Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent [to Henry]
She's an imposter, sire! Her name is Danielle de Barbarac, and she's been a servant in my home for the past ten years.
Played by Anjelica Huston 
Ever After (1998) · 48 quotes
Ever After (1998) · 48 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Ever After (1998): in 15 of its 48 quotes
Most scenes with: Marguerite (6), Jacqueline (5), Danielle de Barbarac (3)
Some people read because they cannot think for themselves.
More lines from Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
6 quotes Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent [to Henry]
Ask her yourself! She is a grasping, devious little pretender, and it is my duty, Your Highness, to expose her as the covetous hoax she is.
Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent [to Danielle]
Bow before royalty, you insolent fraud!
Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent [to Danielle]
How can anyone love a pebble in their shoe?
Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent [to Danielle]
The slightest turn of phrase can have a thousand meanings.
Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent No matter how bad things get, they can always get worse.
Scenes with Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent
8 scenesI said I want four minute eggs. Not four one minute eggs, and where in GOD'S NAME is our bread?
Rodmilla Marguerite, precious, what do I always say to you about tone?
A lady of breeding ought never to raise her voice any louder than the... gentle hum of a whispering wind.
Rodmilla Jacqueline, dear, do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
I was not shrill,mother. I was resonant. A courtier knows the difference.
Rodmilla I very much doubt your style of resonance would be permitted in the Royal Court.
I'm not going to the Royal Court, am I, Mother? No one is, except some Spanish pig they have the nerve to call a princess.
Rodmilla Darling, nothing is final until you're dead, and even then, I'm sure God negotiates.
Rodmilla Are you ill?
Rodmilla Where were you?
I got lost.
Rodmilla I don't believe you. You're hiding something from me, I can feel it. I demand to know what it is.
Why don't you tell me so I can go back to sleep?
What about our breakfast?
You have two hands, make it yourself.
Why you lazy little leech!
Rodmilla Jacqueline, go and boil some water.
Me? Boil water?... Oh, I knew it! I just knew it!
Rodmilla Of all the insidious jokes, turning your mother into a Countess. Why it's almost as absurd as a prince who spends his days with a peasant who sleeps with pigs.
What bothers you more, stepmother? That I am common? Or that I am competition?
Rodmilla Where is the dress, Danielle?!
I don't know what you're talking about.
The gown, the slippers, they were in my room this morning, and now they're gone. You hid them I know it!
Rodmilla Where did you put the gown, Danielle?
Where are the candlesticks, and the tapestries, and the silver?! Perhaps the dress is with them!
Rodmilla You will produce that gown!
I would rather die a thousand deaths than to see my mother's dress on that spoiled, selfish cow!
Baroness, did you - or did you not - lie to Her Majesty, the Queen of France?
Choose your words wisely, madame, for they may be your last.
Rodmilla A woman would practically do anything for the love of a daughter, Your Majesties. Perhaps I did get a little carried away.
Mother! What have you done? Your Majesty, like you, I am just a victim here. She has lied to us both and I am ashamed to call her family.
Rodmilla [pushes her]
How dare you turn on me, you little ingrate!
You see? You see what I have to put up with?
Silence, both of you! Good Lord! [to Jacqueline] Are they always like this?
Worse, Your Majesty.
Rodmilla Jacqueline, darling, I hate to think you had anything to do with this.
Baroness de Ghent, you are forthwith stripped of your title, and you and your horrible daughter are to be shipped to the Americas on the first available boat... Unless by some miracle, someone here will speak for you.
Rodmilla [Rodmilla begins looking desperately at the other nobles, they look back coldly.] [nervously]
There seem to be quite a few people out of town...
I will speak for her.
[Rodmilla turns around and sees Danielle dressed like a princess.]
She is, after all, my stepmother.
Rodmilla [kneels]
Your Highness.
Marguerite, I don't believe you've met... my wife.
[to Rodmilla, smiling]
I want you to know that I will forget you after this moment, and never think of you again. But you, I am quite certain, will think about me every single day for the rest of your life.
Rodmilla And how long will that be?
[looks up]
All I ask, Your Majesties... is that you show her the same courtesy that she has bestowed upon me.
Laundry Room Supervisor
(to Marguerite and Rodmilla)
After you wash the table cloths, you can start on the napkins and moves those over there.
Rodmilla Marguerite...
What?
Rodmilla You heard the woman.
So did you.
Rodmilla Yes, but I'm management.
Like Hell you are! You're just the same as me a big nobody!
Rodmilla How dare you speak to me that way! I am of noble blood!
Laundry Room Supervisor
And YOU are getting on my nerves! (throws a pile of table cloths at Marguerite and Rodmilla and the two fall back into a vat of water while the other servants laugh at them) Heh, heh NOW get to work !
Marguerite gets to do everything.
Oh, don't be daft, the Queen doesn't even know you exist.
Rodmilla What Marguerite does is for all of us, my dear. We are counting on you to help her get ready.
[sardonically]
Lovely. Next thing you know I shall be cleaning the fireplace with Danielle!
Mother, it's only a ball.
Rodmilla Yes, and you're only going for the food.
