Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

Saoirse Ronan: Mary Stuart

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• Queen Elizabeth I : I was jealous. Your beauty. Your bravery. Your motherhood. You seemed to surpass me in every way. But now I see there is no cause for envy. Your gifts are your downfall.

  Mary Stuart : What now, sister?

  Queen Elizabeth I : You will still have my protection. Under my terms.

  Mary Stuart : Until you have me killed?

  Queen Elizabeth I : I will do no such thing.

  Mary Stuart : Wouldn't you? As Henry killed your mother?

  Queen Elizabeth I : I am not my father.

  Mary Stuart : But, you share his blood.

  Queen Elizabeth I : As long as you do not provoke my enemies, you have nothing to fear. Your fate rests in your own hands.

  Mary Stuart : If I seek to help your enemies, tis only because you pushed me to their arms. And should you murder me, remember that you murder your sister - and you murder your Queen.

• Mary Stuart : Be my sister. Be my boy's Godmother. Together we could conquer all of those who doubt us. Do not play into their hands. Our enmity is precisely what they hope for. I know your heart has more within it than the men who counsel you.

  Queen Elizabeth I : I am more man than woman now. The throne has made me so. But I have no enmity with you.

  Mary Stuart : Except to seed rebellion and to deceive me time and time again.

  Queen Elizabeth I : If you still seek my protection, you would do well to watch your words.

  Mary Stuart : I will not be scolded by my inferior.

  Queen Elizabeth I : Your inferior?

  Mary Stuart : I am a Stuart, which gives me greater claim to England than you possess.

• Mary Stuart : There are times for wisdom. And there are times for love. But there are also times for strength.

• Mary Stuart : I have been abandoned by so many. I am utterly alone.

  Queen Elizabeth I : As am I. Alone.

• Mary Stuart : Be wary of these men. Their love is not the same as their respect.

• Henry Darnley : You'll be my Queen?

  Mary Stuart : Yes.

  Henry Darnley : And I your King?

  Mary Stuart : Yes.

  Henry Darnley : And your master?

  Mary Stuart : My husband.

• Mary Stuart : You have not betrayed your nature. I cannot fault you for succumbing to his charms as I did. But we must be more careful now.

• Mary Stuart : It is enough my own Lords treat me as though I'm but a girl. I will not be treated as such by Elizabeth. I will be the woman she is not. I shall produce an heir, unlike her barren self.

• Mary Stuart : They will take your crown as well as mine.

• Mary Stuart : I should like to marry again. To know how it feels to have a man fully. But, not if I am owned.

• Henry Darnley : How it must feel - ruling all that you see.

  Mary Stuart : I am but its servant. Are you prepared to be its servant?

• Mary Stuart : [kissing, embracing, lying down in bed]  We cannot.

  Henry Darnley : No. This is not that. I promise. Have faith in me.

• Mary Stuart : You dare touch a sovereign without her permission?

• Mary Fleming : Might I ask - since we have not known it ourselves - what is it like?

  Mary Stuart : To have a man? I have only lain with François. He shook terribly from fright. As did I. The poor boy did his best. But, it was over before it began.

• Mary Stuart : You look exquisite, Mademoiselle.

  David Rizzio : Is it a sin that I feel more a sister to you than a brother? Forgive me. I forget myself in your company.

  Mary Stuart : Be whoever you wish with us. You make for a lovely sister.

• Mary Stuart : This is a matter of the heart, not the state. They don't mix well.

• Mary Stuart : Are you afraid Henry?

  Henry Darnley : No.

  Mary Stuart : Good. Because our swords are not just for show.

• Mary Stuart : I will not do it.

  Lord Maitland : You will, Madam. By force if we must.

  Mary Stuart : Then I shall meet force with force!

• Lord Maitland : The people believe you are a traitor and a whore. What army can defeat an entire nation turned against its Queen? They would sooner parade your head on a pike than bow before a harlot. I for one would gladly hold high the pike.

  James, Earl of Moray : He is right. You cannot raise an army.

  Mary Stuart : Many times you have said I cannot do what I have done!

• Henry Darnley : Have I not brought you a child?

  Mary Stuart : One minute makes not a man.