Marie Antoinette (1938)
Robert Morley: King Louis XVI
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Quotes
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King Louis XVI : I don't want to be king. People expect so much of a king. Nothing comes easily to me.
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King Louis XV : What's the meaning of this? Why are you here?
King Louis XVI : I don't want her to be sent back!
King Louis XV : Ha, ha! Indeed.
Mme. du Barry : [Sharply to Louis XVI] His majesty is not well!
King Louis XVI : [Ignoring du Barry] But it isn't her fault! Don't you understand?
King Louis XV : [Looking up to Du Barry with confusion] What? What's he talking about?
Mme. du Barry : [Even more sharply to Louis XVI] Will you go, please?
King Louis XVI : No! You get out!
[Then to the king & now pleading on his knees]
King Louis XVI : Listen, grandfather, it's going to be different now...
King Louis XV : Get up you fool! Your argument is as unimpressive as your appearance. Your wife goes back to Austria! Your marriage will be annulled! I'll hear no more of it!
[Looking frail & weak he starts coughing uncontrollably & waves him impatiently away]
King Louis XV : Get out! Get out!
King Louis XVI : I'll get out, but I'll come back! I'll come back when your dead! I'll be king then!
King Louis XV : Silence!
King Louis XVI : [Ignoring the king he turns to du Barry] And you! You know what will happen to you when I'm king? There are places for women like you in the Bastille!
Mme. du Barry : Stop it!
[to the king]
Mme. du Barry : Make him stop!
King Louis XV : Silence!
King Louis XVI : I'm going to have my wife back! I'm going to have children! I know!
[he starts loosing his composure]
King Louis XVI : But you... your weak! Your not going to live long! I'll be sitting there and you'll be dead!
King Louis XV : [Trembling with anger he starts to rise] Be silent!
King Louis XVI : [Roughly shoving the king down hard] Sit down!
[Then with shame he hangs his head as he leaves]
King Louis XVI : Forgive me, sire. I didn't mean to touch you. Forgive me.
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King Louis XVI : We should live as becomes the heirs to the throne of France. I want life to be rich and full and beautiful. It could be if we'd only stand together.
King Louis XVI : I tell you I can't. I can't try to be anything but what I am. Why do you plague me? The king is the king.
Marie Antoinette : And I am a princess of the House of Hapsburg. I'm an archduchess of Austria and a daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa. I'm sorry you don't see it my way, Louis. Because I mean to be the dauphine of France. Not in the way I might have been if we'd stood together. But at least, I'll be the brightest, highest figure in this court.
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King Louis XVI : I am not going to run! What do you say, brother?
Comte de Provence : I say run and you'll lose your crown!
Comte d'Artois : And I say stay and you'll lose your head!
Comte de Provence : [to Artois] You're on the wing, I suppose?
Comte d'Artois : Your trunks are packed!
Comte de Provence : Liar!
King Louis XVI : Be quiet, be quiet, both of you! It was a grave mistake to dissolve the assembly...
[He looks desparately up to Marie Antoinette]
King Louis XVI : My dear, what shall we do?
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King Louis XVI : [Looking glum] I don't like that fellow.
Marie Antoinette : Philippe?
King Louis XVI : He smiles too much.
Marie Antoinette : [Cheerfully] Oh, but I like people to smile!