Cleopatra (1963 film) Quotes

Cleopatra (1963 film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . Cleopatra ended its run in 1970.

It features Walter Wanger as producer, Alex North in charge of musical score, and Leon Shamroy as head of cinematography.

Cleopatra (1963 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Cleopatra (1963 film) is 248 minutes long. Cleopatra (1963 film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Richard Burton as Antony, Andrew Keir as Agrippa, Richard Burton as Marc Antony, Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar, Roddy McDowall as Octavian, Martin Landau as Rufio, Robert Stephens as Germanicus, Gregoire Aslan as Pothinus, Roddy McDowall as Charmian, George Cole as Flavius, and Hume Cronyn as Sosigenes.

Cleopatra (1963 film) Quotes

Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra

• (Elizabeth Taylor) "I am the Nile. I will bear many sons. Isis has told me."

• (Elizabeth Taylor) "The way to prevent war is to be ready for it."
• (Hume Cronyn) "Have 300 warships ever been built for war without war?"

• (Elizabeth Taylor) "You come before me as a suppliant."
• (Richard Burton) "If you choose to regard me as such."
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "I do. You will therefore assume the position of a suppliant before this throne. You will kneel."
• (Richard Burton) "I will what ?"
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "On-your-knees."
• (Richard Burton) "You dare ask the Proconsul of the Roman Empire?"
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "I asked it of Julius Caesar. I demand it of you."

• (Elizabeth Taylor) "How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar. Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings. But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought."

• (Elizabeth Taylor) "You have not been dismissed."
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "You are now -- dismissed."

• (Elizabeth Taylor) "And I find what you're wearing most becoming. Greek, isn't it?"
• (Richard Burton) "I have a fondness for almost all Greek things."
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "As an almost all-Greek thing, I'm flattered."

• (Elizabeth Taylor) "There are never enough hours in the days of a queen, and her nights have too many."

• (Elizabeth Taylor) "I will not be told where I can go and where I cannot go."

Roddy McDowall as Charmian

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Richard Burton as Marc Antony

• (Richard Burton) "Fabulous feast."
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "One is so limited when one travels by ship."

• (Richard Burton) "What has angered you? That I dealt with Octavian however I could, or that I married his sister to do it? Jealousy or politics, which?"
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "Both. And damn you for not understanding either."
• (Richard Burton) "It would not occur to me to look to you for instruction."
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "Which is why you have come back chained to Octavian like a slave. And with such an exquisite set of chains. So softly spoken, so virtuous. She sleeps, I hear, fully-clothed."

• (Richard Burton) "Why are you not dead? Why do you live? How do you live? Why do you not lie at the deepest hole of the sea, bloodless, and bloated, and at peace with honorable death?"

• (Richard Burton) "A kiss -- to take my breath away --"

• (Richard Burton) "You know it's possible Octavian that when you die -- You will die without ever having been alive."

• (Richard Burton) "This son of Caesar, does it upset you?"
• (Caesar Augustus) "No."
• (Richard Burton) "You were so shut at the mouth just now one would think your words were are precious to you as your gold."
• (Caesar Augustus) "Like my gold, I used them where they are worth most."
• (Richard Burton) "Ah. And your virtue?"
• (Richard Burton) "My friend has a friend."
• (Caesar Augustus) "That too."

• (Richard Burton) "Your tongue is old, but sharp, Cicero. Be careful how you waggle it. One day it will cut off your head."

George Cole as Flavius

• (George Cole) "I've always loved you."
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "And I have always known."

Andrew Keir as Agrippa

• (Andrew Keir) "Nothing bores me so much as an intellectual."
• (Rex Harrison) "Makes a better admiral of you, Agrippa."

• (Andrew Keir) "Was this well done of your lady?"
• (High Priestess) "Extremely well. As befitting the last of so many noble rulers."
• (Narrator) "And the Roman asked, "Was this well done of your lady?" And the servant answered, "Extremely well. As befitting the last of so many noble rulers.""

• (Andrew Keir) "Was this well done of your lady?"
• (Roddy McDowall) "Extremely well, befitting the last of so many noble rulers."

Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar

• (Rex Harrison) "-- a position not acquired without some, shall we say, sacrifices?"

• (Rex Harrison) "You, a descendant of generations of inbred, incestuous, mental defectives."

• (Rex Harrison) "You all look so impressive. Any one of you could be king."
• (Gregoire Aslan) "His Majesty King Ptolemy, kindred of Horus and Ra, beloved of Thoth --"
• (Rex Harrison) "Et cetera, et cetera; you welcome me. And I, Gaius Julius Caesar, Consul of the Roman Senate, Pontifex Maximus, et cetera, et cetera, thank you."

• (Rex Harrison) "Germanicus. A guard to escort Queen Cleopatra to her apartments."
• (Robert Stephens) "Guard."
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "The corridors are dark gentlemen, but you mustn't be afraid. I am with you."

• (Rex Harrison) "Return Apollodorus's dagger to him, but clean it first. It has Pothinus all over it."

• (Rex Harrison) "Ah, yes. I seem to recall some mention of an obsession you have about your divinity -- Isis, is it not?"
• (Elizabeth Taylor) "I shall have to insist that you mind what you say. I AM Isis. I am worshipped by millions who believe it. You are not to confuse what I am with the so-called divine origin which every Roman general seems to acquire together with his shield. It was, uh, Venus you chose to be descended from, wasn't it?"

• (Rex Harrison) "Two hours until dawn. We will hold where we are."
• (Andrew Keir) "And what happens at dawn?"
• (Rex Harrison) "I thought you knew. The sun comes up."

• (Rex Harrison) "Why should the eyes of a statue always be without life?"

Robert Stephens as Germanicus

• (Robert Stephens) "Antony. Stay not too long in Alexandria."
• (Caesar Augustus) "Germanicus, stay not too long in Rome."

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