"Merlin if only you were at my side my old friend to give me courage. There are no war tricks that will fool Mordred and Morgana. More than I ever did I need you now."

"Any man who would be a knight and follow a king, follow me!"

"Nobody shall have the sword! Nobody shall wield Excalibur...but ME!"

"Talk! Talk is for lovers, Merlin. I need the sword to be King!"

"Merlin, I am the strongest! I am the one! The sword! You promised me the sword!"

"Hello. [Tristan slowly turns to look at her.] You've been sleeping a long time. You're in Ireland. Did you know that? Shh... It's alright. You're safe here. No one knows. Don't be scared. Just sleep... sleep. [Tristan fades out of consciousness.]"

"Rufus Sewell — Marke"

"Sophia Myles — Isolde"

"James Franco — Tristan"

"Before Romeo and Juliet... There was Tristan and Isolde."

"Will you always be little men, Who could not see what once was... And could be again."

"[Isolde and Marke retire to their bedroom. Tristan watches their window from outside.] You're trembling. You are far from home and I am a stranger still. But you mustn't fear me. My wish is to make you happy, as a wife.. as a woman and hopefully one day, the fact that I am not whole will not offend you. [Marke kisses Isolde and makes love to her.]"

"You were right. I don't know if life is better than death. But love was more than either."

"Marke delivered me from that place when I was a boy. You ran. So you can understand that when I think of Kings I think of him. When I think of cowards..."

"Why long for things if they're not meant to be ours?"

"[Tristan dies. Isolde is thinking of the time back in Ireland] My face in thine eyes, thine in mine appers. And true plain hearts do in the faces rest. Where can you find two better hemispheres, without sharp north, without declining west. Whatever dies was not mixed equally. If our two loves be one or thou and I love so alike that none can slacken, none can die. (John Donne, The Good Morrow)"

"I want to know if there's more to this life and I can't know that if they kill you!"

"Company: [singing] Guinevere, Guinevere. In that dim, mournful year Saw the men she held so dear Go to war for Guinevere."

"Pierre Olaf - Dap"

"Laurence Naismith - Merlyn"

"Lionel Jeffries - King Pellinore"

"David Hemmings - Mordred"

"Franco Nero - Lancelot"

"Vanessa Redgrave - Guinevere"

"Richard Harris - Arthur"

"A whole new world of magnificent musical entertainment."

"The Most Beautiful Love Story Ever!"

"Company: [singing] Guinevere, Guinevere Oh, they found Guinevere In the dying candle's gleam Came the sundown of a dream."

"Mordred: [to Arthur about Guenevere] What a magnificent dilemma! Let her die, your life is over; let her live, your life's a fraud. Which will it be, Arthur? Do you kill the Queen or kill the law?"

"Merlyn told me once: Never be too disturbed if you don't understand what a woman is thinking. They don't do it often."

"Pellinore: Forgive the interruption. Anyone here seen a beast with the head of a serpent, the body of a boar and the tail of a lion, baying like forty hounds?"

"I am irritating. I always will be. All fanatics are bores, Pellinore, and I'm a fanatic. Even when I was a child I irritated the other children. I wanted to play their games, but I knew I could not. Even then I was filled with a sense of divine purpose. I'm not saying I enjoy it. All my life I've locked the world out. And, you know, when you lock the world out, you're locked in."

"C'est moi!"

"Must we talk about Mordred? This is the first time in a month that he's not coming to dinner and not having him makes it seem like a party!"

"[about Mordred] The one thing I can say for him is that he's bound to marry well. Everybody is above him."

"Just when I reach the golden age of eligibility and wooability. Is my fate determined by love and courtship? Oh, no. [Bitterly] Clause one: fix the border; Clause two: establish trade; Clause three: deliver me; Clause four: stop the war; five, six: pick up sticks. How cruel! How unjust! Am I never to know the joys of maidenhood? The conventional, ordinary, garden variety joys of maidenhood?"

"[angrily] Mordred, I must remind you that I am a civilized man. With occasional lapses."

"[to Mordred] Far more seasoned rascals than you have polished their souls, I advise you, get out the wax. Better to be rubbed clean than rubbed out."

"[singing] Ask ev'ry person if he's heard the story; And tell it strong and clear if he has not: That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory Called Camelot. Camelot! Camelot!"

"Merlyn! Merlyn, make me a hawk. Let me fly away from here!"

"The adage, "Blood is thicker than water," was invented by undeserving relatives."

"I love them and they answer me with pain and torment. Be it sin or not sin, they betray me in their hearts and that's far sin enough. I can feel it in their eyes, I can feel it when they speak, and they must pay for it and be punished. I shall not be wounded and not return it in kind! I'm through with feeble hoping! I demand a man's vengeance! [Calming down] Proposition: I'm a king, not a man. And a civilized king. Could it possibly be civilized to destroy what I love? Could it possibly be civilized to love myself above all? What of their pain and their torment? Did they ask for this calamity? Can passion be selected?"

"All we've been through, for nothing but an idea! Something that you cannot taste, smell, or feel; without substance, life, reality, memory."

"I dreamed ... I dreamed."

"[singing] And -what of teaching me by turning me to animal and bird, From beaver to the smallest bobolink! I should have had a -whirl At changing to a girl, To learn the way the creatures think!"

"Proposition: It's far better to be alive than to be dead."

"Merlyn, why have you never taught me love and marriage?"

"[his last line] Renfield, you asshole!"