The Swan (1956)

Grace Kelly: Princess Alexandra

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• [last lines] 

  Prince Albert : Your father used to call you his swan. At least I'm told. I think that's a good thing to remember. Think what it means to be a swan. To glide like a dream on the smooth surface of the lake and never go on the shore. On dry land, where ordinary people walk, the swan is awkward. Even ridiculous. When she waddles up the bank, she painfully resembles a different kind of bird, n'est-ce pas?

  Princess Alexandra : A goose.

  Prince Albert : I'm afraid so. So there she must stay. Out on the lake. Silent White. Majestic. Be a bird but never fly. Know one song but never sing it. Until the moment of her death. And so it must be for you, Alexandra. Head high. Cool indifference to the staring crowds along the bank. And the song - Never.

  Princess Alexandra : Take me inside, Albert.

  [Albert takes her hand, and they go inside the palace together] 

• Princess Alexandra : You should talk to me about the stars.

  Dr. Nicholas Agi : With the greatest of pleasure.

• Dr. Nicholas Agi : You're so sweet and so beautiful...

  Princess Alexandra : Don't come any closer Nicholas... I've never seen a man in love and... he happens to be in love with me.

  Dr. Nicholas Agi : Are you so afraid of me?

  Princess Alexandra : Oh, if I am I want always to be afraid. I want to be so good to you. I want a hundred things. I want to tell you everything that's in my heart... I want to look after you and spoil you and... oh, eat something.

• Dr. Nicholas Agi : I'm not hungry, Alexandra. I'm thirsty.

  Princess Alexandra : You want some wine?

  Dr. Nicholas Agi : I'm thirsty for your lips, for your eyes, for that moment when we can't even speak.

• Dr. Nicholas Agi : It's easy to be clearheaded in the morning when the sun is shining.

  Princess Alexandra : And not the stars?

  Dr. Nicholas Agi : Not the stars.

• Princess Alexandra : Poor cousin Albert was resting. After all, the bass viol is really quite strenuous.