Quotes
The Odyssey
Directed by Christopher Nolan · starring Travis Scott, Matt Damon and Robert Pattinson
- 17 quotes
- 2026
The Odyssey: quotes
All 17 quotes
In Ithaca
Odysseus Matt Damon
Come back as a prince, call a banquet. I'll be there.
Telemachus Tom Holland
What will you do at the banquet?
Odysseus Matt Damon
Beg. The clearest view of men is from below.
In Hades
Tiresias James Remar
Your men don't want you to defy the gods. But the gods say only you make it home.
Odysseus Matt Damon
Then I defy the gods.
In the Cyclops' cave
Polites Andrew Howard
It can talk. Why didn't it talk before?
Odysseus Matt Damon
Do you talk to ants?
In the Cyclops' cave
Polites Andrew Howard
Should we reason with it?
Odysseus Matt Damon
I think we're past that.
Odysseus Matt Damon
The power of a sacrifice is in the cost to the person making it. (to Penelope, about Agamemnon)
Odysseus Matt Damon
Don't look for gods in men; you'll always be disappointed. (to Telemachus)
Odysseus Matt Damon
Ten years on this fucking beach. Let's go home! (to his men, after the fall of Troy)
After sailing past the Sirens
Eurylochus Himesh Patel
What was the song of the Sirens like?
Odysseus Matt Damon
All the things you want it to be. Then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was the delicious itch you go to scratch, but find it's under the skin. You can't reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can't have. And what you most can't have is what you already had, and lost. It was the song of all the promises I failed to keep. And it told me I don't really want to go home.
Penelope receives a stranger
Penelope Anne Hathaway
You know my husband Odysseus?
Odysseus Matt Damon
Of course.
Penelope Anne Hathaway
Through the songs?
Odysseus Matt Damon
I was at Troy, ma'am.
Penelope Anne Hathaway
These songs probably seem silly.
Odysseus Matt Damon
They make me cry.
Penelope Anne Hathaway
Why?
Odysseus Matt Damon
For what was lost.
Penelope Anne Hathaway
The lives?
Odysseus Matt Damon
And the years. Everything.
On Calypso's island
Odysseus Matt Damon
Why can't gods speak in ways we understand?
Athena Zendaya
Who doesn't understand thunder? Fire? A child's smile? A good harvest?
Calypso Charlize Theron
You're a man who needs to control his fate. But you cannot control this. You must give yourself to the storm, give yourself to Poseidon. And take your punishment. (to Odysseus)
Circe Samantha Morton
I didn't turn your men into anything! Look at them. This is what they are. Look at them! Beasts! (to Odysseus, about his men turned into pigs)
Penelope Anne Hathaway
I don't want Odysseus's song. I want Odysseus! (to Telemachus, while a bard sings at the feast)
Penelope Anne Hathaway
In this world a man does what he chooses. I do what I can. (to Telemachus)
Telemachus Tom Holland
Zeus's law tells us to treat strangers as we'd be treated, because they might be gods in disguise. I think we've established, Antinous, that you're not a god. (standing up for a beggar in front of the suitors)
Antinous orders an ambush on Telemachus
Antinous Robert Pattinson
Bring me part of Telemachus as proof. His nose!
Irus
Would you know him only by his nose?
Antinous Robert Pattinson
...His ears, too.
Sinon Elliot Page
If I never make it home, take this back to my father. Tell him everything I did. Odysseus? Feel free to add some stuff. (to Odysseus, at Troy)