Gladiator (2000 film) Quotes

Gladiator (2000 film) is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Gladiator stopped airing in 1970.

It features Douglas Wick; David Franzoni; Branko Lustig as producer, Hans Zimmer; Lisa Gerrard in charge of musical score, and John Mathieson (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Gladiator (2000 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Gladiator (2000 film) is 155 minutes long. Gladiator (2000 film) is distributed by DreamWorks Pictures.

The cast includes: Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus, Tomas Arana as Quintus, Connie Nielsen as Lucilla, Spencer Treat Clark as Lucius Verus, Sven-Ole Thorsen as Tigris, Djimon Hounsou as Juba, Derek Jacobi as Gracchus, David Schofield as Falco, Oliver Reed as Proximo, and David Hemmings as Cassius.

Gladiator (2000 film) Quotes

Derek Jacobi as Gracchus

• (Derek Jacobi) "But the Senate IS the people, sire. Chosen from AMONG the people. To speak FOR the people."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I doubt if any of the people eat so well as you, Gracchus. Or have such splendid mistresses, Gaius."

• (Derek Jacobi) "I don't pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people."

• (Derek Jacobi) "The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Colosseum. He'll bring them death and they will love him for it."

• (Derek Jacobi) "Fear and wonder, a powerful combination."
• (David Schofield) "You really think people are going to be seduced by that?"
• (Derek Jacobi) "I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it's the sand of the coliseum. He'll bring them death; and they will love him for it."

• (Derek Jacobi) "And after your glorious coup, what then? You take your five thousand and -- leave?"
• (Maximus) "Yes, I will leave. The soldiers will stay here for your protection, under the guidance of the Senate."
• (Derek Jacobi) "So, after Rome's all yours, you just give it back to the people. Tell me why."
• (Maximus) "Because that was a dying man's last wish. I will kill Commodus. The fate of Rome, I leave to you."
• (Derek Jacobi) "Marcus Aurelius trusted you. His daughter trusts you. I will trust you. Give me two days, and I will purchase your freedom. And you, stay alive, or I'll be dead."

• (Derek Jacobi) "He enters Rome like a conquering hero. But what has he conquered?"
• (David Schofield) "Give him time, Gracchus. He's young, he may do very well."
• (Derek Jacobi) "For Rome? Or for you?"

Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "It's a dream, a frightful dream -- life is --"

• (Maximus) "I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.""
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death?"
• (Maximus) "You must know. He was your father."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "You loved my father, I know. But so did I. That makes us brothers, doesn't it? Smile for me now, brother."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I think I understand my own people."
• (Derek Jacobi) "Then perhaps Caesar will be so good as to teach us, out of his own extensive experience?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "I call it love, Gracchus. The people are my children, I am their father. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly --"
• (Derek Jacobi) "Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "No, but if you interrupt me again, I assure you that you will."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "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?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Why not? Do you think I am afraid?"
• (Maximus) "I think you've been afraid all your life."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Your Emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand, I only offer it once."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "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."
• (David Schofield) "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."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "No. I will not make a martyr of him."
• (David Schofield) "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."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "So, we will lie still, and let our enemies come to us and nibble. Have every senator followed."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "If you're very good, tomorrow night I'll tell you the story of emperor Claudius who was betrayed by those closest to him, by his own blood. They whispered in dark corners and went out late at night and conspired and conspired but the emperor Claudius knew they were up to something. He knew they were busy little bees. And one night he sat down with one of them and he looked at her and he said, "Tell me what you've been doing busy little bee or I shall strike down those dearest to you. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood." And the emperor was heartbroken. The little bee had wounded him more deeply than anyone else could ever have done. And what do you think happened then, Lucius?"
• (Spencer Treat Clark) "I don't know, uncle."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "The little bee told him everything."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Have I missed it? Have I missed the battle?"
• (Marcus Aurelius) "You have missed the war."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Father, congratulations. I shall sacrifice a hundred bulls to honor your triumph."
• (Marcus Aurelius) "Save the bulls. Honor Maximus. He won the battle."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Lucius will stay with me now. And if his mother so much as looks at me in a manner that displeases me, he will die. If she decides to be noble and takes her own life, he will die."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "And as for you, you will love me as I loved you. You will provide me with an heir of pure blood, so that Commodus and his progeny will rule for a thousand years. Am I not merciful?"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "AM I NOT MERCIFUL?"

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "What am I going to do with you? You simply won't -- die. Are we so different, you and I? You take life when you have to -- as I do."
• (Maximus) "I have only one more life to take. Then it is done."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Then take it now."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "They tell me your son --"
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "-- squealed like a girl when they nailed him to the cross. And your wife -- moaned like a whore when they ravaged her again and again -- and again."
• (Maximus) "The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end."
• (Maximus) "Highness."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "Rise. Rise."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "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."
• (Joaquin Phoenix) "How dare you show your back to me. Slave, you will remove your helmet and tell me your name."
• (Maximus) "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and 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."
• (Tomas Arana) "Arms."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "He sleeps so well because he is loved."

• (Joaquin Phoenix) "It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed."

Oliver Reed as Proximo

• (Oliver Reed) "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 bitch 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 --"
• (Oliver Reed) "Gladiators -- I salute you."

• (Oliver Reed) "Some of you are thinking that you won't fight. Others, that you can't fight. They all say that, until they're out there"

• (Maximus) "You knew Marcus Aurelius?"
• (Oliver Reed) "I didn't say I knew him, I said he touched me on the shoulder once."

• (Oliver Reed) "Can any of them fight? I've got a match coming up."
• (Slave Trader) "Some are good for fighting, others for dying. You need both, I think."

• (Oliver Reed) "You're good, Spaniard, but you're not that good. You could be magnificent."

• (Oliver Reed) "So Spaniard, we shall go to Rome together and have bloody adventures. And the great whore 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."

• (Oliver Reed) "He knows too well how to manipulate the mob."
• (Maximus) "Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Rome, Proximo. That is not it. That is not it."
• (Oliver Reed) "Marcus Aurelius is dead, Maximus. We mortals are but shadows and dust. Shadows and dust, Maximus."

• (Oliver Reed) "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."

• (Maximus) "Are you in danger of becoming a good man, Proximo?"
• (Oliver Reed) "Ha."

• (Oliver Reed) "Thrust this into another man's flesh, and they will applaud and love you for that. You may even begin to love them"
• (Oliver Reed) "for that."

• (Oliver Reed) "Those giraffes you sold me, they won't mate. They just walk around, eating, and not mating. You sold me -- queer giraffes. I want my money back."

• (Oliver Reed) "Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how but, what we can decide is how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered, as men."

• (Maximus) "Do you remember what it was to have trust, Proximo?"
• (Oliver Reed) "Trust?"

• (Oliver Reed) "Congratulations, you have very persuasive friends."
• (Connie Nielsen) "My brother's had Gracchus arrested. We daren't wait any longer. We must leave tonight. Proximo will be here t midnight and take you to the gate. Your servant, Cicero will be waiting there with horses."
• (Maximus) "You have done all this?"
• (Connie Nielsen) "Yes."
• (Maximus) "You risk too much."
• (Connie Nielsen) "I have much to pay for."
• (Maximus) "You have nothing to pay for. You love your son, you are strong for him."
• (Connie Nielsen) "I am tired of being strong.(sighs) My brother hates all the world and you most of all."
• (Maximus) "Because your father chose me."
• (Connie Nielsen) "No because my father loved you -- and because I loved you."
• (Maximus) "A long time ago."
• (Connie Nielsen) "Was I very different then?"
• (Maximus) "(shakes his head, touches her face with his finger) You laughed more."
• (Connie Nielsen) "I have felt alone all my life, except with you. I must go."
• (Maximus) "Yes."

• (Oliver Reed) "I know that you are a man of your word, General. I know that you would die for honor, for Rome, for the memory of your ancestors. But as for me? I'm an entertainer."

Sven-Ole Thorsen as Tigris

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Spencer Treat Clark as Lucius Verus

• (Spencer Treat Clark) "Gladiator, are you the one they call the Spaniard?"
• (Maximus) "Yes."
• (Spencer Treat Clark) "They said you were a giant. They said you could crush a man's skull with one hand."
• (Maximus) "A man's? No. A boy's --"
• (Spencer Treat Clark) "They have good horses in Spain?"
• (Maximus) "Some of the best."
• (Maximus) "This is Argento, and this is Scarto. They were my horses. They were taken from me."
• (Spencer Treat Clark) "I like you Spaniard, and I shall cheer for you."
• (Maximus) "They let you watch the games?"
• (Spencer Treat Clark) "My uncle says it makes me strong."
• (Maximus) "And what does your father say?"
• (Spencer Treat Clark) "My father's dead."
• (Lucius' Attendant) "Master Lucius, it is time."
• (Spencer Treat Clark) "I have to go."
• (Maximus) "Thy name is Lucius?"
• (Spencer Treat Clark) "Lucius Verus, after my father."

Connie Nielsen as Lucilla

• (Connie Nielsen) "What did my father want with you?"
• (Maximus) "To wish me well before I leave for home."
• (Connie Nielsen) "You're lying, I could always tell when you were lying because you were never any good at it."
• (Maximus) "I never acquired your comfort with it."
• (Connie Nielsen) "True, but then you never had to, life is more simple for a soldier. Or do you think me heartless?"
• (Maximus) "I think you have a talent for survival."

• (Connie Nielsen) "Please be quiet, brother. Your constant scheming gives me even more of a headache."

• (Connie Nielsen) "I want to help you."
• (Maximus) "Yes, you can help me -- Forget you ever knew me, and never come back here again."

• (Connie Nielsen) "This man wants what you want."
• (Maximus) "Then have him kill Commodus."

• (Connie Nielsen) "Is Rome worth one good man's life? We believed it once. Make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome. Honor him."
• (Derek Jacobi) "Who will help me carry him?"

Djimon Hounsou as Juba

• (Djimon Hounsou) "You have a great name. He must kill your name before he kills you."

• (Djimon Hounsou) "I didn't know men could build such things."

• (Djimon Hounsou) "Can they hear you?"
• (Maximus) "Who?"
• (Djimon Hounsou) "Your family. In the afterlife."
• (Maximus) "Oh yes."
• (Djimon Hounsou) "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."

David Hemmings as Cassius

• (David Hemmings) "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."
• (Maximus) "Anyone here been in the army?"
• (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."
• (David Hemmings) "I'm pleased to bring to you the Legionnaires of Scipio Africanus."

Tomas Arana as Quintus

• (Tomas Arana) "People should know when they are conquered."
• (Maximus) "Would you, Quintus? Would I?"

• (Tomas Arana) "Maximus, please be careful, that wasn't prudent."
• (Maximus) "Prudent? The Emperor has been slain."

• (Tomas Arana) "Soldier. I told you to move those catapults forward. They're out of range."
• (Maximus) "Range is good."
• (Tomas Arana) "The danger to the cavalry --"
• (Maximus) "Is acceptable. Agreed?"

• (Maximus) "Quintus, look at me. Look at me. Promise me that you'll look after my family."
• (Tomas Arana) "Your family will meet you in the afterlife."

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