“- Commodus: Have I missed it? Have I missed the battle?
- Marcus Aurelius: You have missed the war.
- Commodus: Father, congratulations. I shall sacrifice a hundred bulls to honor your triumph.
- Marcus Aurelius: Save the bulls. Honor Maximus. He won the battle.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Commodus
Richard Harris - Marcus Aurelius

“- Admiral: Did you think you were going to win the war?
- Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole: Frankly, sir, I think we're going to lose this one. But I do love the work.”
J. Patrick McNamara - Admiral
Willem Dafoe - Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole

“We may have lost the war, but heaven knows we haven't lost our sense of humor!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless

“- Sgt. Elias: We're gonna lose this war.
- Chris: Come on. You really think so? Us?
- Sgt. Elias: We been kicking other peoples asses for so long, I figured it's time we got ours kicked.”
Willem Dafoe - Sgt. Elias
Charlie Sheen - Chris

“I don't think you won it. We lost it - but you lost something, too. You forgot to learn the moral. Because victory was yours, you failed to learn your lesson twenty years ago and now you have to pay the school fees again.”

Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff