Busy Little Bee

[Connie Nielsen as Lucilla]
"Don't you understand? Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome."

[Russell Crowe as Maximus]
"The gods have spared me? I am at their mercy with the power only to amuse a mob."

[Lucilla]
"That is power. The mob is Rome. And while Commodus controls them he controls everything. Listen to me. My brother has enemies, most of all in the senate. But while the people follow him, no one would dare stand up to him–until you."