Dominic WestQuotes

Lysander: The course of true love never did run smooth.

Ash Correll: Did we get married?

Ash Correll: Baseball is great. It's the only sport in the world that you can play while taking a nap.

Jasper: I'll buy running shoes. We'll take up yoga-- or, jogging. You know, we'll be organized. Pay our bills, we'll floss our teeth. We won't set fire to the apartment anymore. I'll buy a goldfish, and we'll be like normal people.

Jasper: Everybody hurts everybody it's the human condition!

Jasper: No one adult human being is happy! People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realize life equals loss! The whole point of the game is to minimize the pain caused by that equation! Now some people do it by having kids, or making money, or taking up coin collecting, and others do it by getting wasted. Letting that little switch in the head turn the hot light off and the cool light on.

Jasper: This is so not how I saw this whole thing playing out!

Jasper: Just break open the bread.

Jasper: [At Gwen's rehab] Who the hell do you have to know to get a drink around here?

Jasper: [Holding up a burnt bra] Is this yours, or mine?

Katherine Watson: [''about Betty's Wedding''] This is quite the event. I'm surprised I was invited.

Bill Dunbar: [''beat''] Well, look around you. Who wasn't?

Theron: Beautiful night.

Gorgo: [grabs her dress and walks with Theron] Yes, but I did not ask you here for a small talk, Theron.

Theron: You can be sure of that, you never spared words with me.

Gorgo: Can I offer you something?. A drink perhaps?.

Theron: [nervously] Is it poison?

Gorgo: I'm sorry to disappoint you, it's only water.

Gorgo: Yes. I need your help in winning votes to send the army north to our king.

Theron: Yes. I can see it, the two of us standing together. Me, politician. You, warrior. Our voices as one. But why would I want to do that?

Gorgo: It proves you care for a king who right now fights for the very water we drink.

Theron: True, But this is politics, not war. Leonidas is an idealist.

Gorgo: I know your kind too well. You send men to slaughter for your own gain.

Theron: Your husband, our king, has taken 300 of our finest to slaughter. He's broken our laws and left without the council's consent. I'm simply a realist.

Gorgo: You're an opportunist.

Theron: [reels from being slapped by Gorgo; coldly; grabs Gorgo by the throat and pins her back into the pillar; into Gorgo's face] You're as foolish as Leonidas if you think men don't have a price in this world. All men are not created equal. That's the Spartan code, my little queen. I admire your passion. But don't think that you... A woman, even a queen can walk into the council chamber and sway the minds of men. I own that chamber as if it were built with these hands. I could crush the life out of you right now. You will go before the council, but your words will fall on deaf ears. Leonidas will receive no reinforcements, and if he returns without my help, he will go to jail or worse! Do you love your Sparta?

Gorgo: Yes.

Theron: And your king?

Gorgo: I do!

Theron: [releases grip on Gorgo's throat and tightens his strap cape] Your husband fights for his land and his love. What do you have to offer in return for my word that I'll help you send our army north?

Gorgo: What does a realist want with his queen?

Theron: [pauses; watches in amazement as Gorgo slowly slips off her dress, then he turns her around and pins her against the pillar; roughly penetrates Gorgo; begins to rape Gorgo] I think you know. This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. I am not your king.

Persian messenger: If you value your lives over your complete annihilation... listen carefully, Leonidas. Xerxes conquers and controls everything he rests his eyes upon. He leads an army so massive, it shakes the ground with its march. So vast, it drinks the rivers dry. All the God-King Xerxes requires is this: a simple offering of earth and water... a token of Sparta's submission to the will of Xerxes.

Leonidas: Submission. Now, that's a bit of a problem. See, rumor has it... the Athenians have already turned you down. And if those philosophers and boy-lovers have found that kind of nerve, then—

Theron: We must be diplomatic.

Leonidas: [cutting him off] And, of course, Spartans... have their reputation to consider.

Persian messenger: Choose your next words carefully, Leonidas. They may be your last as king.

Leonidas: [in his head; having made up his mind, he draws his sword on the Persian messenger, whose back is to a large well. The Spartan guards follow suit and draw their swords on the other messengers.] Earth and water.

Persian messenger: Madman! You're a madman!

Leonidas: [indicates the well with his sword] Earth and water. You'll find plenty of both down there.

Persian messenger: [nervous] No man, Persian or Greek, no man threatens a messenger!

Leonidas: You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city's steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Persian. Perhaps you should have done the same.

Persian messenger: [Leonidas lowers his sword and looks toward Gorgo, who nods] This is blasphemy! This is MADNESS!

Leonidas: [to Persian messenger; kicks the Persian messenger into the deep well] Madness...? THIS IS SPARTA!!!