Derek Jacobi movie quotes

46 quotes from 3 movies

Underworld: Evolution (2006) as Alexander Corvinus

View Quote For centuries I have stood by and watched the havoc my sons have brought upon each other and upon humanity.Not the legacy I prayed for the morning I watched them enter this world.

View Quote (To Samuel) The Innocent who witnessed, they've been silenced?

View Quote (To Samuel) Show me what you have.

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Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) as Francis Bacon

View Quote [voice over] I watch him while he's sleeping. A prisoner of dreams. Fighting the battle he's always going to lose. But I'm powerless to help him as I'm powerless to help myself. So I watch and wait.

View Quote [voice over] Submitting entirely to the service and pleasure of the dominant partner. This I find a catharsis, in that all responsibility is relinquished, every move is dictated. No decisions are you're own, who exists solely for the service and pleasure of another man.

View Quote Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.

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Gladiator (2000) as Gracchus

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

View Quote Gracchus: But the Senate is the people, sire. Chosen from among the people, to speak for the people.
Commodus: I doubt if any of the people eat so well as you, Gracchus. Or have such splendid mistresses, Gaius.

View Quote Commodus: They embrace me as one of their own. The people are my children and I am their father.
Gracchus: Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?
Commodus: [turns to face him slowly] No. But if you interrupt me again, I assure you that you shall.

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