The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film) Quotes

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . The Other Boleyn Girl ended in 1970.

It features Alison Owen as producer, Paul Cantelon in charge of musical score, and Kieran McGugan as head of cinematography.

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film) is 115 minutes long. The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film) is distributed by Columbia Pictures (United States).

The cast includes: Juno Temple as Anne Boleyn, Mark Rylance as Mary Boleyn, Kristin Scott Thomas as Lady Elizabeth, Benedict Cumberbatch as William Carey, and Eddie Redmayne as William Stafford.

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film) Quotes

Juno Temple as Anne Boleyn

• (Juno Temple) "You'll look after Elizabeth."
• (Mark Rylance) "It will never come to that."

• (Juno Temple) "And risking civil war, the very thing Henry fears most. Somehow, I need to make him understand that this will be worth it. When I am his queen, and give him a son."

• (Unnamed) "Your sister is gone as you wished. Will you give yourself to me now?"
• (Juno Temple) "No. When you are loyal to me above all others."
• (Unnamed) "But I am."
• (Juno Temple) "No. You are loyal to the queen above all others."
• (Unnamed) "I barely see Katherine."
• (Juno Temple) "But she sits on a throne beside you. Your right hand in matters of state."
• (Unnamed) "For appearances' sake only."
• (Juno Temple) "Still, she is your queen. And ever present."
• (Juno Temple) "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."
• (Unnamed) "What would you have me do, then?"

• (Unnamed) "You will be sent to France and stay there until you've learned your lesson."
• (Juno Temple) "What? No. Father, please."
• (Unnamed) "How can you have done this? You knew full well that Mary's friendship with the king is at an extremely delicate state. Any scandal, any mark upon her name could be fatal."
• (Unnamed) "You will be sent to join the court of the French queen and stay there until your father has forgiven you."
• (Juno Temple) "You told them didn't you?"
• (Mark Rylance) "It was for your own good. You never would have gotten away with it. It would have ruined your prospects forever."
• (Juno Temple) "Really? For my good? Well, I'll try to remind myself of that while I'm in exile, and you're here in the king's bed, not challenged for our father's affection. That it was for my good and not yours."
• (Mark Rylance) "Anne."

• (Unnamed) "He's betrothed."
• (Juno Temple) "Betrothed is not married -- It is a long way on bended knee to the altar."

• (Juno Temple) "You afraid?"
• (Mark Rylance) "A little."
• (Juno Temple) "I should be able to tell you how it will be tonight; give you advice on what to do. I failed you as an elder sister."
• (Mark Rylance) "No one could wish for a better sister."

• (Juno Temple) "Masters, I here humbly submit to the law, as the law hath judged me. As for my offenses, God knows them, and I remit them to God, beseeching Him to have mercy on my soul. I beseech Jesus, save my Sovereign and master, the King, the goodliest and gentlest master there ever was."
• (Juno Temple) "Sweet Jesus, my God, have mercy on me."

• (Unnamed) "I knew this would come back to haunt us."
• (Juno Temple) "I must go to the king --"
• (Unnamed) "No, he doesn't want to see you, he doesn't want to hear a word from your lips. He won't even talk to me. The only Boelyn he will talk to, the only person whose testimony he would trust, is Mary."
• (Juno Temple) "Then bring her here, now."

• (Unnamed) "What's so amusing?"
• (Juno Temple) "I was merely offering my thoughts on the new French king. With such great power, yet such meager authority as a man."
• (Unnamed) "Continue."
• (Juno Temple) "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."
• (Unnamed) "And what would you know of great men?"
• (Juno Temple) "I've read enough books and heard enough talk to believe I'd know one if he were before me."
• (Unnamed) "Then look about you. I am curious. Do you see one here?"
• (Juno Temple) "Looking my lord -- still looking, my lord."
• (Juno Temple) "Ah. There. Found one."

• (Unnamed) "So, the Boleyn whores. Two former ladies of mine. Hiding in shadows. What did I do to upset you, that you should turn against me like this?"
• (Juno Temple) "You failed to give England an heir."
• (Unnamed) "And that upsets you so?"
• (Juno Temple) "What upsets the King upsets me."
• (Unnamed) "How dare you."

• (Unnamed) "It's embarrassing."
• (Juno Temple) "Look, she has her eye on you. Sweet Jane Parker would be a match to please our father."
• (Unnamed) "Ugh, vile girl, she's the most ambitious little servant in court."
• (Juno Temple) "She can't stop watching."

• (Unnamed) "Anne, have you considered what I've asked? Is there hope?"
• (Juno Temple) "How could I ever trust you, when I've seen how you betray first your wife, now my sister?"

• (Juno Temple) "I struck him today, what am I doing? I've destroyed it all on my own. I can't sleep, without sleep I cannot think. It's getting more and more difficult --"

• (Juno Temple) "Younger than me, more beautiful than me, married before me. I'm eclipsed. I'm the other Boleyn girl."

• (Juno Temple) "You're my only hope. My life depends on it."

• (Unnamed) "Damn you. Not a single detail was left to chance. And now the moment of our greatest glory --."
• (Juno Temple) "Glory? What glory? A mistress gave a man a bastard, no more."
• (Unnamed) "A male bastard, a son."
• (Juno Temple) "The queen may yet give birth to a son."
• (Unnamed) "The queen no longer bleeds."
• (Juno Temple) "Can you be sure?"
• (Unnamed) "One of her physicians, and the moment this family provides him with a son he turned his back to it on your account. You better have a plan, girl. And that plan better work."
• (Juno Temple) "Or what, uncle?"
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "Enough, both of you. And what about Mary, hum? And her child? Or have you forgotten about them already?"
• (Juno Temple) "Mary and her bastard child will go back to the country. It is the king's wish -- and mine."
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "Very well, and you can be the one to tell her. I think you've earned that privilege."

• (Unnamed) "Anne."
• (Juno Temple) "Your Grace?"
• (Unnamed) "You received my gifts?"
• (Juno Temple) "Yes"
• (Unnamed) "And? Do they not please you?"
• (Juno Temple) "On the contrary, my lord, they please me greatly"
• (Unnamed) "Then why do you insult me by returning them?"
• (Juno Temple) "Because you insult me by sending them at all."

• (Juno Temple) "What will the King say when he finds out that I cannot bear children?"

Benedict Cumberbatch as William Carey

• (Benedict Cumberbatch) "Are you happy?"
• (Mark Rylance) "I am."

Mark Rylance as Mary Boleyn

• (Unnamed) "The king has secured for you a position in the queen's household"
• (Mark Rylance) "But I don't want to go to court, nor does my husband"
• (Benedict Cumberbatch) "The king has also offered me a position, as a gentleman of the Privy Council"
• (Unnamed) "You hear that Mary? Privy Council, tending upon his Majesty himself"
• (Mark Rylance) "What about our future in the country?"
• (Unnamed) "Oh, you must put that out of your mind. From now on your future is at court."
• (Mark Rylance) "William please, don't you understand what this means? They'll seperate us, put me in different accommadation where the king can always find me"
• (Unnamed) "Happily your husband understands the value of such an oppurtunity, for us all"

• (Mark Rylance) "May God have mercy on you both."

• (Unnamed) "I need to be certain, can I trust her?"
• (Mark Rylance) "Why would you not?"
• (Unnamed) "Usually my instincts are sharp, but with your sister, she has a power over me."

• (Unnamed) "Why are you here for her?"
• (Mark Rylance) "Because she is my sister, and therefore one half of me."

• (Mark Rylance) "So, this is it? -- Where the king of England sleeps?"
• (Unnamed) "And reads and writes. Finds a few moments each day to himself."
• (Mark Rylance) "And yet you invite me here?"
• (Unnamed) "Because I like you and trust you."
• (Mark Rylance) "You hardly know me."
• (Unnamed) "I have lied to a hundred times a day. Petitioned. Lobbied. One learns how to decifer a face."
• (Unnamed) "Yours is as the sun. One shouldn't gaze too long."
• (Unnamed) "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."

• (Mark Rylance) "Mother, please. Speak to father -- Do something -- I don't want to go."
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "This is not a request. We have been summoned."
• (Mark Rylance) "Please don't be angry with me -- You think I desired to go for this purpose?"
• (Juno Temple) "All I know is that a man who didn't know who you were was with you in that room for a half-hour and came out besotted."
• (Juno Temple) "Don't know what you said or did."
• (Mark Rylance) "Nothing sister. Except sing your praises and talk about my husband."
• (Juno Temple) "Really? Well, you must show me how you did that sometime."

• (Mark Rylance) "Her reputation will be ruined."

• (Mark Rylance) "Anne."
• (Juno Temple) "I meant to come sooner. I'm sorry I did not. I've been kept occupied."
• (Mark Rylance) "So I hear: amusing the king."
• (Juno Temple) "Only that sister, I assure you; despite his best efforts --"
• (Mark Rylance) "What, and not yours?"
• (Juno Temple) "How is it?"
• (Mark Rylance) "The child is strong, gives me no rest, like his father."
• (Juno Temple) "Do you feel as awful as you look? You know, in France, no woman would allow herself to get in such a state."
• (Mark Rylance) "Why did you come Anne, if all you desire is to torment me?"
• (Juno Temple) "Perhaps now you know how it feels: to be deceived by your sister."
• (Mark Rylance) "I did nothing."
• (Juno Temple) "You stole the king away, and then you betrayed me over Henry Percy."
• (Mark Rylance) "If that's what you think fine tell yourself that."
• (Juno Temple) "I did sister, every day and every night I was in exile."
• (Unnamed) "A gift, from the king."
• (Juno Temple) "Give it to my sister."
• (Unnamed) "It's for you mistress Anne."
• (Juno Temple) "Me? Then send it back. Immediately."
• (Juno Temple) "How dare he. See? I have your interest at heart."
• (Mark Rylance) "Why? Why this cruelty? You know I love him."
• (Juno Temple) "Well perhaps you should stop."

• (Mark Rylance) "The crowds are with her."
• (Juno Temple) "The crowds have no vote."

• (Mark Rylance) "You know I love him --"
• (Juno Temple) "Well, I guess you'll have to stop."

• (Mark Rylance) "How can you show your face in here? My own sister -- take care, because he would only do to you what he has done to me"
• (Juno Temple) "You should not have given yourself so lightly, these are the consequences."
• (Mark Rylance) "I gave myself to a man I loved, and he loved me."
• (Juno Temple) "A man's love is worthless. Our mother's loved, look where it got her, a feeble husband. Love is of no value without power and position. If I gave the king a son, he would not be a bastard."

• (Mark Rylance) "What you suggest is treason. He cannot marry you, he has his queen."
• (Juno Temple) "Who cannot produce a male heir"
• (Mark Rylance) "You've reached too high. As always."
• (Juno Temple) "The king will deal with Catherine, you'll hear about it from where I'm standing. You are to go back to Rocher, isn't that what you've always wanted? A life in the country, alone with your child."

Kristin Scott Thomas as Lady Elizabeth

• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "My children, my children --"
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "Look what you've done."

• (Unnamed) "I received a request for marriage today for Anne from the Carey family. William, their eldest son."
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "Oh, that's wonderful."
• (Unnamed) "I turned it down. Offered them Mary instead. Everyone improves the standing of their family with their daughters. I think Anne can do better than a merchant's son."
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "And Mary can't? I think you underestimate her."
• (Unnamed) "Oh no, that's not true. I think she's the kinder of the two, quite possibly the fairer. To get ahead in this world, you need more than fair looks and a kind heart."
• (Unnamed) "I beat you, I beat you."
• (Unnamed) "Hey."
• (Unnamed) "Well done, Anne. Well done, children."

• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "It costs a fortune to get this house ready for a royal visit."

• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "When was it that people stopped thinking of ambition as insane and started thinking of it as a virtue?"

• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "Your Grace."
• (Unnamed) "Your daughter, where is she?"
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "Leave us."
• (Unnamed) "Where is she?"
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "Which one?"
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "Your Grace, which one?"

• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "Treason? What is treason? Anything the king or his lawyers decide it to be, on a whim."

• (Unnamed) "Easy for you to say. You've had position and wealth all your life."
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "Until I married you, Thomas, and I was happy to give it all for love."

• (Unnamed) "Would a smile be too much to ask?"
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "What's there to smile about? I'm a mother of a child ordered to marry a girl he hates, another banished aboard in disgrace, and a third whoring in public with an adulteer. You say you are concerned for her happiness, will Mary be happy when he leaves her? Because you know that will happen in the end."
• (Unnamed) "Only God knows how anything will end."
• (Kristin Scott Thomas) "God? He turned his back on all this a long time ago."

Eddie Redmayne as William Stafford

• (Eddie Redmayne) "If you came with me, I would never betray you or take you for granted."
• (Mark Rylance) "It's impossible, you know that. My family would never allow it."
• (Eddie Redmayne) "And you would care what they think after everything they've done to you?"

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