Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Guy Pearce: William Cecil
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Quotes
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Queen Elizabeth I : Tell me what to do?
William Cecil : We must make civil war in Scotland.
Queen Elizabeth I : You would have me depose the sister monarch?
William Cecil : It is either civil war there. Or civil war here.
Queen Elizabeth I : I want to know nothing of it.
William Cecil : The arrangements shall me mine, alone.
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William Cecil : Madam, we cannot let her name your successor. She has no right.
Queen Elizabeth I : When I am dead and you are dead and she is dead, it matters not what names we did or did not say. The world will decide for itself.
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William Cecil : [to Elizabeth] This world is a brutal place. We men must be wiser, mustn't we?
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William Cecil : Mary is our foe! We must not bow to her as we bow before you!
Queen Elizabeth I : You have the boldness to doubt my judgement!
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William Cecil : Can he control her?
Robert Dudley : If she's anything like our Queen, then she does not yield to a bridle.
William Cecil : So says our Master of the Horse. By bridle do you speak of matrimony?
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Queen Elizabeth I : No Prince's revenues be so great that they satisfy the insatiable ambition of men.
William Cecil : This I understand.
Queen Elizabeth I : Which is why you are the closest thing I shall ever have to a wife.
William Cecil : [laughs] I shan't mention your proposal to Lord Dudley.
[Elizabeth laughs]
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Queen Elizabeth I : It is my choice. God would have a woman be a wife and mother.
William Cecil : So you defy his will.
Queen Elizabeth I : No - I choose to be a man.