I, Claudius (TV Mini Series)

A Touch of Murder (1976)

Frances White: Julia

Quotes 

• [on Livia's plan to have Tiberius marry Julia] 

  Tiberius : Anyway, where does all this get us? There's not only Marcellus, there's Agrippa too. And Augustus prefers both of them to me.

  Julia : [Screams off stage]  No, *no*.

  Tiberius : Ye gods, what's that?

  Livia : It sounds as though there is now only Agrippa.

• Livia : [to Julia]  You know, I remember when I first married your father, you were a little girl and Tiberius was a little boy and you used to play together. Do you remember?

  Julia : [laughing]  Yes, I do.

  Livia : And once you both grew up you seemed to fond of one another, and I had hoped that you'd both...

  Julia : [laughing]  Yes, I used to adore him.

  [pause] 

  Julia : How foolish one is when one is young.

• Julia : There are hundreds of them on the road. They're coming in from everywhere, Greece, Spain, Gaul, they just keep coming and coming.

  Marcellus : They are the blood of Rome, Julia. The people are what makes Rome what she is.

  Julia : [laughing]  Noisy and uninhabitable.

• [on Marcellus] 

  Livia : He's very popular, isn't he?

  Julia : [Proudly]  Yes.

  Livia : And with you?

  Julia : Why'd you ask?

  Livia : Well, there are no children yet...

  Julia : There's no issue between you and father, and you've been married for *twenty* years.

• Augustus : Look everyone, it's the cake.

  Julia : [wittily]  Do we get one each?

  Augustus : [laughing]  Julia, for heaven's sake.

  [all laugh at her comment] 

  Marcus Agrippa : It's my ship.

  Augustus : Yes, the one you made your headquarters.

  Marcus Agrippa : She was a fine ship.

  Marcellus : Ah.

  [short pause; pointing to the cherry on the top] 

  Marcellus : That must be you, Marcus; The candied-cherry in the prow.