Caesar (2002)

Ian Duncan: Marcus Brutus

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Quotes 

• [Brutus is reading] 

  Caesar : Let me see... Plato's laws? Do you read this?

  Marcus Brutus : Yes.

  Caesar : And, what did you think of it?

  Marcus Brutus : Well Plato thinks that democracy is doomed to failure; he thinks that a state should be run by a dictator, a dictator who's become enlightened through experience and learning.

  Caesar : I don't think that your Plato would get on with your Uncle Cato.

• [of Caesar] 

  Marcus Brutus : He spared my life.

  Caius Cassius : And took the life of Cato, your wife's father who treated you like a son... Has Portia ceased her mourning?

  Marcus Brutus : No... and neither have I.

  Caius Cassius : So, you're mourning over Cato's death?

  Marcus Brutus : Cassius, yes, I and grieving... but private affections and public duty are not the same thing.

  Caius Cassius : And yet they say that in your grief that you just weep and say prayers... and fill your wife's drinking cup and go to bed... And when Caesar comes to you tonight, you'll be like his boy, filling his cup too.

  Marcus Brutus : *Who* is saying this? Who?

• [on Appolonius] 

  Portia : I'll bet he ran off to fight with the rebel slaves.

  Julia : *Those* slaves are not like Appolonius. They aren't educated men with happy homes.

  Portia : Well, we had a Morish cook who ran off about a month ago to join the rebels. We heard he had been promoted to commander. From cook to commander! It's so inspiring...

  Marcus Brutus : You talk of it as if it's a game, Portia.

  Portia : I don't!

• [to Portia on slave rebellions] 

  Marcus Brutus : Think about it; over half of the population of Rome is made up of slaves. What would happen if they all decided to rebel? It would be the end of Rome.

  Portia : You take the inspiration out of everything!

  Marcus Brutus : Rome had to act.

  Julia : What do you mean?

  Marcus Brutus : Pompey.