Stage Beauty Quotes
[singing]
Ned Kynaston: Oh, mother, oh, mother, oh, what shall I do?/ I've married a man who's unable to screw!/ My troubles are many my pleasures are small/ For I've married a man who has no balls at all!
Ned Kynaston: Oh, mother, oh, mother, oh, what shall I do?/ I've married a man who's unable to screw!/ My troubles are many my pleasures are small/ For I've married a man who has no balls at all!
Movie: Stage Beauty
Maria: Why won't you play men?
Ned Kynaston: Men aren't beautiful. What they do isn't beautiful either. Women do everything beautifully, especially when they die. Men feel far too much. *Feeling* ruins the effect. Feeling makes it ugly. [Maria rolls her eyes]
Ned Kynaston: Perhaps that's why I could never pull off the death scene. I- could never feel it in a way that wouldn't mar the- [pause]
Ned Kynaston: I couldn't let the beauty die. Without beauty there's nothing. Who could love that?
Ned Kynaston: Men aren't beautiful. What they do isn't beautiful either. Women do everything beautifully, especially when they die. Men feel far too much. *Feeling* ruins the effect. Feeling makes it ugly. [Maria rolls her eyes]
Ned Kynaston: Perhaps that's why I could never pull off the death scene. I- could never feel it in a way that wouldn't mar the- [pause]
Ned Kynaston: I couldn't let the beauty die. Without beauty there's nothing. Who could love that?
Movie: Stage Beauty
King Charles II: My astronomers tell me that a star's light shines on long after it has died, even though it doesn't know it.
Movie: Stage Beauty
Maria: Mr Kynaston, I can explain everything.
Ned Kynaston: Why, are you a philosopher?
Ned Kynaston: Why, are you a philosopher?
Movie: Stage Beauty
[last lines]
Maria: So, who are you now?
Ned Kynaston: I don't know. [smiles]
Ned Kynaston: I don't know.
Maria: So, who are you now?
Ned Kynaston: I don't know. [smiles]
Ned Kynaston: I don't know.
Movie: Stage Beauty
[singing]
Ned Kynaston: Oh, mother, oh, mother, oh, what shall I do?/ I've married a man who's unable to screw!/ My troubles are many my pleasures are small/ For I've married a man who has no balls at all!
Ned Kynaston: Oh, mother, oh, mother, oh, what shall I do?/ I've married a man who's unable to screw!/ My troubles are many my pleasures are small/ For I've married a man who has no balls at all!
Movie: Stage Beauty