Anastasia (1997) quotes

View Quote [Dimitri and Vladimir are holding auditions for girls to portray Anastasia]
Dimitri: Next, please.
Actress: [enters and speaks in a husky voice] Grandma, it's me, Anastasia. [sways hips]
[Vladimir drops his head on the table and begins to whimper]
Dimitri: [disgusted] Oh, brother.

View Quote [Dimitri and Vladimir have explained to Anya about their plan, except for the money, and leave her to think about it]
Vladimir: Why didn't you tell her about our brilliant plan?
Dimitri: All she wants to do is go to Paris. Why give away a third of the reward money?
Vladimir: I'm telling you: we're walking away too soon!
Dimitri: Not to worry. I've got it all... under control. [grabs Vlad] Alright, but, walk a little slower. [They walk slow for a few seconds. Anya takes one good look at the portrait of herself and Empress Marie and has a feeling] Three... Two... One.
Anya: Dimitri!
Dimitri: [softly] Yes!
Vladimir: [softly] Ha! Right in the palms of our hands.
Anya: Dimitri, wait!
Dimitri: Did you call me?
Anya: If I don't remember who I am, then who's to say I'm not a princess or a duchess or a whatever she is... Right?
Dimitri: Hmm... Go on.
Anya: And if I'm not Anastasia, the Empress will certainly know right away... and it's all just an honest mistake.
Dimitri: Sounds plausible.
Vladimir: But if you are the princess, then you'll finally know who you are and have your family back.
Dimitri: You know, you know he's right! Either way, it gets you to Paris.
Anya: Right! [gives Dimitri a solid shake; he grabs his hand in pain]

View Quote [Dimitri circles around Anya, checking her body and physique to see that she's identical to the "Real" Anastasia]
Anya: Hey, why are you circling me? Wha-- What were you, a vulture in another life?!
Dimitri: I'm sorry, Enya. [Beckons Vladimir to come up]
Anya: It--It's "Anya".
Dimitri: Anya.
Anya: [Enunciating] An-ya.
Dimitri: It's just--It's just that you look an awful lot like-- [Points to the Romanov Family Portrait; Anya looks at it, and Dimitri takes a quick look at her until she looks back at him] Uh...Never mind.

View Quote [Dimitri is dancing with Anya]
Dimitri: That uh... dress is really beautiful.
Anya: Do you think so?
Dimitri: Yes. I mean it was nice in the hangar, but it looks even better on you. You sh--You should wear it.
Anya: I am wearing it.
Dimitri: [embarrassed] Oh, right. right, of course...you are. I'm just trying to give you a...um--
Anya: Compliment?
Dimitri: Of course, yes.

View Quote [Dimitri rescues Anya from falling off the ship while she was sleepwalking]
Dimitri: Anya! Anya, Anya, wake up! WAKE UP!
Anya: [wakes up; panting and frightened] The Romanov Curse!
Dimitri: [confused] The Romanov what?
Anya: Curse!
Dimitri: What-- What are you talking about?
Anya: [places her head on Dimitri's chest, hugging him and crying] I keep seeing faces; so many faces!
Dimitri: [surprised that Anya's hugging him, he hugs her back; calmly] It... was a nightmare. It's alright. You're safe now.

View Quote [Dimitri sneaks into the car containing Empress Marie and drives in a fast pace to Sophie's residence]
Dowager Empress Marie: Ilya, slow down.
Dimitri: [reveals himself] I am not Ilya. And I won't slow down. Not until you listen.
Dowager Empress Marie: [gasps] You! How dare you?! Stop this car immediately! [bangs the floor of the car with her cane through her last words] Stop...this...car!!
[They arrive at Sophie's residence; Dimitri gets out of the car and opens Marie's door]
Dimitri: You HAVE... to TALK to her. Just LOOK at her, PLEASE!
Dowager Empress Marie: I won't be badgered by you a moment longer.
Dimitri: [shows her Anastasia's music box] Do you recognize this?
Dowager Empress Marie: [gasps] Where did you get this?
Dimitri: I know you've been hurt, but it's just possible she's been as lost and alone as you.
Dowager Empress Marie: You'll stop at nothing, will you?
Dimitri: I'm probably about as stubborn as you are.

View Quote [Dimitri, Anya, Vlad, and Pooka are in the runaway train car after the burning engine and can't break it]
Dimitri: Don't worry, we've got plenty of track. We'll just coast to a stop.
[A big boom is heard and the gang falls down. They get back up and gasp in horror as they observe a bridge loaded with dynamite ahead has just been destroyed.]
Anya: You were saying?

View Quote [Grigori Rasputin crashes the celebration and Czar Nicholas II angrily confronts him]
Nicholas II: How dare you return to the palace!
Rasputin: But...I am your confidant.
Nicholas II: Confidant?! HA! You are a traitor! GET OUT!!
Rasputin: [Growing berserk] You think you can banish the great Rasputin?! [He holds up his prized possession: a reliquary.] By the unholy powers vested in me, I banish you with a curse! [Everyone gasps in terror and horror.] Mark my words! You and your family will die within a fortnight! I WILL NOT REST UNTIL I SEE THE END OF THE ROMANOV LINE FOREVER!!! [He shoots down a chandelier with his reliquary and it explodes.]

View Quote [Rasputin is screaming and throwing a temper tantrum over an unsuccessful attempted murder of Anya. As he does so, his thumb pops off]
Bartok: Uh, wow. Take it easy there. You know, sir, really you should watch your blood pressure. My nephew Izzy just keeled over one day, mid-mango. Stress - it's a killer, sir. And he's a fruit bat. No meat. No blood, even. [screws Rasputin's thumb back on to his hand]
Rasputin: How could they let her escape?!
Bartok: Eh, you're right, it's very upsetting, sir. I guess this reliquary's broken. [tosses the reliquary aside]
Rasputin: YOU IDIOT! [stretches out his hand and catches it before it can hit the ground, then glares at Bartok]
Bartok: Alright now, sir, take it easy there. Just remember what I said to you about stress.
Rasputin: I sold my soul for this. [grabs Bartok] My life, my very existence, depends on it. And you... [chuckles, then turns angry] almost destroyed it! [slams Bartok nose-first against the reliquary]
Bartok: I get it, I get it! You break it, you bought it!
Rasputin: See that you remember, you miserable rodent! [throws Bartok back across the room]
Bartok: Oh sure, blame the bat. What the heck? We're easy targets.
Rasputin: What are you muttering about?
Bartok: Anastasia, sir. Just wishing I could do the job for you, sir. I'd give her a HA! And a HI-YA! And then a OUU-WA! And I'd kick her, sir.
Rasputin: Oooooh! I have something else in mind. Something more enticing. Something...really...cruel. [he scratches the reliquary with his finger nail as he grins evilly]

View Quote [singing]
Vladimir: Next, we memorize the names of the royalty. Now here we have Kropotkin.
Dimitri: Shot Potemkin.
Vladimir: In the Bodkin.
Anya: Oh!
Vladimir: And dear old Uncle Vanya loved his vodka
Dimitri: Got it Anya?
Anya: No!
Vladimir: The Baron Pushkin
Anya: He was...?
Dimitri: Short!
Vladimir: Count Anatoly
Anya: Had a...?
Dimitri: Wart!
Vladimir: Count Sergei
Dimitri: Wore a feathered hat.
Vladimir: I hear he's gotten very fat.
Anya: And I recall his yellow cat!
Vladimir: (...) I don't believe we told her that...

View Quote [The following morning, the train, with an engine blowing its whistle, and carrying Dimitri, Anya, Pooka, and Vladmir, chugs through the beautiful snow covered Russian countryside, leaving the city of St. Petersburg behind. The mighty locomotive is plowing up huge furrows of snow as it steams toward its intended destination. Inside the train, Dimitri, Vladmir, Anya, and Pooka are inside the carriage.]
Dimitri: Mutt gets the window seat. (sits next to Anya) Stop fiddling with that thing, and sit up straight! Remember, you're a Grand Duchess.
Anya: How is it that you know what Grand Duchesses do or don't do?
Dimitri: I make it my business to know.
Anya: [sarcastically] Oh.
Dimitri: Look, Anya, I'm just trying to help, alright?
Anya: Dimitri, do you really think I'm royalty?
Dimitri: You know I do.
Anya: Then stop bossing me around!
Vladimir: She certainly has a mind of her own.
Dimitri: Yeah, I hate that in a woman.
[Anya sticks her tongue out at him and quickly turns back to the window before Dimitri see her. Vladmir writes scores in his book as the train continues onward]

View Quote [Vladimir excitedly lets it slip that he, Anya and Dimitri are actually going to see the Dowager's cousin, Sophie]
Anya: But... I thought we were going to see the Empress herself. Why are we going to see her cousin? [to Dimitri, who tries to walk away] Dimitri?
Dimitri: [defeated] Well... nobody gets near the Dowager Empress without convincing Sophie first.
Anya: Oh, no. Not me. No, no! Nobody ever told me I had to PROVE I was the Grand Duchess!
Dimitri: Look, I--
Anya: Show up? Yes. Look nice? Fine. But lie?
Dimitri: You don't know it's a lie. What if it's true? [Anya walks away but Dimitri stops her] Okay, so you are one step closer to finding out who you really are. I just thought that you would have to see to it through to the end no matter what.
Anya: But, look at me, Dimitri. I do not exactly look "Grand Duchess" material here!

View Quote [Vladimir nervously wanders around while Dimitri is sitting down and discovers who Anya really is]
Dimitri: We don't have anything to be nervous about. [sadly] She's the princess.
Vladimir: [sits down] I know, I know.
Dimitri: No, no. No, you don't know. I was the boy in the palace. The one who opened the wall. She's the real thing, Vlad.
Vladimir: [pause] That means our Anya has found her family. We have found the heir to the Russian throne! And you...
Dimitri: Will walk out of her life forever.
Vladimir: But...
Dimitri: Princesses don't marry kitchen boys.
Vladimir: I know! But...
Dimitri: We're going to go through with this as if nothing's changed.
Vladimir: You have GOT to tell her.
Anya: Tell me what?
[Vladimir and Dimitri turn around to see her and are both stunned at her beautiful appearance]
Dimitri: [stammering] Um...Uh, how... [regains composure] How beautiful you look.
Anya: Well, thank you.
[Dimitri walks up with Anya and Vladimir sees Sophie and bows]

View Quote [Young Anastasia and Empress Marie are stuck in Anastasia's room. Young Dimitri enters from a secret door in a wall]
Dowager Empress Marie: [As she tries to take Young Anastasia out the main door] Please, hurry.
Young Dimitri: [Stops them and drags them to the secret door] Come this way! Out the servants quarters!
[Young Anastasia accidently drops her music box as she's being forced in the door]
Dowager Empress Marie: [follows Anastasia] Hurry, Anastasia!
Bartok: [watches them escape from the bedroom window] Rasputin, she's getting away!
Young Anastasia: [heads back in the room] My music box!
Young Dimitri: [gently forces her back out the door] Go, go! [closes the door]

View Quote [After Rasputin is destroyed, Anya checks on Dimitri, who was struck in the head by a rock]
Anya: Dimitri? [He doesn't move or open his eyes, and Anya looks away and starts to cry; Her dog, Pooka, howls in despair; Suddenly, Dimitri moves his arm and gets up; Anya gasps and quickly turns, accidentally hitting him in the face]
Dimitri: Ouch!
Anya: DIMITRI! [She happily hugs him]
Dimitri: Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! Let go, let go!
Anya: Sorry.
Dimitri: Yeah, I know, I know. "All men are babies." [groans]
Anya: I thought you were going to St. Pete--
Dimitri: I was.
Anya: You didn't take the--
Dimitri: I couldn't.
Anya: Why?
Dimitri: Because, I-- [Anya puts her fingers on his lips, quieting him and they lean in for a kiss, but Pooka barks and hands them Anya's tiara; He takes it] Oh. [They both get up] They're waiting for you.
[Anya takes the tiara and looks at Dimitri as she finally discovers the truth]