"You will be nineteen this summer and the girls already say you don't like them, you like Hephaistion more. I understand it is natural for a young man."

"In my womb I carried my avenger!"

"(Of Philip) He calls me a barbarian! He makes a mockery of Dionysus every night."

"All you desire! The world is yours! Take it..."

"I lost many a man. Young ones, never been with a woman. Some died of disease. Some were butchered in Scythia by the banks of the Oxus. Some died good. Some just didn’t get no luck. But they died. Forty thousand I come over with eight years ago. And we march after you more than 10,000 miles. In the rain and in the sun, we fought for you. Some of us 50 battles we’ve been in. And we killed many a barbarian. And now, when I look around, how many of them faces do I see?"

"My king, I'm a fightin' man. I like no belly-aching, I won't tolerate it in any of my units."

"(final words of the film) His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness and impatience with those who could not understand. And if his desire to unite Greek and barbarian ended in failure... what failure! His failure towered over other men's successes. I've lived... I've lived a long life, Cadmos. But the glory and the memory of man will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. And the greatest of these is the one they now... call "Megas Alexandros" - the greatest Alexander of them all."

"Within hours, we were fighting like jackals for his corpse."

"But in his short life he achieved without doubt, the mythic glory of his ancestor Achilles, and more."

"By the tenth of June, a month short of his 33rd year, Alexander's great heart finally gave up, and, as he vowed, he joined Hephaistion."

"The truth is we did kill him... By silence we consented. What, by Ares, did we have to look forward to but to be discarded in the end, like Cleitus?"

"I never believed in his dream. None of us did. That’s the truth of his life. The dreamers exhaust us. They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams."

"(when asked if he has found his home) More and more I think it will be Alexandria."

"In Egypt and oracle in the desert had declared Alexander the true son of Zeus. It was a myth, of course. At least it started as a myth. I was there; I saw his eyes."

"It was mad; 40,000 of us against 250,000 barbarians!"

"Did such a man as Alexander exist? Of course not! We idolize him; make him better than he was."

"It was an empire, not of land and gold, but of the mind. It was a Hellenic civilization, open to all."

"Before him there were tribes, after him all was possible. There was suddenly a sense the world could be ruled by one king and be better for all. Eighteen great Alexandrias he built across this world."

"He was a god, Cadmus, or as close as anything I've ever seen. Tyrant, they yell so easily. I laugh; no tyrant ever gave back so much. What do they know of the world, these school boys? It takes strong men to rule. Alexander was more; he was Prometheus, a friend to man. He changed the world."

"Alexander once said to me that we are most alone when we are with the myths."

"All men reach and fall..."

"It was said later that Alexander was never defeated, except by Hephaistion's thighs."

"Hear what I say, guess what, false king!"

"What about poor Parmenion?!"

"Evil tyrant you are! Evil tyrant you've become Alexander."

"I don't serve your purpose?! What was I serving when I saved your puppy-life at Gaugamela?! Were you Zeus' boy?! What if I left you to die in the dust there? You think we'd be forced now to mate with brown apes?!!!"

"Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer."

"What freedom is this to bow before you?"

"This is paradise. This is paradise, I'm tellin' you. This town's like a great big pussy just waitin' to get fucked. I'm tellin' you. I shoulda come here ten years ago. I'd have been a millionaire by this time. By this time, I'd have had my own boat, my own car, my own golf course."

"Arnaldo Santana – Ernie"

"Ángel Salazar – Chi-Chi"

"Paul Shenar – Alejandro Sosa"

"F. Murray Abraham – Omar Suarez"

"Míriam Colón – Georgina Montana"

"Robert Loggia – Frank Lopez"

"Harris Yulin – Mel Bernstein"

"Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – Gina Montana"

"Michelle Pfeiffer – Elvira Hancock"

"Steven Bauer – Manolo "Manny" Ribera"

"Al Pacino – Tony Montana"

"The World Is Yours."

"He wanted to live the American dream until the end."

"In the spring of 1980 the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun washed avenues of Miami... wealth, power, and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana but the world will remember him by another name... Scarface."

"He loved the American Dream. With a Vengeance."

"Six months to start don't mean shit, Larry. I'm not a Rockefeller, you know. Not yet anyway. So you owe me a quarter."

"Well, that's not my business, Tony. We don't cross no lines. Listen, you think I want this conversation going any farther than this table? My guys got families. They're legitimate cops. I don't want to see them embarrassed. If they're embarrassed, they'll suffer. If they suffer, they'll make you suffer. D'you understand what I'm talking about? Thanks for the drink. By the way, I've got a vacation coming up. I'm gonna take the wife to London, England. We've never been there. So, throw in a couple of round-trip tickets, first class. You ought to smile more, Tony. You gotta enjoy yourself. Every day above ground is a good day."

"What I try to tell you? This country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman. That's why you gotta make your own moves."

"We tell you who's moving against you and we shake down who you want shaken down. Let's say that you've got a real problem making a collection. And then we step in for you. Got eight killers with badges working for me. When they hit, it hurts. Same thing works the other way. You feed me a bust now and then. Some cowboy setting himself up in business. Small-fry, you know? We like snacks."

"Yeah! That's on a monthly basis, same thing every month. Do you know how this works?"

"How much? Well, there's an answer to that, too. [Writes down the number of monthly bribes on a napkin and shows it to Tony] Here's how much. Can you see it?"