Sir Derek Jacobi movie quotes

“I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it's the sand of the coliseum. He'll bring them death... and they will love him for it.”

Sir Derek Jacobi - Gracchus

“Acting is painting, not photography, but painting is just as 'real' as photography.”
Sir Derek Jacobi

“As an actor conscious that you are in a theatre, you still have to make it look as spontaneous as if you did not know that you are being watched by 1,000 pairs of eyes.”
Sir Derek Jacobi

“I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.”
Sir Derek Jacobi

“- Professor Wright: Could you write five thousand words on the influence of Norse elements in Gawain?
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Yes, absolutely. When would you like it by?
- Professor Wright: This evening.”
Sir Derek Jacobi - Professor Wright
Nicholas Hoult - J.R.R. Tolkien

“You will be King soon. A Prince is not free to follow his heart. He must marry for the good of the kingdom.”
Sir Derek Jacobi - King

“Fear and wonder, a powerful combination.”
Sir Derek Jacobi - Gracchus

“- Commodus: The people are my children, I am their father. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly...
- Gracchus: Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?
- Commodus: No, but if you interrupt me again, I assure you that you will.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Commodus
Sir Derek Jacobi - Gracchus

“This is fate we're talking about, and if fate works at all, it works
because people think that this time, it isn't going to happen!”
Sir Derek Jacobi - Franklyn Madson

“Courage of the heart is very rare. The stone has a power when it's there.”
Sir Derek Jacobi - Nicodemus

“We can no longer live as rats. We know too much.”

Sir Derek Jacobi - Nicodemus