Ever After
1998
Leonardo da Vinci: You cannot leave everything to Fate, boy. She's got a lot to do. Sometimes you must give her a hand.
Rodmilla: Some people read because they cannot think for themselves.
Danielle: Forgive me your highness, I did not see you. Henry: Your aim would suggest otherwise.
Maurice: (to Danielle) I thought I was looking at your mother.
Henry: Do you mean to say you find me arrogant? Danielle: Well you gave one man back his life but did you even glance at the others?
Danielle: These are my mother's! Marguerite: Yes... and she's dead.
King Francis: (half-asleep) Off... with his head...
Henry: Oh, and I want to invite the gypsies to the ball! King Francis: Who are you... and what have you done with my son.
(Marguerite has just freaked out after realizing that Danielle has been seeing the Prince) Queen Marie: Good heavens child... are you alright? Marguerite: There was a bee.
Jacqueline: I shall never forget the way Marguerite's feet went up over her head like that. (pause) She should not have said that about your mother. Danielle: Thank you.
Queen Marie: Any choice is better than Spain!
Leonardo da Vinci: Come, let's see these paintings of yours. Gustav: Now? Leonardo da Vinci: When your as old as I am, son, now is all you have.
Henry: (as Danielle rushes away) Have we met? Danielle: I do not believe so, Your Highness. Henry: I could have sworn I knew every courtier in the providence. Danielle: Well, I'm visiting a cousin. Henry: Who? Danielle: My cousin. Henry: Yes, you said that. Which one? Danielle: Th-the only one I have, sire. Henry: Are you coy on purpose or do you honestly refuse to tell me your name? Danielle: (stops quickly) No. (quickly heads towards the gate) And yes. Henry: Well, then, pray tell me your cousin's name so that I might call upon her to learn who you are. For anyone who can quote Thomas More is well worth the effort. (Danielle stops)
King Francis: You sir are restricted to the grounds. Henry: Are you putting me under house arrest? King Francis: Do not mock me, boy, for I am in a foul disposition. And I will have my way ... Henry: Or what? You'll ship me off to the Americas like some criminal? All for the sake of your stupid contract? King Francis: You are the Crown Prince of France! Henry: And it is my life. Queen Marie: Francis, sit down before you have a stroke. Really. the two of you. (to Henry) Sweetheart... you were born to privilege and with that comes specific obligations. Henry: Forgive me, Mother, but marriage to a complete stranger never made anyone in this room very happy. King Francis: You will marry Gabriella by the next full moon or I will strike at you in any way I can. Henry: What's it to be, father, hot oil or the racks? King Francis: I will simply deny you the crown and... live forever. Henry: Good. Agreed. I don't want it. (Walks out) King Francis: (to the Queen, fustrated) He's your son.
Leonardo da Vinci: I know that a life without love is no life at all. Henry: And love without trust?
Paulette: Oh, bite your tongue! The only throne I want her sitting on is the one I have to clean everyday.
Danielle: You, sir, are supposed to be charming. Henry: And we, princess, are supposed to live happily ever after. Danielle: Says who? Henry: You know, I don't know. Grand Dame: My great-great-grandmother's portrait hung in the university up until the Revolution. By then, the truth of their romance had been reduced to a simple fairy tale. And, while Cinderella and her prince did live happily ever after, the point, gentlemen, is that they lived.
Danielle: He is heading towards my house. Gustav: Then I suggest you run.
Danielle: I would rather die a thousand deaths than to see my mother's dress on that spoiled, selfish cow!
Henry: You told me it was a matter of life or death. Leonardo da Vinci: A woman always is.
Henry: Do you really think there is only one perfect mate? Leonardo da Vinci: As a matter of fact, I do. Henry: Well then how can you be certain to find them? And if you do finally find them, are they really the one for you or do you only think they are? And what happens if the person you're supposed to be with never appears, or she does, but you're too distracted to notice? Leonardo da Vinci: You learn to pay attention. Henry: Then let's say God puts two people on Earth and they are lucky enough to find one another. But one of them gets hit by lightning. Well then what? Is that it? Or, perchance, you meet someone new and marry all over again. Is that the lady you're supposed to be with or was it the first? And if so, when the two of them were walking side by side were they both the one for you and you just happened to meet the first one first or was the second one supposed to be first? And is everything just chance or are some things meant to be?
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: Go... catch a CHICKEN!
Danielle: A bird may love a fish, signore, but where will they live? Leonardo da Vinci: Then I shall have to make you wings.
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: Darling, nothing is final 'til you're dead, and even then, I'm sure God negotiates.
Danielle: It is not fair, sire. You have found my weakness, but I have yet to learn yours. Henry: But I should think it was quite obvious.
Henry: You're looking well, Marguerite. Marguerite: You're welcome to look, your highness.
King Francis: I will simply deny you the crown and live... forever!
Young Gustave: You look like a *girl*! Young Danielle: That's what I am, half-wit! Young Gustave: Yeah, but today you look it. Young Danielle: Boy or girl, I can still whip you!
Danielle: You are the only mother I have ever known. Was there a time, even in its smallest measurement, that you loved me at all? Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: How can anyone love a pebble in their shoe?
Henry: I feel as if my skin is the only thing keeping me from going everywhere at once.
(after DaVinci opens a locked door by removing the pins from the hinges) Louise: Why, that was pure genius! Leonardo da Vinci: Yes, I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door!
(looking at the books in the Franciscan monastery) Danielle: It makes me want to cry. Henry: Pick one. Danielle: I could no sooner choose a favorite star in the heavens. Henry: What is it that touches you so? Danielle: I suppose it is because when I was young my father would stay up late and read to me. He was addicted to the written word and I would fall asleep listening to the sound of his voice. Henry: What sort of books? Danielle: I would rather hear his voice again than any sound in the world. (Henry smiles, looks around him as the smile fades, then heads down the stairs, away from Danielle, Danielle turns) Danielle: Is something wrong? Henry: (turns to face her) In all my years of study, not one tutor ever demonstrated the passion you have shown me in the last two days. You have more conviction in one memory than I have... in my entire being. (laughs slightly, walks away, Danielle follows) Danielle: Your Highness, if there is anything I have said or done - Henry: Please... don't. It's not you.
(Jacqueline is complaining about having to dress up like a horse for the masque) Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: Honestly, Jacqueline, a horse is one of God's noblest creatures. Jacqueline: Why don't I just pull the carriage while I'm at it. Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: Well, if you think it will get us there any faster.
Danielle: If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?
Henry: I offered you the world and at the first test of honor I betrayed your trust.
Captain Laurent: Prince Henry suffers from an arranged marriage, signore, among other things...
Henry: How do you do it? Danielle: What? Henry: Live each day with this kind of passion. Don't you find it exhausting? Danielle: Only when I am around you. Why do you like to irritate me so? Henry: Why do you rise to the occasion?
Jacqueline: Mother, it is only a ball. Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: Yes, and you're only going for the food.
Henry: I kneel before you not as a prince, but as a man in love... I would feel like a king if you, Danielle De Barberac, would be my wife.
Queen Marie: Choose wisely, Henry. Divorce is only something they do in England.
Henry: Danielle! Danielle: Say it again Henry: I'm sorry Danielle: No, the part where you said my name
Henry: You swim alone, climb rocks, rescue servants, is there anything you don't do? Danielle: FLY!
Marguerite: I said I wanted four minute eggs. Not four one minutes eggs and where in god's name is our bread!
Marguerite: Why don't you sleep with the pigs cindersoot if you insist on smelling like one.
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: Jacqueline, go and boil some water. Jacqueline: Me? Boil water? Oh I knew it! I just knew it!
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: Where is the dress Danielle? Danielle: Where are the tapestries, and the candlesticks, and the silver? Perhaps the dress is with them.
Gustav: Have you lost your marbles?
Danielle: What bothers you more stepmother? That I am common? Or that I am competition?
(asking when they can meet again) Danielle: I shall try. Henry: Then I shall wait all day.
(after the Baroness and Marguerite bicker) King Francis: Silence, both of you! (to Jaqueline) Are they always like this? Jacqueline: Worse, your majesty. Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: Jaqueline, darling, I'd hate to think you had anything to do with this. Jacqueline: Of course not, mother, I'm only here for the food.
Danielle: The prince has read Utopia.
Henry: I was born to privilege, and with that comes specific obligations. Leonardo da Vinci: Horseshit.
Danielle: You were born to privilege, and with that comes specific obligations. (pauses) Forgive me, sire, it seems my mouth has run away again. Henry: It is your mouth that has me hypnotized.
Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: Marguerite, precious, what do I always say about tone? Jacqueline: A lady of breeding ought never to raise her voice any louder than the... gentle hum of a whispering wind. Baroness Rodmilla De Ghent: Jacqueline, dear, do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
Gypsy Leader: My lady, you may have whatever you can carry. Danielle: May I have your word on that? Gypsy Leader: On my honor as a gypsy, whatever you can carry.
Danielle: Just breathe...
Henry: Tell no-one we have spoken, for all shall reveal itself in due course.
Danielle: (to Henry) Why did you have to be so wonderful?
Henry: Stay aloft, madame, there are gains afoot.