Rome quotes

“Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.”
Audrey Hepburn - Princess Ann

“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

- First Centurion: What you mean "Could be worse"?
- Matthias, Son of Deuteronomy of Gath: You could be stabbed.
- First Centurion: Stabbed? Takes a second. Crucifixion lasts hours. It's a slow, horrible death.
- Matthias, Son of Deuteronomy of Gath: At least it gets you out in the open air.

John Marwood Cleese - First Centurion
John Young - Matthias, Son of Deuteronomy of Gath

“You know what they did in Ancient Rome, when a visitor violated somebody's hospitality? They would cut off his dick and they nailed it to the fucking gate!”

Paulina Porizkova - Casey

“Who says swimsuit models are useless? Take me from behind, Zoolander. Grab on for safety... and buoyancy! We're going to swim to Rome.”
Penelope Cruz - Valentina Valencia

“So Rome would forgive and take you back? And all they demand is for us to part. Why don't they ask the sun to fall right out of the sky?”
Claudette Colbert - Cleopatra

“- Coach Morris Buttermaker: Come on, fellas. Rome wasn't built in a day.
- Ogilvie: Yeah, it took several hundred years.”
Walter Matthau - Coach Morris Buttermaker
Alfred Lutter III - Ogilvie

“- Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
- Attendee: Brought peace?
- Reg: Peace - shut up!”
John Marwood Cleese - Reg

“Columns, columns! Get your columns here! Ionic, Doric, Corinthian! Put a few columns in front, turn any hovel into a showplace! Columns! Sir, don't touch the merchandise! All right now, columns, columns!”

Barry Levinson - Column Salesman - The Roman Empire

“C'est la vie, as the Romans say.”
Jack Black - Nick Vanderpark

“Rome is but a wilderness of tigers.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Titus Andronicus

“Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody? Because that's not what Rome is about! We should totally just stab Caesar!”

Lacey Chabert - Gretchen Wieners

“- William Hundert: You passed.
- Sedgewick Bell: It's only a C-.
- William Hundert: Well, you know what they say about Rome.
- Sedgewick Bell: It wasn't built in a day?
- William Hundert: No. All roads lead to it.”
Kevin Kline - William Hundert
Emile Hirsch - Sedgewick Bell

“- Miss Ungermeyer: Mr. Craft, you are in the most beautiful city in the world, is this having any effect on you?
- Ethan: Yeah the cobble stones are like totally thrashing on my wheels.”

Alex Borstein - Miss Ungermeyer

“We Romans are rich. We've got a lot of gods. We've got a god for everything. The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that's coming quickly.”
Mel Brooks - Comicus

“- Marcus Aurelius: What is Rome, Maximus?
- Maximus: I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.”
Richard Harris - Marcus Aurelius
Russell Crowe - Maximus

“- Maximus: I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough.
- Proximo: That's enough for the provinces, but not enough for Rome.”
Russell Crowe - Maximus
Oliver Reed - Proximo

“Rome. By all means. Rome!”
Audrey Hepburn - Princess Ann

“- Joe Bradley: Where do you live?
- Princess Ann: Colosseum.
- Joe Bradley: [to taxi driver] She lives in the Colosseum.
- Taxicab Driver: Is wrong address!”
Gregory Peck - Joe Bradley
Audrey Hepburn - Princess Ann
Alfredo Rizzo - Taxicab Driver