Memorable Quotes Bell214: Maximus: (addressing his troops) Fratres! (Cavalry addresses Maximus) Maximus: Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead! (Cavalry laughs) Maximus: Brothers, what we do in life ... echoes in eternity.  Bell214: Marcus Aurelius: When was the last time you were home? Maximus: Two years, two hundred and sixty–four days and this morning. Bell214: Commodus: Have I missed it? Have I missed the battle? Marcus Aurelius: You have missed the war. Commodus: Father, congratulations. I shall sacrifice a hundred bulls to honor your triumph. Marcus Aurelius: Save the bulls. Honor Maximus. He won the battle. Bell214:
Proximo: Those giraffes you sold me, they won’t mate. They just walk around, eating, and not mating. You sold me ... qxy&z giraffes. I want my money back.
Bell214: Proximo: (addressing his new recruits) I am Proximo! I shall be closer to you for the next few days, which will be the last of your miserable lives, than that b~#x# of a mother who first brought you screaming into this world! I did not pay good money for your company. I paid it so that I might profit from your death. And just as your mother was there at your beginning, I shall be there at your end. And when you die ― and die you shall ― your transition will be to the sound of ... (clasps his hands) Proximo: Gladiators... I salute you. Bell214: Proximo: Listen to me. Learn from me. I was not the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd and you will win your freedom. Bell214: Proximo: So Spaniard, we shall go to Rome together and have bloody adventures. And the great w@x$~ will suckle us until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more. And then, when enough men have died, perhaps you will have your freedom. Bell214: Maximus: (after swiftly dispatching another gladiator) Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here? Crowd: Spaniard, Spaniard, Spaniard ... Bell214: Proximo: He knows to well how to manipulate the mob. Maximus: Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Rome, Proximo. That is not it. That is not it! Proximo: Marcus Aurelius is dead, Maximus. We mortals are but shadows and dust. Shadows and dust, Maximus! Bell214: (Maximus looks at images of his wife and son) Juba: Can they hear you? Maximus: Who? Juba: Your family. In the afterlife. Maximus: Oh yes. Juba: What do you say to them? Maximus: To my son ― I tell him I will see him again soon. To keep his heels down while riding his horse. To my wife ... that is not your business. Bell214: Cassius: On this day, we reach back to hallowed antiquity, to bring you a recreation of the second fall of the mighty Carthage! .. On the barren plain of Zama, there stood the invincible armies of the barbarian Hannibal. Ferocious mercenaires and warriors from all brute nations, bent on merciless destruction, conquest. Your emperor is pleased to give you the barbarian horde! (rowd cheers) Maximus: (while Cassius continues his introduction) Anyone here been in the army? (an unknown gladiator responds yes and tells Maximus he served under his command at Vindobona) Maximus: You can help me. Whatever comes out of these gates, we’ve got a better chance of survival if we work together. Do you understand? If we stay together we survive. Cassiuss: I’m pleased to bring to you the Legionnaires of Scipio Africanus! Bell214: Commodus: Rise. Rise. (Maximus stands up, clenching an arrow head in his right hand) Commodus: Your fame is well deserved, Spaniard. I don’t think there’s ever been a gladiator to match you. As for this young man, he insists you are Hector reborn. Or was it Hercules? Why doesn’t the hero reveal himself and tell us all your real name? You do have a name. Maximus: My name is Gladiator. (turns away from Commodus) Commodus: How dare you show your back to me! Slave, you will remove your helmet and tell me your name. Maximus: (removes helmet and turns around to face Commodus) My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. Bell214: Commodus: And now they love Maximus for his mercy. So I can’t just kill him, or it makes me even more unmerciful! The whole thing’s like some crazed nightmare. Falco: He is defying you. His every victory is an act of defiance. The mob sees this, and so does the senate. Every day he lives, they grow bolder. Kill him. Commodus: No. I will not make a martyr of him. Falco: I have been told of a certain sea snake which has a very unusual method of attracting its prey. It will lie at the bottom of the ocean as if wounded. Then its enemies will approach, and yet it will lie quite still. And then its enemies will take little bites of it, and yet it remains still. Commodus: So, we will lie still, and let our enemies come to us and nibble. Have every senator followed. Bell214: Commodus: You and I are not much different. You take life when you have to, as I do. Maximus: I have only one more life to take. Then it is done. Bell214: Maximus: I knew a man once who said, “Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.“ Commodus: I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death? Maximus: You must know. He was your father. Commodus: You loved my father, I know. But so did I. That makes us brothers, doesn’t it? Smile for me now, brother. (stabs him) Bell214: Commodus: The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! But now, the people want to know how the story ends. Only a famous death will do. And what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena? Maximus: You would fight me? Commodus: Why not? Do you think I am afraid? Maximus: I think you’ve been afraid all your life. Bell214: (to his dead friend) Juba: And now we are free. I will see you again ... but not yet ... not yet ... (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/quotes ) | Movies Chat Room Similar Conversations |