Alexander (2004) - Quotes

Consequences of Ignorance and Recklessness

Philip: A broken neck comes free, you fool!

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A King's Humorous Comparison of Beast and Spouse

Philip: (of Bucephalus) Who would want such a beast? I already have a wife!

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Confronting Betrayal and Manipulation

Philip: Damn your sorceress soul! Keeping me like one of your snakes! I told you not! I told you not!

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Acknowledgment of Tyranny by Alexander

Alexander: Cleitus spoke true. I am a tyrant.

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Confrontation with a Harsh Critic

Alexander: No one, not my vilest enemy, has ever spoken like you to me!

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A Father's Lament for His Son

Alexander: My poor, poor, ill-fated son.

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A Plea for Hephaestion's Presence

Alexander: Don't leave me Hephaestion!

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Legacy of Titans Remembered Through Time

Alexander: May all those who come here after us know when they see this altar, that titans were once here.

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Return to Macedon

Alexander: Men of Macedon, we're going home.

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A Son's Tribute to His Father's Valor

Alexander: Go on your way, father, rejoicing that with every step you may recall your valour.

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A King's Reflection on Loyalty and Legacy

Alexander: Yes, you're right Crateros. I should have sent you veterans home sooner, and I will. The first of your shall be the Silver Shields, and then every man who has served seven years. Respected, rich, LOVED! You'll be treated by you wives and children as heroes for the rest of your lives. And enjoy a peaceful death. But you dream Crateros! 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 will always be remembered, you left your king in Asia! Because I will go on...with my Asians!

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Enduring Hardship Through Battle and Sacrifice

Alexander: You know there’s not a part of me without a scar or a bone broken by sword, knife, stone, catapult, and club. I’ve shared every hardship with all of you.

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Facing Fear in Uncharted Territory

Alexander: You break my heart, you men... afraid!? Of course you have fears, we all have fears. Because no one has ever come this far before.

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Acceptance of True Self in Love

Alexander: Hephaestion loves me as I am, not "who".

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Contempt for the Wisdom of History

Alexander: What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment, but your contempt for a world far older than ours.

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Confronting Superiority and Ambition

Alexander: Aristotle be damned! By Zeus and by all the gods, what makes you so much better than them, Cassander! Better than you really are! In you and those like you is this.

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Seeking Home Beyond Illusions and Death

Alexander: Each land, each boundary I cross, I strip away another illusion. I sense death will be the last. Yet still I push, harder and harder to reach this..."home." Where has our eagle gone? We must go on Ptolemy, until we find an end.

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Ambition Beyond Mortal Limits

Alexander: Were we gods we'd breach these walls to the Eastern Ocean.

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A Declaration of Love for Hephaestion

Alexander: It is you that I love Hephaestion, no other.

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Struggling with Identity and Perception

Alexander: When I was a child my mother thought me divine and my father weak... which one am I Hephaistion? Weak or divine?

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The Importance of Actions in Life

Alexander: In the end, all that matters is what you've done.

A Request for Companionship

Alexander: Stay with me tonight, Hephaestion.

Cost of Life Before Birth

Alexander: It's a high ransom she charges for nine months lodging in the womb.

Surpassing My Father's Aspirations

Alexander: I've taken you farther than my father ever dreamed!

Rejecting My Father's Legacy

Alexander: I am not my father!

Call to Arms for Freedom and Glory

Alexander: You've all honored your country and your ancestors and now we come to this most distant place in Asia where across from us Darius has at last gathered a vast army, but look again at this horde and ask yourselves, who is this great king who pays assassins in gold coins to murder my father, our king in a most despicable and cowardly manner? Who is this great king Darius who enslaves his own men to fight? Who is this king but a king of air? These men do not fight for their homes. They fight because this king tells them they must. And when they fight, they will melt away like the air, because they know no loyalty to a king of slaves! But we are not here today as slaves. We are here today... as Macedonian free men! And all their arms, their numbers, their chariots and their fine horses will mean nothing in the hands of slaves. Some of you, perhaps myself, will not live to see the sun set over these mountains today, for I will be in the very thick of battle with you. But remember this, the greatest honor a man can achieve is to live with great courage, and to die gloriously in battle for his home. I say to you what every warrior has known since the beginning of time: conquer your fear and I promise you you will conquer death! Someday I promise you, your sons and grandsons will look into your eyes. And when they ask you why you fought so bravely at Gaugamela, you will answer, with all the strength of your great, great hearts: "I was here this day at Gaugamela...for the freedom...and glory...of Greece!" Zeus be with us!

A vow of loyalty beyond death

Alexander: If you were to fall Hephaestion, even if Macedonia were to lose a king I would avenge you, and follow you down to the house of death.

Claiming Victory in Asia

Alexander: I didn't cross Asia to steal this victory, Cassander." And right not my butt.

Doubt in a Leader's Capability

Alexander: (Of his father Phillip) This is the man who is going to take you from Macedonia to Persia?! He can't even make it from one couch to the next.