Catherine the Great (1995 TV Movie)

Brian Blessed: Bestuzhev

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Quotes 

• Catherine : It may take time, but together we are going to change this country.

  Catherine : [in French]  L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.

  Bestuzhev : [translating]  "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"?

  Catherine : Rousseau. Don't you read him?

  Bestuzhev : Um, he's a bit revolutionary for me, Ma'am.

  [Catherine smiles knowingly; Bestuzhev does the same but looks uncomfortable] 

• Bestuzhev : [to Catherine]  Politics is a brutal business, Ma'am. Are you sure you've got the stomach for it?