Alexander (film)

"I promise that I will beat you one day, Hephaistion."

"(Of his father Phillip) This is the man who is going to take you from Macedonia to Persia?! He can't even make it from one couch to the next."

"I didn't cross Asia to steal this victory, Cassander." And right not my butt."

"If you were to fall Hephaestion, even if Macedonia were to lose a king I would avenge you, and follow you down to the house of death."

"You've all honored your country and your ancestors and now we come to this most distant place in Asia where across from us Darius has at last gathered a vast army, but look again at this horde and ask yourselves, who is this great king who pays assassins in gold coins to murder my father, our king in a most despicable and cowardly manner? Who is this great king Darius who enslaves his own men to fight? Who is this king but a king of air? These men do not fight for their homes. They fight because this king tells them they must. And when they fight, they will melt away like the air, because they know no loyalty to a king of slaves! But we are not here today as slaves. We are here today... as Macedonian free men! And all their arms, their numbers, their chariots and their fine horses will mean nothing in the hands of slaves. Some of you, perhaps myself, will not live to see the sun set over these mountains today, for I will be in the very thick of battle with you. But remember this, the greatest honor a man can achieve is to live with great courage, and to die gloriously in battle for his home. I say to you what every warrior has known since the beginning of time: conquer your fear and I promise you you will conquer death! Someday I promise you, your sons and grandsons will look into your eyes. And when they ask you why you fought so bravely at Gaugamela, you will answer, with all the strength of your great, great hearts: "I was here this day at Gaugamela...for the freedom...and glory...of Greece!" Zeus be with us!"

"I am not my father!"

"I've taken you farther than my father ever dreamed!"

"It's a high ransom she charges for nine months lodging in the womb."

"Stay with me tonight, Hephaestion."

"In the end, all that matters is what you've done."

"When I was a child my mother thought me divine and my father weak... which one am I Hephaistion? Weak or divine?"

"It is you that I love Hephaestion, no other."

"Were we gods we'd breach these walls to the Eastern Ocean."

"Each land, each boundary I cross, I strip away another illusion. I sense death will be the last. Yet still I push, harder and harder to reach this..."home." Where has our eagle gone? We must go on Ptolemy, until we find an end."

"Aristotle be damned! By Zeus and by all the gods, what makes you so much better than them, Cassander! Better than you really are! In you and those like you is this."

"What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment, but your contempt for a world far older than ours."

"Hephaestion loves me as I am, not "who"."

"You break my heart, you men... afraid!? Of course you have fears, we all have fears. Because no one has ever come this far before."

"You know there’s not a part of me without a scar or a bone broken by sword, knife, stone, catapult, and club. I’ve shared every hardship with all of you."

"Yes, you're right Crateros. I should have sent you veterans home sooner, and I will. The first of your shall be the Silver Shields, and then every man who has served seven years. Respected, rich, LOVED! You'll be treated by you wives and children as heroes for the rest of your lives. And enjoy a peaceful death. But you dream Crateros! Your simplicity long ended when you took Persian mistresses and children and you thickened your holdings with plunder and jewels... Because you have fallen in love with all the things in life that destroy men! Do you not see? And you, as well as I, know, that as the years decline, and the memories stale, and all your great victories fade, it will always be remembered, you left your king in Asia! Because I will go on...with my Asians!"

"Go on your way, father, rejoicing that with every step you may recall your valour."

"Men of Macedon, we're going home."

"May all those who come here after us know when they see this altar, that titans were once here."

"Don't leave me Hephaestion!"

"My poor, poor, ill-fated son."

"No one, not my vilest enemy, has ever spoken like you to me!"

"Cleitus spoke true. I am a tyrant."

"Damn your sorceress soul! Keeping me like one of your snakes! I told you not! I told you not!"

"(of Bucephalus) Who would want such a beast? I already have a wife!"

"A broken neck comes free, you fool!"

"Ahhh! He's got some Titan in him yet!"

"A king isn't born, Alexander, he is made. By steel and by suffering. A king must know how to hurt those he loves. It's lonely. Ask Heracles. Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. They laugh when you rise too high and crush everything you've built with a whim. What glory they give in the end, they take away. They... They make of us slaves."

"It was a Iron Age. Blood-feuds. Fathers feared their son's treachery and would eat them."

"You dream of glory Alexander. Your mother encourages you. But there's no glory without suffering and this she will not allow."

"All your life, beware of women. They are far more dangerous than men."

"(enraged at Alexander) Get out of my palace! You're exiled, you bastard! Banished from the land. You're not welcome here! You're no son of mine!"

"All greatness comes from loss. Even you the gods will one day judge harshly."

"None will tell you this but your father: Men hate the gods! The only reason we worship any of them is because we fear worse. The Titans."

"There's only one thing better than winning a battle, son, and that's the taste of a new woman! You'll find it far sweeter than self pity."

"I'll marry the girl if I want and I'll have as many sons as I want and there's nothing you or your harpie mother can do about it!"

"By Ares chains he's got balls. I mean give the man his due, Parmenion. And lads, feast tonight for tomorrow we will dine in Hades."

"Pay attention lad, your father's still watching over you!"

"I'll toast to Bagoas. And the 30,000 beautiful Persian boys were training to fight in this great army. And to memory of Phillip, had he lived to see his Macedonians transformed into such a pretty army."

"Herakles did it by himself. Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? I mean, who planned the Asian invasion while you were being spanked on your bottom by my sister Lanike? Was it not your father? Or is his blood no longer good enough?"

"What freedom is this to bow before you?"

"Doesn't your great pride fear the gods any longer."

"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?!!!"

"Evil tyrant you are! Evil tyrant you've become Alexander."

"What about poor Parmenion?!"

"Hear what I say, guess what, false king!"