Rome (TV Series)

Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare) (2007)

Nigel Lindsay: Levi

Quotes 

• [Levi and Deborah confront Timon, who has just returned home covered in blood] 

  Levi : Look at yourself. Look at what you have become. You are an animal.

  Timon : My righteous brother. Did he tell you of his righteous life back in Judea, eh? Did you tell her about that, brother?

  Levi : I've changed my ways.

  Timon : Thieving, gambling, chasing whores.

  Deborah : Stop it.

  Timon : It's the truth.

  Deborah : [angrily]  Oh, are you going to start speaking the truth now? Because THAT I would find interesting!

  [Timon doesn't respond] 

  Deborah : No? I didn't think so!

  [she storms out] 

  Levi : She deserves better.

  Timon : Too bad for her, then, this is what she's got.

  Levi : These treacheries you do for that Roman witch, does she pay you enough?

  Timon : I get what I need.

  Levi : [scoffs]  She must lavish you with jewels and gold. What a rich man my brother is. Tell me, where do you hide such fantastic wealth?

  Timon : We both sell what we have to these people.

  Levi : All Rome's wealth is not enough to buy what HaShem has given me.

  Timon : Again with HaShem! Let HaShem make me a living! The money that witch pays me bought this fucking house, this fucking table, and that fucking dress my wife wears!

  Levi : That makes you proud?

  Timon : Proud as any free Roman.

  Levi : [contemptuously]  You breathe this fetid air of Rome, but you are not Roman. You walk her beshitted streets, you speak her mongrel language, but you're not Roman. You're a Jew. You may forget that. They never will.