Augustus: The First Emperor (2003 TV Movie)
Vittoria Belvedere: Julia Caesaris
Quotes
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Livia : Why haven't you told them?
Julia : You know?
Livia : Yes, why does that surprise you? Go and tell them now before they embarrass us in public.
Julia : How do I tell them their father is dead, Livia?
Livia : They barely knew him.
Julia : Marcus Agrippa was a good father and a loving husband.
Livia : Oh, come now Julia! Don't play the poor young widow to me.
Julia : You are a merciless woman!
Livia : [pause] Perhaps. It is necessary.
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Iullus : I love you.
Julia : But Iullus, my father...
Iullus : Wouldn't approve? What else does he want from you? Didn't it satisfy him enough to have married you to *old* Agrippa in order to beget an heir from your marriage bed?
Julia : I was faithful to Agrippa until he died...
Iullus : So, come to my bed.
Julia : I can't, Agrippa...
Iullus : He's dead, Julia! And you've mourned that beloved, so-called husband for months. You've done your duty for Rome!
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Julia : I will be by your side always, father.
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Scipio : Hail to our queen!
Julia : Scipio! Don't holler so loud.
Scipio : No worries, we're in disguise. You don't want your father to arrest us for scandal in Rome, do you?
Julia : You do scandalize Rome!
Phoebe : Which is why you love us! Your father caught us one time.
Scipio : He called us "naughty children"!
Julia : He's absolutely right!
Iullus : Indeed. Augustus is *always* right!
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Julia : You already have what you wanted of me, father. Heirs. My sons. Now let me live my life!
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Augustus : My grandsons! Gaius and Lucius! Beautiful, aren't they? Devil see them, the pair of them- they take after their mother!
[Julia enters through the crowds]
Julia : They do not! They take after their father and their grandfather. Come along boys, your grandfather is far too busy being "king" to play with his grandsons.
Augustus : Julia, I'm not a king- there are no "kings" in Rome.
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Julia : Have I ever been anything more to you then a instrument to fulfill your destiny.
Augustus : I have never loved anyone in my life as much as I love you.
Julia : Then why are you taking my life away from me?
Augustus : Julia, I want you to be happy, but you have to remember that you aren't just my daughter; you are the daughter of the Empire. As Rome's princess, your body and soul belongs to state, and the state is the body of world - if Rome falls, civilization falls!
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[to Augustus before he dies]
Julia : Your father had a dream, and so did mine.
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[after Tiberius hits her]
Julia : You've wanted to do that for a *very* long time.
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[to Gaius and Lucius as Julia takes them away]
Augustus : Off you go with your mother boys...
[pause]
Augustus : Oh! And boys... Agrippa will be home tomorrow. So let us plan are tactics so that then together, your father, you and I can make war on your mother's camp!
[Julia turns and laughs playfully]
Julia : And I will defeat you all - I'm a better sword fighter then any of you.
Augustus : Alas! It is true, one should have never taught that woman how to use a sword.