"[addressing crowd after killing gladiator in solo fight] Are you not entertained? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?! Is this not why you are here?! [throws away sword and spits at the ground, then leaves]"

"Quintus, free my men. Senator Gracchus is to be reinstated. There was a dream that was Rome, it shall be realized. These are the wishes of Marcus Aurelius."

"Your emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. Take my hand. I only offer it once."

"And now they love Maximus for his mercy. So I can't just kill him, or it makes me even more unmerciful! The whole thing's like some crazed nightmare."

"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! [The soldiers laugh] Brothers, what we do in life, echoes in eternity."

"[to Falco] Lucius will stay with me now. And if his mother so much as looks at me in a manner that displeases me, he will die. If she decides to be noble and takes her own life, he will die. [to Lucilla] And as for you - you will love me as I loved you. You will provide me with an heir of pure blood, so that Commodus and his progeny will rule for a thousand years. Am I not merciful? [Lucilla turns her head] AM I NOT MERCIFUL?!?!"

"I am Proximo! I will be closer to you in these next few days, which will be the last days of your miserable lives, than that bitch of a mother who first brought you screaming into this world! I did not pay good money for your company, I paid it so I could profit from your deaths! And just as your mother was there at your beginning, so I shall be there at your end. And when you die — and die you shall — your transition will be to the sound of … [claps his hands] Gladiators, I salute you."

"What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity."

"The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor."

"At my signal, unleash hell."

"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."

"Djimon Hounsou – Juba"

"Ralf Moller – Hagen"

"Derek Jacobi – Senator Gracchus"

"Richard Harris – Marcus Aurelius"

"Oliver Reed – Proximo"

"Connie Nielsen – Lucilla"

"Joaquin Phoenix – Commodus"

"Russell Crowe – Maximus"

"The Gladiator Who Defied An Emperor."

"A Hero Will Rise."

"Are you not entertained?"

"Shadow and Dust."

"Strength and Honor."