Mia Farrow credited as playing...
Unicorn • Amalthea
- Molly: No, it can't be. Can it be? Where have you been? Where have you been? Damn you! Where have you been?
- Schmendrick: Don't you talk to her that way!
- Unicorn: I'm here now.
- Molly: And where were you twenty years ago? Ten years ago? Where were you when I was new? When I was one of those innocent young maidens you always come to? How dare you! How dare you come to me now, when I am this!
- [Weeps]
- Schmendrick: Can you really see her? Do you know what she is?
- Molly: If you had been waiting to see a unicorn, as long as I have...
- Schmendrick: She's the last unicorn in the world.
- Molly: It would be the last unicorn that came to Molly Grue. It's all right, I forgive you.
- Unicorn: You are a true wizard now, as you always wished. Does it make you happy?
- Schmendrick: Well, men don't always know when they're happy. But I-I think so. And you?
- Unicorn: I am a little afraid to go home. I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am no longer like the others, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I now I do. I regret.
- Schmendrick: I am sorry. I have done you evil and I cannot undo it.
- Unicorn: No. Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me with that joy-save one. And I thank you for that part, too. Farewell good magician. I will try to go home.
- Mommy Fortuna: The harpy's as real as you are, and just as immortal. And she was just as easy to catch, if you want to know.
- Unicorn: Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage, and she hears you.
- Mommy Fortuna: Oh she'll kill me one day or another. But she will remember forever that *I* caught her, and *I* held her prisoner. So there's my immortality, eh?
- Butterfly: Listen. Don't listen to ME, listen. You can find the others if you are brave. They passed down all the roads long ago, and the Red Bull ran close behind them and covered their footprints. Listen! Listen, listen QUICKLY!
- Unicorn: [agitated] I AM listening! Where did they go and what is the Red Bull?
- Butterfly: Listen! LISTEN!
- [insane laughter]
- Butterfly: The king is in his counting house, counting out, counting out, counting...
- Unicorn: Illusions, deceptions, mirages! Your Mommy Fortuna cannot truly change things!
- Schmendrick: That is true. She can only disguise, and only for those eager to believe whatever comes easiest. She cannot turn cream into butter, but she can make a lion look like a manticore to eyes that want to see a manticore. Just like she put a false horn on a real unicorn so they can see the unicorn.
- [Schmendrick has turned the Unicorn into a mortal woman]
- Unicorn: I can feel this body DYING all around me!
- Amalthea: Once, I can't remember, I was long ago, someone strange. I was innocent and wise, and full of pain. Now that I'm a woman, everything has changed. Once, when I was searching, somewhere out of reach, far away, in a place I could not find, or heart obey. Now that I'm a woman, everything is strange.
- Unicorn: Say my name then. If you know my name, tell it to me.
- The Butterfly: [quoting Romeo & Juliet] Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name...!
- Unicorn: Say it, if you know.
- The Butterfly: Rumpelstiltskin! Gotcha!
- Schmendrick: Mommy Fortuna doesn't think so. She sees me as a clumsy fraud, a trickster. But I am Schmendrick the magician, last of the red hot swamis. And I, too, am real... like you. Like her.
- Schmendrick: [looks at her] Yes, I will help you.
- Unicorn: Where's the other man?
- Schmendrick: Ruhk? Oh, don't worry about him. Oh, don't worry about him. I asked him a riddle, and it always takes that lout all night to solve riddles. And now...
- [he starts practicing]
- Schmendrick: Shara sineverel morlin sudai! Suni numira eddi subai!
- The Unicorn: I'm looking for others like me. Have you seen them, Magician?
- Schmendrick: No, I've never seen anyone like you. Not while I was awake, anyway.
- Amalthea: [singing] Once, I can't remember. / I was long ago, someone strange. / I was innocent and wise, and full of pain. / Now that I'm a woman, / Everything is strange.
- Amalthea: [speaking] I must go to him. I must face the Bull again and discover what he has done to them, before I forget who I am forever. But, I don't know where to find him, and... I'm lonely...
- Amalthea: [singing again] Once, when I was searching, / Somewhere out of reach, far away, / In a place I could not find, or heart obey. / Now that I'm a woman, / Everything has changed. / Everything has changed. / Everything has changed.
- Unicorn: I have forgotten that men cannot see Unicorns. If men no longer know what they're looking at, there may be other unicorns in the world yet, unknown, and glad of it.
- Unicorn: Or is the story of the Red Bull just another of his songs? I can't leave the forest, but I must know if I'm the only unicorn left in the world. What if they're hiding together... somewhere far away? What if they're waiting for me? In need of my help?
- Schmendrick: Take me with you. For laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.
- Unicorn: You may come with me if you like, though I wish you'd asked for some other reward for having freed me.
- Schmendrick: Well, I thought about it, but you could never have granted my true wish.
- Unicorn: No. I cannot turn you into something you are not. I cannot turn you into a true magician.
- Schmendrick: That's all right, don't worry about it.
- Unicorn: I'm not.
- [a farmer thinks the unicorn is a white mare, infuriating her]
- Unicorn: [furious] Mare? MARE? I? A HORSE? Is THAT what you take me for? Is THAT what you see?
- Unicorn: There has never been a time without unicorns. We live forever! We are as old as the sky, old as the moon! We can be hunted, trapped; we can even be killed if we leave our forests, but we do not *vanish*. Am I truly the last?