Ali: I do not understand this. Your father's name is Chapman... T.E. Lawrence: Ali, he didn't marry my mother. Ali: I see. T.E. Lawrence: I'm sorry. Ali: It seems to me that you are free to choose your own name, then. ↑ ロレンスを理解する上で、私生児だったことは低い身長とともにキーワードのようだ。 手垢のついた言葉ではあるが、この映画も ロレンスの「自分探し」という見方が一番収まりがよいのかも。
General Murray: I can't make out whether you're a bloody madman or just half-witted. T.E. Lawrence: I have the same problem, sir.
Ali: There is the railway. And that is the desert. From here until we reach the other side, no water but what we carry with us. For the camels, no water at all. If the camels die, we die. And in twenty days they will start to die. T.E. Lawrence: There's no time to waste, then, is there?
アカバに向かうロレンス一行。ラクダは20日間水なしで生きる。
T.E. Lawrence: Nothing is written. 運命なんて無いのさ、とサラ・コナーも机に彫りこむ(T2)。
Colonel Brighton: Are you badly hurt? T.E. Lawrence: I'm not hurt at all. Didn't you know? They can only kill me with a golden bullet.
T.E. Lawrence: The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me.
神格化され、自分もその気になっていくロレンス。
Feisal: Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
T.E. Lawrence: So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are. アラブ社会は今も謎。
General Allenby: I'm promoting you Major. T.E. Lawrence: I don't think that's a very good idea.
T.E. Lawrence: No prisoners! No prisoners! ↑捕虜は取るな(皆殺しにしろ)
ロレンス、やっぱり良く分からない人物。
昨日のトリビアに追加 Director David Lean originally wanted Albert Finney for the title role. Katharine Hepburn urged producer Sam Spiegel to cast 'Peter O'Toole (I)' .