Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Irene Worth: The Queen Mother Marie Fedorovna
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Quotes
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Queen Mother Maria Fedorova : I wish your father were alive.
Tsar Nicholas II : Don't throw him at me!
Queen Mother Maria Fedorova : He knew how to be a czar. He'd have burned Vienna down, stomped on the Germans, and shot the strikers. Anything to give Russia peace. And he'd certainly have known how to deal with Rasputin.
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Queen Mother Maria Fedorova : Not even London on a Sunday is as boring as a room full of Romanovs.
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Queen Mother Maria Fedorova : We're an 18th-century country in a 20th-century world. We need all our strength and money to look after Russia. Don't waste it on those little yellow Buddhists or pagans or whatever they are. It's a great mistake to get involved in all these strikes and wars. You only encourage them by taking them seriously. Your father always said...
Tsar Nicholas II : Thank you for your kind advice.
Queen Mother Maria Fedorova : I haven't finished yet, Nicky. I know I'm not as clever as I pretend to be, but I'm sure of this. Get out of Korea and forget about Japan.
Tsar Nicholas II : I'm thirty-six. You must let me look after this war.
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Queen Mother Maria Fedorova : I came to congratulate you, Nicky.
Tsar Nicholas II : What for?
Queen Mother Maria Fedorova : For finding, from all Russia's countless cretins, idiots and incompetents, the men least qualified to run your government.
