Troy

BRISEIS: Why did you choose this life?



ACHILLES: What life?



BRISEIS: This... to be a great warrior.



ACHILLES: I chose nothing. I was born and this is what I am.



BRISEIS: But you must enjoy it.



ACHILLES: Does the scorpion feel joy when he stings the beetle? I doubt it. I doubt he feels anything at all.



BRISEIS: But you're not a scorpion. You're a man.



ACHILLES: And you're a woman in love with a god. Where was Apollo when those men tried to scar you?



BRISEIS: Do you enjoy provoking me?



ACHILLES: Yes.



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BRISEIS: What do you want here in Troy? You didn't come for the Spartan queen.



ACHILLES: I want what all men want.

I just want it more. I'll tell you a secret --

something they didn't teach you in your temple.

The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal,

because every moment might be our last.

Everything is more beautiful for the doomed.