Orlando

The Khan (Lothaire Bluteau) It has been said to me that the English make a habit of collecting... countries.

Orlando starts to tend to the wounds of an enemy soldier. Archduke Harry (John Wood) Leave him. Orlando (Tilda Swinton) This is a dying man. Archduke Harry He's not a man. He's the enemy.

Orlando sees his reflection in a mirror and realizes he has become a woman. Orlando Same person. No difference at all. Just a different sex.

Mr. Pope (Peter Eyre) Sir, I admit your general rule / That every poet is a fool / But you yourself may serve to show it / That every fool is not a poet.

Orlando If I were a man-- Shelmerdine (Billy Zane) You? Orlando I might choose not to risk my life for an uncertain cause. I might think that freedom won by death is not worth having. In fact-- Shelmerdine You might choose not to be a real man at all. Say, if I were a woman-- Orlando You? Shelmerdine I might choose not to sacrifice my life caring for my children, nor my children's children, nor to drown anonymously in the milk of female kindness, but instead, say, to go abroad. Would I then be-- Orlando A real woman?