Young Catherine (1991 TV Movie)

Marthe Keller: Johanna

Quotes 

• Johanna : Marriage? Sophie and the Grand Duke Peter of Russia. He will be Emperor. Our little Sophie will be Empress. I'll be grandmother to a future Czar of all the Russias. I'll be...

  Catherine's Father : You're getting rather ahead of yourself. It seems she - she's simply goods on approval.

• Catherine's Father : The Empress might not like her. Sophie might not like the Grand Duke. It might even mean she would have to change her faith.

  Johanna : That wouldn't be the end of the world.

  Catherine's Father : It might be the end of her soul.

• Johanna : She has a gown for the banquet tonight and she wanted to try it on.

  Frederick the Great : Ah, clothes. That's all you women ever think about. I'm right. I'm right, Christian. I don't care if she's wearing a sheet, I want to see her!

• Catherine : May I try a little vodka, Mama?

  Johanna : Certainly not!

  Count Gregory Orlov : It would do her good, Your Highness. With a little water, of course. We have an old Russian toast: May your heart be light and your purse be heavy.

• Catherine : He never consults you, does he, on affairs of State?

  Johanna : Why should he? That's a man's work.

  Catherine : Is it? Russia is ruled by a woman, England has been, so has Sweden?

• Catherine : I owe it to Papa.

  Johanna : But, you risk everything.

  Catherine : When I meet him again, in this world or the next, I want to be able to look at him, I promised him, I did not risk my soul for a crown - however great.