Anastasia (1956)
Ingrid Bergman: Anna Koreff
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Quotes
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Anastasia : The poor have only one advantage; they know when they are loved for themselves.
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Anastasia : How dare you smoke in my presence without my permission!
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Anastasia : I really don't like champagne. I only like what it does to me.
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Anastasia : So I've heard before. All of it. Say this. Remember that. You are. You are not. I know you. I don't know you. Oh, I've heard it many times.
General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine : Where?
Anastasia : Bucharest, Berlin...
Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin : Berlin?
Anastasia : China! I don't remember!
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Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin : I think she's very tired.
Anastasia : Now, I've had my coffee. Besides, it all helps to bring my memory back. And maybe one memory will convince someone. Even if it's only me.
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Boris Adreivich Chernov : I thought you couldn't remember.
Anastasia : I can't always. Things come and go - like waves of mist.
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General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine : And now, may I present your staff - Boris Andreivich Chernov, formerly of St Petersburg, banker. Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin, former student of the theological seminary. Sergei Pavlovich Bounine, General of the Tcherkess Regiment, former aide-de-camp attached to the person of His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Tsar of all Russia.
Anastasia : And I am - I am Her Imperial Highness, the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna.
[hysterical laughter]
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Anastasia : I can't any more! I don't know who I am any more! I don't know what I remember or what I've been told I remember! What is real? Am I?
General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine : Anna.
Anastasia : Anna. Am I Anna? Why not Tamara? Why not Liza? Why not Taziana? Yes, why not Taziana? Oh, I can't any more. I don't want this. I want to be me, whoever I am. I want to be me! I want someone to tell me, someone to accept me.
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General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine : Stop it! Go to bed at once!
Anastasia : My father was very strict. I did not like to obey, but he was ringmaster in a circus. General Bounine?
General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine : Yes?
Anastasia : Who am I?
General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine : I don't know.
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Anastasia : Are you angry because you're beginning to wonder who I am, or because you want me to do nothing except what you tell me?
General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine : I know who you are not. Just that I know that unless you do as I tell you, I'll have a new cigarette girl at my club.
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Chamberlain : Madame, my foot is troubling me.
Anastasia : My *life* is troubling me and it has yet to be lived.