Lisztomania (1975)
Sara Kestelman: Princess Carolyn
Quotes
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Princess Carolyn : You and the Tsar are just different sides of the same coin: false gods worshiped in different ways. Dress the Tsar as a peasant and you have a peasant.
[searches for Liszt]
Princess Carolyn : Stop skulking behind that screen!
[continues]
Princess Carolyn : Dress Liszt in a crinoline and what do you have? The same thing: a sham. Rather than walk naked through the world, he chooses to play the imposter. What do you say?
Liszt : Bollocks!
Princess Carolyn : "Bollocks"? I don't speak Hungarian.
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Liszt : Her Majesty gets a lot of satisfaction out of a good smoke?
Princess Carolyn : It's the perfect form of pleasure. It's exquisite and leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one ask?
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Princess Carolyn : Fresh air sickens me. My visitors invariably stink of it; hence, the fumigation.
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Liszt : I must admit, my professor had to tell me the meanings of the sixth and ninth commandments.
Princess Carolyn : Let us practice the 69th - together.
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Princess Carolyn : I rule in a state of 30,000 barbaric peasants - alone. My subjects think me a divine matriarch. But, underneath, I am - a woman.
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Princess Carolyn : Come. We must pray.
Liszt : Pray?
Princess Carolyn : No longer must you prostitute your art. Music, like sex, should be approached in a religious spirit. As one of the holiest things in life.
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Princess Carolyn : Some little guttersnipe has written an obscene book about you and the Tsar, for one, is outraged.
[hands Liszt the book]
Liszt : "Lisztomania" Marie? Oh, God. It can't be. Why should she?
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Princess Carolyn : Europe is ripe with revolution. You will become the leader of the only one that matters: the revolution in music! The whole world will sing your songs of brotherhood. *Art* is so much greater than politics!
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Princess Carolyn : Then, you can become a saint.
Liszt : Saint Franz Liszt!
Princess Carolyn : You must become a Franziscan!
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Princess Carolyn : We'll say a few Holy Marys and drink a few Bloody Marys, together.
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Cosima : Beautiful. I recognize the theme that Wagner borrowed - stole.
Liszt : He was welcome to it. I had plenty more. I didn't mind him taking it. It was what he did with it was horrible.
Princess Carolyn : Let's face it. We were all pretty horrible - and selfish.
Marie d'Agoult : The bad is dead and buried. The best of us lives on, enshrined in his music. And that's for everyone to share.
Lola Montez : Forever.
Cosima : Forever