Augustus: The First Emperor (2003 TV Movie)

Benjamin Sadler: Gaius Octavius, Young Augustus

Quotes 

• Octavius : [to Agrippa]  The Egyptian relgion declares that to die of a snake bite will secure immortality. Did you know that, Agrippa?

  Maecenas : Never mind that! History... History will never forget this moment. At last, every legion in Rome listens to the command of a single man. The peace of Rome is assured, to the one, absolute ruler of the Roman Empire.

  Agrippa : [In disgust]  So, that was you plan all along, Octavius? To wear a crown on your head!

  Maecenas : In order to keep the nobles from tearing Rome apart he must be king. He will be declared..."Augustus"!

• Octavius : I'd spare your life if I could, Antony.

  Mark Antony : I wasn't begging for your mercy!

  [short pause and smile] 

  Mark Antony : I have lived well. I have no hatred or envy for Caesar's son. I wonder if your father had foresaw this end.

  Octavius : No... and neither did I.

• [to Agrippa, upon reaching Rome] 

  Octavius : Tomorrow, we go to Munda. Tonight, I am going to show you the greatest city in the world.

• Agrippa : I'll not deliver you to Caesar dead!

  Octavius : Bad for your career?

• Octavius : I shall not greet Caesar from behind a donkey's arse.

  Agrippa : You are a donkey's arse!

• Atia : Whose glory is Octavia's marriage?

  Octavius : For Rome.

  Atia : Rome, who is he? I don't know him. Does he have a sister too?

• Octavius : Did you see her?

  Agrippa : Pretty.

• Octavius : She's watching me.

  Agrippa : Who?

  Octavius : The woman I'll marry.

  Agrippa : Where?

  Octavius : Somewhere.

  Agrippa : Quick! Open your wounds so that your hero's blood is easier to see!

• [On Caesar's murder] 

  Mark Antony : Ten of them came at us with daggers, I don't know why I'm alive.

  Octavius : They must have not wished you dead.

• Octavius : Livia, you look well. How is Tiberius, that son of yours?

  Young Livia : And what is it that lies in *your* wife's belly? Do soothsayers predict a boy or a girl?

• Maecenas : We are three kings. Octavius, the leader. Agrippa, the soldier, and Maecenas, the...

  Agrippa : Mouth?

  Maecenas : - Maecenas, the politician.

  [Indicates a rise to Octavius and Agrippa] 

  Maecenas : A rise. Let us all promise now: that we will let nothing never destroy this friendship!

  Maecenas , Agrippa , Octavius : Never!

• [about Agrippa's aqueducts] 

  Agrippa : This spring will quench the thirst of 50,000 or more Romans everyday and water the fields streching for miles around Rome.

  [Hands cups of water to Octavius. Maecenas refuses his cup] 

  Maecenas : No, thanks. I prefer to have something a little more lively.

  Octavius : [Toasts]  To furture harvests.

  Agrippa : Now no one can bribe Rome again by cutting off it's food supply.

  Maecenas : It's all very lovely, Agrippa. At least we'll be able to get some lovely fountains out of it.

• [Upon Agrippa's entry] 

  Octavius : The great soldier of the future, Marcus Agrippa has arrived...

  [Notices Octavia swooning] 

  Octavius : ...and he's already slain the heart of my sister!

• [On the list of enemies to be murdered] 

  Mark Antony : Write your enemies names on this list.

  Octavius : I have no names.

  Mark Antony : You have no balls!

• [after giving a speech to the plebs of Rome] 

  Maecenas : Brilliant speech!

  Octavius : You wrote it.

  Maecenas : Of course!

• Cicero : Caesar and I, as you know had our differences... But surely you must know, I didn't kill him.

  Octavius : How could *think* such a thing?