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Alexander (2004 film) Quotes

Alexander (2004 film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Alexander stopped airing in 1970.

It features Vangelis in charge of musical score, and Rodrigo Prieto as head of cinematography.

Alexander (2004 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States. Each episode of Alexander (2004 film) is 175 minutes long. Alexander (2004 film) is distributed by Warner Bros., Constantin Film, Pathé Distribution, and A-Film Distribution.

The cast includes: Colin Farrell as Alexander, Jared Leto as Hephaistion, Elliot Cowan as Old Ptolemy, Val Kilmer as Philip, Angelina Jolie as Olympias, Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Cassander, John Kavanagh as Parmenion, Gary Stretch as Cleitus, Rosario Dawson as Roxane, Christopher Plummer as Aristotle, Joseph Morgan as Philotas, Ian Beattie as Antigonus, Rory McCann as Crateros, Nick Dunning as Attalus, Denis Conway as Nearchus, Elliot Cowan as Ptolemy, Jared Leto as Young Hephaistion, and Francisco Bosch as Bagoas.

Alexander (2004 film) Quotes

John Kavanagh as Parmenion

  • (John Kavanagh) "Back and to the left. Back and to the left."
  • (John Kavanagh) "Alexander, I've known you since you were born. I supported you at your father's death. At the very least, for Zeus's sake and out of respect for the council that chose you king, give us a Macedonian heir."
  • (John Kavanagh) "Your father must be turning in his grave, Alexander. After all this time, a hill chief's daughter? Do you call this tribal wedding legitimate?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "You forget, Parmenion, that my father took a barbarian as his queen."
  • (John Kavanagh) "Yes, and few would call it a profoundly happy marriage."
  • (John Kavanagh) "I pray to Apollo you soon realize how far you've turned from your father's path."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Damn you Parmenion, by the gods and your Apollo. War was in my father's guts. It wasn't over ripe and reason like yours."
  • (John Kavanagh) "He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. He consulted his peers in council, among equals. The Macedonian way. He didn't make decisions based on his personal desires."
  • (Colin Farrell) "I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed. Old man, we're in knew worlds."
  • (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Alexander, be reasonable. Were they ever meant to be our equal? Share our rewards? You remember what Aristotle said. An Asian? What would a wedding vow ever mean to a race that has never kept their word to a Greek?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "Aristotle be damned."
  • (Jared Leto) "Alexander."
  • (Colin Farrell) "By Zeus and all the gods, what makes you so much better than them, Cassander? Better than you really are. In you and those like you is this."
  • (Jared Leto) "Alexander --"
  • (Colin Farrell) "What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment, but your contempt for a world far older than ours."
  • (John Kavanagh) "Philotas. Philotas."
  • (John Kavanagh) "Go. Tell Alexander yourself. And if he won't listen, then survive me, and avenge this betrayal."
  • (John Kavanagh) "That was not your father's mission."
  • (Colin Farrell) "And I am not my father."

Joseph Morgan as Philotas

  • (Joseph Morgan) "Alexander. My father's lost. They've overrun the flanks, they're into the baggage trains."
  • (Jared Leto) "Parmenion's crumbling."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "Alexander, if you chase him you risk losing your army here."
  • (Colin Farrell) "And if we capture him we gain an empire."
  • (Colin Farrell) "You can run till the ends of the earth, you coward. But you'll never run far enough."
  • (Joseph Morgan) "But what's the point Alexander? She's your captive; just take her as your concubine."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Because I want a son. Damn you, Philotas"
  • (Joseph Morgan) "Half your nobles have sisters who would make fine Macedonian mothers."
  • (Colin Farrell) "To take an Asian as my queen, not a captive, is a sign of deep respect for our subjects. It will, more than anything, bring us together. Unify us. Which is not to say I won't take a Macedonian one day."
  • (Joseph Morgan) "As a second wife? And insult Macedonia?"
  • (Ian Beattie) "Never will our people accept this girl's son as king. They'll be angry enough when they find out their husbands all have second wives in Barbaria."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Then they'll learn."
  • (Joseph Morgan) "Alexander, remember me for who I am."
  • (Colin Farrell) "I do remember you, Philotas. But not as you remember yourself."

Colin Farrell as Alexander

  • (Unnamed) "What do you want from us?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "I want you to be excellent."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Come, Bucephalus. Today we ride to our destiny."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Conquer your fear, and I promise you, you will conquer death."
  • (Colin Farrell) "A thousand ships we'll launch from here, Hephaistion. We'll round Arabia, and sail up the gulf to Egypt. From there, we'll build a channel through the desert, out to the middle sea. And then we'll move on Carthage, and that great island Cecily; they'll pay large tribute. After that the Romans; good fighters, but we'll beat them. And then explore the northern forests, and add the pillars of Heracles to the western ocean. And then one day, populations will mix and travel freely. Asia and Europe will come together. And we'll grow old, Hephaistion, looking out our balcony at this new world."
  • (Colin Farrell) "You've fallen in love with all the things in life that destroy men."
  • (Colin Farrell) "You lie and lie and lie. So many lies you've spun like a sorceress, confusing me."
  • (Colin Farrell) "You birthed me in a sack of hate. Hate you have for those stronger than you."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "I taught you my heart. And by Zeus and Dionysus you grew beautiful."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Damn your sorceress soul."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Your soul is mine, Alexander."
  • (Colin Farrell) "No. You've taken from me everything I've ever loved. You've made me you."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Stop it. Stop acting like a boy. You're a king, act like one."
  • (Colin Farrell) "I'm his only worthy son, you crazed woman. He'd never hurt me. Even if Eurydice had a boy, he'd be twenty before he'd let him rule."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Yes. And you would be forty. Old, and wise. Like Parmenion. And Philip's young son would be twenty. Like you, now. But raised by him. His blood. He will never give you the throne now, Alexander, never."
  • (Colin Farrell) "What would you have me do?"
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Whatever is necessary."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Where have you lost your mind? There'd be civil war, clan against clan chaos."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Yes. And you would win."
  • (Colin Farrell) "You and I together, one last time Bucephalus."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Were we gods, we'd breach these walls to the Outer Ocean."
  • (Colin Farrell) "But you dream Crateros -- Your simplicity long ended, when you took Persian mistresses and children, and you thickened your holdings with plunder and jewels -- Because you have fallen in love with all the things in life that destroy men -- do you not see -- and you, as well as I, know, that as the year decline and the memories stale and all your great victories fade it will always be remembered, you left your king in Asia"
  • (Colin Farrell) "The greatest honor a man can ever achieve is to live with great courage, and to die with his countrymen, in battle for his home."
  • (Colin Farrell) "As the years decline and the memories stale, and all your great victories fade, it will always be remembered that you left your king in Asia."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Stay with me tonight, Hephaistion."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Isn't it a lovely thing to live with great courage and to die leaving an everlasting fame? Come, Macedonians, why do you retreat? Do you want to live forever? In the name of Zeus, attack."
  • (Colin Farrell) "If only you were not a pale reflection of my mother's heart."
  • (Colin Farrell) "You are not wrong, Princess Stateira. He too is Alexander."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Who is this great king, Darius, who enslaves his own men to fight? Who is this king but a king of air? They fight because this king tells them they must. And when they fight, they will melt away like the air because they know no loyalty to a king of slaves. But we are not here today as slaves. We are here today as Macedonian free men."
  • (Colin Farrell) "How could you behave so shamelessly in public?"
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Because it was meant to be."
  • (Colin Farrell) "This is not how I wanted to become king."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "No one blames you."
  • (Colin Farrell) "They blame me already. Behind my back, in secret."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Slander is not power."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Shame is? Who killed my father? Tell me. Tell me or shall I put you on trial for his murder?"
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Pausanias."
  • (Colin Farrell) "He had help. Did you help him?"
  • (Angelina Jolie) "No. Never. Why? Why would I?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "I've come to believe the fear of death drives all men, Hephaistion. This we didn't learn as schoolboys."
  • (Jared Leto) "I've always believed, Alexander. But this seems so much bigger than us."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Did Patroclus stare at Achilles when they stood side by side at the siege of troy?"
  • (Jared Leto) "Patroclus died first."
  • (Colin Farrell) "If you do -- if you were to fall Hephaistion, I will avenge you, and follow you down to the house of death."
  • (Jared Leto) "I would do the same."
  • (Colin Farrell) "On the eve of battle it's hardest to be alone."
  • (Jared Leto) "Then perhaps this is farewell, my Alexander."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Fear not, Hephaistion. We are at the beginning."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Come, Macedonians. Ride. Ride."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Men of Macedon, we're going home."
  • (Colin Farrell) "In the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done."
  • (Colin Farrell) "It's a high ransom she charges for nine months lodging in the womb."
  • (Jared Leto) "Bring her to Babylon, Alexander. It'll give her such joy."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Joy. I am the cracked mirror of her dreams -- Stay with me tonight Hephaistion."
  • (Jared Leto) "What bothers you?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "I see in her everything I fear. Yet I have no idea what it is; this fear. She was always so sure I was born of Zeus. Why, Hephaistion?"
  • (Jared Leto) "I think there are things beyond our imagining. Like the lightening. Tales of strange conceptions. I don't doubt it."
  • (Colin Farrell) "What is being told me? What destiny do I have?"
  • (Jared Leto) "Well, if I'm Patroclus, I die first. Then you, Achilles. The generals are upset. They question your obsession with Darius. They say it was never meant for you to be king of Asia."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Naturally. They want only to return to their homes rich with gold, but I have seen the future, Hephaistion. I've seen it now a thousand times, on a thousand faces. These people want, need, change. Aristotle was wrong about them."
  • (Jared Leto) "How so?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "Look at those we've conquered. They leave their dead unburied, they smash their enemies skulls and drink them as dust, they mate in public. How can they think, or sing, or write when none can read? But as Alexander's army they could go where they never thought possible. They can soldier, or work in the cities. From the Alexandrias, from Egypt to the outer ocean. We could connect these lands, Hephaistion. And the people."
  • (Jared Leto) "Some say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander himself. They draw people into the cities so as to make slaves."
  • (Colin Farrell) "But we've freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persias, where everyone lived as slaves. To free the people of the world. Such would be beyond the glory of Achilles. Beyond Heracles. A feat to rival Prometheus, who was always a friend to man."
  • (Jared Leto) "Remember the fates of these heroes. They suffered, greatly."
  • (Colin Farrell) "We all suffer. Your father, mine. They all came to the end of their time and in the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done."
  • (Jared Leto) "You once said the fear of death drives all men. Are there no other forces? Is there not love in your life, Alexander? What would you do if you ever reached the end of the world? I wonder sometimes, if it's not your mother you run from, so many years, so many miles between you, what is it you fear?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "Who knows these things? When I was a child my mother thought me divine; my father, weak. Which am I, Hephaistion? Weak or divine? All I know is I trust only you in this world. I've missed you. I need you. It is you I love, Hephaistion. No other."
  • (Jared Leto) "You still hold you head cocked like that."
  • (Colin Farrell) "I have to stop that."
  • (Jared Leto) "No, like a dear listening in the wind you strike me still, Alexander. You have eyes like no other. I sound as stupid as a school boy, but you're everything I care for. And by the sweet breath of Aphrodite I'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want so badly."
  • (Colin Farrell) "You'll never lose me, Hephaistion. I'll be with you always. 'Til the end."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Yes, I have Babylon. But each land, each boundary I cross lets drip away another illusion. I sense, death will be the last. Yet still I push harder and harder to reach this -- home."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Where has our eagle gone? We must go on, Ptolemy -- until we find an end."

Elliot Cowan as Old Ptolemy

  • (Elliot Cowan) "His failure towered over other men's successes."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "Alexander used to say that we are most alone when we are with the myths."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "I've paid my price, in blood. And in broken dreams."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "Within hours we were fighting like Jackals for his corpse. The wars of the world had begun. Forty years, off and on, they endured, until we divided his empire in four parts. I think Alexander would have been disappointed in us."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "The truth is never simple and yet it is. The truth is we did kill him. By silence we consented -- because we couldn't go on. But by Ares, what did we have to look forward to but to be discarded in the end like Cleitus? After all this time, to give away our wealth to Asian sycophants we despised? Mixing the races? Harmony? Oh, he talked of these things. I never believe in his dream. None of us did. That's the truth of his life. The dreamers exhaust us. They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "All men reach and fall --"
  • (Elliot Cowan) "reach and fall --"
  • (Elliot Cowan) "The surveyors told us we were now on the boarders of where Europe and Asia meet. In fact, we were totally lost."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "We all felt there was more here than sexual bickery. Alexander wanted the truth, and Philotas' answers were lacking merit. Alexander put him, silently and quickly, to trial by his peers. And whether plotter or opportunist, Philotas was found guilty of treason. None of us defended Philotas, but then again, none of us ever liked him."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "All greatness comes from loss."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "I've lived -- I've lived long life, Cadmos, but the glory and the memory of men will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. The greatest of these is the one they now call Megas Alexandros. The greatest of them all."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "On the tenth of June, a month short of his 33rd year, Alexander's great heart finally gave out. And, as he vowed, he joined Hephaistion. But in his short life he achieved, without doubt, the mythic glory of his ancestor; Achilles. And more."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "It was said later that Alexander was never defeated in his lifetime, except by Hephaistion's thighs."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "It was mad. Forty thousand of us against hundreds of thousands of barbarian races unknown to us, gathered under Darius himself. East and West had now come together to decide the fate of the known world. It was the day Alexander had waited for all his life."
  • (Elliot Cowan) "I've known many great men in my life, but only one colossus. And only now in old do I understand who this force of nature really was. Or do I?"

Angelina Jolie as Olympias

  • (Angelina Jolie) "Three months you have been in Babylon, and leave me at the mercy of your enemies, of which you have many. Antipater: accustomed now to the power that you have given him. I must watch him grow stronger. I am certain that he communicates secretly with Parmenion, who is dangerous. But beware most of all of those closest to you. They are like snakes, and can be turned. Cassander is Antipater's son. Even Cleitus, your father's favorite. And Ptolmey. Your friend, yes, but beware of men who think too much. They blind themselves. Only Hephastion do I leave out. But all of them you make rich, while your mother and yourself you leave in generous poverty. Why won't you ever believe me? It is only a dark mind like mine that can know these secrets of the heart. For they are dark, Alexander. So dark. But in you, the son of Zeus, lies the light of the world. Your companions will be shadows in the underworld when you are a name living forever in history as the most glorious, shining light of youth. Forever young, forever inspiring. Never will there be an Alexander like you, Alexander the Great."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "I was never a barbarian as Phillip said. We are of Achilles' royal blood."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Pregnant, so soon? The little whore. He will marry her in the spring, during Dionysus' festival. And when her first son is born, her sweet Uncle Attalus will convince Phillip to name the boy his successor. And you will be sent on some impossible mission against some barbarous northern tribe, to be mutilated in one more meaningless battle. And I, no longer Queen, will be put to death with your sister and the remaining members of our family."
  • (Colin Farrell) "I wish sometimes you could see the light, mother. The truth is he's taken from you nothing that you've not been long without."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "The only way is to strike. Announce your marriage to a Macedonian, now. Beget a child of pure blood. He would be one of them, not mine. And he would have no choice but to make you king. Eurydice was perfect. If your father, that pig, had not ravaged her first --"
  • (Colin Farrell) "Say nothing more of my father. Do you hear me? Say nothing."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "You're right. Forgive me. A mother loves too much."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Making himself a thirteenth god. He's drunk so much wine, my poor Phillip, he's lost his mind."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "My poor child. You're like Achilles; cursed by your greatness. You must never confuse your feelings with your duties, Alexander. A king must make public gestures for the common people. You will be nineteen this summer, and the girls already say you don't like them, you like Hephastion more. I understand, it's natural for a young man. But if you go to Asia without leaving a successor you risk all."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Hephastion loves me. As I am. Not who."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "So many wanted it. Greeks, Persians, men, women, I would be shocked if there were not a god or two he had profaned."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "Why won't you ever believe me? Philip did not want you. You had a condition of the breathing and he wanted to leave you in the mountains for the birds to peck out your eyes."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "The world is yours. Take it."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "My little Achilles."
  • (Angelina Jolie) "In my womb I carried my avenger."

Val Kilmer as Philip

  • (Val Kilmer) "A king isn't born, Alexander, he is made. By steel and by suffering. A king must know how to hurt those he loves. It's lonely. Ask anyone. Ask Heracles. Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. They laugh when you rise too high. And they crush everything you've built with a whim. What glory they give in the end, they take away. They make of us slaves."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Shut your foul mouth, you ten-titted bitch from Hades."
  • (Val Kilmer) "They say already that Philip is a great general, but Alexander is simply great. But if you ever insult me again, I'll kill you."
  • (Val Kilmer) "I've missed you."
  • (Val Kilmer) "It's never easy to escape our mothers, Alexander. All your life beware of women. They're far more dangerous than men."
  • (Val Kilmer) "I'm sure you remember Achilles and the tales of Troy."
  • (Young Alexander) "He's my favorite."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Why?"
  • (Young Alexander) "Because he loved Patroclus, and avenged his death. Because he lived without fear."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Some say he was a hotheaded fool, who fought only for himself and not for Greece."
  • (Young Alexander) "But he was a hero. The greatest at Troy."
  • (Val Kilmer) "And his fate?"
  • (Young Alexander) "That he must die young, with great glory."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Did he have a choice?"
  • (Young Alexander) "Oh yes. He could've had a long life, but there would be no glory."
  • (Val Kilmer) "There's only one thing better than winning a battle, son --"
  • (Val Kilmer) "-- and that's the taste of a new woman. You'll find it far sweeter than self-pity."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Let these Greeks see for themselves the way I can walk through my people. Then let them call me tyrant. Bring the main guard in after my entry only."

Gary Stretch as Cleitus

  • (Gary Stretch) "A toast to Bagoas, and to the 30 thousand beautiful Persian boys we're training to fight in this great army. And to the memory Philip, had he lived to see his Macedonians transformed into such a pretty army."
  • (Gary Stretch) "How can you, so young, compare yourself to Heracles?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "Why not? I've achieved more in my years. Traveled as far. Probably farther."
  • (Gary Stretch) "Heracles did it by himself. Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? I mean, who planned the Asian invasion when you were still being spanked on your bottom by my sister? Was it not your father? Or is his blood no longer good enough?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "You insult me, Cleitus. You mock my family, be careful."
  • (Gary Stretch) "Never would your father take barbarians as friends or ask us to fight with them as equals in war. Are we not good enough any longer? I remember a time when we could talk as men, strait to the eye, none of this scraping and groveling. I remember a time when we hunted, when we wrestled on the gymnasium floor. And now you kiss them? Take a barbarian, childless wife, and dare call her Queen?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "Go quickly, Cleitus, before you ruin your life."
  • (Gary Stretch) "Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer? This army's your blood, boy. Without it you're nothing."
  • (Colin Farrell) "You no longer serve the purpose of this march. Get him from my sight."
  • (Gary Stretch) "What was I serving but to save your puppy life at Gaugamela? What if I left you to die in the dust?"
  • (Jared Leto) "Alexander -- Alexander."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Arrest him for treason. Who's with him? I call father Zeus to witness. I call you to trial before him. And we'll see how deep this conspiracy cuts."
  • (Jared Leto) "In the name of the gods, get him out of here."
  • (Gary Stretch) "Now look at you. Great Alexander. Hiding behind his guards. Are you too great to remember whose life was saved by me? I am more man than you'll ever be."
  • (Jared Leto) "He's gone. He's gone, Alexander, gone. Alexander."
  • (Gary Stretch) "What a tyrant you are. Evil tyrant you've become, Alexander. You speak about plots against you? What about poor Parmenion? He served you well. Look how you repaid him. Have you no shame?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "You ungrateful wretch. No one, not my finest enemy has spoken like you to me."
  • (Jared Leto) "Please, Alexander --"
  • (Jared Leto) "NO."
  • (Gary Stretch) "If I ever kneel down like that to any man, Crateros, kill me."
  • (Jared Leto) "Have another drink, Cleitus."
  • (Gary Stretch) "Shouldn't you be bowing to the king?"

Christopher Plummer as Aristotle

  • (Young Alexander) "It is, it has always been, our Greek dream to go east. My father long wants it."
  • (Christopher Plummer) "The east has a way of swallowing men and their dreams."
  • (Christopher Plummer) "I can only hope that you continue what you began as the boy I knew at twelve. Be that man always, Alexander, and you will not slip. And perhaps you will prove this old materialist, as you always thought me, a dreamer after all."
  • (Young Nearchus) "Master? Master?"
  • (Christopher Plummer) "Yes?"
  • (Young Nearchus) "Master?"
  • (Christopher Plummer) "Yes, out with it, out with it."
  • (Young Nearchus) "Why are the Persians so cruel?"
  • (Christopher Plummer) "That is not the subject for today Nearchus. But it is true, the Oriental races are known for their barbarity and slavish devotion to their senses. Excess in all things is the undoing of men. That is why we Greeks are superior, we practice control of our senses. Moderation."
  • (Christopher Plummer) "We hope."

Nick Dunning as Attalus

  • (Nick Dunning) "To Philip and Eurydice and to their legitimate sons. To Philip --"
  • (Jared Leto) "Alexander, don't --"
  • (Colin Farrell) "And what am I? You son of a dog. Come then."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Shut up. Shut up all of you. This is my wedding, not some public brawl."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Apologize by Zeus, before you dishonor me."
  • (Colin Farrell) "You defend the man that called my mother a whore and me a bastard? And I dishonor you?"
  • (Val Kilmer) "Ah.You listen more like your mother. Attalus is my family now, the same as you."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Then choose your relatives more carefully. Don't expect me to sit here and watch you shame yourself."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Shame?"
  • (Nick Dunning) "You insult me."
  • (Colin Farrell) "I insult you? Am I not fit to lick the ground my mother walks on?"
  • (Val Kilmer) "Shame?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "You dog, questioning your Queen."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Shame? I have nothing to be ashamed of you arrogant brat. I'll marry the girl if I want, and I'll have as many sons as I want, and there's nothing that you or your harpy mother can do about it."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Why, drunken man, must you think everything I do and say comes from my mother?"
  • (Val Kilmer) "Because I know her heart, by Hera. And I see her in your eyes. You covet this throne too much. Now we all know that she-wolf for a mother of yours wants me dead. Well, you can both dream boy."
  • (John Kavanagh) "Come Philip, it is the wine talking. Leave the boy, it can wait till the morning."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Now. I command you, apologize to your kinsman."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Apologize."
  • (Colin Farrell) "His no kinsman to me. Good night old man, and when my mother remarries, I'll invite you to her wedding."
  • (Val Kilmer) "You bastard. You'll obey me. Come here."
  • (Colin Farrell) "And this is the man who's going to take you from Greece to Persia? He can't even make it from one couch to the next."
  • (Val Kilmer) "Get out of my palace. Your exiled you bastard. Vanished from the land.You're not welcomed here. You're no son of mine"

Jared Leto as Hephaistion

  • (Jared Leto) "He is your king. Respect your king."
  • (Jared Leto) "The king lives. Alexander, son of Phillip. May the gods bless Alexander. Alexander is king."
  • (Jared Leto) "Would you want me to let you win, Alexander?"
  • (Young Alexander) "You're right. But I promise you, one day I will beat you, Hephaistion."
  • (Jared Leto) "The army grows restless, questioning. Alexander, they need your reassurance."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Like an old lover they forgive, but they will never forget."
  • (Jared Leto) "He was an ageing drunk."
  • (Colin Farrell) "He was my friend."
  • (Jared Leto) "I'll feel better. Soon I'll be up."
  • (Colin Farrell) "We leave for Arabia in the spring, I can't leave without you."
  • (Jared Leto) "Arabia -- you used to dress me up like a sheik and wave your wooden scimitar --"
  • (Colin Farrell) "You were the only one who'd never let me win. The only one who's ever been honest with me. You saved me from myself. Please don't leave me, Hephaistion."
  • (Jared Leto) "-- I remember the young man who wanted to be Achilles, and then out did him."
  • (Colin Farrell) "And then what happens? That was a myth only young men believe."
  • (Jared Leto) "But how beautiful a myth it was."
  • (Colin Farrell) "How we reach, we fall. Oh, Hephaistion."
  • (Jared Leto) "I worry for you without me."
  • (Colin Farrell) "I am nothing without you."
  • (Jared Leto) "You know better than any great deeds are donned by men who took, and never regretted. You're Alexander. Pity and grief will only destroy you."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Have I become so arrogant that I am blind?"
  • (Jared Leto) "Sometimes to expect the best from everyone is arrogance."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Then it's true. I have become a tyrant."
  • (Jared Leto) "No. But perhaps a stranger. We've come too far. They don't understand you anymore."
  • (Colin Farrell) "They speak of Phillip now as if I were a passing cloud, soon to be forgotten. I've failed. Utterly."
  • (Jared Leto) "You're mortal. And they know it. And they forgive you because you make them proud of themselves."
  • (Jared Leto) "They're animals. Monkeys."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Monkey -- look at his hands."
  • (Jared Leto) "So much like ours."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Hello little man."
  • (Colin Farrell) "Do they speak?"
  • (Jared Leto) "No. But they do sing, and make noises from the roofs of forests."
  • (Rosario Dawson) "Let me pass. I am the Queen. I want to see him. I've waited three days."
  • (Jared Leto) "He says none. Not even you."
  • (Rosario Dawson) "He needs me."
  • (Jared Leto) "No. He doesn't."
  • (Rosario Dawson) "And he needs you?"
  • (Jared Leto) "Can a man love a woman equally, Master?"
  • (Christopher Plummer) "A woman? Of course not. A woman is a slave to her passions, Hephaistion. Though, naturally, there are exceptions, and we must honor them. Such as Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war. But never forget, she was sprung not from the loins of Zeus, but from his mind."
  • (Jared Leto) "I found it in Egypt -- the man who sold it to me said it came from a time when man worshiped sun, and stars. I'll always think of you as the sun, Alexander. And I pray your dream will shine on all men."
  • (Jared Leto) "I wish you a son. You're a great man. Many will love you, Alexander, but none so pure and deep --"
  • (Rosario Dawson) "You -- love him?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "He is Hephaistion. There are many different ways to love."

Denis Conway as Nearchus

  • (Denis Conway) "Now you sound like Philip."
  • (Jared Leto) "Philip never saw Babylon."

Francisco Bosch as Bagoas

  • (Francisco Bosch) "You gave me the happiest days of my life."

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Cassander

  • (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "Alexander, if we must fight, do so with stealth. Use your numbers well; we should attack tonight when they least expect us."
  • (Colin Farrell) "I didn't cross Asia to steal this victory, Cassander."
  • (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) "No, you are too honorable for that, no doubt influenced from sleeping with tales of Troy under your pillow. But your father was no lover of Homer's."
  • (John Kavanagh) "The lands west of the Euphrates, Alexander, and his daughter's hand in marriage. Since when has a Greek ever been given such honors?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "These are not honors, Parmenion, they're bribes. Which the Greeks have accepted too long. You forget, Parmenion, that the man who murdered my father lies across the valley floor."
  • (John Kavanagh) "Come, Alexander, we're not really sure if it was Persian gold behind the assassination. It is no matter. Your father taught you never to surrender your reason to your passion. I urge you, with all my experience, regroup. Fall back to the coast, raise a larger force."
  • (Colin Farrell) "I would, if I were Parmenion. But I am Alexander. And no more than earth has two suns will Asia bear two kings. These are my terms. And if Darius isn't a coward who hides behind his men then he'll come to me tomorrow. And when he bows down to Greece, Alexander will be merciful."

Rosario Dawson as Roxane

  • (Rosario Dawson) "This I know, Alexander. In Persia you are a great king. Here, they hate you. Let us go back to Persia. There you are strong."
  • (Colin Farrell) "We'll talk about this later."
  • (Rosario Dawson) "Yes. Later. Talk."
  • (Colin Farrell) "I will come."
  • (Rosario Dawson) "And I will wait."

Rory McCann as Crateros

  • (Rory McCann) "In the rain and the sun we've fought for you. Some of us fifty battles we've been in. We've killed many a barbarian. And now when I look around, how many of their faces do I see?"
  • (Colin Farrell) "You know there's no part of me without a scar or a bone broken. I've shared every hardship with all of you."
  • (Rory McCann) "Aye, you have, my king. And we love you for it. But, by Zeus, too many have died. We're just humble men. We seek no disturbance with the gods. All we wish for is to see our children."

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