"(quoting William Shakespeare) "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken""

"Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire. Like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise."

"What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exaltation again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you."

"I'm an oil man, ladies and gentlemen. I have numerous concerns spread across this state. I have many wells flowing at many thousand barrels per day. I like to think of myself as an oil man. As an oil man, I hope that you'll forgive just good old-fashioned plain speaking. Now, this work that we do is very much a family enterprise. I work side by side with my wonderful son, H. W.—I think one or two of you might have met him already—and I encourage my men to bring their families as well. Of course, it makes for an ever so much more rewarding life. Family means children, and children means education, so wherever we set up camp, education is a necessity, and we're just so happy to take care of that. We'll have to build a wonderful school in Little Boston. These children are the future that we strive for, and so they should have the very best of things. Now, there's something else, and please don't be insulted if I speak about this: bread. Let's talk about bread. Now to my mind, it's an abomination to consider that any man, woman or child in this magnificent country of ours should have to look upon a loaf of bread as a luxury. We're going to dig water wells here, and water wells means irrigation. Irrigations means cultivation. We're going to raise crops here where before it simply wasn't possible. You're going to have more grain than you know what to do with! Bread'll be coming right out of your ears, ma'am. New roads, agriculture, employment, education: these are just a few of the things that we can offer you, and I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, that if we do find oil here—and I think there's a very great chance that we will—this community of yours will not only survive. It will flourish!"

"David Warshofsky - H.M. Tilford"

"Jim Downey - Al Rose"

"Paul F. Tompkins - Prescott"

"Hans Howes - William Bandy"

"David Willis - Abel Sunday"

"Colleen Foy - older Mary"

"Sydney McCallister - Mary Sunday"

"Ciarán Hinds - Fletcher Hamilton"

"Kevin J. O'Connor (actor) - Henry"

"Russell Harvard - H.W. Plainview as an adult"

"Dillon Freasier - H.W. Plainview as a child"

"Paul Dano - twins Paul Sunday and Eli Sunday"

"Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Plainview"

"When Ambition Meets Faith"

"There Will Be Greed. There Will Be Vengeance."

"Oh, Daniel, you've come here and you’ve brought good and wealth, but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider. You've lusted after women and you have abandoned your child. Your child that you raised, you have abandoned, all because he was sick and you have sinned, so say it now: "I am a sinner.""

"I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people."

"Here comes Messalina. Girls, tend your fires. Or she'll be in by the back door."

"Robert Medley - Emperor Diocletian"

"Gerald Incandela - Leopard Boy"

"Janusz Romanov - Anthony"

"Steffano Massari - Marius"

"Lindsay Kemp - Dancer"

"Ken Hicks - Adrian"

"Daevid Finbar - Julian"

"Donald Dunham -Claudius"

"Richard Warwick - Justin"

"Leonardo Treviglio - Sebastian"

"Neil Kennedy - Maximus"

"Barney James - Severus"

"His beauty is enhanced by his anger. It is his anger which is divine. His punishments are like Christ's promise. He takes me in his arm and caresses my bleeding body. I want to be with him. I love him."

"I don't know why you fancy boys so much, Anthony. You're worse than a Greek. They're okay for a quick one. But I can't wait for Rome and a real woman."