If you want to give away the best gladiators in the whole of the empire, then I want double the rates.
7 seconds sound clip from the Gladiator (2000) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:26:41 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- The Emperor wants battles, and I don't want to sacrifice my best fighters.
- The crowd wants battles, so the Emperor gives them battles.
- You get the battle of Carthage.
- Well, why don't you go down to the prison, round up all the beggars and thieves?
- You'll get your contract rates, or you'll get your contract canceled.
- You don't like it? Then you can crawl back down that shit hole that you came from.
- Cassius, please. You can free us.
- Gladiator, are you the one they call the Spaniard?
- Yes.
[...]