"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."

"[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?!?!"

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"[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]"

"Jeff Bridges - Mark Powell"

"Kevin Spacey - Prot"

"Change the way you look at the world."

"Quiet type. As I recall he was a real smart fellow… a brain. Strong as a horse though — and worked as a knocker."

"You know what a family is? You worry. They don't tell you that you know."

"Is the spaceman here yet?"

"I know... You're the bluebird."

"Patients do not escape from this institution. They don't escape. I'm going to have a great time explaining this to the state board. I've got psychotics on the fourth floor packing up their sneakers because they all think they're going off to K-PAX. Find him."

"prot told me to find the Bluebird of Happiness… Its a task. The first of three."

"I put up with the stink in this place for ten years. I want to get out, if you know what I mean. I used to be the doorman at The Plaza — fif-fifteen years — that's when I started to notice it… The smell. They all stank. I, I tried to tell them, but, uh… they put me here. And um, this, this place smells worse than all — except for you. You, you don't smell. So I figured you could help me."

"Wow. He looks like Data."

"After one month, his amnesia and his delusion has persisted. He claims to be not human. A visitor from another planet."

"Whenever you're ready, I'll be waiting."

"There it is. Robert Porter. Drowned. His name is Robert Porter."

"Tell me… uh, do you know of any missing astro-physicists?"

"He's the most convincing delusional I've ever come across."

"Let's hope extra-terrestrials qualify for Medicaid."

"Who is it this time? Jesus Christ or Joan of Arc?"

"You humans. Sometimes it's hard to imagine how you've made it this far."

"I want to tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, but we K-Paxians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, and it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have."

"Reality is what you make of it."

"Now that you've found Robert. Please take good care of him."

"I will admit the possibility that I am Robert Porter, if you will admit the possibility that I am from K-PAX. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a beam of light to catch."

"Nobody wants. Nobody needs. On K-PAX when I'm gone, nobody misses me. There would be no reason to. And yet I sense that when I leave here… I will be missed."

"There's enough life on earth to fill fifty planets… plants, animals, people, fungi, viruses… all jostling to find their place. Bouncing off each other, feeding off each other… connected."

"I travel light. That's a joke, Mark. You humans — there's just no sense of humor."

"Time is running out for everyone."

"Something happened. That's why he called me. He calls me when something bad happens."

"I would say you're in need of a Thorazine drip, Doctor."

"She says she doesn't like it when you hide her favorite tennis shoe, and she doesn't hear too well on her left side, so don't sneak up on her anymore."

"I take it my calculations help explain the perturbations you've been seeing in the rotation pattern of your binary star, but have been unable to explain until… this moment."

"You'd be surprised how much energy is in a beam of light."

"Doctor — Doctor — Doctor — Doctor. Tell me how many doctors are there on this planet?"

"For your information: All beings have the capacity to cure themselves, Mark. This is something we've known on K-PAX for millions of years."

"Doctor. Patient. Interesting human distinction."

"Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity. Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision; but nobody's paid much attention to them, not even the Buddhists or the Christians."

"Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark."

"Your produce alone has been worth the trip."

"Why is a soap bubble round? Because it is the most energy efficient configuration. Similarly, on your planet I look like you; on K-PAX I look like a K-Paxian."

"You know, for an educated person Mark, you repeat things quite a bit. Are you aware of that?"

"What Einstein actually said was that nothing can accelerate to the speed of light because its mass would become infinite. Einstein said nothing about entities already traveling at the speed of light or faster."

"I'm an alien. Don't worry, I'm not going to leap out of your chest."

"I didn't arrive by train."