- Esther: What do you want?
- Cardinal Voiello: Everything you were supposed to do but haven't done yet.
- Esther: I've tried. But it's impossible. That gentleman is the Pope, he's the man of the greatest virtue and rectitude on the planet and I've never been much of a seductress myself.
- Cardinal Voiello: Neither was the Virgin Mary. But that didn't keep her from becoming the most attractive and desired woman on earth.