The Age of Innocence quotes
10 total quotesEllen Olenska
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Ellen Olenska: I think we should look at reality, not dreams.
Newland Archer: I just want us to be together!
Ellen Olenska: I can't be your wife, Newland! Is it your idea that I should live with you as a mistress?
Newland Archer: I want... Somehow, I want to get away with you... and... and find a world where words like that don't exist!
Newland Archer: I just want us to be together!
Ellen Olenska: I can't be your wife, Newland! Is it your idea that I should live with you as a mistress?
Newland Archer: I want... Somehow, I want to get away with you... and... and find a world where words like that don't exist!
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Ellen Olenska: Is fashion such a serious consideration?
Newland Archer: Among those who have nothing more serious to consider.
Newland Archer: Among those who have nothing more serious to consider.
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Ellen Olenska: Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it was all straight up and down like Fifth Avenue. All the cross streets numbered and big honest labels on everything.
Newland Archer: Everything is labeled, but everybody is not.
Ellen Olenska: Then I must count on you for warnings too.
Newland Archer: Everything is labeled, but everybody is not.
Ellen Olenska: Then I must count on you for warnings too.
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Newland Archer: Honest? Isn't that why you admire Julius Beauford? He was more honest than the rest of us, wasn't he, we've got no character, no color, no variety. I wonder why you just don't go back to Europe.
Ellen Olenska: I believe that's because of you.
Ellen Olenska: I believe that's because of you.
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Newland Archer: We should travel everywhere.
Louisa van der Luyden: But not Naples. Doctor Bencomb says there is fever there.
Louisa van der Luyden: But not Naples. Doctor Bencomb says there is fever there.
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Newland Archer: You gave me my first glimpse of a real life. Then you asked me to go on with the false one. No one can endure it.
Ellen Olenska: I'm enduring it.
Ellen Olenska: I'm enduring it.
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Actor
Role
Daniel Day-Lewis
Newland Archer
Michelle Pfeiffer
Countess Ellen Olenska
Winona Ryder
May Welland
Joanne Woodward
Narrator (voice)
Alexis Smith
Louisa van der Luyden
Geraldine Chaplin
Mrs. Welland
Mary Beth Hurt
Regina Beauford
Alec McGowan
Sillerton Jackson
Richard E. Grant
Larry Lefferts
Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Mingott
Robert Sean Leonard
Ted Archer
Sian Phillips
Mrs. Archer
Jonathan Pryce
Riviere
Michael Gough
Henry van der Luyden
Stuart Wilson
Julius Beauford
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How can we be happy behind the backs of people who trust us?
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Newland, you couldn't be happy if it meant being cruel. If we act any other way, I'll be making you act against what I love in you most. And I can't go back to that way of thinking. Don't you see! I can't love you unless I give you up.