Gladiator II (2024) quotes

25 total quotes

Emperor Geta – Joseph Quinn
Lucilla – Connie Nielsen
Lucius "Hanno" Verus
Macrinus – Denzel Washington

View Quote Macrinus: Where were you born?
Lucius "Hanno" Verus: Why does my past matter if it is my future to die for you in the arena? Tell me what use have I for Roman money.
Macrinus: A gladiator can buy his own freedom. His liberty.
Lucius "Hanno" Verus: The Roman dream.
Macrinus: No, the slave dreams not of freedom but of a slave to call his own. Cicero.
Lucius "Hanno" Verus: Is that what you were raised on, Macrinus? What did you have to do for Roman money? You promised me a head.
Macrinus: Earn your keep and you can have anyone's head.

View Quote Macrinus: Whose head could I give you to satisfy this fury?
Lucius "Hanno" Verus: The entire Roman army.
Macrinus: Too much.
Lucius "Hanno" Verus: The general will do.

View Quote Ravi: The odds are against you.
Lucius "Hanno" Verus: The odds are always against me.

View Quote A man does not become emperor by bloodline alone. It must be taken by force and kept by force! Are you such a man as this?

View Quote Do you hear that crowd? The greatest temple ever built. The Colosseum. Because this is what they believe in. Power.

View Quote I remember that day. I never forgot it. The day that a slave could take an emperor.

View Quote I shall deliver them Caracalla's head and the people shall acclaim me. That, my friend, is politics.

View Quote I was owned. Now I will control an Empire.

View Quote I will not waste another generation of young men for their vanity.

View Quote I've become well-versed in losing the things that I love. But now that I have found you, I have no desire to lose you again.

View Quote Is this how Rome treats its heroes?! TELL ME! If his life has no value, what are yours worth?!

View Quote Rome will fall. I need only give it a push.

View Quote That rage is your gift.

View Quote The best revenge is to become unlike the one who did the injury. I have made myself unlike... your father; he spoke of dreams, I speak of truth. And the only truth in my Rome is the law of the strongest. I was owned by an emperor. Now I control an Empire. Where else but in Rome can a man do that?

View Quote The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth is the descent, and easy is the way. But to come back from Hell and view the cheerful skies, in this the task and mighty labor lies. (quoting Virgil)