2. “Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?” – Maximus
3. “People should know when they’re conquered.” – Quintus
4. “You know dirt cleans off a lot easier than blood, Quintus.” – Maximus
5. “Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear.” – Maximus
6. “Death smiles on us all. All a man can do is smile back.” – Marcus Aurelius
7. “I think you’ve been afraid all your life.” – Maximus
8. “Ancestors, I honor you and will try to live with the dignity that you have taught me.” – Maximus
9. “He enters Rome like a conquering hero. But what has he conquered?” – Commodus
10. “Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so.” – Maximus
11. “I’ve seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.” – Maximus
12. “Commodus, your faults as a son is my failure as a father.” – Marcus Aurelius
13. “Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the emperor of Rome.” – Lucilla
14. “I don’t pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people.” – Gracchus
15. “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.” – Maximus
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16. “At my signal, unleash hell.” – Maximus
17. “I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough.” – Maximus
18. “Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.” – Cicero
19. “When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The ? The tyrant? Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self?” – Marcus Aurelius
20. “You have a great name. He must kill your name before he kills you.” – Juba
21. “Ultimately, we are all dead men. Sadly we cannot choose how but we can decide how we meet that end in order that we are remembered as men.” – Proximo
22. “All I’ve ever wanted was to live up to you, Caesar. Father.” – Commodus
23. “He’ll bring them death, and they will love him for it.” – Gracchus
24. “And the great whore will suckle us until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more.” – Proximo
25. “I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death?” – Commodus
26. “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.” – Lucilla
27. “We are nothing but dust and shadows. Dust and shadows!” – Proximo
28. “There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.” – Marcus Aurelius
29. “A general who became a slave. A slave who became a gladiator. A gladiator who defied an emperor.” – Commodus
30. “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.” – Maximus
31. “Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the of a champion.” – Manu Bennett
32. “You have proven your valor once again, Maximus. Let us hope for the last time.” – Marcus Aurelius
33. “Give him time. He’s young. I think he could do very well.” – Falco
34. “The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end. Highness.” – Maximus
35. “I search the faces of the gods―for ways to please you, to make you proud. One kind word, one full hug―where you pressed me to your chest and held me tight. Would have been like the sun on my heart for a thousand years. What is it in me that you hate so much?” – Commodus
36. “Yes, you can help me. Forget you ever knew me, and never come back here again.” – Maximus
37. “No. Because my father loved you. And because I loved you.” – Lucilla
38. “Fear and wonder, a powerful combination.” – Gracchus
39. “No more than I wounded him.” – Lucilla
40. “My brother hates all the world and you most of all.” – Lucilla
41. “He wounded you deeply, didn’t he?” – Commodus
42. “What did you feel when you saw him?” – Commodus
43. “Your Emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand, I only offer it once.” – Commodus
44. “How dare you show your back to me! Slave, you will remove your helmet and tell me your name.” – Commodus
45. “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.” – Commodus
46. “They fought for you and for Rome.” – Maximus
47. “Save the bulls. Honor Maximus. He won the battle.” – Marcus Aurelius
48. “You don’t find it hard to do your duty?” – Maximus
49. “I want you to become the protector of Rome after I die. I will empower you to one end alone, to give power back to the people of Rome and end the corruption that has crippled it. Do you accept this great honor that I have offered you?” – Marcus Aurelius
50. “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.” – Maximus
51. “Quintus, look at me, look at me! Promise me that you will look after my family.” – Maximus
52. “Because your father chose me.” – Maximus
53. “You must know. He was your father.” – Maximus
54. “Let us pretend that you are a loving daughter, and I am a good father.” – Marcus Aurelius
55. “You see, my wife and my son are already waiting for me.” – Maximus
56. “Your family will meet you in the afterlife.” – Quintus
57. Marcus Aurelius: “When was the last time you were home?”
Maximus: “Two years, 264 days, and this morning.”
58. “You loved my father, I know. But so did I. That makes us brothers, doesn’t it? Smile for me now, brother.” – Commodus
59. “The people are my children, I am their father. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly.” – Commodus
60. “You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues: wisdom, justice, fortitude, and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them. But I have other virtues, father. Ambition. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. Resourcefulness, courage, perhaps not on the battlefield, but there are many forms of courage. Devotion, to my family and to you. But none of my virtues were on your list. Even then it was as if you didn’t want me for your son.” – Commodus
61. “Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become.” – Marcus Aurelius
62. “Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe they fought and died for nothing.” – Maximus
63. “I’m sorry, Caesar has spoken. Ride until dawn―and then execute him.” – Quintus
64. “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.” – Commodus
65. “I will see you again, but not yet. Not yet.” – Juba
66. “Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?” – Gracchus
67.“The frost―sometimes it makes the blade stick.” – Maximus
68.“Father, congratulations. I shall sacrifice a hundred bulls to honor your triumph.” – Commodus
69. “Win the crowd and you will win your freedom.” – Proximo
70. “Some are good for fighting, others for dying. You need both, I think.” – Slave Trader
71. “If you are a gladiator, a fighter in this sport, in life you can be the same.” – Claudio Ranieri
72. “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.” – Proximo
73. “They said you were a giant. They said you could crush a man’s skull with one hand.” – Lucius Verus
74. “The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it’s the sand of the coliseum.” – Gracchus
75. “Listen to me. Learn from me. I was not the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me.” – Proximo
76. “Why not? Do you think I am afraid?” – Commodus
77. “Can any of them fight? I’ve got a match coming up.” – Proximo
78. “There is always someone left to fight. How can I reward Rome’s greatest general?” – Marcus Aurelius
79. “Why do I want that? He makes me rich. Oh I―I know that you are a man of your word, General. I know that you would die for honor. You would die for Rome. You would die for the memory of your ancestors. But on the other hand, I am an entertainer.” – Proximo
80. “Quintus, free my men. Senator Gracchus is to be reinstated. There was a dream that was Rome, it shall be realized. These are the wishes of Marcus Aurelius.” – Maximus
81. “Have I missed it? Have I missed the battle?” – Commodus
82. “You should see the Colosseum, Spaniard. Fifty thousand Romans watching every movement of your sword, willing you to make that killer blow. The silence before you strike and the noise afterward. It rises. It rises up like a storm. As if you were the thunder god himself.” – Proximo
83. “ No, but if you interrupt me again, I assure you that you will.” – Commodus
84. “Are you the one they call the Spaniard?” – Lucius Verus
85. “You have sold me queer giraffes.” – Proximo
86. “Yes I did. You are good, Spaniard, but you’re not that good. You could be magnificent.” – Proximo
87. “Senator Gracchus. Don’t often see you enjoying the pleasures of the vulgar crowd.” – Falco
88. “I did not say I knew him. I said he touched me on the shoulder once!” – Proximo
89. “My name is Gladiator.” – Maximus
90. “Gladiators―I salute you.” – Proximo
91. “And what is Rome, Maximus?” – Marcus Aurelius
92. “Only a famous death will do” – Commodus
93. “Who will help me carry him?” – Gracchus
94. “Am I not merciful?” – Commodus
95. “There is no one left to fight, sire.” – Maximus
96. “With all my heart, no.” – Maximus
97. “Would you, Quintus? Would I?” – Maximus
98. “Let me go home.” – Maximus
99. “You would fight me?” – Maximus
