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Hilary Swank in The Affair of the Necklace (2001)

Quotes

The Affair of the Necklace

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  • Jeanne St. Remy de Valois: It is my family's home I wished returned.
  • Minister of Titles: That will never be tolerated!
  • Jeanne St. Remy de Valois: [bravely] I have nothing to lose.
  • Cardinal Louis de Rohan: [to Jeanne, after meeting with the fake Antoinette] I know what you're up to. Antoinette is secretly in love with me. Deny it if you will, but don't ask me to play the fool.
  • [Nicolas, lying on a table in pain as a doctor tries removes the bullet from his behind]
  • Count Nicolas De La Motte: Goddamn! Goddamn! Are you digging for potatoes? Go easy!
  • Dr. Legear: I did not tell how to get this projectile where it is! Do not presume to tell me how to get it out!
  • [takes swig of drink and goes back to work]
  • Marie-Antoinette: If you weaken the monarchy, you undermine the entire nation.
  • Jeanne St. Remy de Valois: You weakened yourselves long before a necklace became the issue.
  • Jeanne St. Remy de Valois: In the eyes of God and the world, I wanted my life to be as it should have been.
  • Jeanne St. Remy de Valois: When all you hold dear is taken, risk is of little consequence.
  • Rétaux de Vilette: What is there in a name that is worth your life?
  • Marie-Antoinette: I shall give them what they want. I will sit here quietly in my disgrace. It's what they've always wanted!
  • Count Nicolas De La Motte: [surprising Jeanne and Retaux] It's not everyday a man gets to view his wife making love from this vantage point.
  • Marie-Antoinette: [to Breteuil] Why do the people hate me? 'Wasn't always so.
  • Rétaux de Vilette: [after learning that they are caught, pleading] Conspiracy was not all that held us together.
  • Jeanne St. Remy de Valois: [her back to Retaux, crying] Save yourself. I want you to.
  • Minister of Titles: [voice over during Jeanne punishment] Voleur! The mark of a thief.
  • [first lines]
  • Narrator: Napoleon wrote that military blunders and domestic catastrophes fanned the flames of the French Revolution. But the cu-de-gras was a curious palace scandal involving woman of nobility denied, a member of the royal family, and the most magnificent string of jewels in all of Europe. This notorious intrigue came to be known as, L'affaire du Collier.
  • Jeanne St. Remy de Valois: [upon hearing her verdict] What ever fate awaits me, it cannot comp... compare to the pain I have... when all you hold dear is taken and you have nothing left, risk is of little consequence. And when a ray of hope came into view, I reached for it with all my might. I realise... I realise now that it is too late, that honor does not live in the name. It comes from what you carry in your heart. I realize, now that it is too late, that honor does not live in the name. It comes from what you carry in your heart.
  • Cardinal Louis de Rohan: [to Jeanne] Unless I meet her majesty face to face, our arrangement is over.
  • Jeanne St. Remy de Valois: [about court life] Lechers and parasites! Is that are there is to be had?
  • Count Cagliostro: [about Jeanne] Always on the outside looking in.
  • Count Nicolas De La Motte: [on hearing about the necklace plot] I knew something grand was a foot.
  • [pauses]
  • Count Nicolas De La Motte: You can rest assured I will be an asset to this venture.
  • Minister Breteuil: To Jeanne, the whole of the necklace was not as glorious as what its parts could yield. It was a means to an end. And though I will not justify the actions of the young countess, I late came to understand her reasoning.
  • [pauses]
  • Minister Breteuil: Who does not aspire to take back what was taken from them? Who does not dream of returning home?
  • Darnell de Valois: [outside, in the yard] Jeanne? You promised to take me for a horse ride today?
  • Young Jeanne: [later as they see guards approaching] Who are they father?
  • Minister Breteuil: [to Louis about Antoinette wanting public vindication] The queen offers up a sweet plum before ravens. Pray none takes a bites.

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