Stage Beauty

Stage Beauty (2004)

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King Charles II: My astronomers tell me that a star's light shines on long after it has died, even though it doesn't know it.

Samuel Pepys: Tell me about your parentage, Miss Gwynn.
Nell Gwynn: My mum was a whore, my father was in the navy.
Samuel Pepys: I see.
Nell Gwynn: That's why I don't never do sailors.

King Charles II: Act a man, Kynaston. How hard can it be?
Ned Kynaston: It is not a question of acting a man. I can act a man. There's no artistry in that. There are things that I can be as a woman that I cannot be as a man.

King Charles II: Balance the scales, Kynaston. Give the girls a chance.

Ned Kynaston: Why does one act?
Maria: When you act, you are seen.

Ned Kynaston: Right, I'll need boot black.
Sir Charles Sedley: I have boot black.
Ned Kynaston: With you?
Sir Charles Sedley: A scuff, sir, is a dreadful thing.

King Charles II: Exile is a dreadful thing for one who knows his rightful place.

Nell Gwynn: Charlie boy, where's his toy? Oh, your Majesty, let me see the crown.

Ned Kynaston: I'm not teaching you how to be a woman. I'm teaching you how to be Desdemona.

Maria: I am an actress, not a beauty.

Ned Kynaston: A woman playing a woman? Where's the trick in that?

Maria: Your old tutor did you a great disservice, Mr. Kynaston. He taught you how to speak, and swoon, and toss your head but he never taught you how to suffer like a woman, or love like a woman. He trapped a man in a woman's form and left you there to die! I always hated you as Desdemona. You never fought! You just died, beautifully. No woman would die like that, no matter how much she loved him. A woman would fight.

Maria: What do you know of love, sir? Or loyalty? Or adoration suffered in deepest silence? The only love you know, sir, is what you act on stage.

Maria: You almost killed me.
Ned Kynaston: I did kill you, you just didn't die.

Continuity mistake: When Ned is using the walking stick after being beaten up, he has it in one scene and is limping, but in the next scene it is gone and he is walking normally, even though it seems to be the same day and he still has all his bruises.

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