Gladiator Quotes

#1. I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

Channing Tatum

#2. But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

Ridley Scott

#3. So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

Junot Diaz

#4. The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.

Seneca The Younger

#5. I see before me the gladiator lie.

Lord Byron

#6. On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

Kat Graham

#7. Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

Rem Koolhaas

#8. My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well.

Skrillex

#9. Look at this save. Cat-like, jungle-like, quick. Big puma. Big, beautiful, brave gladiator goalkeeper. Spartacus, I called him. Mix in a bit of octopus. Beautiful.

Ray Hudson

#10. - How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm ... A poetic gladiator.

Nora Roberts

#11. I hate this Gladiator shit," Sabin muttered.
"Yes, well, where do you think the Romans learned from?"
Sabin sputtered for a minute. "You're trying to tell me Harpies are responsible for this? That the Romans learned from them?"
"I must try only if you are lacking intelligence.

Gena Showalter

#12. Murder is the thoroughbred stable. Murder is a shine and a dazzle, a smooth ripple like honed muscle, take your breath away. Murder is a brand on your arm, like an elite army unit's, like a gladiator's, saying for all your life: One of us. The finest.

Tana French

#13. The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

Ovid

#14. Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for ... Be a "game changer" ... The basic tenets of my life philosophy.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#15. When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been attracted to violence to the point where they're in stadiums still to this day watching people getting stoned to death.

Rosario Dawson

#16. Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police - plastic swords versus batons. Percy wasn't sure what that was about, but he and Annabeth decided to keep walking. Sometimes mortals were even stranger than monsters.

Rick Riordan

#17. Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I've never seen a player in such good physical condition. He's a gladiator.

Jorge Valdano

#18. I love Russell Crowe's line to Oliver Reed in 'Gladiator' where he asks him, 'Are you in danger of becoming a good man?' It's one of my favorite lines ever.

Jonathan Banks

#19. There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

Suzanne Collins

#20. His exhaustion is that of the gladiator after the combat; his labor was the whitewashing of a corner of the wall in his office.

Kafka, Franz

#21. What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.

Javier Bardem

#22. Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that's what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.

Roberto Bolano

#23. The most callous of her guests admired her as young Rome applauded some gladiator who could die smiling.

Honore De Balzac

#24. Never accept the role of a Gladiator if you do not have the spirit of a Warrior.

A.K. Hasan

#25. There live a great man named Joe / who was belittled by a loudmouth foe / While his rival would taunt and tease / Joe silently bore the stings / And then fought like gladiator in the ring

Muhammad Ali

#26. I loved 'Gladiator' when I was young. Russell Crowe was a big inspiration; the fact that he plays my father in 'Noah' was amazing.

Douglas Booth

#27. What kind of moron wants to be a gladiator?

Kate Quinn

#28. Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? 'I'm just going to use that hostility to make me stronger, not weaker' as Kelly Rowland said on the X Factor,

Banksy

#29. My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out]

David Wishart

#30. When you think about it, being trained by a Gladiator is almost as good as being trained by the SAS.

Dave Franklin

#31. Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

Neko Case

#32. He didn't lead anyone on, or make any promises. Instead he conveyed a sense of calm and equanimity, like a man who had banished from his life all superfluous sentiment, all longings and all patience for the nonessential. He was like Yoda, Buddha and the Gladiator all rolled into one.

Michael Robotham

#33. I really like 'Gladiator.' I like 'The Dark Knight.' I really liked, when I was a kid, 'U.S. Marshalls.' I like funny movies, too. 'Old School' and 'The Hangover.' 'The Hangover' was up there; I liked it.

Matthew Stafford

#34. When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of documentaries about huge films, like 'Gladiator.' That couldn't be more apart from what I'm doing, but you see Ridley Scott facing huge problems and fixing them.

Philippe Falardeau

#35. I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony.

George Gordon Byron

#36. The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena.

Publilius Syrus

#37. Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.

Sid Waddell

#38. Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

Manu Bennett

#39. There are strict rules in these matters, I find.' 'There were strict rules in the arena, too. Every gladiator had to have a sword, oh yes; but if it was Caligula he was to fight with, the sword was made of lead.

Patrick O'Brian

#40. A gladiator's first distraction is his last.

Oenomaus

#41. The defeated gladiator fought reasonably well, and at the end, with a sword to his throat, raised his hand to appeal for mercy. Tavius made the downward gesture with his thumb that indicated the sword was to be lowered. So both fighters survived. The second fight

Phyllis T. Smith

#42. You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.

Joel Siegel

#43. Two blue men the size of football players walking through a store wrapped in Roman gladiator armor was bound to attract attention.

Missy Lyons

#44. Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

Vladimir Nabokov

#45. Going after a part in Hollywood is like being a gladiator in ancient Rome. When it comes down to getting a role, you don't have any friends, you're incredibly competitive and any actor who tells you different is lying.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#46. I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

Shirley Manson

#47. The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

Philip Wylie

#48. I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

Ridley Scott

#49. It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#50. Use your sword properly, man! You are not some dandified gladiator. You are a legionary and a killer. Killers jab and stab!

Marc Alan Edelheit

#51. I have a few friends that have inspired me since I was a young kid. When I watch old films or modern movies - particularly 'Gladiator,' 'New Jack City' and 'The Skin I Live In' - I'll also get ideas.

Theophilus London

#52. You'd think they were watching gladiators," he said. "I'd be the gladiator," Sophie replied. "You'd be whatever weakling they throw in there, who gets mutilated.

Lauren Layne

#53. A gladiator only gets to use a real sword when he fights in the arena, since no Roman worth his salt trusts a gladiator with a real sword in the ludus. You have that ungrateful wretch Spartacus to thank for that.

Simon Scarrow

#54. I suppose 'Gladiator' could be a Western - if you were writing your review in Athens, that is! To be honest, we didn't really think that way at the time. But there is common ground. And they both have horses - I liked that, obviously.

Russell Crowe

#55. Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles.

Sascha Radetsky

#56. When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.

Tyson Chandler

#57. I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.

Victoria Aveyard

#58. In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized.

Suzanne Collins

#59. In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you're a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you're short wimpy guy, you can play a tall gladiator. If you're a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you're a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra.

Chris Rock

#60. We were in chaos and world were watching us while we were killing each other like gladiators in arena.

M.F. Moonzajer