Caligola [1979]
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Caligula: I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God.
Caligula: Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
Caligula: Longinus, you're not having any fun! Enjoy yourself! What is your preference?
Longinus: Everything and nothing Caesar.
Caligula: I hear you have a taste for little boys. Is that not so?
Chaerea: No Caesar, big boys.
Chaerea: Give him enough rope...
Longinus: ...and perhaps, he'll hang us all.
Tiberius: Do you prefer nymphs to satyrs?
Caligula: I like both, Lord.
Tiberius: Do you think this boy has been drinking?
Caligula: I think he has, Caesar.
Tiberius: So do I. Macro? Bring him more wine!
Caligula: Caesar begged you.
Caligula: If only all of Rome had just one neck.
Tiberius: Serve the state, Caligula, though the people in it are wicked beasts.
Caligula: But they love you, lord.
Tiberius: Oh, no... they FEAR me... and that is much better.
Tiberius: It is fate that rules us, little boots, not any god.
Caligula: You are a god.
Tiberius: No, I'm NOT. Not even when I'm dead.
Caligula: Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar, they are gods.
Tiberius: So says the senate, and so the people prefer to believe. Such myths are useless.
Julia Drusilla: You are a fool.
Caligula: Caesar cannot be a fool!
Julia Drusilla: But he's trying very hard...
Nerva: Tiberius, you were wise once.
Tiberius: Don't taunt me, I am old.
Nerva: I've watched you grow into a monster! One by one, I've seen you murder your family, your friends, the noblest men in Rome.
Caligula: That is Treason!
Nerva: No, it's the truth.
Tiberius: I am and always have been surrounded by enemies. In my own family, in the senate... You are cruel!
Nerva: Honest old men can sometimes see the future. So, from the evils past, and the evils yet to come, I now choose to escape.
Tiberius: Oh, yes, I am a true moralist, and stern as any Cato. Fate chose me to govern swine, in my old age, I have become a swineherd.
Macro: Forgive me, Prince. The emperor commands you to wait upon him.
Caligula: What does he want?
Macro: A last look at you, perhaps. He is seventy-seven.
Caligula: May he live forever.
Macro: My wife lives only to the day she can see you again, Prince.
Caligula: Jupiter loves ME!
Caligula: Nerva, what's it like?
Nerva: Warm, no pain... just drifting away.
Caligula: Can you see her?
Nerva: Who?
Caligula: The goddess, Isis?
Nerva: So you're one of those who believe...
Caligula: Do you see her?
Nerva: No.
Caligula: Are you sure? You're almost dead! What's it like, what's happening to you now?
Nerva: Slowly... drifting...
Caligula: Liar... you can see her, I know you can! What is she like?
Nerva: No... Slowly...
Caligula: LIAR!
Tiberius: Do you think this boy has drunk enough wine?
Caligula: I think he's drunk enough, Lord.
Tiberius: So do I!
Tiberius: Now he is happy.
Tiberius: If someone else had become emperor, I would've been killed... As you will be!
Caligula: Will be?
Caligula: Will be, Grandfather?
Tiberius: Would be, if you were not my heir.
Proculus: Divine Ceasar, PLEASE! What have I done? Why am I here?
Caligula: Treason!
Proculus: I have always been loyal to you!
Caligula: That IS your treason! You're an honest man, Proculus, which means a bad Roman! Therefore, you are a traitor! Logical, hmm?
Caligula: Open your EYES, Livia! Lucky girl... to lose one's virginity to a direct descendent of the goddess... I, Caligula Caesar, command in the name of the... Open your eyes, Proculus! Command in the name of the senate-OPEN THEM!-the senate, and the people of... Rome!
Tiberius: A brother kills a brother who's killed his father who's killed his son. Fate. And then someone will kill Caligula!
Julia Drusilla: It's a girl.
Caligula: It is not a girl! Did you not hear Caesar say?
Julia Drusilla: I heard the voice of Caesar. But your daughter did not.