Jean Simmons credited as playing...
Diana
- Diana: [Marcellus has just been sentenced to execution; Diana leaves the podium to stand at his side] Sire, Marcellus is my chosen husband. I wish to go with him.
- Caligula: Stand back! You're not on trial! There's no evidence against you!
- Diana: Then if it please you, sire, I'll provide evidence. I have no wish to live another hour in an empire ruled by *you*! You dare to call yourself a Caesar. Once the Caesars of Rome were noble, but in you, noble blood has turned to poison. You corrupt Rome with your spite and malice.
- Caligula: Stop! Stop it!
- Diana: That *you* should be Caesar, vicious, treacherous, drunk with power, an evil, insane monster posing as emperor.
- Caligula: STOP IT!
- Diana: As for me, I have found another king. I want to go with my husband into his kingdom.
- Caligula: Then, by the gods, you shall! Go, both of you, into your kingdom!
- Diana: It's good to see you, Marcellus.
- Marcellus Gallio: It's ah - good to see you - again.
- Diana: Then you do remember me?
- Marcellus Gallio: Ah - yes, of course. Let me see now, it was the - was the...
- Diana: And your promise, have you forgotten that too?
- Marcellus Gallio: What promise?
- Diana: To marry me.
- Marcellus Gallio: Was I drunk?
- Diana: That's not very flattering, Marcellus.
- Marcellus Gallio: Oh, I - I mean, if you'd tell me when I was supposed to have said this - the circumstances...
- Diana: Oh, I remember them perfectly. I'd cut my finger, and I cried. And then you took the dagger and cut your own finger to show that it didn't really hurt, and then you kissed me, and I stopped crying - and then you promised to marry me when we grew up.
- Marcellus Gallio: Dianna! Where have your freckles gone?
- Diana: I lost them.
- Marcellus Gallio: Oh, I loved every one of them.
- Diana: Then I'm sorry I lost them.
- Diana: Then all the tales I've heard of you are true.
- Marcellus Gallio: Every man makes enemies.
- Diana: All your enemies seem to be women.
- Diana: Are you still ill?
- Marcellus Gallio: No, I'm well. Really well, for the first time in my life.
- Diana: No, Marcellus, they'll kill you!
- Marcellus Gallio: You must have faith...
- Diana: Faith in what? This new God of yours? How can he help you? He couldn't help his own son. They crucified him and they'll kill you too!
- Diana: Perhaps you don't believe that a girl of eleven could fall in love, and stay in love all these years...
- Marcellus Gallio: Don't cry, my love. Lucia thought I was in love, and I laughed at her, but women are wise in these matters.
- Emperor Tiberius: For your sake I interfered, when my wife wanted to give you to Caligula. For your sake I brought your tribune back from Palestine. For your sake, I now free you from him.
- Diana: Sire, I have no wish to be free.
- Emperor Tiberius: Have you gone mad too?
- Diana: He had everything then. He could have had me too. I wanted him, but I wasn't sure that I loved him. Now I am sure.
- Emperor Tiberius: I see it my duty to forbid you to see him again. As a child you were wise, but now you reason like a woman - foolishly.