Gemma Arterton Quotes

Dastan You really enjoy telling me what to do, don't you?

Tamina Only because you are so good at following orders.

Dastan Don't press your luck.

Gretel Let the girl go, or I'm gonna blow your sheriff's brains all over these hillbillies.

Tus A moment ago, you died before my eyes.

Dastan (breathless about the dagger) Oh, you pressed it.

Tus How did you know I would press it?

Dastan Because we are brothers.

Tamina How can I trust the man who breached the walls of my city?

Dastan Well, I'm starting to think I'm no longer the same man who breached those walls.

Tamina That's a short time for a man to change so much.

Dastan Perhaps.

Tamina It sounds as if you've discovered something here.

Dastan And what might that be?

Tamina A new spiritual awareness.

Dastan Destiny.

Tamina Yes, exactly.

Dastan Well, I believe we make our own destiny, Princess.

Tamina You have an unfortunate lack of curiosity.

Dastan No doubt one of my many flaws.

Tamina Please don't mock me, Prince.

Dastan Oh, I hardly think we know each other well enough for that, Princess, but I look forward to the day that we do.

Draco So demigod, you have a visitor. She says she knows you.

Io My name is Io, Perseus.

Perseus And how do you know me?

Io I've watched you all your life. I guided you to your family.

Perseus Are you a god?

Io There are gods, and there are men, and there are those of us who are in between. Many years ago, I refused a god's advance. I was cursed with agelessness.

Perseus That's not much of a curse.

Io I've lived for years watching my loved ones die. I imagine you're sympathetic to that plight.

Perseus Is it true? Am I the son of Zeus?

Io Yes. The story of your birth began with the rebellion of King Acrisius...

Tamina You know you really walk like one, head held high, chest out, long stomping strides. The walk of a self-satisfied Persian prince. No doubt it's comes from being told since birth the world was yours, and actually believing it.

Dastan I wasn't born in a palace like you! I was born in the slums of Nasaf where I lived if I fought and I clawed for it.

Tamina Then how did you become a prince?

Dastan I don't know, the King... (pause)... marched in the market one day and he... I don't know he... he found me. He took me in, he gave me a family, he gave me home. What you're looking, at, is the walk of a man who just lost everything.

Io Medusa's got a tail, and that's how she'll use it. Listen. Hear her muscles coiling. Smell her skin. Feel her hunger in your gut! Medusa's killed you twice now. Do you think she'll hand you her head, as a present? She won't be gracious about it. One look in her eyes, and you'll turn to stone. Good.

Perseus I'm trying not to enjoy this so much.

Io I'm trying to help you live.

Tamina So I'm being escorted by Prince Dastan, the Lion of Persia. Must feel wonderful winning such a claim for destroying such an innocent city.

Dastan Oh, a pleasure to meet you too, princess. And allow me to offer, that if punishing the enemies of my king's a crime, then it's one I'll gladly repeat.

Tamina Then you are a true prince of Persia. Brutal. Without honor.

Dastan Don't make the mistake of thinking you know me, princess. (speaking to a soldier outside the entrance to the banquet hall) Stay here with her highness. (to Tamina) If you can manage it, I suggest a hint of humility before you're presented to the king. For your own good.

Io The beast. Medusa was beautiful once, so beautiful as to tempt Poseidon. When he came for her, she ran to Athena's temple thinking that the goddess would protect her. She didn't. Poseidon took her on the cold floor. She prayed to Athena for comfort but the goddess found nothing but disgust. She made sure no one would ever want Medusa again, one look at the creature she has become would turn any living thing to stone. I cannot assist you though, the curse prevents me. It was Athena's one bit of solace to Medusa so that Medusa would never harm a woman. Only men are allowed in the temple, but no man has ever made it out.

Dastan Tus didn't kill my father. It was Nizam.

Tamina Your uncle?

Dastan His hands were burned. He said it happened trying to pull off the cloak that killed my father...I've gone over and over it in my mind..he never touched the cloak. He must have handled it before.

Hades You were specks of dust beneath our fingernails. Your very breath is a gift from Olympus. You have insulted powers beyond your comprehension.

Queen Cassiopeia Who are you?

Hades I am Hades. Kneel.

Io Not now, Perseus. You will have your chance.

Hades What do you know of beauty? What is more beautiful than death? Gaze upon me, mortal queen.

Andromeda Mother!

Draco Princess!

Hades In ten days, when the sun is eclipsed, I will unleash the Kraken. Argos will be swept from the earth, and all of you with it. Unless you sacrifice the princess you so foolishly compare to the gods. Only her blood will sate the Kraken and Zeus, who you have so offended. Choose your penance, Argos. Destruction or sacrifice. This is the will of Zeus. The will of your father.

Gretel The curse of hunger for crawling things. I really hate that one.

Calibos Perseus... don't become one of them.

Perseus Io, I'm here.

Io There's no time.

Io The eclipse. Perseus, you must go before it's too late.

Perseus I'm not going anywhere.

Io My fate is certain but the fate of Argos is still in your hands.

Perseus All my life you've been there. You never left me. I can't leave you.

Io This part of the journey you must do alone. Perseus, you're not just part man, part god, you're the best of both.... Everything will be alright.

Io Mankind had grown tired of the gods mistreatment and cruelty. Acrisius led a siege on Olympus. It is said the other gods wanted to simply lay waste to Acrisius and his army, but Zeus loved man too much. Instead, he chose to make an example of Acrisius. He disguised himself as the king and visited the chamber where the king's wife was sleeping... Acrisius grow mad with rage...

Io He ordered the execution of his wife and Zeus newborn son. The queen and her child were cast into the sea. Your mother was killed, but you... part man, part god, you lived. I've watched over you ever since waiting for the day when you will help bring an end to the tyranny of the gods. You were born to kill the Kraken.

Perseus I don't know why I was born or what I am, but I know it's not the Kraken I wanna kill. How do I get to Hades?

Io If the Kraken falls, Hades will be weak enough for you to strike a deathly blow. Only then will you have the revenge you seek.

Perseus Then they better release me.

Tamina Such a noble prince!

Dastan Such a gentle princess!

Tamina How taken you were with my fainting act, eagerly leaping to assist the fallen beauty...!

Dastan Who said you were a beauty?!

Tamina There must be a reason why you can't take your eyes off me.

Io The oldest stories ever told are written in the stars. Stories of time before man and gods, when Titans ruled the earth. The Titans were powerful, but their reign was ended by their own sons: Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. Zeus convinced his brother Hades to create a beast so strong it could defeat their parents, and from his own flesh, Hades gave birth to an unspeakable horror: the Kraken. Zeus became king of the heavens, Poseidon, king of the seas, and Hades, tricked by Zeus, was left to rule the underworld in darkness and in misery. It was Zeus who created man, and man's prayers fed the gods immortality. But in time, mankind grew restless. They began to question the gods, and finally, rise up against them. Into this world, a child was born. A boy who would change everything.

Tamina Protect the dagger, no matter the consequences. That was my sacred calling, that was my destiny.