Quotes from Roman Holiday (1953)

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Audrey Hepburn
Princess Ann: Have I been here all night, alone?
Joe Bradley: If you don't count me, yes.
Princess Ann: So I've spent the night here - with you?
Joe Bradley: Well now, I-I don't know that I'd use those words exactly, but uh, from a certain angle, yes.
Princess Ann: [beaming with a smile] How do you do?
Joe Bradley: How do you do?
Princess Ann: And you are - ?
Joe Bradley: Bradley, Joe Bradley.
Princess Ann: Delighted.
Joe Bradley: You don't know how delighted I am to meet you.
Princess Ann: You may sit down.
Joe Bradley: [sitting on the bed] Thank you very much. What's your name?
Princess Ann: You may call me Anya.
- Audrey Hepburn (as Princess Ann) in Roman Holiday (1953)

Audrey Hepburn
Princess Ann: I could do some of the things I've always wanted to.
Joe Bradley: Like what?
Princess Ann: Oh, you can't imagine. I-I'd do just whatever I liked all day long.
- Audrey Hepburn (as Princess Ann) in Roman Holiday (1953)

Margaret Rawlings
Princess Ann: I hate this nightgown. I hate all my nightgowns, and I hate all my underwear too.
Countess: My dear, you have lovely things.
Princess Ann: But I'm not two hundred years old. Why can't I sleep in pajamas?
Countess: Pajamas?
Princess Ann: Just the top part. Did you know that there are people who sleep with absolutely nothing on at all?
Countess: I rejoice to say I do not.
- Margaret Rawlings (as Countess Vereberg) in Roman Holiday (1953)

Gregory Peck
Princess Ann: I have to leave you now. I'm going to that corner there and turn. You must stay in the car and drive away. Promise not to watch me go beyond the corner. Just drive away and leave me as I leave you.
Joe Bradley: All right.
Princess Ann: I don't know how to say goodbye. I can't think of any words.
Joe Bradley: Don't try.
- Gregory Peck (as Joe Bradley) in Roman Holiday (1953)

Audrey Hepburn
Princess Ann: I've never been alone with a man before, even with my dress on. With my dress off, it's MOST unusual.
- Audrey Hepburn (as Princess Ann) in Roman Holiday (1953)

Gregory Peck
Princess Ann: Is this the elevator?
Joe Bradley: This is my ROOM!
- Gregory Peck (as Joe Bradley) in Roman Holiday (1953)

Gregory Peck
Princess Ann: What do you sell?
Joe Bradley: Er, fertilizer.
- Gregory Peck (as Joe Bradley) in Roman Holiday (1953)

Audrey Hepburn
Mario Delani, hairdresser: [holding Ann's long hair] All off?
Princess Ann: All off.
Mario Delani, hairdresser: [seconds later] Are you sure?
Princess Ann: Yes!
- Audrey Hepburn (as Princess Ann) in Roman Holiday (1953)

Hartley Power
Mr. Hennessey: In view of the fact that our Highness was taken violently ill at three o'clock this morning, put to bed with a high fever, and has ordered all her appointments for the day cancelled in toto...
Joe Bradley: That's certainly pretty hard to swallow.
Mr. Hennessey: In view of the fact that you just left her, of course.
- Hartley Power (as Mr. Hennessy) in Roman Holiday (1953)

Eddie Albert
Irving Radovich: Hit him again, Smitty!
- Eddie Albert (as Irving Radovich) in Roman Holiday (1953)

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