Yul Brynner credited as playing...
General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: [to Petrovin] Would you recognize the smile of a girl you knew ten years ago?
- Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin: I didn't think of that!
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: You're both fools! You're examining her as if she was the real Anastasia. There is no Anastasta! She was shot to death ten years ago by a firing squad. We're not looking for her, gentlemen. We're seeking only a reasonable facsimile.
- Boris Adreivich Chernov: ...and that woman is too too something! Too crazy, too clever, too tricky!
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: I don't care what she is! The important thing is that she fits!
- Boris Adreivich Chernov: You think she's ready?
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: No. Of course, she thinks she is.
- Boris Adreivich Chernov: Now, listen, she thinks she's Anastasia! And the great Stanislavsky once said, "When an actor believes he is the character he's playing, fire him."
- Anastasia: I can't any more! I don't know who I am any more! I don't know what I remember or what I've been told I remember! What is real? Am I?
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: Anna.
- Anastasia: Anna. Am I Anna? Why not Tamara? Why not Liza? Why not Taziana? Yes, why not Taziana? Oh, I can't any more. I don't want this. I want to be me, whoever I am. I want to be me! I want someone to tell me, someone to accept me.
- Anastasia: So I've heard before. All of it. Say this. Remember that. You are. You are not. I know you. I don't know you. Oh, I've heard it many times.
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: Where?
- Anastasia: Bucharest, Berlin...
- Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin: Berlin?
- Anastasia: China! I don't remember!
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: And now, may I present your staff - Boris Andreivich Chernov, formerly of St Petersburg, banker. Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin, former student of the theological seminary. Sergei Pavlovich Bounine, General of the Tcherkess Regiment, former aide-de-camp attached to the person of His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Tsar of all Russia.
- Anastasia: And I am - I am Her Imperial Highness, the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna.
- [hysterical laughter]
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: Stop it! Go to bed at once!
- Anastasia: My father was very strict. I did not like to obey, but he was ringmaster in a circus. General Bounine?
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: Yes?
- Anastasia: Who am I?
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: I don't know.
- Anastasia: Are you angry because you're beginning to wonder who I am, or because you want me to do nothing except what you tell me?
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: I know who you are not. Just that I know that unless you do as I tell you, I'll have a new cigarette girl at my club.
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: Never trust anyone who functions with noble motives; because, they're never sure. And in the end, they'll let you down.
- Dowager Empress: Your Majesty, forgive me.
- Dowager Empress: I did once, when I heard you'd been shot.
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: I was sentenced twice.
- Dowager Empress: By whom? The whites or the reds?
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: As I recall, by both.
- Dowager Empress: Good for them, but you are still here.
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: What is difficult for others is simple for me. But what has always been simplest for others is impossible for me.
- General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine: Surely you must have a pleasant life with the Empress.
- Baroness Elena von Livenbaum: [tartly] Life with Her Majesty is one eternal glass of milk.