Cleopatra (1963)

Martin Landau: Rufio

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• Antony : Queens. Queens. Strip them naked as any other woman, they are no longer queens.

  Rufio : It is also difficult to tell the rank of a naked general. Generals without armies are naked indeed.

• Rufio : We must find the gold to pay them, the wheat to feed them, supplies, ships, armor.

  Antony : Where do you suggest we look for all these?

  Rufio : I thought perhaps further to the east.

  Antony : Syria.

  Rufio : Perhaps more to the south.

  Antony : Ethiopia.

  Rufio : To the north of Ethiopia.

  Antony : I forbid you to mention it!

  Rufio : I didn't.

  Antony : I will not crawl to her, hand held out like a beggar. Why has she not offered her assistance.

• Rufio : "In obtaining her objectives, she has been known to use torture, poison... and even her own sexual talents, which are said to be considerable. Her lovers, I am told, are listed more easily by number than by name. It is said that she chooses in the manner of a man... rather than wait to be chosen after womanly fashion." Well, there's more reason than we thought... for not wanting to leave you two alone, eh, sir'?

  Julius Caesar : I'm sorry, Rufio, I wasn't listening.