Caligula (film) Quotes

Caligula (film) is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Caligula ended in 1970.

It features Bob Guccione as producer, Bruno Nicolai in charge of musical score, and Silvano Ippoliti as head of cinematography.

Caligula (film) is distributed by Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (P.A.C.) (Italy).

The cast includes: Malcolm McDowell as Caligula, Paolo Bonacelli as Chaerea, Peter O'Toole as Tiberius, John Steiner as Longinus, John Gielgud as Nerva, Guido Mannari as Macro, Donato Placido as Proculus, and Helen Mirren as Caesonia.

Caligula (film) Quotes

Guido Mannari as Macro

• (Guido Mannari) "Forgive me, Prince. The emperor commands you to wait upon him."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "What does he want?"
• (Guido Mannari) "A last look at you, perhaps. He is 77."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "May he live forever."

Peter O'Toole as Tiberius

• (Peter O'Toole) "Oh, yes, I am a true moralist, and stern as any Cato. Fate chose me to govern swine, in my old age, I have become a swineherd."

• (Peter O'Toole) "I know everything that is said and done. And thought. The setting sun and the rising moon. Gemellus, lovely boy. And too young to betray me. Perhaps not too young."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Do you prefer nymphs to satyrs?"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "I like both, Lord."
• (Peter O'Toole) "One needs both, yes, to keep healthy."

• (Peter O'Toole) "If someone else had become emperor, I would've been killed -- As you will be."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Will be?"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Will be, Grandfather?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Would be, if you were not my heir."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Rome is a republic and you and I are playing citizens. More confection. That's the best of my stallions. Serve the state, Caligula, although the people in it are wicked beasts."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Cretins -- why did you permit him to do it?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Bind his wrists -- BIND HIS WRISTS."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You must not go, you must not leave me, you are my friend, my only friend."
• (John Gielgud) "I've lived too long, Tiberius, I hate my life."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Leave us. Both of you."
• (John Gielgud) "The man to choose the hour of his own death is the closest he will ever come to tricking fate. And fate decrees that when you die, Macro will kill me."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I'll arrest him, have him executed."
• (John Gielgud) "You can't, he controls you. Anyway, even with Macro dead,"
• (John Gielgud) "how could I go on living with this -- reptile?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "You will respect my friend always, won't you, reptile?"

• (Peter O'Toole) "Do you think this boy has drunk enough wine?"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "I think he's drunk enough, Lord."
• (Peter O'Toole) "So do I."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Now he is happy."

• (Peter O'Toole) "It is fate that rules us, Little Boots, not any god."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "You are a god."
• (Peter O'Toole) "No, I'm NOT. Not even when I'm dead."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar, they are gods."
• (Peter O'Toole) "So says the senate, and so the people prefer to believe. Such myths are useless."

• (Peter O'Toole) "A brother kills a brother who's killed his father who's killed his son. Fate. And then someone will kill Caligula."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Do you think this boy has been drinking?"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "I think he has, Caesar."
• (Peter O'Toole) "So do I. Macro? Bring him more wine."

• (Peter O'Toole) "When Rome was just a city and we were just citizens, we're known to one another. And we were frugal, good, disciplined and dignified. The Romans I rule are not like we were. They lust for power and pleasure. Money the wives of other men."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Another brother is enough envy. Brother kills a brother who's killed his father who's killed his son."

• (Peter O'Toole) "I am mercy. A viper in Rome's bosom."

Malcolm McDowell as Caligula

• (Malcolm McDowell) "Jupiter loves ME."

• (Unnamed) "I offer my life if Jupiter will only spare our beloved Emperor."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Jupiter accepts your offer."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Execute him."

• (Malcolm McDowell) "Let them hate me, so long as they fear me."

• (Malcolm McDowell) "Speaking statues."

• (Julia Drusilla) "You are a fool."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Caesar cannot be a fool."
• (Julia Drusilla) "But he's trying very hard --"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Caesar cannot be a fool."

• (Malcolm McDowell) "I hear you have a taste for little boys. Is that not so?"
• (Paolo Bonacelli) "No Caesar, big boys."

• (Malcolm McDowell) "I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God."

• (Malcolm McDowell) "Nerva, what's it like?"
• (John Gielgud) "Warm, no pain -- just drifting away."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Can you see her?"
• (John Gielgud) "Who?"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "The goddess, Isis?"
• (John Gielgud) "So you're one of those who believe --"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Do you see her?"
• (John Gielgud) "No."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Are you sure? You're almost dead. What's it like, what's happening to you now?"
• (John Gielgud) "Slowly -- drifting -- like sleep --"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Liar -- you can see her, I know you can. What is she like?"
• (John Gielgud) "No -- Slowly --"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "LIAR."

• (Malcolm McDowell) "Longinus, you're not having any fun. Enjoy yourself. What is your preference?"
• (John Steiner) "Everything and nothing Caesar."

• (Malcolm McDowell) "I, Caligula Caesar, command in the name of the senate and the people of Rome."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "I, Caligula Caesar, command in the name of the -- senate -- and --"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "the people of Rome."
• (Malcolm McDowell) ". I, Caligula Caesar,"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "command in the name of the senate and the people of Rome."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "I, Caligula Caesar, command in the name of the senate and the people of Rome."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "I, Caligula Caesar, command in the name of the senate and the people of Rome."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "I, Caligula Caesar, command in the name of the senate and the people of Rome. I, Caligula Caesar, command in the name of the senate and the people of Rome. I, Caligula Caesar, command in the name of the senate and the people of Rome. Rome. Rome. Rome. Caesar. Caesar. Rome. Rome. Rubbish. Rubbish."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "I, Caligula Caesar, command in the name of the senate and the people of Rome."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "No wonder life's so dull."

• (Julia Drusilla) "It's a girl."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "It is not a girl. Did you not hear Caesar say?"
• (Julia Drusilla) "I heard the voice of Caesar. But your daughter did not."

• (Malcolm McDowell) "Caesar begged you."

• (Malcolm McDowell) "I -- live."

Helen Mirren as Caesonia

• (Helen Mirren) "They are senators and consuls. They are important men."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "So important that they prove all I do?"
• (Helen Mirren) "They must be mad."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "I don't know what else to do to revolt them."

John Gielgud as Nerva

• (John Gielgud) "Tiberius, you were wise once."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Don't taunt me. I am old."
• (John Gielgud) "I've watched you grow into a monster. One by one, I've seen you murder your whole family, your friends, the noblest men in Rome."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "That is treason."
• (John Gielgud) "No, it's the truth."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I am and always have been surrounded by enemies. In my own family, in the senate -- You are cruel."
• (John Gielgud) "Honest old men can sometimes see the future. So, from the evils past, and the evils yet to come, I now choose to escape."

• (John Gielgud) "When I am gone, Caligula will kill you. And then, someone will kill Caligula. Unless he is dead, before I am."

Donato Placido as Proculus

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Paolo Bonacelli as Chaerea

• (Paolo Bonacelli) "There is no enemy."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "There is papyrus cane."
• (Paolo Bonacelli) "Papyrus cane, divine Caesar?"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Yes, papyrus. Don't be so stupid, Chaerea. Order my army to attack and destroy that papyrus."
• (Paolo Bonacelli) "Yes, lord."
• (Malcolm McDowell) "After all, we must have some proof that I conquered Britain."

• (Paolo Bonacelli) "Where is Britain?"
• (Malcolm McDowell) "Where? There."
• (Paolo Bonacelli) "Ah, yes, Lord, there."

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