I, Claudius: A Television Epic

00:00:38 (LIVIA) What are we going to do about Claudius?

00:03:25 And it was the concept of the evil that Siân found very difficult at first

00:06:36 both good and bad, but mainly bad.

00:09:31 Now, that's a very Roman reaction, it really is.

00:12:36 It was a highly dangerous world in which he existed.

00:15:25 And sometimes the mouth will form and you look as if you're going to say..." butter"

00:18:15 All these senators - some of them his best friends - have slept with his daughter

00:21:11 I was then 42, and I went on a very, very serious diet!

00:24:07 Mark Antony was twice the man you are, but when he spat on my sister

00:27:31 that he can't ever fight his mother...

00:30:39 and because people weren't going to meet each other

00:33:38 No temples will be dedicated to anyone but him in the whole Roman world.

00:36:57 - Do you trust me? - Oh, utterly, my lover, my lord.

00:40:14 Oh, my god!

00:43:16 Drusilla!

00:46:07 and we had then swathes of material going round us.

00:49:27 And then Claudius says to me, "How can you bear it, Mother?"

00:52:19 "We've pulled it off. It's a great success. We've beaten that bloody curse!"

00:55:24 The cameras were dancing and so were you.

00:58:34 It was the first time I'd worn these masks

01:01:40 He went, " Don't do it, don't do it..."

01:04:54 I actually thought I was going to die in that scene.

01:08:01 In fact, the following day after it had been transmitted

01:11:08 The critics, initially, hadn't greeted it with open arms