Robin and Marian (1976)

Audrey Hepburn: Maid Marian

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Quotes 

• [Robin Hood comes back from the Crusades] 

  Maid Marian : You never wrote.

  Robin Hood : I don't know how.

• Robin Hood : [realizing Marian has prepared poison for them]  Jesus, Marian! Why?

  Maid Marian : I love you. More than all you know. I love you more than children. More than fields I've planted with my hands. I love you more than morning prayers or peace or food to eat. I love you more than sunlight, more than flesh or joy or one more day. I love you more than God.

• Robin Hood : [seeing Marian in a nun's habit]  Marian, what are you doing in that costume?

  Maid Marian : Living in it.

• Maid Marian : Let's take a look at you.

  Robin Hood : [opens his shirt]  Just a few bumps and bruises.

  Maid Marian : [Reacting to his scars]  Oh!

  [She touches them gently] 

  Maid Marian : So many... You had the sweetest body when you left. Hard, and not a mark. And you were mine. When you left I thought I'd die. I even tried. I walked into the woods and laid down by a stream and cut myself. Some damn fool forrester came by, took me to the abbey. So they say. No more scars, Robin. It's too much to lose you twice.

  Robin Hood : I've never kissed a member of the clergy before. Would it be a sin?

• Maid Marian : Robin, were there many women on your Great Crusade?

  Robin Hood : Lots.

  Maid Marian : Don't tell me.

  Robin Hood : As you wish.

  Maid Marian : How many?

  Robin Hood : Well...

  [after a long pause] 

  Robin Hood : ... But they all looked like you.

• Maid Marian : I don't know how I look to you, but I'm not your Marian. I can't imagine living in the world again, or even for a minute wanting to. Come morning, I'm going to the Sheriff.

  Robin Hood : What's the sense? Who would it serve?

  Maid Marian : There's always God. You went crusading, didn't you?

  Robin Hood : There are some things worth dying for.

  Maid Marian : They had souls, too, the heathen that you killed. If I should die in prison-and I'd rather not, but if it comes-it's for a reason. I'll have stood for something, and I won't have taken another life to do it. What will you do now? Fight the Sheriff? More corpses? Aren't you sick of it?

  Robin Hood : On the twelfth of July, 1191, the mighty fortress that was Acre fell to Richard, his one great victory in the Holy Land. He was sick in bed and never struck a blow. On the eighth of August, John and I stood outside watching while every Muslim left alive was marched out in chains. King Richard spared the rich for ransoms, took the strong for slaves, then he took the children-*all* the children-and had them chopped apart. Then he had their mothers killed. When they were all dead, three thousand bodies on the plain, he had them all opened up so their guts could be explored for gold and precious stones. Our churchmen on the scene-and there were many-took it for a triumph! One bishop put on his mitre and led us all in prayer. And you ask me if I'm sick of it.

  Maid Marian : Why didn't you come home then?

  Robin Hood : Because... he was my King.

• Maid Marian : Robin, I'd be 20 for you if I could.