Top 30 The Tudors Quotes
#1. There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
Natalie Dormer
#2. Everything in 'The Tudors' is initially based on my historical research, and the fact is that the most unlikely scenes were the ones which were probably most based on reality. I prefer to be as real as possible, and there is so much of that story that you just can't make up.
Michael Hirst
#3. I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.
Katie McGrath
#4. The Tudors") "I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!
Natalie Dormer
#5. It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.
Hilary Mantel
#6. I wasn't setting out to write a documentary; if I had, I would have done it in a completely different way. I was asked to write a drama that would appeal to a big audience in America that had no knowledge or interest in The Tudors at all.
Michael Hirst
#7. 'The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.
Annabelle Wallis
#8. I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.
Natalie Dormer
#9. The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.
Alison Weir
#10. I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York - New York helped give me my first big break.
Natalie Dormer
#11. The Tudors, I don't even know if I had a family back then.
Karl Pilkington
#12. England has enjoyed fifty years of peace. This is the Tudors' covenant; peace is what they offer.
Hilary Mantel
#13. When I did 'The Tudors,' there was massive information available and a ready-made market.
Michael Hirst
#14. With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material, I mean so many books and so much stuff about what they really said. So, in a way it was kind of trying to strip it out and find the stories inside all this material.
Michael Hirst
#15. The Tudors hated to be wrong, and therefore never were.
Jeane Westin
#16. When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.
Natalie Dormer
#17. We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.
Damian Lewis
#18. One of the great advantages of
having a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books.
Michael Hirst
#19. The king greeted the document (the Collectanea) not so much as a drowning man greets a straw but as he might a rescue party from outer space.
Eric Ives
#20. Though the leaves fall from the trees like brown tears, for him everything must be as green as fresh grass, as white as May blossom, as if to convince us all that the seasons are upside down and we are all Tudors now. A
Philippa Gregory
#21. Strangely, the thing I listen to 75% of the time, when I'm exercising with my headphones on is English Tudor/Elizabethan music, so music from about 1450 to the early 1600's.
Tod Machover
#22. From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
Natalie Dormer
#23. This building fool could only be Bess of Hardwicke, a woman whose name is seldom seen in print without the word "redoubtable" in front of it. I wondered if anyone ever called her redoubtable to her face. I redoubted it.
JoAnn Spears
#25. Ann Boleyn...a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress.
JoAnn Spears
#27. I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.
Ilka Chase
#28. I think that all of them must have lost their minds and have forgotten everything we were to each other. I said that they were no sisters to me, that I would forget them. But they have gone further than this: they have become my enemies.
Philippa Gregory
#29. If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems.
Hilary Mantel
#30. London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.
William Monahan
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