Children of Dune (2003)

Alice Krige: Lady Jessica Atreides

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Quotes 

• Lady Jessica Atreides : Concentrate on visualizing the flow of time. It must move, not you.

• Leto : To know the future is to be trapped by it, Grandmother. My father knew it but he couldn't escape it. I want more freedom than that! A universe of surprises, that is what I pray for.

  Lady Jessica Atreides : Is such a universe possible for someone like you?

  Leto : Possible? Yes. But is it desireable? I have a difficult decision to make, Grandmother. Do I accpet the Atreides mystic, dress myself in our myths, live for my subjects and die for them? Or do I choose another path? A golden path? One that may change me, may change human destiny forever?

• Lady Jessica Atreides : I don't understand.

  Leto : No, I know you don't. Because you do not understand time.

  Lady Jessica Atreides : I can help you, Leto.

  Leto : Oh, on the contrary, Grandmother. It is I who will help you.

  [using the Voice] 

• Lady Jessica Atreides : I hate this planet, Gurrney, stole both men I loved.

• Alia : We will have a corner on the scarcest commodity in the universe!

  Lady Jessica Atreides : You will have a corner in hell!

• Lady Jessica Atreides : I could have killed you.

  Farad'n Corrino : It wouldn't have been that easy.

  [he slips away] 

  Farad'n Corrino : ...I didn't truly think it was possible, and then my mind melted away. I gave up fighting you, and it happened.

  Lady Jessica Atreides : It wasn't me you were fighting.

  Farad'n Corrino : It was myself. All that I've learned, all the nonsense I've imprisoned myself with - I feel... I feel like I'm being reborn, like I'm standing on the threshold of something extraordinary.

  Lady Jessica Atreides : Para-Bindu balance, Farad'n. But only on the threshold.

  Farad'n Corrino : [chuckles]  Patience?

  Lady Jessica Atreides : Yes, patience. Remember, it's one thing to gain control of your perceptions, quite another to gain control of your desires.

  Farad'n Corrino : And if I succeed?

  Lady Jessica Atreides : You'll find reality to be quite a bit different than you thought.