Memorable Quotes from Rufus Sewell
20 quotesThe Humor of Wine Tasting
Armand
I don't know why they call it "wine-tasting". After two glasses, you can't taste anything.
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Measured and Found Wanting
Count Adhemar
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly beat me?
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A Stranger's Promise of Happiness
Marke
You're trembling. You are far from home and I am a stranger still. But you mustn't fear me. My wish is to make you happy, as a wife.. as a woman and hopefully one day, the fact that I am not whole will not offend you.
[Isolde and Marke retire to their bedroom. Tristan watches their window from outside.; Marke kisses Isolde and makes love to her.]
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Encouragement to Take Action
Autolycus
Don't just stand there! Kill someone!
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Shared Struggles of Orphaned Childhood in Athens
Autolycus
We grew up together, both orphans, trying to survive in the streets of Athens.
[telling Ergenia about Hercules]
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The Complexity of Desire and Morality
Marco Venier
Do you not like my kiss?
Veronica Franco
I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
Marco Venier
God made sin that we might know his mercy.
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A Call to Follow Hercules in Battle
Hercules
Soldiers of Thrace! You followed me in battle, follow me now.
Cotys
Don't be fools! Hercules is mortal, not a god! Anyone who sides with him will die! And I will show you. Bring him!
[turns to a soldier]
Ergenia
Arius!
[sees a soldier bring forward Arius bound in rope]
Arius
Mama!
Ergenia
No! He's your grandson!
Cotys
You failed to save your children, Hercules. But you may yet save him.
Ergenia
Please, Father! No!
Cotys
Admit defeat! Bow to me! You have until the count of three! One! Two!
[Autolycus' knife suddenly impales the soldier's throat]
Autolycus
Don't just stand there! Kill someone!
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Life and Death of a Dog
Jarin
The dog has died!
Charles
He was only just alive!
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A Gift's Origin Revealed
Marke
That’s pretty. Did you make it?
Isolde
It was a present.
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A Complex Celebration of Love and Ambition
Marco Venier
Veronica! Veronica! Veronica, my little poetesse. You’re the brightest star in the Venetian firn’ment - the coldest and yet the brightest. Veronica - my uncle tells me I have the feigned indifference of a man (a pause when Veronica's patron walks out behind her) about to be married. I’m getting married Veronica congratulate me.
[Drunkenly]
Veronica Franco
Felicitations on your grand match!
Marco Venier
Ah - Generously put -
Veronica Franco
Do you love her?
Marco Venier
Do I have to?
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Identity and Morality in Dark City
John Murdoch
Maybe I have lost my mind, but whoever I am, I'm still me and I'm not a killer.
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The Absence of Daylight in Dark City
John Murdoch
Daylight. When was the last time you remember seeing it? And I'm not talking about some distant, half-forgotten childhood memory. I mean like yesterday? Last week? When? Can you come up with a single memory? You can't, can you? You know something? I don't think the sun even exists in this place, because I've been up for hours and hours and hours and the night never ends here.
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Counting Pirates After a Successful Night
Autolycus
Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen...
Atalanta
That was fun.
Autolycus
...eighteen, nineteen, twenty. 20 pirates at two gold pieces a head, minus the headless ones. Let's see.
Hercules
Not a bad night.
Iolaus
You see how the pirates ran? My story softened their resolve!
Autolycus
Their resolve must be broken, Iolaus. When you speak the legend of Hercules, make it bigger, scarier! The more they believe Hercules is truly the son of Zeus, the less like they are to fight.
Amphiaraus
Aye.
[stokes the fire]
Hercules
Amphiarus.
Amphiaraus
Hmm?
Hercules
Care to join us here on Earth?
Amphiaraus
A lion and a crow in strange alliance, fighting across a sea of corpses.
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Trust and Doubt in Uncertain Times
John Murdoch
What you do seems kind of dangerous right now. I mean, how do you know I'm not the killer?
May
You don't seem like the killer type. Why? You feeling any urges I should know about?
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Reflections on Potential and Perception
Marke
Will you always be little men, Who could not see what once was... And could be again.
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Uncertainty in Love and Gifts
Marco Venier
I see my fated stars your eyes, they melt me as the sun does snow. I bought this in Rome - for you.
Veronica Franco
You didn't buy it for me.
Marco Venier
Yes, I did, I just didn't know it.
Veronica Franco
Such a gift might be easily taken back again.
Marco Venier
Then name me any other gift.
Veronica Franco
The book will do for now.
Marco Venier
I think you're perhaps too young to accept what I would truly give you.
Veronica Franco
I'm not so young as you are vain!
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A Night of Enchantment and Debate
Crown Prince Leopold
Well done.
Eisenheim
Thank you for coming. I hope you enjoyed it.
Crown Prince Leopold
Oh, we more than enjoyed it. Stimulated great debate among us, hasn't it? Except of course for your assistant Duchess Von Teschen. You seem to have struck her quite speechless. A feat in itself. Did you hypnotize her?
Eisenheim
In a fashion.
Crown Prince Leopold
I'd like to learn that trick. Rainer here seems to think you have supernatural powers. Do you claim supernatural powers?
Eisenheim
I've never said anything of that kind.
Crown Prince Leopold
Then you won't mind a question or two?
Sophie
Now let's not ruin it.
Crown Prince Leopold
You needn't divulge anything I can't guess.
Eisenheim
As you wish.
Crown Prince Leopold
Your assistants are behind the mirrors somewhere, in robes obviously. Lights in the frame perhaps to illuminate them, or angled mirrors.
Eisenheim
That would be one way to do it.
Crown Prince Leopold
I think I understand it all except the ghost. That was very, very good.
Josef Fischer
Another viewing, perhaps?
Crown Prince Leopold
You must come to the Hofburg next time. We'll make an evening of it.
Eisenheim
That would be my pleasure.
Crown Prince Leopold
So be it. Sophie? And we'll gather our best minds next time. You'll really have a challenge then.
[motions to Sophie; leaves with Sophie, then turns]
Eisenheim
Then I shall prepare something special. Perhaps I'll make you disappear.
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Addressing Unfinished Business
Crown Prince Leopold
You're late.
Chief Inspector Uhl
My apologies, your Highness. I was attending to loose ends of the case.
Crown Prince Leopold
Are there still loose ends?
Chief Inspector Uhl
Very few.
Crown Prince Leopold
Did he do it again? How does he do it?
[Uhl nods]
Chief Inspector Uhl
I'm afraid I still don't know.
Crown Prince Leopold
Did you ask him?
Chief Inspector Uhl
He's not talking at this point.
Crown Prince Leopold
Well, I'm sure you have methods for that kind of thing. I want you to put an end to it. Surely you have something on him. Something from his past?
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Seeking Directions to Shell Beach
John Murdoch
Hey, you happen to know the way to Shell Beach?
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Power and Rejection in Venice
Veronica Franco
There's not a man in Venice I can't have.
Marco Venier
And there's not a woman in Venice I can't have.
Veronica Franco
You cannot have me.
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