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Antonius Proximo Quotes

Total quotes: 4
“Learn from me. I wasn’t the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd and you’ll win your freedom.”
— Antonius Proximo, Gladiator
Tagged: Murder, Pleasing the Audience
“[looking at the slaves in the Slave Market]

Proximo: Do any of them fight? I’ve got a match coming up.

Slave Trader: Some are good for fighting, others for dying. You need both, I think.”
— Antonius Proximo, Gladiator
Tagged: slaves, Fighting, Dying
“[Proximo grabs hold of the slave trader’s crotch]

Proximo: Those giraffes you sold me, they won’t mate. They just walk around eating, not mating. You sold me queer giraffes. I want my money back.

Slave Trader: Not a chance. [He grunts as Proximo squeezes tighter] I’ll do a special price for you!”
— Antonius Proximo, Gladiator
Tagged: Giraffes, Queer, Homophobia
“[addressing his new slave recruits] I am Proximo. I shall be closer to you for the next few days, which will be the last of your miserable lives, than the bitch of a mother that brought you screaming into this world. I did not pay good money for you for your company, I paid it so that I could profit from your death and as your mother was there at your beginning, so I shall be there at your end. And when you die, and die you shall, your transition shall be to the sound of…[claps his hands]...Gladiators, I salute you....[Proximo gives the gladiators a talk of encouragement before they go out for their first fight] Some of you are thinking you won’t fight, some that you can’t. They all say that until they are out there. Listen. [the crowd can be heard stamping their feet, cheering. Proximo draws a sword and starts demonstrating] Thrust this into another man’s flesh and they will applaud and love you for that. You may begin to love them for that. [he slams the blade into the table]  Ultimately, we’re all dead men, sadly we cannot choose how, but we can decide how we meet that end in order that we are remembered as men.”
— Antonius Proximo, Gladiator
Tagged: Fighting, Dying, Gladiators
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