Gladiator Quotes

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

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

The battle scenes in ‘Gladiator’ don’t have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action pictures like the ‘Once Upon a Time in China‘ series, where the fights have the eye-popping panache of dance sequences from a musical.

If performance management were a movie, it will become less ‘Gladiator’ and more ‘Moneyball.’

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.

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.

I loved ‘Gladiator,’ and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

A great gladiator sandal is always comfortable but can dress something up.

When I’m on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.

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.

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.

I don’t believe in past lifetimes, but if there was one, I had to be a gladiator.

I love ‘Gladiator’ and ‘300.’

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.

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.

I see myself as a fighter, a gladiator. I have always fought my own battles.

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

I watch a lot of English films but one of my favourites is ‘Gladiator.’ It’s epic – if it doesn’t get you fired up, nothing will.

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.

The Democratic party, respective to health care, is like a person who was sent into the store to purchase a gallon of milk and some butter for the evening‘s meal and instead walked out with a ‘Gladiator’ DVD, a can of Easy Cheese, and some Homer Simpson house slippers because how funny are they?

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.

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.

Growing up, my favorite movies were ‘Forrest Gump,’ ‘Shawshank Redemption,’ ‘Gladiator’ – none of them really had Asian leading men.

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.

We’re not going to ride on Space Mountain and do the Disney thing. Forget Mickey. This is freaking ‘Braveheart’ and ‘Gladiator’ stuff that we are trying to will onto other teams.

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.

I played semi-professionally for a season, and there’s an element of performance to being a footballer, stepping onto the pitch: you feel like a gladiator walking into a colosseum.

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.

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.

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.

Just because gladiator shoes are in, everybody can’t start flaunting those.

When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly ‘Gladiator,’ you may ask yourself why and at the same time thank him for his absorption in the part.

I’m a good man and a bad fighter… I’ve got the gladiator in me.