Quote from Gladiator (about Freedom, Foolishness, Rome)

Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them, and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar.

Gracchus in Gladiator

Freedom Foolishness Rome

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Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

Maximus in Gladiator

Death

It's a dream. A frightful dream... life is.

Commodus in Gladiator

Life

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.

Commodus in Gladiator

Hugs Father & Son

Fratres! Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead! Brothers, what we do in life... echoes in eternity!

Maximus in Gladiator

War Speeches

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, 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 in Gladiator

Marcus Aurelius

If there is no blood on the line, it is not rugby league.

Russell Crowe

Rugby

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

Russell Crowe

Cows

I have respect for beer.

Russell Crowe

Beer

I think that we've become very disconnected from the natural world, and many of us, what we're guilty of is an egocentric worldview.

Joaquin Phoenix - Acceptance Speech, Oscars 2020

Egoism Oscars

Human beings, at our best, are so inventive and creative and ingenious, and I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment.

Joaquin Phoenix - Acceptance Speech, Oscars 2020

When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.

Joaquin Phoenix

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

Joaquin Phoenix

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

Joaquin Phoenix

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

Joaquin Phoenix

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Joaquin Phoenix

I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.

Oliver Reed

Alcohol Sex

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

Oliver Reed

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

Oliver Reed

Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

Oliver Reed

I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

Oliver Reed

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Foolishness

Harvey Dent: "When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service."
Rachel Dawes: "Harvey, the last man who they appointed the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power."
Harvey Dent: "Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."

Harvey Dent in Batman - The Dark Knight

Julius Caesar Rome

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

Beast / Hank McCoy in X-Men - Erste Entscheidung

Quote from Gladiator (about Freedom, Foolishness, Rome)

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