A Royal Night Out (2015)

Sarah Gadon: Elizabeth

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Quotes 

• Elizabeth : Not a bloody word, right?

• Elizabeth : For six years now we've been positively cloistered.

  Margaret : Like nuns.

  Queen : We understood the reference.

• Elizabeth : My sister has gone to Chelsea with a carload of tarts.

• Margaret : Come on, Lillibet. This is what we wanted! The Lindy Hop. Remember? And round. Good. Then like that.

  Elizabeth , Margaret : Woo!

• Elizabeth : Dance.

  Jack Hodges : Can't dance.

  Elizabeth : For goodness' sake, make an effort.

  [Jack moves her in closer] 

  Elizabeth : Not that much effort.

• Queen : Your subjects need to see you as incorporating in your person the very essence of royalty.

  Elizabeth : One knows about essences and all that, but one would still like to have a dance from time to time.

  Margaret : The Lindy Hop, for example.

  Queen : The What-y hop?

• Elizabeth : What if the real me wants not to be her? That princess. What if she wants something else?

• Elizabeth : I owe him some money.

  King : How much?

  Jack Hodges : Seven pounds, eleven and fourpence, please.

  King : Well, we - don't keep much here, but I'll, er, have a whip-round amongst the footmen.

• Elizabeth : Mummy said, "No."

  Margaret : What kind of "no"?

  Elizabeth : "No," as in: "Absolutely not, under any circumstances whatsoever."

  Margaret : What did she say?

  Elizabeth : The life we live...

  Elizabeth , Margaret : Is not fully our own, blah, blah.

• Elizabeth : Come on. I know blue funk when I see it.

• Elizabeth : One princess is better than none.

• Jack Hodges : Why didn't you go with your sister?

  Elizabeth : I didn't want it to end.

• Elizabeth : It's not just any old night, is it? It's VE night. All sorts of unusual things are happening.

• Elizabeth : I've never so much as made a cup of blooming tea for myself. Never been out on my own. Not once, not properly. Even in the ATS, I had to sit between chaperones and come home for dinner while the rest of them ate compo rations. But tonight nobody gave a damn who I was. And if it wasn't for Margaret running off, I never would have had the opportunity to be just - ordinary. On the most extraordinary night of my life.