Caesar (2002)

Jeremy Sisto: Gaius Julius Caesar

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Quotes 

• Aurelia : If you marry Cinna's daughter you will be identified with the popular party whether you wish or not.

  Caesar : I wish it.

  Aurelia : They are not our people.

  Cousin : You wish to join with farmers and hagglers and beggars?

  Caesar : Our family itself did not exactly drop straight out of Jupiter's ass.

• [Brutus is reading] 

  Caesar : Let me see... Plato's laws? Do you read this?

  Marcus Brutus : Yes.

  Caesar : And, what did you think of it?

  Marcus Brutus : Well Plato thinks that democracy is doomed to failure; he thinks that a state should be run by a dictator, a dictator who's become enlightened through experience and learning.

  Caesar : I don't think that your Plato would get on with your Uncle Cato.

• [Caesar is dying] 

  Caesar : Brutus...

• Caesar : There's a lot of Rome still out there, it just isn't called Rome yet.

• Caesar : Are you trying to seduce me?

  Cleopatra : I don't try! I seduce... or I don't!

• Caesar : Cleopatra rules a large part of Africa.

  Calpurnia : And ALL of you!

• [Caesar and Brutus are talking before Pompey's triumph] 

  Portia : Brutus, hurry up! Are you coming?

  Caesar : Hurry and catch up, or else you'll have to come along with me.

• Caesar : [interviewing a prospective tutor for his daughter]  Sophistry? Uh, doesn't that mean you know how to tell fancy lies?

  Appolonius : There's great power in ambiguity, sir, but not all men use advantages to wicked ends.

  Caesar : Are you experienced teaching the young?

  Appolonius : Yes, I much prefer it to teaching the old.

  Caesar : Why is that?

  Appolonius : Because they exhibit more wisdom.