Macrinus Do you hear that crowd? The greatest temple ever built. The Colosseum. Because this is what they believe in. Power.
2nd most-quoted character in Gladiator II (2024): in 8 of its 25 quotes
Most scenes with: Lucius "Hanno" Verus (2)
You will be my instrument!
More lines from Macrinus
5 quotes Macrinus Macrinus That rage is your gift.
Macrinus Rome will fall. I need only give it a push.
Macrinus 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?
Macrinus I shall deliver them Caracalla's head and the people shall acclaim me. That, my friend, is politics.
Scenes with Macrinus
2 scenes Macrinus Where were you born?
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.
The Roman dream.
Macrinus No, the slave dreams not of freedom but of a slave to call his own. Cicero.
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.
Macrinus Whose head could I give you to satisfy this fury?
The entire Roman army.
Macrinus Too much.
The general will do.
