Charlton Heston credited as playing...
El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar
- Prince Sancho: [after Count Ordóñez betrays Prince Sancho in and ambush to kill El Cid] Kill him!
- El Cid: You will soon be a King, you must start to think like one, any man can kill, only a King can give life!
- El Cid: I did not seek your father's death, Jimena.
- Jimena: No, but you knew he could only answer the way he did... and you were prepared to kill him. You bought your honor with my sorrow.
- El Cid: There was no other way for me. The man you chose to love could do only what I did.
- Jimena: Why did you come, Rodrigo? Did you think the woman you chose to love could do less than you?
- El Cid: I tried not to come. I told myself my love had no right to live... but my love won't die.
- Jimena: Kill it!
- El Cid: YOU kill it! Tell me you don't love me!
- Jimena: I cannot. Not yet. But I will make myself worthy of you, Rodrigo. I will learn to hate you.
- El Cid: Our dream was short.
- Jimena: I know. There is no place hidden for a man like you. There must be thousands who would gladly part. Why you? Why me?
- El Cid: Please, let me carry away an image of you smiling.
- Jimena: It would be a lie. I will beseech God with my prayers. I will tell Him He must bring you back to me. I must tell God how much I need you.
- El Cid: Then we *will* see each other again.
- Jimena: Can you forgive me, Rodrigo?
- El Cid: Jimena.
- Jimena: Would you take me with you?
- El Cid: But... now I... have nowhere to take you.
- Jimena: As long as we are together it will not be nowhere. I love you Rodrigo. I love you.
- [They kiss]
- El Cid: You know what you risk if you come with me, my love?
- Jimena: Since my love is not a man like other men my life with not be like other lives.
- El Cid: It's only now, only know that I know... how hard the road would have been without you.
- [They kiss again]
- El Cid: Soldiers! People of Valencia! You must not be frightened... by the sound of a few drums. In a few hours, they will be silenced forever!
- El Cid: We have not spent much time together. Yet it seems to me... Yet it seems to me that those who have spent a lifetime together... have not had more than we.