Natalie Portman credited as playing...
Nina Sayers • The Swan Queen
- Thomas Leroy: You could be brilliant, but you're a coward.
- Nina: I'm sorry.
- Thomas Leroy: [yelling] Now stop saying that! That's exactly what I'm talking about. Stop being so fucking weak!
- Nina: I came to ask for the part.
- Thomas Leroy: The truth is when I look at you all I see is the white swan. Yes you're beautiful, fearful, and fragile. Ideal casting. But the black swan? It's a hard fucking job to dance both.
- Nina: I can dance the black swan, too.
- Thomas Leroy: Really? In four years every time you dance I see you obsessed getting each and every move perfectly right but I never see you lose yourself. Ever! All that discipline for what?
- Nina: [whispers] I just want to be perfect.
- Thomas Leroy: What?
- Nina: I want to be perfect.
- Thomas Leroy: [scoffs] Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence! Very few have it in them.
- Nina: I think I do have it in me.
- Nina: You put something in my drink.
- Lily: Yeah.
- Nina: And then you just took off in the morning?
- Lily: In the morning?
- Nina: Yeah, you slept over.
- Lily: [baffled] Um... no. Unless your name is Tom and you got a dick.
- Nina: But we...
- Lily: But we what, Nina?
- [pause]
- Lily: Wait... did you have some sort of lezzy wet dream about me?
- Nina: [whispers] Stop it.
- Lily: Oh my God? Oh my God! You did! You fantasized about me!
- Nina: [embarassed] Shut up!
- Lily: [gasps] Was I good?
- Nina: It's about a girl who gets turned into a swan and she needs love to break the spell, but her prince falls for the wrong girl so she kills herself.
- Nina: Beth! I'm so sorry to hear you're leaving the company.
- Beth Macintyre: [tearfully] What did you do to get this role? He always said you were such a frigid little girl. What did you do to change his mind? Did you suck his cock?
- Nina: Not all of us have to.
- Beth Macintyre: [chuckles] You fucking whore! You fucking little whore!
- Thomas Leroy: Are you okay?
- Nina: I'm fine.
- Thomas Leroy: Nina.
- Nina: What?
- Thomas Leroy: I've already asked Lily.
- Nina: Have you announced it?
- [pauses]
- Nina: After Beth do you really need another controversy? I'm here, Thomas. I'm doing it.
- Thomas Leroy: The only person standing in your way is you. It's time to let her go. Lose yourself.
- Erica: Shh, it's okay. I'm here. You were scratching all night.
- Nina: Where's my clock?
- Erica: Don't worry about that.
- Nina: What time is it?
- Erica: Shh.
- Nina: My show is tonight.
- Erica: No, no, no.
- [pushes Nina back on the pillow]
- Erica: No, don't worry. I called the theater and I told them you weren't feeling well.
- Nina: [jumps out of bed] I have to go!
- Erica: No, no lie down!
- Nina: Let go of me!
- [notices the door handle is missing]
- Erica: You're staying in here until you feel better.
- Nina: Where is it?
- Erica: This role's destroying you.
- Nina: What happened?
- Thomas Leroy: She walked into the street and got hit by a car. And you know what? I'm almost sure she did it on purpose.
- Nina: How do you know?
- Thomas Leroy: Because everything Beth does comes from within. From some dark impulse. I guess that's what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times, but also so damn destructive.
- Thomas Leroy: What's going on?
- Nina: [crying] Lily! You made her my alternate?
- Thomas Leroy: Well there's always an alternate. Lily is the best choice.
- Nina: No, but she wants my role.
- Thomas Leroy: Every dancer in the world wants your role.
- Nina: No, this is different. She's after me. She's trying to replace me!
- Thomas Leroy: Nobody's after you.
- Nina: [crying harder] No, please believe me!
- Erica: Do you have any idea what time it is?
- Nina: [drunk] Uh... late?
- Erica: Where have you been?
- Nina: To the moon!
- Lily: And back.
- Erica: You've been drinking.
- Nina: Ding ding ding ding!
- Erica: What else?
- Nina: Huh?
- Erica: [raises voice] What else have you been doing?
- Nina: Oh, you want to know their names?
- [laughs]
- Erica: You need to sleep this off.
- Nina: No, there were two. There was Tom, there was Jerry.
- [laughing]
- Erica: [interrupts] Be quiet, Nina!
- Nina: And I fucked them both!
- Erica: [yells] Shut your mouth!
- Lily: I can't believe he calls her that. It's so gross.
- Nina: I think it's sweet.
- Lily: Little princess? He probably calls every girl that.
- Nina: No way! That's just for Beth.
- Lily: I bet he'll be calling you little princess any day now.
- Nina: I don't know about that.
- Lily: Sure he will. You just got to let him lick your pussy.