Nero: Quote for October 27, 2009

Burn Rome! Burn!
If in the melancholy shades below
The flames of friends and lovers cease to glow.
Yet mine shall sacred last, mine undecay'd.
Burn on through death and animate my shade.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Haaa!

-- Nero

from: The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Charles Laughton acted as Nero

Compare this version of Nero's song with Peter Ustinov's version in the 1951 film Quo Vadis.

Categories: Nero, Charles Laughton, The Sign of the Cross