Mary Elizabeth Winstead: Mary Todd Lincoln
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Mary Todd Lincoln : Well, I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard. My father used to say: plant your feet and stand firm. The only question is where to put your feet.
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Mary Todd Lincoln : [On April 14, 1865] Lincoln! We'll be late for the theater!
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Abraham Lincoln : [after she uses his hat to come to eye level] Miss Todd, you are a woman of ravishing resourcefulness.
Mary Todd Lincoln : Mr. Lincoln, you have no idea.
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Abraham Lincoln : I'm sorry, Mary. I'm sorry I've kept you in the dark all these years... I need you, Mary.
Mary Todd Lincoln : I've waited a long time to hear you say those words.
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Mary Todd Lincoln : I came to Springfield for some one different. Some whose life was a bit more adventorous, and well... My apologies. I'm never this...
Abraham Lincoln : Honest?
Mary Todd Lincoln : Rude.
Abraham Lincoln : Miss Todd, may I speak candidly? I, too, came here to better myself.
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Abraham Lincoln : Do you really want the truth, Mary?... Each and every night I go out... hunting vampires.
Mary Todd Lincoln : [after a moment of silence] Well, how do you hunt these vampires?
Abraham Lincoln : With an axe... a special silver axe, of course.
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[Mary comes to visit Abe and Will in jail]
Mary Todd Lincoln : I've spoken to the Senator. He'll have you out soon.
Will Johnson : You're far too kind, Miss Todd.
[indicates Abe]
Will Johnson : And he's far too ugly to have a woman like you.
Mary Todd Lincoln : [smiles] Well, I think plain-looking men are the best. It's why the Lord made so many of them.
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Mary Todd Lincoln : It's called a dance. If we were meant to sit down, they would've call it something else.
Abraham Lincoln : [smiling] Yes, I suppose they would have.
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Henry Sturgess : [to Lincoln] You know I can restore the dead.
Mary Todd Lincoln : [entering the room] Do it... do it.
Abraham Lincoln : Mary...
Mary Todd Lincoln : Do it...
[to Lincoln]
Mary Todd Lincoln : Your journal... the one you always kept in your coat pocket... I know I shouldn't have, Abe, but I needed to know what you were hiding...
[to Henry]
Mary Todd Lincoln : If what you say is true, I beg you... give us our little boy back.
Abraham Lincoln : Mary, he wouldn't be our little boy. He would be something else, something terrible. Trust me, you don't want that.
Mary Todd Lincoln : You're asking me to trust you, after you lied to me for all these years?
Abraham Lincoln : I did it to protect you, to protect our family.
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Mary Todd Lincoln : [to Lincoln] You have to win this war... If you don't, than all of it... then our son's death will have been for nothing.
