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Quotes of Movie: Alexander [2004]
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Alexander: [after reading a letter from his mother Olympia, who demands that Alexander crown her Queen of Babylon] It's a high ransom she demands for nine months' lodging in the womb. (unknown)
Cleitus: How can you, so young, compare yourself to Heracles?
Alexander: Why not? I've achieved more in my years, travelled as far... probably farther.
Cleitus: Heracles did it by himself! Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander? I mean, who planned the Asian invasion; was it not your father? Or is his blood no longer good enough? (unknown)
Alexander: This isn't how I wanted to become King.
Olympias: No one blames you.
Alexander: They blame me already! Behind my back, in secret!
Olympias: Slander is not power.
Alexander: Shame is? Who killed my father? Tell me... tell me, or shall I put you on trial for his murder?
Olympias: Pausinias.
Alexander: He had help! Did you help him? (unknown)
Hephaistion: The generals 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've seen the future Hephaistion! I've seen it now a thousand times, on a thousand faces! These people want... need change. (unknown)
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Young Nearchus: Master... Master!
Aristotle: Yes?
Young Nearchus: Master...!
Aristotle: Out with it, out with it!
Young Nearchus: Master...! Why are Persians so cruel? (unknown)
Alexander: When I was a child my mother thought me divine and my father weak... which one am I, Hephaistion? Weak or divine? (unknown)
Alexander: [after running Darius off the field] You can run to the end of the earth, you coward! But you'll never run far enough! (unknown)
Alexander: [as Philip falls down drunk] This is the man who is supposed to take us from Greece to Persia! He can't even make it from one couch to the next. (unknown)
Alexander: Come, Macedonians! Ride! Ride! (unknown)
Alexander: [standing on the Hindu Kush with Ptolemy] Yes, I have Babylon. But each land, each boundary I cross lets drip away another illusion. I sense, death will be the last. Yet still I push harder and harder to reach this... home.
[looking into the sky]
Alexander: Where has our eagle gone? We must go on, Ptolemy... until we find an end. (unknown)
Alexander: [looking at the towering mountains] Were we gods, we'd breach these walls to the Outer Ocean. (unknown)
Philip: Shut your foul mouth, you ten-titted bitch from Hades! (unknown)
Old Ptolemy: But what can I tell you of what it is to be young? To dream big dreams? (unknown)
Old Ptolemy: That's the truth of his life; the dreamers exhaust us, they must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams. (unknown)
Young Hephaistion: [after Alexander has lost a wrestling match to him] Would you want me to let you win, Alexander?
Young Alexander: No. But I promise you, one day I will beat you, Hephaistion. (unknown)
Hephaistion: [dying] I worry for you without me.
Alexander: [crying] I am nothing without you. (unknown)
Olympias: You will be nineteen this summer and the girls already say you don't like them, you like Hephaistion more. I understand it is natural for a young man.
Alexander: Hephaistion loves me *as* I am, not what.
Olympias: [laughs] Loves?
[a little worried]
Olympias: Loves? (unknown)
Old Ptolemy: But in his short life he achieved, no doubt, the mythic glory of his ancestor... Achilleus. (unknown)
Old Ptolemy: His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness and impatience with those who could not understand him, and if his desire to unite Greek and barbarian ended in failure... what failure? His failure towered over other men's successes. I've lived... I've lived a long life, Cadmos. But the glory and the memory of man will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. And the greatest of these is the one they now... call "Megas Alexandros" - the greatest Alexander of them all. (unknown)
[last lines]
Old Ptolemy: I've lived... I've lived long life, Cadmos, but the glory and the memory of men will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. The greatest of these is the one they now call Megas Alexandros. The greatest Alexander of them all. (unknown)
Alexander: Who is this great king, Darius, who enslaves his own men to fight?
Alexander: Who is this king... but a king of air?
Alexander: ...They fight because this king tells them they must.
Alexander: And when they fight, they will melt away like the air... because they know no loyalty to a king of slaves.
Alexander: But we are not here today as slaves! We are here today as Macedonian free men! (unknown)
[first lines]
Old Ptolemy: He was a god, Cadmos, or as close as anything I've ever seen. (unknown)
Alexander: What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgement, but your contempt for a world far older than ours. (unknown)
Olympias: Alexander, the world is yours. Take it! (unknown)
Old Ptolemy: All men reach and fall...
[takes sand in his hand and lets it slip through his fingers]
Old Ptolemy: reach and fall... (unknown)
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Movie: Alexander [2004] | [2]
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