Natalie Portman credited as playing...
Anne Boleyn
- King Henry VIII: [Before the hunt] With no man to hold onto, how do you propose to stay on the horse?
- Anne Boleyn: As you do, Your Grace - with my thighs.
- Katherine of Aragon: [being led to court; stops in front of Mary and Anne] So, the Boleyn whores. Two former ladies of mine. What did I do to upset you, that you should turn against me like this?
- Anne Boleyn: [nose in the air] You failed to give England an heir.
- Katherine of Aragon: And that upsets you so?
- Anne Boleyn: What upsets the King upsets me.
- Katherine of Aragon: How dare you.
- Mary Boleyn: [as she enters the room] Anne.
- Anne Boleyn: [Comes to sit on the bed and kisses Mary's hands] I meant to come sooner. I'm sorry I did not. I have been kept occupied.
- Mary Boleyn: So I hear; amusing the king.
- Anne Boleyn: Only that sister, I assure you; despite his best efforts.
- Mary Boleyn: What, and not yours?
- Anne Boleyn: [is silent for a moment] How is it?
- Mary Boleyn: The child is strong. He gives me no rest; like his father.
- Anne Boleyn: Do you feel as awful as you look? You know, in France, no woman would allow herself to get in such a state.
- Mary Boleyn: Why did you come, Anne, if all you desire is to torment me?
- Anne Boleyn: Perhaps now you know how it feels; to be deceived by your sister.
- Mary Boleyn: I did nothing...
- Anne Boleyn: You stole the king away, and then you betrayed me over Henry Percy!
- Mary Boleyn: If that's what you think, fine, then tell yourself that!
- Anne Boleyn: I did, sister. Every day and every night I was in exile.
- King's Messenger: [Knocks and walks in] A gift, from the king.
- Anne Boleyn: Then give it to my sister.
- King's Messenger: [Awkwardly] It's for *you*, Mistress Anne.
- Anne Boleyn: Me? Then send it back! Immediately!
- [Messenger leaves, Anne looks at Mary sweetly]
- Anne Boleyn: How dare he? See? I have your interests at heart.
- Mary Boleyn: [Shocked] Why? Why this cruelty? You know I love him.
- Anne Boleyn: Well, perhaps you should stop.
- King Henry VIII: I have torn this country apart for *you*!
- Anne Boleyn: For which you should thank me, not be angry!
- King Henry VIII: Broken with Rome...
- Anne Boleyn: Freed yourself, more like, from the decadence of a corrupt church.
- King Henry VIII: I got rid of a good woman in the queen...
- Anne Boleyn: A dried-out husk who failed you, and whose Spanish blood shackles you to Rome!
- King Henry VIII: For which I will be excommunicated!
- Anne Boleyn: And instead, become head of a new church! The Church of England! Closer to God...
- King Henry VIII: So forgiveness, you say, makes a man great. What else?
- Anne Boleyn: Generosity. Humility. The ability to recognize his match in others and not be threatened by it.
- King Henry VIII: His match in other men?
- Anne Boleyn: Women too.
- King Henry VIII: You believe that? That women can be the match of men?
- Anne Boleyn: It is a question women have asked themselves for some time. But we concede men do have some value, so, we regard them as equal.
- King Henry VIII: [during a supper in the banquet hall, to Anne] What's so amusing?
- Anne Boleyn: I was merely offering my thoughts on the new French king. With such great power, yet such meager authority as a man.
- King Henry VIII: [intrigued] Continue.
- Anne Boleyn: [slowly walking forward] His pettiness is astounding. He will bear a mortal grudge at the mildest of slights; spoiled cub with a spike in his paw, riven with resentment, unable to forgive or forget. A great king, a great man, rises above such things.
- King Henry VIII: And what would you know of great men?
- Anne Boleyn: [never taking her eyes from Henry's] I've read enough books and heard enough talk to believe I'd know one, if he were before me.
- King Henry VIII: Then look about you. I am curious. Do you see one here?
- Anne Boleyn: [approaches him, still not looking away] Looking my lord... still looking, my lord.
- [Stops in front of him]
- Anne Boleyn: Ah, there. Found one.
- [the king and the entire hall laugh]
- Mary Boleyn: [after Anne effectively steals Henry during Mary's childbirth] How can you show your face in here? My own sister... Take care, because he will only do to you what he has done to me.
- Anne Boleyn: You should not have given yourself so lightly; these are the consequences.
- Mary Boleyn: I gave myself to a man I loved, and he loved me.
- Anne Boleyn: A man's love is worthless. Our mother succumbed to love, look what it got her - a weak, feeble husband. Love is of no value without power and position. When I give the king a son, he will not bear the name "bastard".
- Mary Boleyn: [Understanding what Anne is saying] What you suggest is *treason*. He cannot marry you; he has his queen.
- Anne Boleyn: [Smiles coldly] Who cannot produce a male heir.
- Mary Boleyn: You reach too high, as always!
- Anne Boleyn: The King will deal with Katherine; you'll hear about it from where I'm sending you. You are to go back to Rochford. Isn't that what you've always wanted? A life in the country, alone with your child?
- Mary Boleyn: [Refering to the Queen] The crowds are with her.
- Anne Boleyn: [Confidently] The crowds have no vote. And the bishops that do are in Wolsey's pocket.
- Anne Boleyn: [having a breakdown] I struck him today. What am I doing? I'm destroying it all on my own! I cannot sleep, without sleep I cannot think!
- George Boleyn: It's embarrassing.
- Anne Boleyn: Look, she has her eye on you. Sweet Jane Parker would be a match to please our father.
- George Boleyn: Ugh, vile girl, she's the most ambitious little serpent at court.
- Anne Boleyn: [Giggling] She can't stop watching!
- Anne Boleyn: You cannot undo what has been done before God. And consummated too!
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: There have been - improper intimacies?
- Anne Boleyn: I have lain with my husband. There's nothing improper about it.
- Anne Boleyn: They say he's with Jane Seymour now. Is it true?
- Mary Boleyn: No.
- Anne Boleyn: Thank you. A generous lie.
- The Duke of Norfolk: [regarding the punishment for Anne's secret marriage] You will be sent to France and stay there until you've learned your lesson.
- Anne Boleyn: What? No! Father, please!
- Sir Thomas Boleyn: How can you have done this? You knew full well that Mary's friendship with the king is at an extremely delicate state! Any scandal, any mark upon her name could be fatal!
- The Duke of Norfolk: You will be sent to join the court of the French queen and stay there, until your father has forgiven you.
- Anne Boleyn: [crying, runs into the hall where Mary is waiting] You told them, didn't you?
- Mary Boleyn: It was for your own good. You never would have gotten away with it. It would have ruined your prospects forever.
- Anne Boleyn: [still crying] Really? For *my* good? Well, I'll try to remind myself of that while I'm in exile, and you're here in the king's bed, not challenged for our father's affection! That it was for my good, and not yours!
- [Storms off]
- Anne Boleyn: [On the scaffold] Masters, I here humbly submit to the law, as the law has judged me. As for my offenses... God knows them, and I remit them to God, beseeching Him to have mercy on my soul. I beseech Jesus, save my Sovereign and master, the King, the goodliest...
- [voice breaks]
- Anne Boleyn: ... and gentlest master there ever was.
- [Sees Mary reading the King's note and realizes it's not a pardon; begins to tremble and cry as she takes off her hood, cape, and necklace; kneels on the scaffold]
- Anne Boleyn: Sweet Jesus, I commend my soul to thee.
- King Henry VIII: [talking in secret] Your sister is gone, as you wished. Will you give yourself to me now?
- Anne Boleyn: No - when you are loyal to me above all others.
- King Henry VIII: But I am.
- Anne Boleyn: No. You are loyal to the *queen* above all others.
- King Henry VIII: I barely see Katherine.
- Anne Boleyn: But she sits on a throne beside you; your right hand in matters of state.
- King Henry VIII: For appearances' sake only.
- Anne Boleyn: Still, she is your queen. And ever present.
- [Glances around]
- Anne Boleyn: I feel her eyes on me, and those of her spies. Look at us - forever reduced to meeting in secret like this, speaking in whispers... hardly conducive to passion.
- King Henry VIII: What would you have me do?
- King Henry VIII: [Banging on her bedroom door] Anne!
- Anne Boleyn: Your Grace?
- King Henry VIII: You received my gifts?
- Anne Boleyn: Yes.
- King Henry VIII: And? Do they not please you?
- Anne Boleyn: On the contrary, my lord, they please me greatly.
- King Henry VIII: Then why do you insult me by returning them?
- Anne Boleyn: Because you insult me by sending them at all! My sister lies abed with your child! If you wish to please me, sir, then send her the gifts you send me!
- King Henry VIII: I have already shown Mary enough kindness and generosity. Now it pleases me to show you some.
- The Duke of Norfolk: [Storming into the room] Damn you! Not a single detail was left to chance! And now the moment of our greatest glory...!
- Anne Boleyn: Glory? What glory? A mistress gave a man a bastard; no more.
- The Duke of Norfolk: A male bastard, a son!
- Anne Boleyn: The queen may yet give birth to a son.
- The Duke of Norfolk: The queen no longer bleeds!
- Anne Boleyn: [Takes in that information] Can you be sure?
- The Duke of Norfolk: One of her physicians. And the moment this family provides him with a son, he turned his back to it on your account, so you'd better have a plan, girl! And that plan had better work!
- Anne Boleyn: Or what, uncle?
- Lady Elizabeth: Enough! Both of you!
- [pause while everyone takes a breath]
- Lady Elizabeth: And what about Mary, hm? And her child? Or have you forgotten about them already?
- Anne Boleyn: Mary and her bastard child will go back to the country. It is the king's wish... and mine.
- Lady Elizabeth: [Standing] Very well. Then you can be the one to tell her. I think you've earned that privilege.