“Alexander” quotes
(2004)
Oliver Stone
directed this movie
in 2004
Title Alexander
Year 2004
Director Oliver Stone
Genre Drama, History, Romance, War, Biography, Adventure, Action
Year 2004
Director Oliver Stone
Genre Drama, History, Romance, War, Biography, Adventure, Action
Plot – Young Alexander the Great is devoured by the desire of glory and adventure. He leaves Macedonia to extend his supremacy and during the travel Alexander carries within himself the desire to earn his father Philip's approval. He thinks about the difficulties he has with his ambitious Persian wife Roxane and the support of the deep friendship with Hephaestion. Alexander's army has never been defeated on the battlefield and together with his general Ptolemy he fights everyone who dares hindering his path.
All actors – Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins, Jared Leto, Rosario Dawson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rory McCann, Gary Stretch, Ian Beattie, Neil Jackson, Raz Degan, Christopher Plummer, John Kavanagh, Annelise Hesme, Connor Paolo, Jessie Kamm, Nick Dunning, Elliot Cowan, Joseph Morgan, Denis Conway, Garrett Lombard, Chris Aberdein, Francisco Bosch, Toby Kebbell, Marie Meyer, Patrick Carroll, Brian Blessed, Peter Williamson, Morgan Christopher Ferris, Robert Earley, Aleczander Gordon, Mick Lally, Erol Sander, Stéphane Ferrara, Tadhg Murphy, Jean Le Duc, Michael Dixon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Tsouli Mohammed, David Bedella, Laird Macintosh, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Rab Affleck, Féodor Atkine, Harry Kent, Sam Green, Bin Bunluerit, Jaran Ngamdee, Brian McGrath, Suzanne Bullock, Kate Elouise, Gillian Grueber, Michelle Lukes, Anjali Mehra, Anthony Jean Marie Kurt, Marta Barahona, Monica Zamora, Benny Maslov, Tania Matos, Leighton Morrison, Isaac Mullins, Monica Perego, Matthew Powell, Benjamín Benítez, Anthony James Berowne, Max Bollinger, Jason Croot, Fahar Faizaan, Charles Haigh, Charlie Hollway, Rowley Irlam, Joey Jeetun, David Leon, Greg Orvis, Tigerlily Perry, Genevieve Redmond, John Reynolds, Peter Rnic, Oliver Stone
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“- Alexander: It's a high ransom she charges for nine months lodging in the womb.
- Hephaistion: Bring her to Babylon, Alexander. It'll give her such joy.
- Alexander: Joy! I am the cracked mirror of her dreams... Stay with me tonight Hephaistion.
- Hephaistion: What bothers you?
- Alexander: I see in her everything I fear. Yet I have no idea...” (continue)(continue reading)“Isn't it a lovely thing to live with great courage and to die leaving an everlasting fame? Come, Macedonians, why do you retreat? Do you want to live forever?”
“All greatness comes from loss.”
“- Parmenion: Your father must be turning in his grave, Alexander. After all this time, a hill chief's daughter? Do you call this tribal wedding legitimate?
- Alexander: You forget, Parmenion, that my father took a barbarian as his queen.
- Parmenion: Yes, and few would call it a profoundly happy marriage.”“- Alexander: We all suffer. Your father, mine. They all came to the end of their time and in the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done.
- Hephaistion: You once said the fear of death drives all men. Are there no other forces? Is there not love in your life, Alexander?”“Never would your father take barbarians as friends or ask us to fight with them as equals in war. Are we not good enough any longer? I remember a time when we could talk as men, strait to the eye, none of this scraping and groveling. I remember a time when we hunted, when we wrestled on the gymnasium floor. And now you kiss them? Take a...” (continue)(continue reading)
“I am the victor. But what does it all mean when there is not one left to remember, the great cavalry charge at Gaugamela, or the mountains of the Hindu Kush when we crossed a 100,000 man army into India? He was a god, Cadmos. Or as close as anything I've ever seen.”
“- Parmenion: He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. He consulted his peers in council, among equals! The Macedonian way. He didn't make decisions based on his personal desires.
- Alexander: I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed! Old man, we're in knew worlds.”“- Hephaistion: The generals are upset. They question your obsession with Darius. They say it was never meant for you to be king of Asia.
- Alexander: Naturally. They want only to return to their homes rich with gold, but I have seen the future, Hephaistion!”“- Hephaistion: What would you do if you ever reached the end of the world? I wonder sometimes, if it's not your mother you run from, so many years, so many miles between you, what is it you fear?
- Alexander: Who knows these things? When I was a child my mother thought me divine; my father, weak. Which am I, Hephaistion? Weak or divine?”“Look at those we've conquered. They leave their dead unburied, they smash their enemies skulls and drink them as dust, they mate in public! How can they think, or sing, or write when none can read? But as Alexander's army they could go where they never thought possible. They can soldier, or work in the cities.”
“- Hephaistion: Some say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander himself. They draw people into the cities so as to make slaves.
- Alexander: But we've freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persias, where everyone lived as slaves! To free the people of the world! Such would be beyond the glory of Achilles. Beyond Heracles!”“I am Alexander. And no more than earth has two suns will Asia bear two kings. These are my terms. And if Darius isn't a coward who hides behind his men then he'll come to me tomorrow. And when he bows down to Greece, Alexander will be merciful.”
“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...” (continue)(continue reading)
“If only you were not a pale reflection of my mother's heart.”
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