Movie Quotes

Lucilla: Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.

Lucilla: My brother hates all the world and you most of all.
Maximus: Because your father chose me.
Lucilla: No. Because my father loved you. And because I loved you.

Proximo:I know that you are a man of your word, General. I know that you would die for honour, for Rome, for the memory of your ancestors. But as for me? I’m an entertainer.

Lucilla: I want to help you.
Maximus Decimus Meridius: Yes, you can help me… Forget you ever knew me, and never come back here again.

Maximus: Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so.

Gracchus: He enters Rome like a conquering hero. But what has he conquered?
Falco: Give him time, Gracchus. He’s young, he may do very well.
Gracchus: For Rome, Falco? Or for you?

Maximus: What we do in life… echoes in eternity!

Maximus: Three thousand of my men are lying there in the frozen mud, five hundred are bloodied and cleaved and two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing!
Marcus: Then what would you believe?
Maximus: That they FOUGHT FOR YOU! I have seen much of the world, it is brutal cruel and dark. Rome is the light!
Marcus: And yet you have never been there! I am dying, Maximus!

Proximo: 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.

Maximus Decimus Meridius: At my signal, unleash hell.

Juba: You have a great name. He must kill your name before he kills you.

Maximus Decimus Meridius: Proximo, are you in danger of becoming a good man?

Lucius Verus: Are you the one they call the Spaniard?
Maximus: Yes.
Lucius Verus: 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?

Titus: We who are about to die salute you.

Maximus: Many things change.
Lucilla: Many things, not everything.

Proximo: We mortals are but shadows and dust.

Maximus: Do you find it difficult to do your duty?
Cicero: Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.

Juba: Can they hear you?
Maximus Decimus Meridius: Who?
Juba: Your family. In the afterlife.
Maximus Decimus Meridius: Oh yes.
Juba: What do you say to them?
Maximus Decimus Meridius: 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.

Commodus: What did you feel when you saw him?
Lucilla: (holding back emotion) I felt nothing.
Commodus: He wounded you deeply, didn’t he?
Lucilla: No more than I wounded him.

Proximo: 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.

Maximus: You know dirt cleans a lot easier than blood, Quintus.

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

Commodus: [as he smothers his father] I would butcher the whole world if you would only love me.