"Sally: Why do I always have to sit next to the exes? Is this some kind of a hint, sweetheart? And anyway, shouldn't the exes have a table of their own where they can all ex together in ex-quisite agony?"

"Leonard: Do you think it's possible that bad writing actually attracts a higher incidence of error?"

"I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been."

"I had this fantastic notion. I took the Xanax and the Ritalin together. It had never occurred to me!"

"Just wait till I die. Then you'll have to think of yourself. How are you going to like that?"

"Would you be angry if I died?"

"I wanted to be a writer, that's all. I wanted to write about it all. Everything that happens in a moment. The way the flowers looked when you carried them in your arms. This towel, how it smells, how it feels, this thread. All our feelings, yours and mine. The history of it, who we once were. Everything in the world. Everything all mixed up, like it's all mixed up now. And I failed. I failed. No matter what you start with it ends up being so much less. Sheer fucking pride and stupidity."

"Oh, Mrs. Dalloway... Always giving parties to cover the silence."

"I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then."

"When I'm with him I feel... Yes, I am living. And when I'm not with him... Yes, everything does seem sort of silly."

"Why is everything wrong?"

"That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other."

"There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan. The plan was I would leave my family when my second child was born. And that's what I did. I got up one morning, made breakfast, went to the bus stop, got on a bus. I'd left a note. I got a job in a library in Canada. It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. There it is. No-one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life."

"Obviously, you feel unworthy. Gives you feelings of unworthiness. You survive and they don't."

"I'm gonna make a cake. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna make the cake for daddy's birthday."

"Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours."

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard."

"If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark. And that only I can know, only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too. This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs but the violent jolt of the Capital. That is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness. But if it is a choice between Richmond and death, I choose death."

"I am ungrateful? You call me ungrateful? My life has been stolen from me. I'm living in a town I have no wish to live in. I'm living a life I have no wish to live. How did this happen?"

"I am attended by doctors! Everywhere, I am attended by doctors who inform me of my own interests."

"Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? It is possible to die. It is possible to die."

"I am saying, Vanessa, that even crazy people like to be asked."

"I can't think of anything more exhilarating than a trip to London."

"It's on this day. This day of all days. Her fate becomes clear to her."

"A woman's whole life in a single day. Just one day. And in that day her whole life."

"Leonard, I believe I may have a first sentence."

"Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of these terrible times again and I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices and can't concentrate. So I'm doing what seems to be the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I know that I'm spoiling your life and without me you could work, and you will, I know. You see, I can't even write this properly. What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me. And incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been."

"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"

"Are you not entertained?"

"Shadow and Dust."

"Strength and Honor."

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

"The Gladiator Who Defied An Emperor."

"A Hero Will Rise."

"What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity."