Rome (TV Series)
Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare) (2007)
Lee Boardman: Timon
Quotes
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[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.