Quotes from the Movie Gladiator

Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained?! Is it not why you are here? Spaniard!!! Spaniard!!! Spaniard!!!

Maximus

Frost, sometimes it makes the blade stick.

Maximus

Whatever comes out of these gates, we've got a better chance of survival if we work together. Do you understand? If we stay together, we survive.

Maximus

Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again, for all else is dust and air.

Maximus

Why don't they know they're already dead?

Maximus

I am a slave! What possible difference can I make?

Maximus

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

Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Rome. This is not it. This is not it!

Maximus

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

Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will not believe they fought and died for nothing.

Maximus

At my signal, unleash hell.

Maximus

My name is Gladiator.

Maximus

You're in danger of becoming a good man, Proximo.

Maximus

Ancestors I ask for your guidance! Blessed mother come to me with the gods' desires for my future. Blessed father watch over my wife and my son with a ready sword! Whisper to them that I only live to hold them again! Ancestors I honor you and I try to live with the dignity you taught me!

Maximus

I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."

Maximus