Androcles and the Lion (1952)

Maurice Evans: Emperor Antoninus (Caesar)

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• Editor of Gladiators : Caesar will go down in history as the emperor who eliminated these cranks. Hail Caesar!

  Emperor Antoninus (Caesar) : On the contrary. I'm more likely to be remembered as the man who did more to perpetuate them.

  Editor of Gladiators : You, Caesar?

  Emperor Antoninus (Caesar) : I dare say I am doing more to spread Christianity than all their preachers, missionaries and Gospel writers put together. I shouldn't be surprised if finally I wind up as one of their heroes.

  Editor of Gladiators : Caesar jests of course.

  Emperor Antoninus (Caesar) : Caesar does not jest. I wager that for every Christian that dies in the bloody sand, two new ones leave the coliseum.

  Editor of Gladiators : Perhaps then, Caesar should change his tactics.

  Emperor Antoninus (Caesar) : Impossible. I am a subject of history and I must submit to its inevitable course. It is my destiny to fan the fires of Christianity by offering them martyrdom in the arena.

• Emperor Antoninus (Caesar) : Metellus, you see now the disadvantages of too much severity. These people have no hope, therefore there's nothing to restrain them from saying whatever they like to. They're almost as important as the gladiators.

• Ferrovius : I will not fight. I will die. Better to stand with the archangels than with the Praetorian Guard.

  Emperor Antoninus (Caesar) : I cannot believe that the archangels, whoever they may be, would not prefer to be recruited from the Praetorian Guard.