Siân Phillips movie quotes

“You only have to look around on a hot day to see ancient ladies in short shorts, and you'll realise that many women are extraordinarily - inexplicably - confident about their bodies. If anything we should hold back a little bit.”
Siân Phillips

“- Thetis: Hear me, vain and foolish mortal woman. You dare compare your daughter's beauty to mine and in my own sacred sanctuary? You will repent your boast and the cruelinjury you have inflicted on my son, Calibos.
- Cassiopeia: Forgive. Forgive.
- Thetis: In 30 days, on the eve of the longest day of the year, your daughter Andromeda must be...” (continue)(continue reading)
Maggie Smith - Thetis
Siân Phillips - Cassiopeia

“- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: Put your right hand in the box.
- Paul Atreides: What's in the box?
- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: Pain.”
Siân Phillips - Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Kyle MacLachlan - Paul Atreides

- Mrs. Archer: Beaufort is a vulgar man.
- Newland Archer: Nevertheless, no business nuisance escapes him. Most of New York trusts him with its affairs.
- Mrs. Archer: My grandfather, Newland, always used to say to mother, "don't let that fellow Beaufort be introduced to the girls".
Siân Phillips - Mrs. Archer
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer