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Catherine the Great is a 1995 television movie based on the life of Catherine II of Russia. It stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Catherine, Jeanne Moreau as Empress Elizabeth and Omar Sharif as Alexis Razumovsky. Plot A young German Princess (Catherine Zeta-Jones) marries the immature future Tsar Peter III (Hannes Jaenicke). She gradually becomes a skillful politician and rises to become Catherine the Great after she overthrows her husband to embrace her Russian future. Cast Catherine Zeta-Jones as Catherine Paul McGann as Potemkin Ian Richardson as Vorontzov Brian Blessed as Bestuzhev John Rhys-Davies as Pugachev Craig McLachlan as Saltykov Hannes Jaenicke as Peter Agnès Soral as Countess Bruce Mark McGann as Orlov Karl Johnson as Sheshkovsky Stephen McGann as Alexis Orlov Veronica Ferres as Vorontsova Mel Ferrer as Patriarch Jeanne Moreau as Empress Elizabeth Petrovna Omar Sharif as Razumovsky Tim McInnerny as Mad Monk Horst Frank as Schwerin Vernon Dobtcheff as Naryshkin Christoph Waltz as Mirovich

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Notable quotes

“I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.”
— As quoted in The Historians' History of the World (1904) by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423
“Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.”
— As quoted in Woman Through the Ages (1908) by Emil Reich, p. 155
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
— As quoted in Daughters of Eve (1930) by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 192
“Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.”
— As quoted in And I Quote : The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, p. 278
“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.”
— Letter to Denis Diderot, as quoted in The Affairs of Women : A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham

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Notable quotes

“I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.”
— As quoted in The Historians' History of the World (1904) by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423
“Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.”
— As quoted in Woman Through the Ages (1908) by Emil Reich, p. 155
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
— As quoted in Daughters of Eve (1930) by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 192
“Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.”
— As quoted in And I Quote : The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, and Andrew Frothingham, p. 278
“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.”
— Letter to Denis Diderot, as quoted in The Affairs of Women : A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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