The Mists of Avalon (2001)

Julianna Margulies: Morgaine

Quotes 

• Morgaine : As Lancelot made his decision, deep within me there stood something I had felt for no man before. Within days, on the orders of Viviane, I was on my way to take part in the fertility rites known as the Beltane feast. The ceremony she called, "The Great Marriage." To whom I would be given, I did not know. But Viviane assured me that the future of Avalon depended on my playing the role of the Virgin Huntress. And that my partner would be the man that killed the King Stag. As I returned to the holy isle, a great longing gripped my heart. I hoped that the man at the Beltane rites had been Lancelot, but I had never seen his face. There had been no hint as to who he really was.

• Igraine : My daughter! My daughter! Where have you been, my child?

  Morgaine : Oh, Mother, I've had such sadness.

• Viviane : Morgause thinks of nothing and no-one but herself.

  Morgaine : Your motives may be nobler than hers, but you still move us around like pieces on a game board. What has my mother given up for your Avalon? My father died at Uther's hands because of you. My poor innocent brother Arthur, who was a baby on my lap, and loved me as no other! And I loved him! Look what you've done to us. You've twisted our love, and turned it into shame, all for the sake of Avalon! No! I will not kill the child within me, but I will not let you take him to Avalon! I will not let you twist and bend him to your will!

  Viviane : I can train him to be the greatest ruler Britain has ever seen.

  Morgaine : He will never set foot in Avalon, Viviane! He will not be one of your pawns, and nor will I!

  Viviane : You have sworn to obey the Goddess through me!

  Morgaine : My vows were to her, not to you. I renounce you! Do you hear me? I will never set foot in Avalon again!

• Gwenhwyfar : There are herbs... that can make a woman conceive, are there not?

  Morgaine : Is that what you want?

  Gwenhwyfar : Please, do not make this harder than it already is.

  Morgaine : There is a charm that is sometimes used. But you surely would never touch it.

  Gwenhwyfar : Tell me, that you are not a witch. Tell me it is not the Devil's own spell. And that I will not burn for it. This time, this one time, I will believe you.

• Lancelot : The King himself asked me into his bed, with the Queen.

  Morgaine : All *three* of you?

• Morgaine : No-one knows the real story of the great King Arthur of Camelot. Most of what you think you know about Camelot, Gwenhwyfar, Lancelot and the evil sorceress known as Morgaine le Fay, is nothing but lies. I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess was born.

• Morgaine : All the unhappiness of the past seemed to be swept away when I saw my little brother Arthur for the first time.