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Spartacus (film) Quotes

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

It features Edward Lewis (producer) as producer, Alex North in charge of musical score, and Russell Metty as head of cinematography.

Spartacus (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Spartacus (film) is 184 minutes long. Spartacus (film) is distributed by Universal Studios.

The cast includes: Tony Curtis as Antoninus, Laurence Olivier as Marcus Licinius Crassus, Herbert Lom as Tigranes Levantus, Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, Charles Laughton as Gracchus, Jean Simmons as Varinia, John Gavin as Julius Caesar, Peter Brocco as Ramon, Peter Ustinov as Batiatus, Woody Strode as Draba, Peter Ustinov as Lentulus Batiatus, Nina Foch as Helena Glabrus, Peter Ustinov as Lentulus Biatatus, John Hoyt as Caius, and Charles McGraw as Marcellus.

Spartacus (film) Quotes

Kirk Douglas as Spartacus

  • (Kirk Douglas) "Here's your victory. He'll come back. He'll come back, and he'll be millions."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Don't give them the pleasure of a contest. Lower your guard, I'll kill you on the first rush."
  • (Tony Curtis) "I won't let them crucify you."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "It's my last order, obey it."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "What's your name?"
  • (Woody Strode) "You don't want to know my name. I don't want to know your name."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Just a friendly question."
  • (Woody Strode) "Gladiators don't make friends. If we're ever matched in the arena together, I have to kill you."

Peter Ustinov as Batiatus

  • (Peter Ustinov) "But I'm a civilian. I'm more of a civilian than most civilians."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "Come with us. See to it I don't misuse the money."
  • (Charles Laughton) "Don't be ridiculous. I'm a Senator."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "Marcus Licinius Crassus. Most noble radiance, first general of the Republic, father and defender of Rome, honour my house. Bless it with your presence. Wine. Sweetmeats. Can't you see that Their Honours are exhausted? Have the goodness to sit. Is anything wrong, Your Nobility?"
  • (Laurence Olivier) "No."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "Welcome to the Lady Claudia Maria, former wife of Lucius Caius Marius, whose recent execution touched us all so deeply. Honour to the Lady Helena, daughter of the late Septimus Optimus Glabrus, whose fame shall live on forever in the person of his son, your brother, Marcus Publius Glabrus, hero of the Eastern Wars."
  • (Nina Foch) "How very much he knows. Allow me to bring you up to date. We're here to celebrate the marriage of my brother to the Lady Claudia."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "A mating of eagles, Your Sanctity. Fan His Magnitude. He sweats."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "A good body with a dull brain is as cheap as life itself."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "There I was, better than a millionaire in the morning and a penniless refugee by nightfall with nothing but these rags and my poor flesh to call of my own. All because of Crassus decides to break his journey at Capua with a couple of capricious, over-painted nymphs. These two daughters of Venus had to taunt the gladiators, force them to fight to the death and before I knew what had happened, revolution on my hands."
  • (Charles Laughton) "What revenge have you in mind?"
  • (Peter Ustinov) "I sold Crassus this woman, Varinia. May the gods give her wens. There was no contract, but she was clearly his slave as soon as the deal was made. Now she's off with Spartacus killing people in their beds. And Crassus, no mention of the money, no."
  • (Charles Laughton) "You never offered me this woman. Why not?"
  • (Peter Ustinov) "Well, she's not remotely your type, Gracchus. She is very thin and --"
  • (Charles Laughton) "Look around you. You'll see women of all sizes. 500 sesterces deposit on Varinia. Since he hasn't paid, this gives me first call over Crassus."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "May the Gods adore you. Why would you buy a woman that you have never seen?"
  • (Charles Laughton) "To annoy Crassus, of course, and to help you."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "Good luck, and may fortune smile upon -- most of you."

Jean Simmons as Varinia

  • (Jean Simmons) "What are you thinking about?"
  • (Kirk Douglas) "I'm free. And what do I know? I don't even know how to read."
  • (Jean Simmons) "You know things that can't be taught."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "I know nothing. Nothing. And I wanna know. I want to -- I wanna know."
  • (Jean Simmons) "Know what?"
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Everything. Why a star falls and a bird doesn't, where the sun goes at night, why the moon changes shape. I wanna know where the wind comes from."
  • (Jean Simmons) "The wind begins in a cave: far to the north, a young god sleeps in that cave. He dreams of a girl and he sighs, and the night wind stirs with his breath."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "I wanna know all about you. Every line, every curve. I wanna know every part of you. Every beat of your heart."
  • (Jean Simmons) "You like him, don't you."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Who wants to fight? An animal can learn to fight. But to say beautiful things, and to make people believe them --"
  • (Jean Simmons) "Please die, my love -- die, die now my darling."
  • (Jean Simmons) "Goodbye, my love, my life. Goodbye, good-bye."
  • (Jean Simmons) "You're afraid of him, aren't you? It's no use trying to be better than him, it won't work."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "We shall see --"
  • (Jean Simmons) "I won't break."

Nina Foch as Helena Glabrus

  • (Nina Foch) "Do my choices displease you?"
  • (Peter Ustinov) "Oh no, Lady Helena. I tingle."

Charles Laughton as Gracchus

  • (Charles Laughton) "Prettier --"
  • (Charles Laughton) "Julia, I don't like the sound of weeping. This is a happy house, please stop."
  • (Charles Laughton) "Will you please leave, before the soldiers get here?"
  • (Charles Laughton) "Oh -- oh, this would make Crassus really jealous. Go now, and make my joy complete. Save your tears now, save them for the journey."
  • (Charles Laughton) "This republic of ours is something like a rich widow. Most Romans love her as their mother but Crassus dreams of marrying the old girl to put it politely."
  • (Charles Laughton) "The new master of Rome will be calling on me tomorrow, he wants me to make a speech. Take him to wherever I am and show me to him. And Julia, when I meet you in paradise, describe to me the expression on his face when he saw me dead. Now go away. Go away."
  • (Charles Laughton) "Let's add courage to your new found virtues. Make it 1,000,000 sesterces."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "Crassus does seem to dwindle in the mind."

Laurence Olivier as Marcus Licinius Crassus

  • (Laurence Olivier) "One of the disadvantages of being a Patrician is that occasionally you are obliged to act like one."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "Do you eat oysters?"
  • (Tony Curtis) "When I have them, master."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "Do you eat snails?"
  • (Tony Curtis) "No, master."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral?"
  • (Tony Curtis) "No, master."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn't it?"
  • (Tony Curtis) "Yes, master."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals."
  • (Tony Curtis) "It could be argued so, master."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "The enemies of the state are known, arrests are being made, the prisons begin to fill."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "Did you truly believe 500 years of Rome could so easily be delivered to the clutches of a mob? Already the bodies of 6000 crucified slaves line along the Appian Way. Tomorrow the last of their companions will fight to their death in the temple of my fathers as a sacrifice to them. As those slaves have died, so will your rabble -- if they falter one instant in loyalty to the new order of affairs. Arrests are in progress. The prisons began to fill. In every city and province, lists of the disloyal have been compiled. Tomorrow, they will learn the cost of their terrible folly -- their treason."
  • (Charles Laughton) "Where does my name appear on the list of the disloyal enemies of the state?"
  • (Laurence Olivier) "First. Yet, I have no desire of vengeance upon you. Your property shall not be touched. You will retain the rank and title of a Roman Senator. A house -- a farmhouse in Picenum has been provided for your exile. You may take your women with you."
  • (Charles Laughton) "Why am I to be left so conspicuously alive?"
  • (Laurence Olivier) "Your followers are deluded enough to trust you. I intend that you shall speak to them tomorrow for their own good, their peaceful and profitable future. From time to time thereafter, I may find it useful to bring you back to Rome to continue your duty to her, to calm the envious spirit and the troubled mind. You will persuade them to accept destiny and order and trust the gods."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "I promise you, a new Rome. A new Italy, and a new Empire."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "This, I have sworn by the spirits of my ancestors. This I have sworn, in the temple that guards their bones."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "Let them fight now. Unchain them."
  • (John Gavin) "The entire city's been told, they'll fight tomorrow in the temple of your ancestors."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "They will fight now, for me. Here. And to the death. And the victor will be crucified."

Tony Curtis as Antoninus

  • (Tony Curtis) "Are you afraid to die, Spartacus?"
  • (Kirk Douglas) "No more than I was to be born."
  • (Tony Curtis) "I'm Spartacus."

John Gavin as Julius Caesar

  • (John Gavin) "Is it me you want or is it the garrison?"
  • (Laurence Olivier) "Both."
  • (John Gavin) "I thought you had reservations about the gods."
  • (Charles Laughton) "Privately I believe in none of them; neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all."
  • (John Gavin) "Rome is the mob."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "No. Rome is an eternal thought in the mind of God."
  • (John Gavin) "I'd no idea you'd grown religious."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "It doesn't matter. If there were no gods at all I'd still revere them. If there were no Rome, I'd dream of her."
  • (John Gavin) "Did you fear him, Crassus?"
  • (Laurence Olivier) "Not when I fought him, I knew he could be beaten. But now I fear him, even more than I fear you."
  • (John Gavin) "Me?"
  • (Laurence Olivier) "Yes, my dear Caesar, you."

Herbert Lom as Tigranes Levantus

  • (Herbert Lom) "If you looked into a magic crystal, you saw your army destroyed and yourself dead. If you saw that in the future, as I'm sure you're seeing it now, would you continue to fight?"
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Yes."
  • (Herbert Lom) "Knowing that you must lose?"
  • (Kirk Douglas) "Knowing we can. All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things."
  • (Herbert Lom) "They both lose life."
  • (Kirk Douglas) "When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win."

Charles McGraw as Marcellus

  • (Charles McGraw) "No talking in the kitchen, slave."

John Hoyt as Caius

  • (John Hoyt) "Sir, allow us to pledge you the most glorious triumph of your career."
  • (Laurence Olivier) "I'm not after glory, I'm after Spartacus."

Peter Brocco as Ramon

  • (Peter Brocco) "We have visitors. Tremendous visitors. Two simply enormous Roman lords on the hill."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "How easily impressed you are, Ramon. Just 'cause they're Romans, I suppose they're enormous. Tell them to wait for me when they arrive."
  • (Peter Brocco) "Master, you don't understand."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "How enormous do these Roman lords get?"
  • (Peter Brocco) "One of them is Marcus Licinius Crassus."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "What? Wait a minute. Crassus here? Varinia, my red toga with the acorns. And some chairs in the atrium. Second-best wine. No, the best, but small goblets."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "Gracchus. You know how Crassus loathes him. Take him away."
  • (Peter Brocco) "I can't lift it."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "Use your imagination. Cover him. Tell Marcellus to get the men ready. Crassus has expensive taste. He'll want a show of some sort."
  • (Peter Ustinov) "Forgive me, Gracchus."

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