity James) "Fine."
  • (John Cusack) "Fine."
  • (Charity James) "Fine -- So you think you're gonna miss it?"
  • (John Cusack) "Miss what? Your talking?"
  • (Charity James) "No. Russia."
  • (John Cusack) "Nope."
  • (Charity James) "But it was your home."
  • (John Cusack) "It was a place I once lived. End of story."
  • (Charity James) "Then you must plan on making Paris your true home."
  • (John Cusack) "What is it with you and homes?"
  • (Charity James) "Well for one thing it's something every normal person wants. And for another thing -- it's thing where ya just --"
  • (John Cusack) "What?"
  • (Charity James) "Forget it."
  • (John Cusack) "Now, where was Uncle Boris from?"
  • (Charity James) "Moscow?"
  • (John Cusack) "I was the boy in the palace; the one who opened the wall. She's the real thing, Vlad."
  • (Kelsey Grammer) "Then that means that our Anya has found her family. We have found the heir to the Russian throne. And you --"
  • (John Cusack) "Will walk out of her life forever."
  • (Kelsey Grammer) "But --"
  • (John Cusack) "Princesses don't marry kitchen boys."
  • (John Cusack) "Paris holds the key to her past. / Yes, Princess, I've found / you at last. / No more pretend, / You'll be gone, / That's the end --"
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "You'll stop at nothing, will you?"
  • (John Cusack) "I'm probably about as stubborn as you are."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "Young man, where did you get that music box? You were the boy, weren't you? The servant boy who got us out? You saved her life and mine and you restored her to me. Yet you want no reward."
  • (John Cusack) "Not anymore."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "Why the change of mind?"
  • (John Cusack) "It was more a change of heart."
  • (John Cusack) "What are you looking for?"
  • (Charity James) "The Russian Circus. I think it's still in here."

Charity James as Anastasia

  • (Charity James) "Years of dreams just can't be wrong."
  • (Charity James) "Oh, sorry. I thought you were someone el; oh, it's you. Well, that's okay, then."
  • (Charity James) ""Be grateful, Anya." I am grateful; grateful to get away."
  • (Charity James) "Men are such babies."
  • (Charity James) "Oh no, not me -- nope. No -- nobody ever told me I had to prove I was the grand duchess."
  • (John Cusack) "Look, I --"
  • (Charity James) "Show up, yes. Look nice, fine. But lie?"
  • (John Cusack) "You don't know if it's a lie. What if it's true?"
  • (Charity James) "What? Hey; why are you circling me? What were you, a vulture in another life?"
  • (John Cusack) "I'm sorry Enya."
  • (Charity James) "It's Anya."
  • (John Cusack) "Anya."
  • (Charity James) "An-ya."
  • (John Cusack) "It's just that; you look an awful lot like -- never mind."
  • (Charity James) "One ticket to Paris, please."
  • (Ticket Agent) "Exit visa."
  • (Charity James) "Exit visa?"
  • (Ticket Agent) "No exit visa, NO TICKET."
  • (Charity James) "Oh, thank goodness it's you."
  • (Charity James) "Will you please remove him from my sight?"
  • (Kelsey Grammer) "What have you done to her?"
  • (John Cusack) "Me? It's her."
  • (Charity James) "HA."
  • (Kelsey Grammer) "Oh. An unspoken attraction."
  • (John Cusack) "Attraction ? To that skinny little brat? Have you lost your mind?"
  • (Kelsey Grammer) "I was only asking a simple question --"
  • (John Cusack) "Attraction -- ridiculous."
  • (Charity James) "I never cared for Stroganoff."
  • (Kelsey Grammer) "She said that like a Romanov."
  • (Charity James) "Dear Grandmama, wish me luck. We'll be together in Paris again soon."
  • (Charity James) "I remember now how much I loved them."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "They would not want us to live in the past, not now that we have found each other."
  • (Charity James) "And to think that could have been you."
  • (John Cusack) "If we live through this, remind me to thank you."
  • (Charity James) "Dimitri?"
  • (John Cusack) "Yes?"
  • (Charity James) "Look, we've been through a lot together --"
  • (John Cusack) "Uh-huh?"
  • (Charity James) "And -- I just wanted to --"
  • (John Cusack) "Yes?"
  • (Charity James) "Well --"
  • (Charity James) "thank you, I guess. Yes. Thank you for everything."
  • (John Cusack) "Anya, I --"
  • (Charity James) "Yes?"
  • (John Cusack) "I -- I'm, um --"
  • (Charity James) "Ye-es?"
  • (John Cusack) "I want to wish you good luck, I guess."
  • (Charity James) "Oh."
  • (Charity James) "I'm not afraid of you."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "I can fix that. Care for a little swim under the ice?"
  • (Charity James) "It was all a lie, wasn't it?"
  • (John Cusack) "No, no --"
  • (Charity James) "You used me? I was just part of your con to get her money?"
  • (John Cusack) "No. No, no, no. Look, it may have started out that way, but everything's different now. Because, you really are Anastasia. You are."
  • (Charity James) "Stop it. From the very beginning, you lied. And I not only believed you, I actually --"
  • (John Cusack) "Anya, please. When you spoke of the hidden door in the wall opening and the little boy. Listen to me, that was --"
  • (Charity James) "No. I don't want to hear about anything that I said or remembered. You just leave me alone."
  • (John Cusack) "Anya, please. You have to know the truth."
  • (Charity James) "Yes, let this be a sign, / Let this road be mine, / Let it lead me to my past, / And bring me home; at last."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "Oh look. The drawing you gave me. Remember?"
  • (Charity James) "Oh yeah -- Olga made me so mad; she said it looked like a pig riding a donkey."
  • (Charity James) "She was right."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "Ah, your laughter. Once again, I hear my Nicky, your dear father."
  • (Dowager Empress Marie) "But you have the beauty of your mother, Alexandra; Empress of all Russia."

Hank Azaria as Bartok

  • (Hank Azaria) "So long everybody."
  • (Hank Azaria) "Just wishing I could do the job for you, sir. I'd give her a HA. And a HI-YA. And then a OOH-WAH. And I'd kick her, sir."
  • (Hank Azaria) "You're on your own, sir. This can only end in tears."
  • (Hank Azaria) "Oh, boy. Ow. I tell you what, ow."
  • (Hank Azaria) "Wow. I tell you what, wow."
  • (Hank Azaria) "Master. You're alive?"
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "In a matter of speaking."
  • (Hank Azaria) "Whoa, that fell right out there, sir."
  • (Hank Azaria) "You know, you really should watch your blood pressure. My nephew Izzy just keeled over mid-mango. Stress, it's a killer, sir. And he was a fruit bat. No meat. No blood even."

Christopher Lloyd as Rasputin

  • (Christopher Lloyd) "In the dark of the night I was tossing and turning / And the nightmare I had was as dark as can be / It scared me out of my wits / A corpse falling to bits / Then I opened my eyes and the nightmare was me."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "See that you remember, you incompetent rodent."
  • (Hank Azaria) "Oh sure, blame the bat. What the heck? We're easy targets."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "You dare to banish the great Rasputin? By the unholy powers vested in me, I banish you, with a curse. Mark my words: you and your family will die within a fortnight. I will not rest until I see the end of the Romanov line forever."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "Long Live the Romanovs."
  • (Charity James) "All right. I couldn't have said it better myself."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "Bartok, get me a comb, find some cologne. I want to look my best."
  • (Hank Azaria) "That might take some work, sir."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "We're going to a party."
  • (Hank Azaria) "A party? Ooh, I could teach you the latest dance step. It starts with, like, a "whoa." And then you get really crazy with the hips, sir. It's fun."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "We'll let the Grand Duchess Anastasia have her moment."
  • (Hank Azaria) "Aah, who cares?"
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "And then we'll kill her."
  • (Hank Azaria) "Right. Kill -- kill her? Sir, what happened to the party idea?"
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "That's where I will kill her."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "Crush her at the height of her glory."
  • (Hank Azaria) "And we're back to the crushing. Sir, I'm begging you, please, please forget the girl and get a life."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "Oh, I'll get a life, Bartok. Hers."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "Say your prayers, Anastasia. No one can save you."
  • (John Cusack) "Wanna bet?"
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "I am calm. I am heartless. I have no fear what so ever."

Kelsey Grammer as Vladimir

  • (Kelsey Grammer) "That's what I hate about this government. Everything's in red."
  • (Kelsey Grammer) "I'm telling you we're walking away too soon."
  • (John Cusack) "I'm telling you I've got it all under control -- ok walk a little slower --"
  • (Kelsey Grammer) "Dimitri. I think someone has flambéed our engine."
  • (Kelsey Grammer) "She certainly has a mind of her own."
  • (John Cusack) "Yeah. I hate that in a woman."

Rick Jones as Czar Nicholas

  • (Rick Jones) "How dare you return to the palace."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "But -- I am your confident."
  • (Rick Jones) "Confidant? HA. You are a traitor. GET OUT."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "You think you can banish the great Rasputin? Impossible."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "By the unholy powers vested in me, I banish you, with a curse."
  • (Christopher Lloyd) "Mark my words: you and your family will die within a fortnight. I will not rest until I see the end of the Romanov line forever."

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