Laurence Olivier
(as Marcus Licinius Crassus)
Marcus Publius Glabrus:
How were you able to get my appointment without Gracchus knowing?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: I fought fire with oil. I purchased the Senate behind his back.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: I fought fire with oil. I purchased the Senate behind his back.
Jean Simmons
(as Varinia)
Kirk Douglas
(as Spartacus)
Peter Ustinov
(as Lentulus Batiatus)
Peter Ustinov
(as Lentulus Batiatus)
Charles Laughton
(as Sempronius Gracchus)
Lentulus Biatatus:
There's one man I hate: Crassus.
Sempronius Gracchus: You've grown very ambitious in your hatred.
Sempronius Gracchus: You've grown very ambitious in your hatred.
Kirk Douglas
(as Spartacus)
Tony Curtis
(as Antoninus)
Laurence Olivier
(as Marcus Licinius Crassus)
Julius Caesar:
[about Spartacus] Did you fear him, Crassus?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Not when I fought him, I knew he could be beaten. But now I fear him, even more than I fear you.
Julius Caesar: Me?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Yes, my dear Caesar, you.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Not when I fought him, I knew he could be beaten. But now I fear him, even more than I fear you.
Julius Caesar: Me?
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Yes, my dear Caesar, you.
Laurence Olivier
(as Marcus Licinius Crassus)
Julius Caesar:
Rome is the mob.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: No! Rome is an eternal thought in the mind of God.
Julius Caesar: I'd no idea you'd grown religious.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: [laughs] It doesn't matter. If there were no gods at all I'd still revere them. If there were no Rome, I'd dream of her.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: No! Rome is an eternal thought in the mind of God.
Julius Caesar: I'd no idea you'd grown religious.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: [laughs] It doesn't matter. If there were no gods at all I'd still revere them. If there were no Rome, I'd dream of her.
