Penny Dreadful (TV Series)

Séance (2014)

Billie Piper: Brona Croft

Quotes 

• [Brona Croft asks Ethan Chandler if he's an actor] 

  Brona Croft : Jesus, you're not an actor are you?

  Ethan Chandler : Not precisely.

  Brona Croft : Praise the lord for that. I knew an actor once, always sucking up the oxygen from the room, he was. I was ever faint.

• [Ethan Chandler learns the meaning of Brona Croft's name] 

  Ethan Chandler : I'm Ethan Chandler.

  Brona Croft : Brona Croft.

  Ethan Chandler : Brona?

  Brona Croft : It's Gaelic.

  Ethan Chandler : What does it mean?

  Brona Croft : Sadness.

• [Dorian Gray and Brona Croft have sex together while be photographed] 

  Dorian Gray : I never fucked a dying creature before. Do you feel things more deeply, I wonder. Do you feel pain?

  Brona Croft : Do you?

  Dorian Gray : Find out.

  [as Brona slices her fingernails into Dorian's back] 

• [Proteus meets Brona Croft] 

  Proteus : Enjoy the fairy lights.

  Brona Croft : [Brona smiles]  I always do.

• [Ethan Chandler sees Brona Croft cough uncontrollably] 

  Brona Croft : Me lungs are buggered. I'd like to say it was from the dire working conditions of the factory. It's more likely God being a right playful fucker.

  [as Brona Croft takes another whiskey shot] 

• [Ethan Chandler meets Brona Croft for the first time] 

  Ethan Chandler : [Brona helps herself to Mr. Chandler's whiskey bottle, taking a shot]  Well, nice to meet you, too.

  Brona Croft : And you.

• [Brona Croft tells Ethan Chandler that nothing surprises her] 

  Brona Croft : What trade you have then?

  Ethan Chandler : Well, I could shoot the ace out of a playing card at fifty paces.

  Brona Croft : Well, that'll come in useful, I'm sure.

  Ethan Chandler : You'd be surprised.

  Brona Croft : Not much surprises me.