Production Companies Warner Bros. Pictures, Intermedia Films, Pacifica Film, Egmond Film & Television, France 3 Cinéma, IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 3. Produktions KG, Pathé Renn Productions
Alexander: Conquer your fear, and I promise you'll conquer death.
(3 votes)
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Alexander: 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 year decline and the memories stale and all your great victories fade it will always be remembered, you left your king in Asia
(3 votes)
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Cleitus: How can you, so young, compare yourself to Heracles? Alexander: Why not? I've achieved more in my years, travelled as far... probably farther. Cleitus: Heracles did it by himself! Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander?
(3 votes)
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Philip: No man or woman could be too powerful or beautiful without disaster befalling.
(2 votes)
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Olympias: You will be nineteen this summer and the girls already say you don't like them, you like Hephaistion more. I understand it is natural for a young man. Alexander: Hephaistion loves me for who I am, not what. Olympias: [laughs] Loves? [a little worried] Olympias: Loves?
(2 votes)
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[from trailer] Alexander: In the end, all that matters is what you've done.
(1 vote)
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Alexander: Stay with me tonight, Hephaistion.
(1 vote)
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Hephaistion: I found it in Egypt [showing Alexander a ring] Hephaistion: The man who sold it to me said it came from a time when man worshipped sun and stars. I'll always think of you as the sun, Alexander and I pray your dream will shine on all men. I wish you a son. [puts the ring on Alexander's wedding finger] Alexander: You're a great man. Hephaistion: Many will love you, Alexander, but none so pure and deep... [enter Roxane and exit Hephaistion] Roxane: You... [seeing the ring] Roxane: love him. Alexander: He is Hephaistion... there are many differant ways to love. Roxane, come.
(1 vote)
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Philip: A king isn't born, Alexander; he's made.
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Philip: [to Young Alexander] A king isn't born, Alexander, he is made. By steel and by suffering. A king must know how to hurt those he loves. It's lonely. Ask anyone. Ask Herakles. Ask any of them. Fate is cruel. No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. They laugh when you rise too high. And they crush everything you've built with a whim. What glory they give in the end, they take away. They make of us slaves.
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Olympias: In my womb I carried my avenger!
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Roxane: You love him? Alexander: He is Hephaistion.
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Alexander: It is you I love, Hephaistion. No other. Hephaistion: You're everything I care for and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite I'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want so badly. Alexander: You'll never lose me Hephaistion. I'll be with you always till the end.
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Old Ptolemy: It was said later that Alexander was never defeated in his lifetime, except by Hephaistion's thighs.
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Macedonian Soldier: [mocking Oliver Stone's JFK] Back, and to the left!
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Alexander: [after reading a letter from her mother Olympia, who demands that Alexander crown her Queen of Babylon] It's a high ransom she demands for nine months lodging in the womb.
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Alexander: This isn't how I wanted to become King. Olympias: No one blames you. Alexander: They blame me already! Behind my back, in secret! Olympias: Slander is not power. Alexander: Shame is? Who killed my father? Tell me... tell me, or shall I put you on trial for his murder? Olympias: Pausinias. Alexander: He had help! Did you help him?
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Hephaistion: The generals question your obsession with Darius... they say it was never meant for you to be King of Asia. Alexander: Naturally... they want only to return to their homes, rich with gold, but I've seen the future Hephaistion! I've seen it now a thousand times, on a thousand faces! These people want... need change.
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Young Nearchus: Master... Master! Aristotle: Yes? Young Nearchus: Master...! Aristotle: Out with it, out with it! Young Nearchus: Master...! Why are Persians so cruel?
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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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Alexander: [after running Darius off the field] You can run to the end of the earth, you coward! But you'll never run far enough!
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Alexander: [as Philip falls down drunk] This is the man who is supposed to take us from Greece to Persia! He can't even make it from one couch to the next.
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Alexander: Come Macedonians! Ride! Ride!
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Alexander: [standing on the Hindu Kush with Ptolemy] Yes, I have Babylon. But each land, each boundary I cross lets drip away another illusion. I sense, death will be the last. Yet still I push harder and harder to reach this... home. [looking into the sky] Alexander: Where has our eagle gone? We must go on, Ptolemy... until we find an end.
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Alexander: [looking at the towering mountains] Were we Gods, we'd breach these walls to the Outer Ocean.
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Philip: Shut your foul mouth, you ten-titted bitch from Hades!
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Old Ptolemy: But what can I tell you of what it is to be young? To dream big dreams?
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Old Ptolemy: That's the truth of his life; the dreamers exhaust us, they must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams.
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Young Hephaistion: [after Alexander has lost a wrestling match to Hephaistion] Would you want me to let you win, Alexander? Young Alexander: No. But I promise you, one day I will beat you, Hephaistion.
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Hephaistion: [dying] I worry for you without me. Alexander: [crying] I am nothing without you.
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Old Ptolemy: But in his short life he achieved, no doubt, the mythic glory of his ancestor... Achilleus.
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Old Ptolemy: His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness and impatience with those who could not understand him, and if his desire to unite Greek and barbarian ended in failure...what failure? His failure towered over other men's successes. I've lived... I've lived a long life, Cadmos. But the glory and the memory of man will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. And the greatest of these is the one they now... call "Megas Alexandros" - the greatest Alexander of them all.
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Alexander: What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgement, but your contempt for a world far older than ours.
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Olympias: Alexander, the world is yours. Take it!
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Old Ptolemy: All men reach and fall... [takes sand in his hand and lets it slip through his fingers] Old Ptolemy: reach and fall...
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