Jodie Foster credited as playing...
Anna
- Anna Leonowens: [to King Mongkut] Life is... precious, especially if you're a Christian and only allowed to have one.
- Anna Leonowens: My mind has taken me down many roads of late. All of which lead absolutely nowhere. What would Buddha say of that?
- King Mongkut: That roads are for journeys, mem, not destinations.
- Prince Chulalongkorn: Son of teacher is forgetting I am son of King.
- Louis Leonowens: Son of teacher couldn't care less.
- Prince Chulalongkorn: You will sit somewhere else!
- Louis Leonowens: I will not!
- Anna Leonowens: Louis, remember what I told you.
- Louis Leonowens: I'm sorry Mother, but he started it.
- Prince Chulalongkorn: In my country, man never tell a woman he is sorry about anything... ever! If you had father, you would know that.
- Louis Leonowens: You don't have a father! You have a map!
- [Louis pushes the prince]
- Anna Leonowens: Louis!
- Prince Chulalongkorn: It is forbidden to touch royalty!
- Louis Leonowens: I didn't touch you! I shoved you! Why don't you get one of your servants to shove me back?
- Anna Leonowens: I would like to know why, if science can unravel something as beautiful as music... why it cannot posit a solution for a schoolteacher and a king.
- King Mongkut: The manner in which people might understand such new possibilities is also process of evolution.
- Anna Leonowens: Everything in Siam has its own time.
- King Mongkut: You are teacher?
- Anna Leonowens: Yes, Your Majesty, I am.
- King Mongkut: You do not look sufficient of age for scientific teaching. How many years have you?
- Anna Leonowens: Enough to know that age and wisdom do not necessarily go hand in hand, Your Majesty.
- Tuptim: I remember my first rice festival. People come from everywhere to see king. He bless all crops, and it begin to rain. I think he was a God.
- Anna Leonowens: And now?
- Tuptim: He is also a man.
- Interpreter: Sir is married?
- Anna Leonowens: A widow. Can you please explain to me why you call me "Sir"?
- Interpreter: Women do not stand in the presence of His Excellency.
- Anna Leonowens: In my letter confirming my employment, Your Majesty, you claimed you wanted Siam to take its place among the nations of the modern world. You spoke of building something greater than yourself. A country where no man is above the law. Which is why I chose to come here.
- Anna Leonowens: [to Lord Bradley] You raised your glass to him. You commended him for his vision. All the while, you were waiting to take his country from him.
- King Mongkut: Gazing at the moon?
- Anna Leonowens: Yes, it is beautiful.
- King Mongkut: As the sun rises, she will surrender the night, but she is always with him, even when he cannot see her.
- Anna Leonowens: It must be a great comfort to him.
- King Mongkut: Yes.
- Anna Leonowens: [ascending a staircase, arriving late for dinner, a little out of breath] Forgive me, Your Majesty. l believe the sun set a little earlier today.
- King Mongkut: [amused] Mem. You arrange all this to influence positive future of Siam. And now you steal attention away from it.
- Anna Leonowens: [shyly] Well, that was not my intention, Your Majesty.
- King Mongkut: You! Why did you not go to monastery like king order?
- Anna Leonowens: Because l lost one man to the jungle, Your Majesty. l was not about to let that happen again.
- King Mongkut: Presenting original pupil and heir apparent. Prince Chulalongkorn.
- [to the Prince]
- King Mongkut: This, my son, is your new teacher.
- Anna Leonowens: It is a great honor, Your Highness.
- Anna Leonowens: You have the power to lead your people...
- King Mongkut: Now is not the time to change the way that things are done!
- Anna Leonowens: Well, if not now, then when? How many more people must die so that you might save face?