Gladiator (2000) quotes
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor’s corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
What we do in life echoes in eternity.
– Maximus
My name is Gladiator.
– Maximus
He sleeps so well because he is loved.
– Commodus
Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.
– Lucilla
At my signal, unleash hell.
– Maximus
It’s a dream, a frightful dream… life is…
– Commodus
If only you had been born a man, what a Caesar you would have made.
– Marcus Aurelius
The frost, it sometimes makes the blade stick.
– Maximus
Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here?
– Maximus
We who are about to die, salute you!
– Tigris
There was 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
And now we are Free. I will see you again… but not yet… Not yet!
– Juba
I don’t pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people.
– Gracchus
Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so.
– Maximus
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.
– Proximo
Your Emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand, I only offer it once.
– Commodus
Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear.
– Maximus
I ask you for your guidance. Blessed mother, come to me with the Gods’ desire for my future. Blessed father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword. Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again, for all else is dust and air. Ancestors, I honor you and will try to live with the dignity that you have taught me.
– Maximus: Ancestors
What we do in life echoes in eternity.
– Maximus
I will see you again… but not yet… not yet…
– Juba
Strength and honor.
– Maximus
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.
– Proximo
Quintus! Release 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
Shadows and dust.
– Proximo