If you don't have money at my age, you're not even in the game anymore. You're just a pasture animal waiting for the abattoir.

Katsumoto: Do you believe a man can change his destiny? Algren: I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

(looking at remains of a battle) I love it! God help me, I love it so. I love it more than my life.

Quintus: "People should know when they're beaten!" Maximus: "Would you, Quintus? Would I?"

I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

Give George a headline, and he's good for another 30 miles.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you.

Half my life is over, and I have nothing to show for it...I’m a smudge of excrement on a tissue, surging out to sea with a ton of raw sewage.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor bastard die for his country!

I'm hearing horses! Parry will be so pleased!

The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences.

Young William: I can fight.  Malcolm Wallace: I know. I know you can fight. But it's our wits that make us men.

Look at me, jerking off in the shower... This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.

I have a hard-on for you the size of Florida!

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.

Miranda (to Daniel):  I bring home a birthday cake and a few gifts; you bring home the Goddamn San Diego Zoo. And I have to clean up after it!

All I ever wanted was a single thing worth fighting for.

Lars: Well, Bianca can help you. She's got nurse's training. Gus: No she doesn't. That's because she's a plastic...thing. Lars: That's amazing. Did you hear that? Bianca said God made her to help people.

Often the most barbaric atrocities occur when both sides proclaim themselves freedom fighters.