The Lion in Winter (1968)

Anthony Hopkins: Richard

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• Richard : [the sons - in the dungeon - think they hear Henry approach]  He's here. He'll get no satisfaction out of me. He isn't going to see me beg.

  Geoffrey : My you chivalric fool... as if the way one fell down mattered.

  Richard : When the fall is all there is, it matters.

• John : Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!

  Richard : Let's strike a flint and see.

• Eleanor of Aquitaine : I love you.

  Richard : You love nothing. You're incomplete. The human parts of you are missing. You're as dead as you are deadly.

• Richard : You loved me!

  Philip II : Never!

• Richard : You're so deceitful you can't ask for water when you're thirsty. We could tangle spiders in the webs you weave.

• Eleanor of Aquitaine : You look fit. War agrees with you. I keep informed; I follow all your slaughters from a distance. Do sit down.

  Richard : Is this an audience... a good night hug with kisses... or an ambush?

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : Let's hope it's a reunion.

• Richard : I never heard a corpse ask how it got so cold.

• Eleanor of Aquitaine : You're not an assassin.

  Richard : Look again.

• Richard : I am a constant soldier, a sometime poet, and I will be king.

• Richard : You haven't said you loved me.

  Philip II : When the time comes.

• Richard : So! The royal corkscrew finds me twisted?

• Richard : I don't care what you offer Philip; I don't care what plans you make. I'll have the Aquitaine, and Alais, and the crown. I'll not give-up one to get the other; I won't trade-off Alais or the Aquitaine *to that walking pustule*! No, your loving son will not.

• Eleanor of Aquitaine : Where's Henry?

  Richard : Upstairs with the family whore.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : That's a mean and tawdry way to talk about your fiancee.

  John : My fiancée.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : Whosever fiancée.

• Richard : Don't play a scene with me.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : I wouldn't if I could. I'm simpler than I used to be. I had, at one time, many appetites. I wanted poetry and power and the young men who create them both. I even wanted Henry, too, in those days. Now I've only one desire left: to see you king.

  Richard : The only thing you want to see is Father's vitals on a bed of lettuce. You don't care who wins as long as Henry loses. You'd do anything. You are Medea to the teeth, only this is one son you won't use for vengeance against your husband.

• Richard : You want him dead? You do it.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : You unnatural animal.

  Richard : Unnatural, Mummy? You tell me, what's nature's way? If poisoned mushrooms grow and babies come with crooked backs, if goiters thrive and dogs go mad and wives kill husbands, what's unnatural?

• Richard : I've no dammed-up floods of passion for you. There's no chance I'll overflow.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : You're a dull boy, dull as plainsong: la-la-la, forever on one note. I gave the Church up out of boredom. I can do as much for you.

• Richard : I'll have the crown.

  Henry II : You'll have what Daddy gives you.

• Richard : You haven't said you love me.

  Philip II : When the time comes.

• Eleanor of Aquitaine : We can't win, Richard. We've lost it this time.

  Richard : You think I'm finished, do you?

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : So I do. I've suffered more defeats than you have teeth. I know one when it happens to me. Take your wormwood like a good boy. Swallow it and go to bed.

• Richard : I'll have your answer. Yes or no?

  Philip II : You'll have it when I give it.