The Odyssey (miniseries) Quotes

The Odyssey is a TV program that was first aired in 1997 on NBC. The Odyssey ended in 1997.

It features Nicholas Meyer as producer, Eduard Artemyev as composer, and Sergei Kozlov as head of cinematography.

The Odyssey is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Odyssey is 176 minutes long. The Odyssey is produced by Hallmark Entertainment.

The cast includes: Isabella Rossellini as Athena, Eric Roberts as Eurymachus, Armand Assante as Odysseus, Christopher Lee as Tiresias, Miles Anderson as Poseidon, Richard Truett as Achilles, Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Polites, and Michael J. Pollard as Aeolus.

The Odyssey Quotes

Christopher Lee as Tiresias

• (Christopher Lee) "It is the journey itself that makes up your life."

Armand Assante as Odysseus

• (Armand Assante) "Is easy to be angry."

• (Armand Assante) "Do you see, you gods of sea and sky? I conquered Troy. Me Odysseus, a mortal man of flesh and blood and bone and mind. I do not need you now, I can do anything."
• (Miles Anderson) "Odysseus, why do you defy me?"
• (Armand Assante) "Who are you?"
• (Miles Anderson) "It is I Poseidon, god of the wine dark sea. You have forfeited for forgetting how I helped you."
• (Armand Assante) "Help me? For ten years you played with us as toys. For ten years you let blood spill to your shores."
• (Miles Anderson) "But it was my serpent who silenced Laocoon or your horse was doomed, yet you refuse to give thanks. You forget, a man is nothing without the gods. You will suffer for this offense. For your arrogance, you will drift on my sea for an eternity, never again will you reach the shores of Ithaca."
• (Armand Assante) "You cannot stop me."
• (Miles Anderson) "You will suffer."

Miles Anderson as Poseidon

• (Miles Anderson) "My goal is not to kill you. You must understand."
• (Armand Assante) "What? What?"
• (Armand Assante) "What do you want me to understand?"
• (Miles Anderson) "That without the gods, man is nothing."

Isabella Rossellini as Athena

• (Isabella Rossellini) "The gods cannot do for man what man must do for himself."

Richard Truett as Achilles

• (Richard Truett) "I killed Hector. I will bury Troy."

Eric Roberts as Eurymachus

• (Eric Roberts) "Wait, wait. What is our crime? We treated your wife as a queen. We lived off you're land, that can be replaced. We did not kill anybody."
• (Armand Assante) "Your crime is that you tried to steal my world. The world I built with my hands, and my sweat --"
• (Eric Roberts) "Now, anyone --"
• (Armand Assante) "And my blood. The world that I shared with a woman who bore me my son, and no one will ever take that from me. Now you will die to a man in a river of blood."

Michael J. Pollard as Aeolus

• (Michael J. Pollard) "Ha ha ha. Are you surprised? Admit it. Ha ha. I can see you're surprised."
• (Armand Assante) "Who are you?"
• (Michael J. Pollard) "I am Aeolus, God of Wind. This is my island where soft breezes and raging tempests all begin."
• (Armand Assante) "Well, I'm honored, but why do you not allow me to drink?"
• (Michael J. Pollard) "Because I know you, Odysseus, Lord of Ithaca. Do not be afraid. Step through the water. I have something for you. Come along."
• (Armand Assante) "You know me?"
• (Michael J. Pollard) "Everyone knows of Odysseus, the great hero who built the Trojan Horse. But, few Greeks know that you're the only one who can't go home."
• (Armand Assante) "Poseidon thinks he can stop me."
• (Michael J. Pollard) "Poseidon, Poseidon. Poseidon this, Poseidon that. Poseidon's a bully. He's my cousin, he's arrogant, he's selfish. He forgets that the sea is nothing without the wind, and who's the God of the Wind? Guess who's the God of the Wind -- I am."

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