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The Mists of Avalon (miniseries) Quotes

The Mists of Avalon is a TV program that debuted in 2001 on TNT (U.S. TV network). The Mists of Avalon stopped airing in 1970.

It features Gideon Amir as producer, Lee Holdridge as theme composer, and Vilmos Zsigmond as head of cinematography.

Each episode of The Mists of Avalon is 183 minutes long. The Mists of Avalon is distributed by Turner Network Television.

The cast includes: Julianna Margulies as Morgaine, Caroline Goodall as Igraine, Anjelica Huston as Viviane, Edward Atterton as Arthur, Michael Vartan as Lancelot, Hans Matheson as Mordred, and Joan Allen as Morgause.

The Mists of Avalon Quotes

Julianna Margulies as Morgaine

  • (Julianna Margulies) "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."
  • (Julianna Margulies) "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."
  • (Unnamed) "There are herbs -- that can make a woman conceive, are there not?"
  • (Julianna Margulies) "Is that what you want?"
  • (Unnamed) "Please, do not make this harder than it already is."
  • (Julianna Margulies) "There is a charm that is sometimes used. But you surely would never touch it."
  • (Unnamed) "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."

Hans Matheson as Mordred

  • (Hans Matheson) "I do not like to think that this great King, this great man, my father, is my enemy. And then for the sake of Avalon I must bring him down to nothing. I would rather love him, as all men do. I would like to look on my mother, Lady Morgaine, I would like to look on her who bore me, as my mother. Not as the priestess or the Goddess. I am so weary of Gods and Goddesses, I am weary of my fate."
  • (Hans Matheson) "Who was yonder old Roman, who said call no man happy until he is dead?"

Caroline Goodall as Igraine

  • (Caroline Goodall) "My daughter. My daughter. Where have you been, my child?"
  • (Julianna Margulies) "Oh, Mother, I've had such sadness."

Edward Atterton as Arthur

  • (Unnamed) "I took poison from a witch. I slept with you and your friend, and gave myself to your lust and ungodliness, and all for nothing. All for nothing. No baby, no baby. Where is my baby, Arthur?"
  • (Edward Atterton) "It is God's hands now, not ours. Don't cry."
  • (Unnamed) "God does not reward sinners."
  • (Edward Atterton) "I call on the powers of Heaven and Earth, aid me now. I call upon the God of Heaven, and the Goddess of the Earth, help me now."
  • (Anjelica Huston) "You call upon the God, and the Goddess? It is the Goddess who answers."

Joan Allen as Morgause

  • (Joan Allen) "You will be drunk, dear one."
  • (Hans Matheson) "So I will be drunk. Let it be. I drink to death, and dishonour."

Michael Vartan as Lancelot

  • (Unnamed) "I dreamt of you in Glastonbury. You -- you opened a curtain into Avalon, and lifted me in."
  • (Michael Vartan) "It wasn't a dream. I was there, with Morgaine. She lifted you in. But I asked her to do it."
  • (Unnamed) "So you felt it too."
  • (Michael Vartan) "But I am sworn to Arthur."
  • (Unnamed) "As am I."
  • (Michael Vartan) "So we have nothing to confess."
  • (Unnamed) "But I have sinned with you in my thoughts."
  • (Michael Vartan) "Thoughts, are not deeds."
  • (Unnamed) "But the Bishop says, to think, is to do."
  • (Michael Vartan) "My thoughts don't answer to the Bishop. If they did, I would burn in Hell a thousand years everytime I see you walk past."
  • (Michael Vartan) "I pray that there is a heaven. And that when I die, you would be an angel in it, so we can be together at last."
  • (Michael Vartan) "Would it not be a comfort, just for a time, to believe that we create our own Heavens, and our own Hells?"

Anjelica Huston as Viviane

  • (Anjelica Huston) "Morgause thinks of nothing and no-one but herself."
  • (Julianna Margulies) "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."
  • (Anjelica Huston) "I can train him to be the greatest ruler Britain has ever seen."
  • (Julianna Margulies) "He will never set foot in Avalon, Viviane. He will not be one of your pawns, and nor will I."
  • (Anjelica Huston) "You have sworn to obey the Goddess through me."
  • (Julianna Margulies) "My vows were to her, not to you. I renounce you. Do you hear me? I will never set foot in Avalon again."
  • (Anjelica Huston) "No man or woman can live another's fate."

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