Vanity Fair (2004)
Reese Witherspoon: Becky Sharp
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Quotes
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Becky Sharp : Revenge may be wicked, but it's perfectly natural.
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Becky Sharp : Rawdon, wait! WAIT! I'm sorry! You cannot know the journey I have made.
Rawdon Crawley : I should. I traveled it with you.
Becky Sharp : Not from the beginning. Rawdon, in my way, I have love you.
Rawdon Crawley : Then that has been your misfortune.
Rawdon Crawley : [pauses]
Rawdon Crawley : Goodbye Rebecca.
[leaves]
Becky Sharp : [screams in despair]
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Miss Matilda Crawley : Oh, please tell me there's something disreputable in your past
Becky Sharp : Well, my father was an artist
Miss Matilda Crawley : Ah, that's better, a starving one I hope
Becky Sharp : Absolutely ravenous
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Becky Sharp : Two men and two men only will enter my bedchamber. My husband and the doctor.
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Amelia Sedley : This is all just a blessing in disguise
Becky Sharp : Well, the disguise is convincing
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Miss Matilda Crawley : [Rawdon gives Becky a note, and there is a sound as she throws it into a bowl of water] What was that?
Becky Sharp : Nothing. False note.
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Becky Sharp : I'll manage.
Rawdon Crawley : Won't you just. There never was a woman that could manage like you, Becky Sharp.
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Becky Sharp : [as Rawdon is about to leave for battle] You won't do anything brave, will you?
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George Osborne : [as Becky plays a piano forte] So, Miss Sharp. How do you like your new place?
Becky Sharp : My place? How kind of you to remind me. It's quite tolerable, thank you. And they treat me very well. But then, this is a gentleman's family... and quite a change from tradespeople.
George Osborne : You seemed to like tradespeople well enough last year.
Becky Sharp : Joseph Sedley, you mean? It's true. If he'd ask me, I would not have said no.
George Osborne : How very obliging of you.
Becky Sharp : I know what you're thinking. What an honor to have had you for a brother in-law. Captain George Osborne, son of John Osborne, Esquire, son of... what was your grandfather?
[George remains silent and stern]
Becky Sharp : Never mind. You cannot help your pedigree.
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Amelia Sedley : [the clock strikes midnight at the Waterloo ball] George, shouldn't we rest now? There may be a battle in the morning.
George Osborne : Go to bed if you're tired, my dear. Sweet dreams.
[Dances with Becky]
George Osborne : Are you tired, you wicked woman?
Becky Sharp : [laughing] I'm not a child, Captain Osborne. Not like your brainless little Amelia. Ambition doesn't tire. Evil never sleeps.
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Becky Sharp : Are you trying to steer me towards an indiscretion?
Rawdon Crawley : Would you like me to?
Becky Sharp : No man has managed it yet.
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Miss Matilda Crawley : How do I look?
Becky Sharp : A good deal stronger. They will be disappointed.
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The Marquess of Steyne : They'll bully you and patronize you. But that's what you want I suppose?
Becky Sharp : I do.