Akim Tamiroff credited as playing...
Boris Adreivich Chernov
- [last lines]
- Boris Adreivich Chernov: Your Majesty, I beg you. They're all waiting down there. What shall we say to them? What can we say to them?
- Dowager Empress: [emphatically] Nothing. Paul, your arm. I will speak to them.
- Boris Adreivich Chernov: Oh, thank you, your Majesty.
- Boris Adreivich Chernov: [calling everyone to attention by clapping] Everybody, please.
- Prince Paul von Haraldberg: [the Prince escorting the Dowager Empress down the hallway toward the ballroom full of guests] Forgive me Marie, but what will you say?
- Dowager Empress: Say? Oh, I will say, 'The play is over. Go home.'
- 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."
- Boris Adreivich Chernov: I thought you couldn't remember.
- Anastasia: I can't always. Things come and go - like waves of mist.
- Boris Adreivich Chernov: Excuse me. If Your Majesty will permit me to explain the ceremony and......
- Dowager Empress: Livenbaum.
- Baroness Elena von Livenbaum: We discussed the ceremony this morning.
- Boris Adreivich Chernov: Yes, but...
- Baroness Elena von Livenbaum: The *but* we'll discuss later.