David Bamber credited as playing...
Marcus Tullius Cicero
- [while waiting for Caesar to arrive in the Senate]
- Marcus Junius Brutus: Dear me. I've never seen so many long faces.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero: It is customary to be sad at a funeral.
- Marcus Junius Brutus: Well, the Republic is old and infirm. Death can be a merciful release in such cases.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero: You do not mean that. You don't believe that. You of all people shouldn't lay jokes about tyranny.
- Marcus Junius Brutus: Oh, I am deadly serious. It is in all our interests to be reconciled with Caesar now, for the good of Rome.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero: The good of Rome, indeed. As soon as this... farce is done, I shall retire to the country and wait for the city to come to its senses. It is the only honorable thing to do.
- Marcus Junius Brutus: My dear friend, we have no honor. If we had honor, we would be with Cato and Scipio in the afterlife.
- Marcus Junius Brutus: Still here? I thought you were retiring to the country as a point of honor.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero: You do right to mock me. You make me feel small.
- Marcus Junius Brutus: A joke, old man, a joke. I'm always happy for your company.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero: So, why didn't you tell me beforehand? I could've been of assistance, perhaps.
- Marcus Junius Brutus: What are you talking about?
- [Cicero thrusts a parchment into his hands]
- Marcus Tullius Cicero: Everyone is reading it! I saw some temple prostitutes with a copy.
- Marcus Junius Brutus: [reading] "A Call to Virtue."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero: The writing is adequate, which is something we should talk about, but the sentiments are full of grace and bravery.
- Marcus Junius Brutus: "Sons of the Republic, the blood of our forefathers calls you to honor the memory and emulate the deeds of... Porcius Cato, the last true Roman." Who wrote this?
- Marcus Tullius Cicero: You did.
- [he turns the page over and points]
- Marcus Junius Brutus: Gods beneath us.