The Best The Dowager Empress Marie Quotes

Dowager: Young man, where did you get that music box? You were the boy, weren't you? The servant boy who got us out? You saved her life and mine and you restored her to me. Yet you want no reward.
Dimitri: Not anymore.
Dowager: Why the change of mind?
Dimitri: It was more a change of heart.

Dimitri: I don't want your money.
Dowager: What do you want then?
Dimitri: Unfortunately, nothing you can give.

Anastasia: [Looking at a photo of her family] I remember now how much I loved them.
Dowager: They would not want us to live in the past, not now that we have found each other.

[voiceover; first lines]
Dowager: There was a time, not very long ago, where we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. The year was 1916, and my son, Nicholas, was the Czar of Imperial Russia.

Dowager: [Anastasia is trying to get onto the train] Hold on to my hand!
Young: [Sobbing] Don't let go!
Dowager: [Anastasia's hand slips, she screams] Anastasia!
[Anastasia hits the ground and loses consciousness]
Dowager: ANASTASIA!

Young: [the music box begins to play] It plays our lullaby!
Dowager: You can play it at night before you go to sleep, and pretend it's me singing!

Dowager: [looking through her memory box] Oh look! The drawing you gave me! Remember?
Anastasia: Oh yeah... Olga made me so mad; she said it looked like a pig riding a donkey!
[laughs]
Anastasia: She was right.
Dowager: [nostalgically] Ah, your laughter. Once again, I hear my Nicky, your dear father.
[retrieves a tiara from her dresser]
Dowager: But you have the beauty of your mother, Alexandra - Empress of all Russia.
[ceremoniously places tiara on Anastasia's head]

Dowager: [as Dimitri recklessly drives the Dowager Empress Marie's car] Ilya, slow down.
Dimitri: I'm *not* Ilya, and I *won't* slow down, NOT until you listen.
Dowager: You... how dare you! Stop this car immediately! STOP THIS CAR!

Dowager: You're a very good actress, best yet in fact. But I've had enough.
[starts to walk away]
Anastasia: Peppermint?
Dowager: Oil for my hands.
Anastasia: Yes... I spilled a bottle. The carpet was soaked and it forever smelled of peppermint - like you. I used to lie on that rug and oh how I missed you while you were away...

Dowager: [after showing Anastasia the music box; singing] On the wind, 'cross the sea, / Hear this song and remember...
Dowager: [singing together] Soon you'll be home with me / Once upon a December.

Sophie: It's a perfect ending.
Dowager: No. It's a perfect beginning.