Rupert Everett credited as playing...
King Charles II
- King Charles II: Why shouldn't we have women on stage? After all, the French have been doing it for years.
- Sir Edward Hyde: Whenever we're about to do something truly horrible, we always say that the French have been doing it for years.
- King Charles II: My astronomers tell me that a star's light shines on long after it has died, even though it doesn't know it.
- King Charles II: Kynaston? How in hell did you get in here?
- Ned Kynaston: A former fellow actor is your undercook and has long been a dear friend to me.
- King Charles II: Then we'll have to execute him.
- [Kynaston blanches]
- Sir Edward Hyde: [groans] Ohhhh.
- King Charles II: [sighs] A joke. A joke. Calm down, Kynaston.
- Ned Kynaston: I want to act.
- King Charles II: Then act.
- Ned Kynaston: I want to act as I did before.
- King Charles II: You mean the girls' parts.
- Ned Kynaston: If you will.
- King Charles II: I won't.
- King Charles II: Act a man, Kynaston. How hard can it be?
- Ned Kynaston: It is not a question of acting a man. I can act a man. There's no artistry in that. There are things that I can be as a woman that I cannot be as a man.