"(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?"