The Prince and the Showgirl Movie Quotes
Elsie Marina
[having learned the details of the Regent's "party"]
You know, there's a word for what you are and it's not Deputy Head of the Far Eastern Department.
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Elsie Marina
Yes, I speak German. I was born in Milwaukee.
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The Queen Dowager
Sweetly pretty. She should use more mascara. When one is young, one should use a lot of mascara. And when one is old, one should use much more!
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Elsie Marina
Better luck next time, only not with me, of course.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
Here am I, having reached the age of 40. And I have never known what it is to love or be loved. It is like the legend of the sleeping princess. Only here, it is the prince who sleeps and awaits the kiss of the beautiful young maiden that will bring him back to life.
Elsie Marina
You mean you want me to kiss you?
Charles, the Prince Regent
You are so literal.
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Elsie Marina
Oh, don't give me that. I'm an American citizen, no one can do anything to me. Besides, who cares about your old Balkan revolutions, anyway? You have them all the time.
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Fanny
[Fanny looking at Elsie's fanny]
It's wonderful over the you-know-what.
Fanny
[Northbrook comes out from behind screen]
What do you think?
Northbrook
Very nice.
Fanny
Is that all you can say?
Northbrook
Very nice indeed.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
[of the theatre]
So many doors. Like an audience with the Japanese emperor!
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Northbrook
It all goes back to the Holy Roman Empire. The Grand Duke is a nephew by marriage of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria.
Fanny
No wisecracks about Austria.
Northbrook
I sincerely hope, no wisecracks about anything. In these troubled times, the lightest remark can have bad repercussions.
Fanny
I can see the history books: "The War of Elsie's Remark."
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Elsie Marina
I got a solemn word of warning for you.
Charles, the Prince Regent
What is that, my beloved?
Elsie Marina
You know what's going to happen? I'm gonna fall in love with you. Because I always, always do.
Charles, the Prince Regent
Always?
Elsie Marina
Both times. So you better watch out. You better watch out.
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Elsie Marina
What's the matter?
Charles, the Prince Regent
Someone might come in, you know.
Elsie Marina
Oh, this is Times Square. I found that out last night, but who cares?
Charles, the Prince Regent
But this is the morning. It's different, you know.
Elsie Marina
What's different about it? Unless maybe it's you.
Charles, the Prince Regent
I assure you, my dear, I'm exactly the same person.
Elsie Marina
You're not acting exactly the same.
Charles, the Prince Regent
But this is the morning!
Elsie Marina
You keep saying that. I remember last night the way you kept repeating yourself. Tell me, my darling Grand Duke, is it only very late at night that you're such a lonely person? You feel the need to share your life with a pure young woman? Whose bright faith...
Charles, the Prince Regent
No, no, please.
Elsie Marina
Ennobling love...
Charles, the Prince Regent
There's certain phrases should never be quoted out of context.
Elsie Marina
I don't know what that means. Oh! Yes, I do. It means it's the morning. Doesn't it? Anyway, to me it's still dream time.
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Northbrook
Aren't you confusing this embassy with a private room at Romano's?
Elsie Marina
Why not? Except up there it's a longer run from the sofa to the door.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
Do you know what your hair reminds me of? Summer corn kissed by the winds into enchantingly exciting furrows. Your eyes...
Elsie Marina
Hey! Where's that music coming from?
Charles, the Prince Regent
Music? One of my servants, a Hungarian, always plays at this hour. He's lamenting his lost love.
Elsie Marina
Ah, poor boy. Isn't life awful? Go back to my eyes.
Charles, the Prince Regent
Twin pools of gladness and joy in which any man would be happy to drown himself.
Elsie Marina
In both of them?
Charles, the Prince Regent
In either.
Elsie Marina
Oh, I like that. "Twin pools. " Go on.
Charles, the Prince Regent
Your chin...
Elsie Marina
Oh, you skipped my nose because you noticed the bump on the end?
Charles, the Prince Regent
Oh, no, no, no, no. I left it out because there is nothing to say of perfection.
Elsie Marina
Oh, that's nice. Back to my chin.
Charles, the Prince Regent
This is what I think of your chin.
[kisses her neck]
Charles, the Prince Regent
My darling. Oh, my darling.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
Love! What a universe of joy and pain lies in that little word.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
You know, Northbrook, what I think is the trouble with Lady Sunningdale?
Northbrook
She has not enough love in her life, Sir?
Charles, the Prince Regent
Too much. One should keep a balance in these things.
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The Queen Dowager
Mr. Northbrook, who was that creature? Was it an anarchist?
Northbrook
No, ma'am!
The Queen Dowager
Then who was it?
Northbrook
A young lady, ma'am, called Miss Elsie Marina.
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The Foreign Office
Do you mean to say, Northbrook, that you know nothing about Carpathia whatever?
Northbrook
Don't even know where the beastly place is, for a start.
The Foreign Office
How long have you been in the foreign office?
Northbrook
15 years, sir, but I'm in the Far Eastern Department.
The Foreign Office
Now, that's no excuse. What would you think if I knew nothing of Siam?
Northbrook
Don't think I'd mind much.
The Foreign Office
That sort of remark will get you nowhere, Northbrook.
Northbrook
Not even out of this job?
The Foreign Office
Certainly not! Your predecessor has had a riding accident and you are now in his saddle.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
Who did you think I meant, if not you?
Elsie Marina
Well, Maisie Springfield.
Charles, the Prince Regent
No, no, no. Maisie Springfield, she's quite what I would call 'old hat.'
Elsie Marina
Oh? And am I what you'd call 'new hat?'
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Charles, the Prince Regent
She cannot be seen here at this hour of the morning. She will make a scandal. Suppose the Queen sees her like that?
Northbrook
I'm sure, Sir, her sense of comme il faut...
Northbrook
She has as much sense of comme il faut as a rhinoceros.
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Elsie Marina
What if your party wins? That's the thing about general elections. You never know who's going to win.
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The Queen Dowager
Most impressive. And the soldiers facing the procession too. Such a change from the last coronation I attended, the Vas Arabies'. Guns going off like kettledrums and infernal machines and the sky black with smoke. Happily, no fatalities. Except in the crowd. But it all left a very bad impression.
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Northbrook
Personally, I find the decoration is a little vulgar.
Elsie Marina
Well, all I can say is give me vulgarity!
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Charles, the Prince Regent
What is the matter?
Elsie Marina
That time I burned my witty little tongue.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
It is love that I need! The ennobling love of a pure young woman. Her bright faith in me as I am and as I might yet be. Her... self-sacrifice to my little weaknesses and desires. For love is sacrifice, is it not? Ys. There is the mystic kiss which might bring this sleeping prince to life.
Elsie Marina
I got you!
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Elsie Marina
You have some more.
Charles, the Prince Regent
Not so much, please.
Elsie Marina
You don't want to spoil my illusions of you, do you?
Charles, the Prince Regent
What are your illusions of me?
Elsie Marina
Well, your capacity for vodka is certainly one of them. Here's to: More love in everybody's life.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
You like--vodka?
Elsie Marina
I never tried it. I don't think I better.
Charles, the Prince Regent
Oh, you must! This is *very* special.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
Excellent! I can see you have a witty little tongue, Miss Marina.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
What has chiefly disturbed Sir Edward is the fact that these stupid Americans have protested. Some nonsense about political freedom and democratic rights. You know what children Americans are in matters of this kind. Their diplomacy makes me think of the Minotaur legend reversed, you know. The bull chasing Theseus through the labyrinth.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
When will these crazy Americans grow up?
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Elsie Marina
[while dancing]
I don't know why you object. General elections are good things. They're democratic!
Charles, the Prince Regent
You're very pretty, my dear, but you would be wise to think twice before entering the political arena. You may find the role of Madame de Pompadour may be a little beyond your range. And your range is so charming as it is. Do you reverse?
Elsie Marina
Just try me!
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Charles, the Prince Regent
To think how overjoyed Lucy Sunningdale would have been if I had asked her to have a little supper with me here last night.
Northbrook
I have to remind your Grand Duke Highness, I think I heard you remark that you found Lady Sunningdale 'old hat'.
Charles, the Prince Regent
I have no doubt at all that I did. Nevertheless, my dear Northbrook, there is an old Russian saying: "Better an old hat than a bare head."
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Elsie Marina
You do need more love in your life. I never met anyone who needed it more. So now you've got it, good luck to you!
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King Nicolas
It is unfortunate you heard that. It might prove exceedingly dangerous for you.
Elsie Marina
Dangerous? Oh, don't give me that. I'm an American citizen. Nobody can do anything to me!
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Fanny
I couldn't sleep a wink so this morning I collected a rescue squad.
Elsie Marina
Oh, I don't need rescuing. I'm having a lovely time.
Fanny
Elsie, you're a wicked girl.
Elsie Marina
No, I'm not. Not yet.
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Elsie Marina
Don't look so anxious. I don't tell tales.
King Nicolas
Oh, that is good of you. I'm so very grateful.
Elsie Marina
Still, that doesn't mean that I don't think you're a very naughty boy.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
With such a girl like that, anything can happen. Anything.
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Elsie Marina
You have those little conditions to agree to first. Give and take, darling. Give and take.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
Brilliant, brilliant! Quite, quite brilliant. Ah, I can see they don't call you the Fox of the Balkans for nothing, do they?
Charles, the Prince Regent
Am I called so?
Elsie Marina
Didn't you know it?
Charles, the Prince Regent
The Fox of the Balkan.
Elsie Marina
Oh, and you look so like a fox with those eyebrows. Yes. Like a sleek, dangerous animal. But such a lonely one.
Charles, the Prince Regent
Oh, my child. It is my lot to be lonely.
Elsie Marina
But must it always be so?
Charles, the Prince Regent
It must. It must. Darling, if you could only under - Where is that music coming from?
Elsie Marina
Oh, never mind, darling. It's just that Hungarian.
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Elsie Marina
Playing with fire?
Northbrook
-What? Oh, Good morning, Miss Marina.
Elsie Marina
Good morning.
Northbrook
Yes, I am.
Elsie Marina
That's a sport you should leave to me.
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The Queen Dowager
My dear, such a night. Not a wink of sleep. Some dreadful drunkard fiddling in the corridor for hours and hours and the night before too, only, not so long. I did not dare go out and stop him, in case he was an anarchist or a Republican or something. One never knows nowadays. So disturbing.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
What a charming character is this Coconut Gal.
Maisie Springfield
I'm so happy to hear Your Grand Duke Highness say so. It is a character that goes a little deeper than most in musical comedy.
Charles, the Prince Regent
Ah, yes. Yes, indeed. Quite so.
Maisie Springfield
I have been so anxious to find a role that offered an emotional challenge
Charles, the Prince Regent
Most charming it is. I began to feel that we had lost a gay person that I knew in Paris.
Maisie Springfield
How gracious of you, sir, to remember.
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Northbrook
Do I gather, Sir, that the evening was not an entirely happy one?
Charles, the Prince Regent
Northbrook, this British understatement of yours, I begin to find irritating. The evening was an unqualified nightmare.
Northbrook
I'm so sorry, Sir.
Charles, the Prince Regent
I have only one evening in London. One single evening in which to arrange for myself relaxation. And what happens? Out of the whole of this vast, teeming city, teeming with beautiful, intelligent women, you find me what? A little American ninnycompoop.
Northbrook
With respect, Sir, either ninny, by itself, or nincompoop.
Charles, the Prince Regent
Ninnycompoop will serve. She fully deserves a new word.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
The mind of a backward child, the muscles of a boxer, and an approach to life of such stomach-turning sentimentality that I found myself, Northbrook, I found myself last night uttering phrases which had they been overheard would make me the laughingstock of Europe. To crown it all, she's rendered insensible by an amount of vodka, which in Carpathia, you would add to the morning milk of a 4-year-old child as a mild tonic!
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The Queen Dowager
Most impressive. And the soldiers facing the procession too. Such a change from the last coronation I attended in Bessarabia, with all the shots going off like bombs and the sky black with infernal machines. Happily, no fatalities, except in the crowd.
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Charles, the Prince Regent
She's here in the building?
Northbrook
Yes, Sir. She is with the King in the steward's room.
Charles, the Prince Regent
What is it they are doing in the steward's room?
Northbrook
She is teaching the King an American dance called a foxtrot. Your valet Franz is playing for them, with one or two others of the household. In ragtime.
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