Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Glorious Horrors (2015)

Eva Green: Vanessa Ives

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Quotes 

• [Victor Frankenstein tells Vanessa Ives about the complications of him and Lily] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : My cousin and I... it's not without it's complications. That's what they call the workings inside watches. Did you know that? The intricate gears and mechanisms. Complications.

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa smiles]  Then enjoy them, Doctor. They will tick away, no matter what we do.

• [Vanessa Ives tells Victor Frankenstein she met a man named John Clare] 

  Vanessa Ives : You sound like my friend Mr. Clare.

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : What did you say?

  Vanessa Ives : A man I met recently. Same name as the poet, John Clare. He breaks my heart, Mr. Clare. A kindred spirit, I think. We met in the strangest way. Is it random we met, I wonder... or is it a hidden design like these relics?

• [Vanessa Ives and the group informs Sir Malcolm that his wife took her own life by slitting her throat] 

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Where did she do it?

  Vanessa Ives : In the master bedroom, apparently... at the country house.

  Sir Malcolm Murray : Oh, I see. I shall have to have the carpet replaced then. Good morning. Morning.

• [Victor Frankenstein tells Vanessa Ives everything has an inner clockwork] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Science would tell us... there's always an inner clockwork. Nothing is happenstance.

  Vanessa Ives : Yet you wear a flower.

• [Vanessa Ives talks to Ferdinand Lyle at the Ball] 

  Ferdinand Lyle : [as the two look at the dancing guests]  A dizzying panorama, isn't it? All the toys of love out of the box and scattered around the floor.

  Vanessa Ives : And at the end of the night to be put carefully away. These terrible games.

  Ferdinand Lyle : And do you ever play... or only spectate?

  Vanessa Ives : [Vanessa smiles]  I never learned the rules.

• [Victor Frankenstein tells Vanessa Ives he's just like everyone else] 

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : It's the oddest thing, Miss Ives. My whole life, I've thought I was... bound to live with exceptionality. I was not like my brothers. I was resolutely this... disjointed thing, freakish thing. So I came to celebrate what uniqueness I had.

  Vanessa Ives : And now?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : I wear a flower! I find, lo and behold... I'm just like everyone else.

• [Vanessa Ives asks Victor Frankenstein for the first dance] 

  Vanessa Ives : So, Doctor, will you give me the first dance?

  Dr. Victor Frankenstein : Perhaps the second.

• [Vanessa Ives talks to Madame Kali at the Ball] 

  Madame Kali : Life does batter at us. But we must persevere with spirit for as long as we possibly can. It's the trick to staying young, don't you think?

  Vanessa Ives : That's not a trick I seek.

• [Vanessa Ives talks to Madame Kali about being a friend of Sir Malcolm] 

  Vanessa Ives : He speaks very highly of you, Mrs. Poole.

  Madame Kali : While he speaks of you so rarely. I suppose we could say you're something of a ward to him.

  Vanessa Ives : A friend, I'd like to think, who cares a great deal for his welfare.

  Madame Kali : Sounds like a warning.

• [Ferdinand Lyle asks to walk Vanessa Ives home from the Ball as he feels she's in danger] 

  Ferdinand Lyle : Let me escort you home, please?

  Vanessa Ives : Let me say good night to the doctor. I'll be right back. And thank you.

  Ferdinand Lyle : It's not every night I leave with the most beautiful woman in London on my arm.