"Friends! Fellow members of the human race! We are gathered here for a purpose. Let us look together at mankind. What do we see? We see mastery. What wonders mankind can perform. He can cross the oceans and continents today, as easily as our grandfathers crossed the street. Tomorrow he will as easily cross the vast territories of space. He can make deserts fertile and plant cabbages on the Moon. And what does man choose? Alone among the creatures of this world, the human race chooses to annihilate itself. Since the last world conflict ended there has not been one day in which human beings have not been slaughtering or wounding one another in 230 different wars. And man breeds as recklessly as he lays waste. By the end of the century, the population of the world will have tripled. Two thirds of our plant species will have been destroyed, 55% of the animal kingdom and 70% of our mineral resources. Out of every hundred human beings now living 80 will die without ever knowing what it feels like to be fully nourished, while a tiny minority indulge themselves in absurd and extravagent luxuries. A motion picture entertainer of North America will receive as much money in a month as would feed a starving South American tribe for a hundred years! We waste! We destroy! And we cling like savages to our superstitions. We give power to leaders of state and church as prejudiced and small-minded as ourselves who squander our resources on instruments of destruction while millions continue to suffer and go hungry, condemned forever to lives of ignorance and deprivation. And why is this? It is because mankind has denied intelligence, the unique glory of our species... the human brain.Man is entering an era of infinite possibility, still imprisoned in a feeble, inefficient body. Still manacled by primitive notions of morality, which have no place in an age of science. Still powered by a brain that has hardly developed since the species emerged from the caves. Only a new intelligence can save mankind! Only a new human being of pure brain can lead man forward into the new era. I do not speak of dreams. Such a being exists already. I have created it! It is here, now! Prepare yourselves to meet the human of the future. Neither man nor woman. Greater than either. I have given it a name. Genesis. Birth. A new birth. A new beginning for mankind. People of today, behold your future!"

"Valentine Dyall - Mr Rochester"

"Michael Medwin - Theatre Surgeon"

"T.P. McKenna - Theatre Surgeon"

"Liz Smith - Maisie"

"Betty Marsden - Hermione"

"Dandy Nichols - Florrie"

"Alan Bates - Macready"

"Arthur Lowe - hospital patient"

"Richard Griffiths - Cheerful Bernie"

"Mark Hamill - Red"

"Roger Martin - Demonstrator"

"Dave Atkins - Sharkey"

"Robin Askwith - Ben Keating"

"Joan Plowright - Phyllis Grimshaw"

"Peter Jeffrey - Sir Geoffrey"

"Jill Bennett - Dr. MacMillan"

"Stockmar: [to Leopold about Victoria] Let her enjoy her succession and the freedom it will bring... We must wait for disillusion and the loneliness that follows."

"Wellington: Families. Who'd be be with out them."

"Queen Elizabeth never married. And it didnt spoil things for her."

"[to Sir John] You have played the game and lost."

"[to Victoria] If you should ever need an ally, you have one in me."

"[to Albert] Now go to England and make her smile."

"Baron, I was born the younger son of a penniless duke. Now, I am king of the Belgians. Such journeys are not managed without hard decisions."

"[to Sir John] You may not accompany me to the Proclamation Ceremony... You may not attend the coronation."

"My dearest child, Sir John only wants the best for you. I wish you’d believe that."

"[to the maid, fixing her hair] If you stick one more pin in me, I swear I shall call the guard."

"[to the king] You have exhausted the topic."

"[to Victoria] You are confusing stubbornness with strength, my dear. And I warn you, the people will not like you for it."

"[to his dinner guests] I thank you for your good wishes on my birthday. It has been a long life and an interesting one. But I shall be content with only a short while more. Just enough to dispense with any thought of a Regency. So that I may pass the Royal Authority directly to that young lady. And not to the hands of a person now near me who is surrounded by evil advisers and who cannot act with propriety in the station in which she's been placed! I have been insulted! Grossly and continually insulted! She has kept her daughter, my brother's child, from my Court! But from now on, I'll have her know that I am King! And I will not be flouted or disobeyed by her or by that jackanapes she keeps about her!"

"How can my little niece and nephew have grown up when I wasn't looking?"

"Mark my words. The reign of King Conroy is coming!"

"She starts on your watch, Lord Melbourne. Guard her well and keep her safe from harm."

"What do you call a man who waits for a rich woman to decide whether or not she wants him?"

"[to Victoria] For pity's sake, smile, woman. Anyone would think we had quarreled."

"[after being released from her corset] The untold luxury of being able to breathe again."

"Alex Scott – Book Person: “The Life of Henry Brulard”"

"Bee Duffell – Book Woman"

"Jeremy Spenser – Man with the Apple"

"Anton Diffring – Fabian/ Headmaster"