Augustus: The First Emperor (2003 TV Movie)

Vittoria Belvedere: Julia Caesaris

Quotes 

• Augustus : Did I play my role well, in the comdey of life?

  Julia : The gods will tell you father.

  Augustus : Applause, please.

• Julia : Who will love Gaius and Lucius? You? You are not capable of real love, only your dream - your perfect Roman Empire. You should have killed me when I was born, father! Instead you tortured me slowly, with never ending pain.

  [pause] 

  Julia : They call you Augustus... But you are not a god.

• 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.

• 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!

• Livia : You must marry Tiberius.

  Julia : I can't stand him.

  Livia : I'm not asking you to love him.

  Julia : Good, cause I won't!

  Augustus : Shut up, the pair of you! If a fight is what you want give me three days notice to place the bets.

• Julia : I will be by your side always, father.

• [of Iullus] 

  Augustus : I spared his life!

  Julia : But not mine.

• 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!

• Tiberius : I'll find Iullus and kill him!

  Julia : No, you won't. You'll go back to the boarder and continue playing "soldier" or I'll have father throw you in prison as a deserter.

• Tiberius : My duty is to maintain authority over Rome's legions; you undermine that with your adultery which you don't even attempt to conceal. I can not live with that!

  Julia : Then do us both a favour and fall on your sword!

• Julia : You already have what you wanted of me, father. Heirs. My sons. Now let me live my life!

• 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.

• 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!

• Augustus : You're not finished dressing...

  Julia : Actually I am, it's the current style. Would you have me weave my dresses as I did when I was a little girl?

  Augustus : Perhaps, with a little more wool.

• Augustus : You've not changed from your wedding dress?

  Julia : I thought that maybe, if I slept in it, when I next awoke it would be gone like a bad dream.

• [to Augustus] 

  Julia : You are *not* master of the future! You conquered the world...

  [pause] 

  Julia : But you lost your soul.

• Augustus : Iullus Antonius blames me for his father's death, he thinks I destroyed the republic, he thinks I'm a tyrant!

  Julia : You *are* a tyrant!

• [to Augustus before he dies] 

  Julia : Your father had a dream, and so did mine.

• [On sending Tiberius away] 

  Augustus : I've sent him away, Julia. You don't have to worry about him anymore.

  Julia : Am I supposed to thank you, father?

  Augustus : No, I'll be content if you don't hate me.

• Julia : Tiberius! I was not informed that you were returning to Rome.

  Tiberius : You mean "warned"?

  Julia : Why should I need to be "warned"?

  Tiberius : The northen boarder is as far away as your father could send me, but reports of your affair with Iullus arrive regulary... In explisite detail.

• Julia : You used my mother Scribonia too, you had a baby from her and then you threw her away to marry Livia.

  Augustus : I loved your mother.

  Julia : No, you loved her money!

  Augustus : No, I love her because she gave me you.

• [after Tiberius hits her] 

  Julia : You've wanted to do that for a *very* long time.

• [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.