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Dude, Where's My Car?

Dude, Where's My Car? is a 2000 film about two friends who wake up from a night of partying and can't remember where they parked their car.
 * Directed by Danny Leiner. Written by Philip Stark

After a night they can't remember, comes a day they'll never forget.

Jesse Montgomery

 * Wait a second. Let's recap. Last night we lost my car, we accepted stolen money from a transsexual stripper, and now some space nerds want us to find something we can't pronounce. I hate to say it, Chester, but maybe we need to cut back on the shibbying. [Chester slaps him] Thanks, dude.
 * I refuse to let us go down in history as the dudes who destroyed the universe.
 * I'm sensing something very Canadian about this place.
 * Dude, Where's My Car?.

Alien Nordic Dudes

 * We will now use the power of the Continuum Transfunctioner to banish you to Hoboken, New Jersey.

Dialogue

 * Jesse: Is it possible that we got so wasted last night that we bought a lifetime supply of pudding and then totally forgot about it?
 * Chester: [opens the cupboard to find it's entirely full of pudding] I'd say it's entirely possible.

 * Jesse: Nelson, your dog's a stoner!
 * Chester: Can he also bong a beer?
 * Nelson: Nah. All he does is pretty much lie around and smoke his pipe.

 * Chinese Food Intercom: Chinese Foooood, may I help you?
 * Jesse: Yeah, I like to place an order.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: Um what you like?
 * Jesse: Yeah, I like uh... three orders of garlic chicken.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: And then, three orders of white rice.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: And then... (then he turns and asks Chester and Nelson) Oh hey, you guys want soup?
 * Chester & Nelson: Sure.
 * Jesse: Yeah, three orders of Wonton soup.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: Oh, uh some Fortune cookies too.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: Uh... Naw I think that's about it.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: No, that's it.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: No and then, I (stutters) That's, that's all I want.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: (looks behind and then laughs) And then, and then um, and then um, and then nothin' else cause I'm done ordering, okay?
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: Uh, uh, no, no, see all, all I want is the three orders of the garlic chicken and the three orders of the white rice.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: Uh-huh, and then?
 * Chester: And the soup dude.
 * Jesse: Oh, and, and the Wonton soup.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Nelson: And the Cookie's Fortune.
 * Jesse: And, and the, and the Fortune cookies yes so, it's just the uh, it's the... the chicken, the... rice, the soup and the Fortune cookies, and that's it.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And theeeeen?
 * Jesse: (starts chuckling) And then uh, you can it in a brown paper bag and come put it in my hand cause I'm ready to eat.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: Annnnnd theeeeeeeen?
 * Jesse: (gets irritated) Hey, I refuse to play your Chinese Food mind games.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: Annnnnnd Theeeeeeeen?
 * Jesse: (Gets upset) NO! No "and then"!
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: No "and then"!
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: No "and then"!
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: No "and then"!
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: No "and then"!
 * Chinese Food Intercom: And then?
 * Jesse: No, "no and then"!
 * Chinese Food Intercom: (growls) Annnnnnd theeeeeeen?
 * Jesse: (gets angry) You know, you're really starting to piss me off, lady.
 * Chinese Food Intercom: (quietly) And then?
 * Jesse: And then... (laughs nervously) I'm gonna come in there... (grows livid) and I'm gonna put my foot in your ass IF YOU SAY "AND THEN" AGAIN!!!
 * (pause; Jesse almost gives in)
 * Chinese Food Intercom: (repeatedly) And then! And then! And then! And then! And then! And then! And then!
 * (Jesse angrily smashes the speaker box, but Chester and Nelson pull him back inside the car, and they drive away)
 * Chinese Food Intercom: (severely damaged) And then...?

 * Jesse: Who's Johnny Potsmoker?
 * Chester: Oh, that's my alter ego.
 * Jesse: Wait, I thought Johnny Potsmoker was my alter ego.
 * Chester: No. Yours is Smokey McPot.
 * Jesse: Oh, yeah.

 * Jesse: Dude! You got a tattoo!
 * Chester: So do you, dude! Dude, what does my tattoo say?
 * Jesse: "Sweet!" What about mine?
 * Chester: "Dude!" What does mine say?
 * Jesse: "Sweet!" What about mine?
 * Chester: "Dude!" What does mine say?
 * Jesse: "Sweet!" What about mine?
 * Chester: "Dude!" What does mine say?
 * Jesse: "Sweet!" What about mine?
 * Chester: "Dude!" But what does mine say?
 * Jesse: "Sweet!" What about mine?
 * Chester: "Dude!" What does mine say?
 * Jesse: "S - wee - t!" What about mine?
 * Chester: (angrily) "Dude!" What does mine say?
 * Jesse: (screaming) "Sweet!"

 * Jesse: Wait a second. I just got a really bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.
 * Chester: Maybe you should go sit on the toilet?
 * Jesse: No. No. You know what the feeling is? It's love!
 * Chester: Is that what that is?
 * Jesse: Yeah. I'm in love with Wanda and you're in love with Wilma.
 * Chester: Yeah!
 * Jesse: You see. Now that we know that we've been sucky boyfriends... we can change.
 * Chester: We can?
 * Jesse: Yeah, and you know what else? I'll bet you that we did buy them super cool anniversary gifts. You know why? 'Coz we love them.
 * Chester: And we wrapped them really cool wrapping paper?
 * Jesse: Yeah.

Cast

 * Ashton Kutcher - Jesse Montgomery
 * Seann William Scott - Chester Greenburg
 * Jennifer Garner - Wanda
 * Marla Sokoloff - Wilma
 * Kristy Swanson - Christie Boner
 * David Herman - Nelson
 * Hal Sparks - Zoltan- Cult leader
 * Charlie O'Connell - Tommy
 * John Toles-Bey - Mr. Pizzacoli
 * Andy Dick - Mark

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The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale is a 2003 film about a man who opposes capital punishment who is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
 * Directed by Alan Parker and written by Charles Randolph.

The crime is clear. The truth is not.

David Gale

 * [Giving a lecture to his college students] Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore.
 * [Giving a lecture to his college students] Living by your wants will never make you happy; what it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you ever attain in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice.
 * This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness.
 * [while drunk] Socrates was ugly, Plato was fat, and, um, and Aristotle was a prissy dresser!
 * I fell off the wagon and hurt myself.
 * They wanted me to die knowing the key to my freedom was out there somewhere!
 * Death is a gift.
 * We spend our whole lives trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back. But there comes a point in life - a moment - when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses... Maybe death is a gift. You wonder. All I can tell you is that by this time tomorrow I'll be dead. I know when. I just can't say why. You have 24 hours to find out.
 * Alejandro, the woman with facial hair, has no job.
 * Noemi, a shaved man, has given up on her English task.

Bitsy Bloom

 * Of course he sympathizes with murderers... he is one!
 * Hate's no fun if you keep it to yourself.

Others

 * Braxton Belyeu: I'm no more afraid of the Grim Reaper than I am of a Presbyterian on Mother's Day.
 * Constance Harraway: You work so hard not to be seen as a sex object. Before long, you're not seen at all.
 * Zack: 73% of all serial killers vote Republican.

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Hi. I assume the person using this IP is User:UDScott (otherwise editing his user page was quite rude). If so, I wanted you to notice you're not logged in :) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 14:52, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

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Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a journalist and broadcaster. Born in England, he became a naturalized American citizen.

Quotes

 * Even the prospect of early annihilation should not keep us from making the most of our days on this unhappy planet. In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place, and which the gravest statesmen and the hoarsest politicians hope to make available to all men in the end: I mean the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to sit under trees, to read, to hit a ball and bounce the baby.
 * One Man's America (1952).
 * Quoted in "The Very Moving Day", Season 6, Episode 1 of All in the Family (1975)
 * In life no such colour brightened the grey picture of a man devoted to the daily study of warfare on several continents with all the ardour of a certified public accountant.
 * (1959) About George Marshall
 * In: Letter from America, 1946-2004 (2007).
 * Some people say we are on the verge of the Second Civil War. And it may be so. But even on the darkest days, cheerfulness kept breaking in. I am not by nature a 'Whither America?' man.
 * (June 1968) In: Talk About America (1968)
 * All Presidents start out pretending to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely, the presidency.
 * Talk About America (1968)
 * LSD ... is one of the company of drugs now known as hallucinogens, and there is no doubt that in some people it produces exquisite visions. The big question is whether they are of the outer or inner world, whether in fact they heighten or deepen reality or fool the taker into believing that the kind of vision a madman sees is the real world that convention, habit, or sheer blunting of instinct hide from him.
 * "The World Gone to Pot?", in Talk About America (1968)
 * To the goggling unbeliever Texans say — as people always say about their mangier dishes — "but it's just like chicken, only tenderer." Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken, only tougher.

 * Probably, I wound up—if not as a jack-of-all-trades—at best as a thirdrate polymath never able to focus these curiosities into a commanding “view of life.” The most practical solution appeared to be to make a profession of observation, to become a reporter simply, a profession easily damned as that of a fence-sitter, a moral coward unwilling to take a stand, a chronic water-treader who lacks the strength to take the plunge. To these strictures, I can only reply that once every four years at least I take a stand: I vote. And immediately afterward return to my reporting habits and the continuing discovery that in life the range of irreconcilable points of view, characters, flaws, idiosyncrasies and virtues is astounding, and that in politics there is very often much to be said on both sides, and sometimes on three or four.
 * "Reflections of a Non-Positive Man". In: Living philosophies : the reflections of some eminent men and women of our time (1990), edited by Clifton Fadiman.

Alistair Cooke's America (1973)

 * During thirtyfive years as a foreign correspondent, I must have covered just about everything, from the public life of six Presidents to the private life of a burlesque stripper; from the black market in beef to the Black Panthers; from Estes Kefauver amid the snows of New Hampshire to Jack Nicklaus amid the azaleas of Augusta, Georgia; from Henry Kaiser's Liberty ships to Francis Chichester's Gypsy Moth sailing into Staten Island at one in the morning; from the Marshall Plan to Planned Parenthood; from Senator Joseph McCarthy's last stand to the massacre of Muhammad Ali by Joe Frazier.
 * (The Negro) is a permanent invalid in American society. And the places he lives, whether in the town or the country, are its casualty wards. (p. 146.)
 * One hundred years after the Declaration that 'all men are created equal,' there began to gather in Newport a colony of the rich, determined to show that some Americans were conspicuously more equal than others.
 * (Las Vegas) composes a night-time image of Babylon in the desert. But it is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution. It says: 'Topless Pizza Lunch.' (p. 280)

Six Men (1977)

 * He was at his best only when the going was good.
 * About Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
 * He measured all his fellow workers by the test of professionalism, and a professional is a man who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
 * About Humphrey Bogart
 * Moving among wretched people in mean places, as I often saw him do, he had the impulses of a saint but not the serenity.
 * About Adlai Stevenson

Quotes about Cooke

 * Cooke is a nuisance. He telephones his copy at the last moment, so that everything else has to be dropped to get it into the paper. He says that he will be in Chicago and turns up in Los Angeles. He discards the agreed subject to write about something which has taken his fancy, news of the moment or not. But we think he’s worth it, and we love him just the same.
 * Guardian editorial, 1968.

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Jane Fonda

Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, model, writer, producer and political activist.

Quotes

 * How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?
 * Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963

 * Being Henry Fonda's daughter got me started. But it didn't keep me working.
 * Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963

 * The institution of marriage is obsolete
 * Jane Would Have Been a Star Even as a Smith. Associated Press/Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 30 June 1963

 * I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway
 * Said to Redbook Magazine, quoted by Harold V. Cohen, At Random, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 July 1969

 * In this country the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.
 * Quotes from Women in the News, Associated Press/Gadsden Times, 15 March 1970.

 * It's an unfair position, so you can do one of two things: just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or just learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
 * Leo Lerman, Jane Fonda Talks About. Juxtaposition, 1971, said in reference to media reactions to her learning about Indian affairs.

 * I believe that we cannot survive as a democratic country when we are supporting someone like Thieu in Saigon, who has put 300,000 political prisoners in jail because they've spoken in favor of peace. I just don't believe that when a Republican Party bugs the Democratic Party headquarters, that that smacks of democracy. These kind of things I speak out against. That doesn't mean I'm a Communist.
 * Interview by Phil Donahue (1972)

 * Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out
 * On winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. Quotes of the Week. The Associated Press/Reading Eagle, 16 April 1972

 * To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
 * Newsweek, 1977, in reference to Jean-Luc Godard. The quote continues: "Godard had contempt for people, contempt for extras. I'd rather work with someone ideologically very different from me if they have concern and humanity towards their crew".

 * I am saddened that I have been linked with her politically... I have disagreed with her on every issue, from the bottom of my toes
 * On Vanessa Redgrave, reported by Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 28 December 1979.

 * Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
 * Michael Perry. Jane's wrinkled but Fonda herself now. Sydney Morning Herald, 22 December 1985

 * It's not about how you look, it's about how you feel. I can do more with ease and grace now at 52 than I could when I was 20. I can ride my bike 60 miles, I can handle stress, I have good muscle tone. That's what it's about. Not about being thin but about being healthy
 * Telephone interview quoted by Carol Krucoff. Why Jane's Fonda Exercise;Stress-Busting Workouts and Other News About Staying in Shape. Washington Post, 13 March 1990

 * I don't think there's ever been such a clear choice between radicalism and moderation. I mean, we are dealing with a radical ideologue here.
 * On the 2004 Presidential election. Rebecca Traister. Enough with the vaginas! Salon, 15 September 2004

 * It's a lie. I agree with the military experts who say it's a quagmire.
 * On the Iraq War. Rebecca Traister. Enough with the vaginas! Salon, 15 September 2004

 * The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize
 * On Twitter before the 2009 Tony Awards, as quoted by Canada East/Associated Press. Notable quotes from 2009 Tony Awards. 8 June 2009.

 * In the hyper-sensitized reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians.
 * Jane Fonda expresses regret over film fest protest, by Cassandra Szklarski, September 14, 2009.

 * This has gone on far too long, this spreading of lies about me! None of it is true. NONE OF IT! I love my country. I have never done anything to hurt my country or the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for us. I do not understand what the far right stands to gain by continuing with these myths.
 * Blog posting (16 July 2011)

Disputed

 * I believe that we have to strive for a transition to a socialist society … all the way to communism. I mean I think we should, uh, I think we should all study what the word means and I believe that if everyone knew what the word meant we would all be on our knees praying that we would, as soon as possible, be able to live under, uh, within a communist structure.
 * Reported by Jesse Helms on WRAL-TV as remarks made at Duke University, quoted in The News and Courier (29 December 1970) "Freedom Hoax"
 * Alternate form: I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope and pray on your knees that we would someday be communists. I am a socialist. I think that we should strive toward a socialist society - all the way to communism.
 * Reported by Paul Scott in the Lewiston Daily Sun (27 September 1972) again as remarks at Duke University; reported elsewhere as a remark made at Michigan State University (22 November 1970) and cited to the Detroit Free Press but without a date, page or headline. Rick Perlstein, in a 2005 London Review of Books article and in his 2008 book Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Simon and Schuster, p517), accused Helms of inventing the quote: "They tapped their network of friendly media propagandists, like the future Senator Jesse Helms, then a TV editorialist, who supplied an invented quotation that still circulates as part of the Fonda cult’s liturgy." The COINTELPRO Papers (2002) documents a separate attempt to plant false quotes from Fonda in the press.

About Fonda

 * Jane Fonda, who had eagerly agreed to participate in the rally, was on hand to make the appeal for funds.
 * Angela Davis: An Autobiography (2022)

 * How’s this for a story? North Vietnam, 1972: Jane Fonda is in the midst of her visit when an N.V.A. officer gets an idea. He collects a group of American POWs from their septic dungeons, cleans them up, and has them mustered on parade to show his guest how well his embattled nation treats its prisoners.… Fonda moves down the line, greeting each man with encouragements like “Aren’t you ashamed you killed babies?” as she shakes his hand.… The POWs are beaten. Four die; one, Col. Larry Carrigan, survives—just barely, but it is he who tells about the incident. … It never happened. It’s folklore, but folklore of a curiously evolved sort. There was a real Colonel Carrigan, and he was a POW in Vietnam. But he never met Jane Fonda, and he has no idea how the maddening tale attached itself to him.
 * Richard F. Snow in American Heritage (October 2001) "Unforgiven"

 * You know, Jane Fonda never came back at all after the war. I wonder why. She’d made a tape I played that was very good. I heard that some years ago she made an apology in the United States for coming to Hanoi during the war. Is that true?
 * Hanoi Hannah, Los Angeles Times (April 1998) "‘Hanoi Hannah’ Fondly Remembers Her Role"

 * It only took 40 years. But finally, actress-turned-workout-specialist Jane Fonda has apologized for sitting on a Viet Cong anti-aircraft gun during her 1972 visit to North Vietnam. Fonda, who used her fame to push her radical leftism during her heyday, traveled to Hanoi in 1972 in solidarity with the Viet Cong. While there, she proceeded to blame the US for supposedly bombing a dike system, and did a series of radio broadcasts stating that US leaders were “war criminals.” Those broadcasts were replayed for American POWs being tortured by the Viet Cong. Later, when POWs spoke about their experiences of torture, Fonda would call them “hypocrites and liars,” stating, “These were not men who had been tortured. These were not men who had been starved. These were not men who had been brainwashed.” She explained that these POWs were “careerists and professional killers.” Now, four decades removed, sitting in the lap of luxury, Fonda has decided that the pictures on the anti-aircraft gun were a mistake. Not the actual visit – she stands by that. “I did not, have not, and will not say that going to North Vietnam was a mistake,” she said. “I have apologized only for some of the things that I did there, but I am proud that I went.”
 * Ben Shapiro, Jane Fonda finally apologises, Frontpage Mag

 * On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.
 * Edward Teller, 2 page advertisement sponsored by Dresser Industries in the Wall Street Journal (31 July 1979)

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an Oscar winning English actor and director, esteemed by many as the greatest actor of the 20th century.

Quotes

 * Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is — and not so much a matter of being real. I mean, I would probably shock Lee Strasberg.
 * As quoted in Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage (1975) by William C. Young, p. 885

 * If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life — it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.
 * As quoted in Laurence Olivier (1979) by Foster Hirsch, p. 166

 * Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.
 * On filming Shakespeare, before he did it, as quoted in Olivier (2005) by Terry Coleman

 * I think that bloody old National nearly killed me.
 * On his period as director of the National Theatre Company (now the Royal National Theatre) in London, as quoted in Olivier (2005) by Terry Coleman

 * Like coming for a living.
 * On acting to a live audience, as quoted in Olivier (2005) by Terry Coleman

Quotes about Olivier

 * In alphabetical order by author or source.

 * He could speak Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were actually thinking them.
 * Charles Bennett, as quoted in "Laurence Olivier; Larry and the Bard" by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, 501 Actors (2007), p. 158

 * [Asked "So what was the legendary actor really like in the flesh?"] He was so many different things. He could be generous, he could be quite spiteful, he could be, as a performer, quite extraordinary. I don’t think he was a better actor than a lot of his contemporaries but as a performer-magician there was nobody like him. He could pull things out of a hat that just took your breath away.
 * Michael Blakemore interviewed by Sarah Hemming, as cited in "Interview: Michael Blakemore", Financial Times (13 September 2013)

 * Olivier smoked dope. He claimed that he didn't, but he did. I know because I gave him a joint. He got very mellow.
 * Trevor Griffiths "Putting the world to rights", The Independent on Sunday (9 August 2009)
 * Olivier's last stage performance in 1973 was the lead role of John Tagg in Griffiths' The Party; the National Theatre Company was based at The Old Vic at the time.

 * Such subtlety, such detail, biting deeper into the role than any actor of my time, or indeed any time.
 * , quoted in Olivier by Terry Coleman, Bloomsbury, 2005, p. 504

 * I'm breaking all the rules, but I have to say you have been my idol. I admit being jealous of an actor. How I would like to have been what you are. How I wish my career had approximated yours. You have never deserted or failed to serve our profession. Sir, to be presented an award by you gives me infinite pride. You, being a Lord, have raised me to a slightly higher position. I don't feel that I'm quite such a commoner. But, more important, I'm Eddie and you're Larry. And how much easier that is.
 * Edward G. Robinson, portion of never-delivered acceptance speech—addressed to prospective presenter Olivier—for what eventually proved to be Robinson's posthumously awarded Honorary Oscar; All My Yesterdays: An Autobiography (1973), by Edward G. Robinson, p. 283

 * I think you're the only actor in the world who plays in a Shakespeare play with a special, tender familiarity as if you were keeping it in the family.
 * J. D. Salinger, in a letter to Olivier dated 1 September 1951, quoted in Olivier by Coleman, p. 240

 * When I was young, I used to queue at the theater early in the morning to see Olivier. His performances were electrifying...I admired their originality and courage...and their terror. There is no acting like it today. He made me want to become part of the theater.
 * Peter Shaffer, quoted in Theater Week Magazine 1989.

 * As a man and an actor he was an inspiration. I loved him.
 * , actress, quoted in Olivier by Coleman, p. 504

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The Commitments

The Commitments is a 1991 film about the travails of Jimmy Rabbitte to form the "World's Hardest Working Band," The Commitments, and bring soul music to the people of Dublin, Ireland.
 * Directed by Alan Parker. Written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, and Roddy Doyle, based on the novel by Roddy Doyle.

They Had Absolutely Nothing. But They Were Willing To Risk It All.

Jimmy Rabbitte

 * The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once and say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.
 * Soul is the music people understand. Sure it's basic and it's simple. But it's something else 'cause, 'cause, 'cause it's honest, that's it. Its honest. There's no fuckin' bullshit. It sticks its neck out and says it straight from the heart. Sure there's a lot of different music you can get off on but soul is more than that. It takes you somewhere else. It grabs you by the balls and lifts you above the shite.
 * I'd like to introduce you to the hardest-workin' band in the world. On bass, Derek "Meatman" Scully. On piano, Steven "Soul Surgeon" Clifford. Dean "Mr Nipple" Fay on sax. Joey "The Lips" Fagan on trumpet. Our gorgeous chanteuses are Bernie, Imelda, and Natalie. Deco "Deep Throat" Cuffe on vocals. On lead guitar, Outspan "Fender bender" Foster. Finally, on drums, Mickah "Don't Fuck With Me" Wallace. Ladies and gentlemen, The Commitments.

Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.

 * Is this the band then? Betcha U2 are shittin' themselves.
 * That's fuckin' blasphemy. Elvis wasn't a Cajun.

Others

 * Steve Clifford: [In the confessional] And there's these three girls with the band, I've had lustful thoughts about all of them.
 * Natalie Murphy: What do you think, Jimmy, they'll be eatin' chips out of our knickers?
 * Joey 'The Lips' Fagan: [to Dean] Are you doing what I told you? Are you thinking of that reed as a woman's nipple?

Dialogue

 * Unemployment Official: Mr. Rabbitte, you've been collecting unemployment benefit for two years. Are you trying to tell me you can't get a job?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: We're a third world country - what can you do?

 * Jimmy Rabbitte: What do you play?
 * Failed Drug Buyer: I used to play football in school.
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: I mean what instrument.
 * Failed Drug Buyer: I don't.
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: Then what are you doing here?
 * Failed Drug Buyer: Well, I saw everyone else lining up, so, uh.... I thought you were sellin' drugs.

 * Smiths' Song Singer: [singing, auditioning for Jimmy] I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now...
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: Yeah, I know how you feel.

 * Jimmy Rabbitte: Elvis is not soul.
 * Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.: [defensively] Elvis is God.
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: I never pictured God with a fat gut and corset singing "My Way" at Caesar's Palace.

 * Jimmy Rabbitte: What do you call yourselves?
 * Derek: "And And And."
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: "And And fuckin' And?"
 * Derek: Well, Ray's thinking of putting an exclamation mark after the second "and." Says it'd look deadly on the posters.
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: Psshh...
 * Outspan Foster: You don't like it? You think it should go at the end?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: I think it should go up his arse.
 * Outspan Foster: Well, we're not married to it.

 * Outspan Foster: There's a band around called "Free Beer". Always draws a big crowd.
 * Derek: I like "A Flock of Budgies".
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: We have to be "the" something. All the great sixties bands were "The Somethings".
 * Outspan Foster: We could be... The Northsiders.
 * Derek: Or The Liffy Lads.
 * Outspan Foster: How about... The Fucking Eejits?

 * Jimmy Rabbitte: [talking about kicking Ray out of the band] How did Ray take the news?
 * Derek: Not too bad. Said he was goin' solo.
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: He doesn't have much of a choice, does he?

 * Billy: Commitments?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: It's a "the".
 * Deco: How do you spell it?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: T-H-E.

 * [the band opens the "window" of the chippie van]
 * Rock Salmon Man: Excuse me, would you have any Rock Salmon?
 * Dean Fay: No, I'm sorry - we only have "Soul"!

 * Deco: If I'm gonna front this band, I like the sound of "Deco."
 * Billy: "Deco the bus conductor." Is that "top-Deco" or bottom-Deco"?

 * Jimmy Rabbitte: Who're you, then?
 * Joey: Are you the one startin' the band?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: Yeah.
 * Joey: The name's Joseph Fagin. Joey "The Lips" Fagin.
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: [sarcastically] And I'm Jimmy "The Bollocks" Rabbitte
 * Joey: I get mine from my horn playing. How'd you get yours?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: Don't get snotty with me.
 * Joey: I get snotty with no man.

 * Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.: [referring to Joey] What did Evel Knievel want?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: God sent him.
 * Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.: What?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: God sent him.
 * Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.: On a fucking Suzuki?

 * Steve: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
 * Natalie: That's three Hail Marys for you tomorrow.

 * Imelda: [about Deco] He eats like a pig.
 * Bernie: He's such a prick.
 * Natalie: Hasn't got the voice of a pig though. Joey says it belongs to God.
 * Billy: God should ask for it back.

 * Natalie: You all right, Jimmy?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: Sure. They just get on my arse at times.
 * Natalie: Wanna share a taxi home?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: For fuck's sake, Natalie. How could you ask me that after what I just said in there?
 * Natalie: Well if you weren't the manager, would you?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: Would I what?
 * Natalie: ...take me home?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: But I am the manager.

 * Billy: And you... George Michael... you ever call me a fuckin' eejit again, you'll go home with the drumsticks stuck up your hole... the one you don't sing out of.
 * Deco: That'll be the day.
 * Billy: I'm tellin' ya it's coming, so keep your Vaseline handy.

 * Jimmy Rabbitte: Hi Imelda, You're Looking Deadly.
 * Imelda: What are you doing here Jimmy Rabbitte?
 * Jimmy Rabbite: Friend in the band.
 * Imelda: You sure not a friend of my sister's?
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: From what i heard, the fella she's marrying hardly knows her.
 * Imelda: Cheeky Bastard.
 * Jimmy Rabbitte: I suppose you'll be next?
 * Imelda: Why me, I'm not bleedin pregnant.

Cast

 * Robert Arkins - Jimmy Rabbitte
 * Andrew Strong - Deco Cuffe, Lead Vocals
 * Michael Aherne - Steven Clifford, Piano
 * Angeline Ball - Imelda Quirke, Backup Singer
 * Maria Doyle - Natalie Murphy, Backup Singer
 * Dave Finnegan - Mickah Wallace, Drums
 * Bronagh Gallagher - Bernie McGloughlin, Backup Singer
 * Félim Gormley - Dean Fay, Sax
 * Glen Hansard - Outspan Foster, Guitar
 * Dick Massey - Billy Mooney, Drums
 * Johnny Murphy - Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, Trumpet
 * Kenneth McCluskey - Derek Scully, Bass
 * Colm Meaney - Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.
 * Anne Kent - Mrs. Rabbitte
 * Andrea Corr - Sharon Rabbitte

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Talk:Acting

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 * "To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted." ~ Michael Shurtleff
 * "The movie actor, like the sacred king of primitive tribes, is a god in captivity." ~ Alexander Chase, Perspectives
 * "Ive got tricks in my pockets. Ive got things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He shows you illusion in the appearance of truth. I show you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion." ~ Anonymous
 * Possibly the guy who wrote ISBN 0899624618

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Quote: By Josie Brooke to Miss Cameron, from Chapter 8 ('Josie Plays Mermaid') of "Jo's Boys" by Louisa May Alcott.

"When I act I'm perfectly happy. I seem to live, to be in my own world, and each new part is a new friend."

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 * To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
 * Marlon Brando.
 * Also attributed to James Dean, and neither smacks this editor as being accurate.

 * You can sit there and have a universal experience, of fear, of anger, of tears, of love, and I discovered that its the audience, really, that is doing the acting.
 * Marlon Brando.

 * If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
 * Marlon Brando.

 * An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
 * Marlon Brando.

 * If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.
 * Marlon Brando.

 * Pray to God and say the lines.
 * Bette Davis, 'advice to the actress Celeste Holm. Attrib.

 * I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
 * Bette Davis.

 * Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
 * Bette Davis.

 * It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
 * John Ford, attributed

 * Actors are crap.
 * John Ford.

 * If there wasn't something called acting they would probably hospitalize people like me. The giddiness and the joy of life is the moving and grooving, the exploration.
 * Whoopi Goldberg.

 * You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational — and probably sexual!
 * George Herman.

 * All actors are cattle. Actually, all actors are not cattle, but should be treated as such.
 * Alfred Hitchcock.

 * When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, But what's my motivation?, I say, 'Your salary.'
 * Alfred Hitchcock

 * Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, actors!
 * Jesus

 * An actor onstage can no more act upon the order 'Be happy' than she can upon the order 'Do not think of a hippopotamus.'
 * David Mamet.

 * We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.
 * Laurence Olivier.

 * Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
 * Kate Reid.

 * An actress must never lose her ego — without it she has no talent.
 * Norma Shearer

 * I do a job. I get paid. I go home.
 * Maureen Stapleton.

 * Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
 * Orson Welles.

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Nas

Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known as Nas and formerly as Nasty Nas, is an African-American rapper from Queens, New York. He's one of the most influential rappers of the 90's.

On Albums

 * How can you lose when you're doing you?
 * 92Y Interview With Anthony DeCurtis (1992)

Illmatic (1994)

 * I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
 * N.Y. State of Mind

 * Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
 * N.Y. State of Mind

 * The smooth criminal on beat breaks Never put me in ya box if ya shit eats tapes
 * N.Y. State of Mind

 * I switched my motto instead of saying 'fuck tomorrow' that buck that bought a bottle could've struck the lotto
 * Life's a Bitch

 * "Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne
 * The World Is Yours

 * I need a new nigga, for this black cloud to follow cause while it's over me it's too dark to see tomorrow
 * The World Is Yours

 * I set it off with my own rhyme cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time
 * Halftime

 * I reminisce on park jams, my man was shot for his sheep coat chocolate blunts will make me see him drop in my weed smoke
 * Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park)

 * Live amongst no roses, only the drama, for real A nickel-plate is my fate, my medicine is the ganja
 * Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park)

 * "Fuck 'rap is real', watch the herbs stand still never talkin' to snakes cause the words of man kill true in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins
 * Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park)

 * Then I rose, wiping the blunts ash from my clothes then froze only to blow the herb smoke through my nose and told my little man that i'm a go cyprose there's some jewels in the skull that he can sell if he chose words of wisdom from nas try to rise up above
 * One Love

 * When I was ten I was a hip-hop a shorty wop known for rockin' microphones and twistin' of a forty top
 * One Time 4 Your Mind

 * So analyze me, surprise me, but can't magmatize me Scannin' while you're plannin' ways to sabotage me I leave 'em froze like her-on in your nose Nas'll rock well, It ain't hard to tell
 * It Ain't Hard to Tell

It Was Written (1996)

 * I've seen some cold nights and bloody days They grabbed me bullets spray, they used me wrong so I sing this song 'til this day.
 * I Gave You Power

 * From child births to hearses, flow like the Nile covered surface Bit the fruit from the serpent.
 * Nas Is Coming

 * Mad smoke makes me able to quote Soliciting ill editions of that murder I wrote.
 * Nas Is Coming

 * fake thug no love, get the slug CB4 gusto ur luck low, i didn't know til i was drunk tho you freak niggaz played out, get fucked and ate out prostitute turned bitch got the gage out 96 ways i made out montanna way, good f-e-l-l-a, verbal AK spray
 * The Message

 * A thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up
 * The Message

 * I never brag, how real I keep it, cause it's the best secret.
 * Take It In The Blood

Nastradamus (1999)

 * Yo, if this piano's the cake then my words are the candles Light it up, make a wish, and them angels will grant you
 * Project Windows

I Am... (1999)

 * "Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end."
 * "Nas Is Like"

 * "Street scriptures, for lost souls in the crossroads.."
 * "Nas Is Like"

 * "I'm like the farmer, planting words, people are seeds/ My truth is the soil, help you grow like trees/ May the children come in all colors, change like leaves/ Behold before you, one of those prophetic MC's."
 * "Ghetto Prisoners"

 * "U wet who I want wetted/I wet who u want wetted/any nigga can get it(a favour for a favour)

 * Had 8 partners growin' up/ 8 turned to 7/ 7 turned to 6 n!*@%^$/ got 2 in heaven/ 6 of us, holdin it, now it's 5 rollin' thick/the 6th one's parole flipped, 5 n***az went to 4 quick/ when he went O.T, college life, converted into gangbangin/ 4 n***az still hangin/ years passin, slang changin/ 3 of us now, 4th n***a ain't around/ we all thought he was real, he did that snake shit, fake shit/ beat his ass down/ yo his mouth could've got us all wasted/ what a fuckin clown/ all I got left in the end is two of my best friends/ and we all goin' out 'till the death of these ends
 * "N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II"
 * (speking) "You hear about, you see about it/ it's in your papers/ it's in your daily news/ (get money!) / New York chronicles, every day/ the crime rate, the murder rate/ the money rate, the paper chase, youknowwhatImean?/ New York State of mind, baby, check it out.
 * "N.Y. State of Mind Pt. II"

Stillmatic (2001)

 * Aiyyo, the brother's "Stillmatic" I crawled up out of that grave, wipin the dirt, cleanin my shirt. They thought I'd make another "Illmatic" But it's always forward I'm movin Never backwards stupid here's another classic
 * Stillmatic (The Intro)

 * It's suicidal, high smokin' so much la', I saw a dead bird flyin through a broken sky
 * You're Da Man

The Lost Tapes (2002)

 * No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done
 * No Idea's Original

 * The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does Even if you murdered or robbed, yeah it's wrong, but God loves Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you Even when all else fail, God support you."
 * Doo Rags

 * The reason that I want to be alone Tired of all the things that went wrong That would have went right if I would have did it on my own
 * Drunk By Myself

God's Son (2002)

 * I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings
 * Thugz Mansion (N.Y.)

 * Don't say the car is topless, say the titties are out
 * Made You Look

 * You a slave to a page in my rhyme book
 * Made You Look

 * How can I trust you when I can't trust me
 * Book of Rhymes

 * I get upset 'cause I just want to be treated the way you are Like a star not a worry in this world thus far But wait a minute we both need ya mother's attention I must be crazy jealous of my own baby infant*
 * Book of Rhymes

 * Whatever you decide, be careful, some men be Rapists, so act your age, don't pretend to be Older than you are, give yourself time to grow You thinking he can give you wealth
 * I can

Street's Disciple (2004)

 * And they're aware of us though And we don't give a flyin' 747 fuck though Stayin' on my hus-tle
 * A Message To The Feds, Sincerely, We The People

Hip Hop Is Dead (2006)

 * When I was nine, coldest winter i remember we're slipping in december, two feet of snow Yeah thats the east coast, that black ice - symbolize the rap life
 * Hope

 * Some things are forever, some things are not It's the things we remember that gave the world shock"
 * Can't Forget About You

 * Now all these new cats with they hats flipped backwards fingers intertwined in sum gang sign madness I got an exam lets if you pass it Now who can quote a Daddy Kane line the fastest?
 * Carry on Tradition

Untitled (2008)

 * Slave food turned to soul food, collards to neck bones
 * You can't stop us now

 * if you squash me, learn to live with me
 * Project Roach

 * People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame
 * N.I.G.G.E.R. (The Slave And The Master)

 * As James Baldwin says, You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world considers a nigger
 * You Can't Stop Us Now

 * The hypocrisy is all I can see, White cop acquitted for murder, Black cop cop a plea, That type of shit make me stop and think
 * America

 * We in chronic need of a second look of the law books, And the whole race dichotomy
 * America

 * Who give you the latest dances, trends, and fashion, But when it comes to residuals, they look past us
 * America

 * Too many rappers, athletes and actors But not enough nigga's in NASA
 * America

 * Y'all don't treat women fair She read about herself in the bible Believing she the reason sin is here
 * America

Distant Relatives (2010)

 * What really did I escape from, thought I saw Gods face on the design in my vintage Claiborne
 * In His Own Words

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Gandhi (film)

Gandhi is a 1982 film about the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
 * Directed by Richard Attenborough. Written by John Briley.

His Triumph Changed The World Forever. - taglines

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

 * I was called to the bar in London, and enrolled at the High Court of Chancery. I am, therefore, an attorney. And, since I am in your eyes coloured, I think we can deduce that there is at least one coloured attorney in South Africa.
 * In this cause, I too am prepared to die, but my friends, there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. Whatever they do to us, we will attack no one, kill no one. They will imprison us; they will fine us; they will seize our possessions; but they cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them. I am asking you to fight against their anger, not to provoke it. We will not strike a blow, but we will receive them; and through our pain, we will make them see their injustice. And it will hurt, as all fighting hurts. But we cannot lose. They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience.
 * Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always.
 * An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
 * We think it is time that you recognized that you are masters in someone else's home. Despite the best intentions of the best of you, you must, in the nature of things, humiliate us to control us. General Dyer is but an extreme example of the principle... it is time you left.
 * I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you.
 * The function of a civil resistance is to provoke response and we will continue to provoke until they respond or change the law. They are not in control; we are.
 * If you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
 * (dying words) Oh God.

Others

 * Lord Irwin, Viceroy: Mr. Gandhi will find that it takes a great deal more than a pinch of salt to bring down the British Empire.
 * Edward R. Murrow: [at Gandhi's funeral] The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived - a private man without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not the commander of great armies nor a ruler of vast lands. He could not boast any scientific achievement or artistic gift. Yet men, governments and dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom. In the words of General George C. Marshall, the American Secretary of State, "Mahatma Gandhi had become the spokesman for the conscience of all mankind. He was a man who made humility and simple truth more powerful than empires." And Albert Einstein added, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever, in flesh and blood, walked upon this Earth."

Dialogue

 * Gandhi: [in South Africa] You mean you can appoint Mr. Baker as your attorney but you can't walk down the street with him?
 * Khan: Well, I can, but I risk being kicked into the gutter by someone less holy than Mr. Baker.

 * Vince Walker: You're an ambitious man, Mr. Gandhi.
 * Gandhi: I hope not.

 * Colonel: [moments before the Amritsar Massacre] Should we issue a warning, sir?
 * Gen. Dyer: They've had their warning. No meetings. [pause] Fire!

 * Government Advocate: General Dyer, is it correct that you ordered your troops to fire at the thickest part of the crowd?
 * Gen. Dyer: That is so.
 * Government Advocate: 1,516 casualties with 1,650 bullets.
 * Gen. Dyer: My intention was to inflict a lesson that would have an impact throughout all India.
 * Indian Barrister: General, had you been able to take in the armoured car, would you have opened fire with the machine gun?
 * Gen. Dyer: I think, probably – yes.
 * Lord Hunter: General, did you realise there were children – and women – in the crowd?
 * Gen. Dyer: I did.
 * Government Advocate: But that was irrelevant to the point you were making?
 * Gen. Dyer: That is correct.
 * Government Advocate: Could I ask you what provision you made for the wounded?
 * Gen. Dyer: I was ready to help any who applied.
 * Government Advocate: General, how does a child, shot with a .303 Lee Enfield, "apply" for help?

 * Kinnoch: With respect, Mr. Gandhi, without British administration, this country would be reduced to chaos.
 * Gandhi: Mr. Kinnoch, I beg you to accept that there is no people on Earth who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of an alien power.
 * Brigadier: My dear sir! India is British. We're hardly "an alien power"!

 * Sardar Patel: Bapuji, the whole country is moving.
 * Gandhi: Yes. but in what direction?

 * Vince Walker: I met him once.
 * Collins: You mean Gandhi?
 * Vince Walker: Yeah, in South Africa, a long time ago. I wonder if he'll recognise me.
 * Collins: What was he like?
 * Vince Walker: He had a full head of hair then. We were a bit like college students, trying to figure everything out.
 * Collins: Well, he must have found some of the answers!

 * Mohammed Jinnah: [After the Hindu-Muslim rioting all over India] You are the father of the nation.
 * Gandhi: Today, I see no ground in that for anything but shame.

 * Nahari: I'm going to Hell! I killed a child! I smashed his head against a wall.
 * Gandhi: Why?
 * Nahari: Because they killed my son! The Muslims killed my son!
 * Gandhi: I know a way out of Hell. Find a child, a child whose mother and father were killed and raise him as your own. Only be sure that he is a Muslim and that you raise him as one.

 * Gandhi: You're a temptress.
 * Margaret Bourke-White: Just an admirer!
 * Gandhi: Nothing is more dangerous, especially for an old man.

Taglines

 * His Triumph Changed The World Forever.
 * The Man of the Century. The Motion Picture of a Lifetime.
 * A WORLD EVENT It took one remarkable man to defeat the British Empire and free a nation of 350 million people. His goal was freedom for India. His strategy was peace. His weapon was his humanity.

Cast

 * Ben Kingsley - Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi
 * Roshan Seth - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
 * Candice Bergen - Margaret Bourke-White
 * Edward Fox - Gen. Reginald Dyer
 * John Gielgud - Lord Irwin
 * Trevor Howard - Judge Broomfield
 * John Mills - Lord Chelmsford
 * Martin Sheen - Vince Walker
 * Ian Charleson - Rev. Charlie Andrews
 * Athol Fugard - Gen. Jan Christiaan Smuts
 * Günther Maria Halmer - Dr. Herman Kallenbach
 * Saeed Jaffrey - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
 * Geraldine James - Mirabehn
 * Alyque Padamsee - Muhammad Ali Jinnah
 * Amrish Puri - Kahn

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Rosemary's Baby (film)

Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 film about a young couple (Guy and Rosemary) move into an apartment only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When Rosemary becomes pregnant mysteriously, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.
 * Directed and written by Roman Polanski, based on the novel by Ira Levin.

Pray for Rosemary's Baby

Rosemary Woodhouse

 * Awful things happen in every apartment house.
 * This is no dream, this is really happening!
 * I like the idea of having everything fresh and natural. I'll bet expectant mothers chew bits of tannis-root when nobody'd even heard of vitamin pills.
 * Tannis anyone?
 * [describing how her pregnancy feels] It's like a wire inside me getting tighter and tighter.
 * I'm having a party for our old... I mean our young friends - Minnie and Roman are not invited. Neither is Laura-Louise nor is Dr. Sapirstein. It's gonna be a very special party. You have to be under 60 to get in.
 * Dr. Sapirstein is either lying or he's, I don't know, out of his mind. Pain like this is a warning something's wrong...And I'm not drinking Minnie's drink anymore. I want vitamins in pills like everyone else. I haven't drunk it for the last three days. I've thrown it away... I've made my own drink... I'm tired of hearing how great Dr. Sapirstein is.
 * Pain, begone, I will have no more of thee!
 * Witches... All of them witches!
 * [to Guy] Do you know who Roman really is?... He's Adrian Marcato's son...Roman Castevet is Steven Marcato rearranged... [pointing to the book's picture] There he is when he was thirteen. See the eyes?... In the same house, and look, look here. [reading] Soon after that, in August 1886, his son Steven was born. 1886 - got it? That makes him seventy-nine now. No coincidence... His father was a martyr to it. The parties with the singing and the flute, and the chanting. Those are S'baths or sabbaths, whatever they're called... They use blood in their rituals and the blood that has the most power is baby's blood. And they don't just use the blood, they use the flesh too... They're not setting foot in this apartment ever again and they're not coming within fifty feet of the baby... We're gonna sub-let and move out.
 * [to Dr. Hill] You can hear them singing through the wall... Guy said it was Dr. Shand, one of these people playing a recorder. Now, how did he know it was Dr. Shand unless he was there with them. They're very clever people. They planned everything right from the beginning. They probably made some sort of deal with Guy. They gave him success and he promised them our baby to use in their rituals. I know this sounds crazy, but I've got books here. Look. There was another actor like him, Donald Baumgart and they put a spell on him. They cast a spell on him and made him blind so that Guy could get his part. Look, here. [She shows Dr. Hill the Witchcraft book excerpt] I had this friend, Edward Hutchins. Maybe you heard of him, a writer. He wrote stories for boys. Anyway, he was my good friend since I first came to New York... Anyway, once Mr. Hutchins came to visit me...It was the time I was having this pain, Doctor. I was suffering severe - you can't imagine how much I was suffering. And they wouldn't help me, nobody would. They were giving me a drink with tannis-root in it, also witches' stuff, tannis-root. Hutch came and he immediately saw something was wrong. He knew about witches, you see. Suddenly, Guy rushed home with his make-up still on, which he never did. They probably called him to come home and steal one of Hutch's belongings - which he did. Took his glove. And they put a spell on him too. Put him in a coma. Three months later, he died. Now, maybe all of this is coincidence, but one thing is for sure, they have a coven and they want my baby.

Guy Woodhouse

 * [about having sex with Rosemary while she was passed out] It was kinda fun in a necrophile sort of way.
 * I know where you got the idea that Minnie and Roman were witches but how come you thought Abe and I joined the party, huh? Let's face it, darling, you had the pre-partum crazies. And now you're gonna rest and you're gonna get over them... From now on, everything's gonna be roses. Paramount's within an inch of where we want 'em, and suddenly Universal's interested too. And we're gonna blow this town. We're gonna be in the beautiful hills of Beverly with a pool and a spice garden - the whole schmeer. And the kids too, Ro. Scouts honor, you heard what Abe said? I've gotta run now and get famous.

Edward "Hutch" Hutchins

 * Are you aware that the Bramford had a rather unpleasant reputation around the turn of the century? It's where the Trench sisters conducted their little dietary experiments. And Keith Kennedy held his parties. Adrian Marcato lived there too... The Trench sisters were two proper Victorian ladies - they cooked and ate several young children including a niece...Adrian Marcato practiced witchcraft. He made quite a splash in the 90s by announcing that he'd conjured up the living devil. Apparently, people believed him so they attacked and nearly killed him in the lobby of the Bramford... Later, the Keith Kennedy business began and by the 20s, the house was half empty... World War II filled the house up again... They called it Black Bramford... This house has a high incidence of unpleasant happenings. In '59, a dead infant was found wrapped in newspaper in the basement...
 * You're not on one of those Zen diets, are you? Pregnant women gain weight, they don't lose it.

Roman Castevet

 * To 1966! The year one!

Minnie Castevet

 * Now! That's what I call the long arm of coincidence!
 * Anyone! Anyone! It didn't have to be a no-good slut straight from the gutter. Just as long as she is young, healthy and not a virgin!
 * [referring to Rosemary] As long as she ate the mousse, she can't see nor hear. She's like dead now.

Others

 * Terry Gionoffrio: [about the Castevets] They picked me up off the sidewalk, literally... I was starving and on dope and doing a lot of other things. They're childless though. I'm like the daughter they never had. At first, I thought they wanted me for some kind of a sex thing but they turned out to be like real grandparents... I'd be dead now if it wasn't for them. That's an absolute fact. Dead or in jail.
 * Laura-Louise: [referring to the tannis-root charm] You'll get used to the smell before you know it.
 * Rosemary's friend: [about Dr. Sapirstein] He sounds like a sadistic nut... Pain like that is a warning that something isn't right. Go see Dr. Hill. Go see anybody besides that... nut. You can't go on suffering like this.
 * Dr. Sapirstein: Come with us quietly, Rosemary. Don't argue or make a scene. Because if you say anything more about witches or witchcraft, we're gonna be forced to take you to a mental hospital. You don't want that, do you? So just put your shoes on.

Dialogue

 * Rosemary: I thought you were Victoria Vetri, the actress.
 * Terry Gionoffrio (played by Victoria Vetri): That's OK. Everybody thinks I'm Victoria. I don't see the resemblance, though.

 * Roman: No Pope ever visits a city where the newspapers are on strike.
 * Minnie: I heard he's gonna postpone and wait till it's over.
 * Guy: Well, that's show-biz.
 * Roman: [chuckling with his wife] That's exactly what it is. All the costumes or rituals, all religions.
 * Minnie: Uh, I think we're offending Rosemary
 * Rosemary: Oh no.
 * Roman: You're not religious, are you my dear?
 * Rosemary: I was brought up a Catholic. Now I don't know. He is the pope.
 * Roman: You don't need to have respect for him because he pretends that he's holy... A good picture of the hypocrisy behind organized religion was given I thought in Luther.

 * Rosemary: I dreamed someone was raping me, I think it was someone inhuman.
 * Guy: Thanks a lot. Whatsa matter?
 * Rosemary: Nothing.
 * Guy: I didn't want to miss the night.
 * Rosemary: We could have done it this morning or tonight. Last night wasn't the only split-second.
 * Guy: I was a little bit loaded myself, you know.

 * Rosemary: What's in this drink?
 * Minnie: Snips and snails and puppy dog's tails.
 * Rosemary: Oh? And what if we wanted a girl?
 * Minnie: Do you?
 * Rosemary: Well, it would be nice if the first one was a boy.

 * Guy: [on Rosemary's decision to switch doctors] You know what Dr. Hill is? He's a Charlie Nobody, that's who he is!
 * Rosemary: I'm tired of hearing about how great Dr. Sapirstein is!
 * Guy: Well, I won't let you do it Ro.
 * Rosemary: Why not?
 * Guy: Well, because... because it wouldn't be fair to Sapirstein.
 * Rosemary: Not fair to Sapir - what about what's fair to me?

 * Guy: [about Rosemary's haircut] What the hell is that?
 * Rosemary: I've been to Vidal Sassoon.
 * Guy: You mean you actually paid for it?

 * Rosemary: I look awful.
 * Guy: What are you talking about? You look great. It's that haircut that looks awful.

 * Grace Cardiff: Hutch regained consciousness at the end and he thought it was the next morning. You know, when you had the appointment... I wasn't there but he told the doctor to make sure that you got the book that was on his desk. Oh, and I'm to tell you. The name is an anagram.
 * Rosemary: [confused] The name of the book?
 * Grace Cardiff: Apparently. He was delirious, so it's hard to be sure.

 * Dr. Sapirstein: [telling Rosemary her baby died] It was in the wrong position. In a hospital, I might have been able to do something about it, but you wouldn't listen.
 * Rosemary: You're lying. It didn't die. You took it. You're lying. You witches. You're lying! You're lying! You're lying! You're lying!

 * [Rosemary enters, carrying a knife]
 * Mrs. Gilmore: Rosemary! Go back to bed. You know you're not supposed to be up and around.
 * Japanese man: Is that the mother?
 * Roman: Rosemary -
 * Rosemary: Shut up.
 * Roman: Rosemary -
 * Rosemary: Shut up! You're in Dubrovnik. I don't hear you. [She slowly walks over to the cradle, sees her child in the bassinet - her eyes widen in terror] What have you done to it? What have you done to its eyes?
 * Roman: He has his father's eyes.
 * Rosemary: What are you talking about?! Guy's eyes are normal! What have you done to him? You maniacs!
 * Roman: Satan is his father, not Guy. He came up from hell and begat a son of mortal woman. [Coven members cheer 'Hail, Satan!'] Satan is his father and his name is Adrian. He shall overthrow the mighty and lay waste their temples. He shall redeem the despised and wreak vengeance in the name of the burned and the tortured. Hail, Adrian! Hail, Satan! Hail, Satan!
 * Minnie: He chose you out of all the world - out of all the women in the whole world, he chose you. He arranged things, because he wanted you to be the mother of his only living son.
 * Roman: His power is stronger than stronger! His might shall last longer than longer.
 * Japanese man: Hail, Satan!
 * Rosemary: No! It can't be! No!
 * Minnie: Go look at his hands.
 * Laura-Louise: And his feet.
 * Rosemary: Oh, God! [realizes in horror as flashbacks of red eyes looking at her appear from dreamscape; drops knife]
 * Roman: God is dead! Satan lives! The year is One, the year is One! God is dead! Why don't you help us out, Rosemary? Be a real mother to Adrian. You don't have to join if you don't want to. Just be a mother to your baby. Minnie and Laura-Louise are too old. It's not right. Think about it, Rosemary.
 * Rosemary: Oh, God!
 * Laura-Louise: Aw, shut up with your Oh, Gods or we'll kill ya - milk or no milk!
 * Mrs. Gilmore: You shut up. Rosemary's his mother, so you show some respect.
 * Roman: [to Argyron Stavropolous, one of the guests who has just arrived] Come my friend. Come see him. Come see the child.
 * Guy: They promised me you wouldn't be hurt and you haven't been...really. I mean, supposing you had the baby and you lost it? Wouldn't that be the same? And we're getting so much in return, Ro. [She spits in his face.]
 * Roman: Oh, Guy, let me introduce you to Argyron Stavropolous.
 * Argyron: How proud you must be. Is this the mother?
 * Minnie: [She gives Rosemary a cup and saucer.] Here, drink this. You'll feel a little better.
 * Rosemary: What's in it, tannis root?
 * Minnie: Nothing's in it, just plain ordinary Lipton's tea. You drink it.
 * [The baby starts to cry. Rosemary watches as Laura-Louise roughly rocks the bassinet, and then slowly walks over.]
 * Laurie-Louise: [To Rosemary] Get away from here! Roman!
 * Rosemary: You're rocking him too fast.
 * Laurie-Louise: Sit down. [To Roman] Get her out of here. Put her where she belongs.
 * Rosemary: You're rocking him too fast. That's why he's crying.
 * Laura-Louise: Oh, mind your own business.
 * Roman: Let Rosemary rock him. Go on, sit down with the others. Let Rosemary rock him.
 * Laura-Louise: Well, she's liable to -
 * Roman: Sit down with the others, Laura-Louise. [To Rosemary] Rock him.
 * Rosemary: Are you trying to get me to be his mother?
 * Roman: Aren't you his mother?
 * [Rosemary begins to rock her child gently; child stops crying; everyone gathers around to admire Rosemary bonding with her baby; photographer takes pictures; Rosemary begins to hum a lullaby to her child; scene fades]

About the film of Rosemary's Baby

 * It incorporates whole pages of the book's dialogue and even uses specific colors mentioned. It was not only Polanski’s first Hollywood film but also the first one he made based on someone else's material; I’m not sure he realized he had the right to make changes. His understated directorial style perfectly complemented the style of the book, and the casting couldn’t have been better. I'm one of several people who claim credit for first suggesting Mia Farrow for the leading role.
 * The movie of Rosemary's Baby attracted some of the hostility I had worried about while writing the book. A woman screamed "Blasphemy!" in the lobby after the first New York preview, and I subsequently received scores of reprimanding letters from Catholic schoolgirls, all worded almost identically. The Legion of Decency condemned the film, but the film turned around and condemned the Legion; when the film became a major hit despite, or because of, its C rating, the Legion, already on its last legs, was disbanded.
 * Ira Levin "'Stuck with Satan': Ira Levin on the Origins of Rosemary’s Baby" Criterion Collection (November 5, 2012), quoting from the New American Library edition afterword dated April 2003.

Cast

 * Mia Farrow - Rosemary Woodhouse
 * John Cassavetes - Guy Woodhouse
 * Ruth Gordon - Minnie Castevet
 * Sidney Blackmer - Roman Castevet
 * Maurice Evans - Edward 'Hutch' Hutchins
 * Ralph Bellamy - Dr. Abraham Sapirstein
 * Victoria Vetri - Terry Gionoffrio
 * Patsy Kelly - Laura-Louise
 * Elisha Cook Jr. - Mr. Nicklas
 * Emmaline Henry - Elise Dunstan
 * Charles Grodin - Dr. C.C. Hill
 * Hanna Landy - Grace Cardiff
 * Hope Summers - Mrs. Gilmore

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Talk:Michel Foucault

Prologue
I am not sure whether we should have the french quotes in this page along with their translation or not. Shouldn't we just keep the English versions and move the French ones to the French page? Alex 19:42, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

 * No. The French WQ is welcome to use this page for help, of course, but the standard is to always keep the original language as well as the translation. This is essential for accuracy checks, since only the original appears. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 20:30, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

things are amazingly helpfull and selective thanks

Unsourced
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Michel Foucault. --Antiquary 18:38, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

 * It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them. (This quote is from the Foucault-Chomsky debate.)

 * The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

 * LSD reveals this whole univocal and a-categorical mass to be rainbow-coloured, mobile, asymmetrical, decentered, spiraloid and resonating.

 * Cocaine de-anatomizes the sexual localization of pleasure - which is now everywhere in the body.

Camille Paglia & Negative Quotations
Do we really need four different quotes from Paglia, all of which basically say the same thing (e.g. Foucault sucks)? Wouldn't it be enough to just use one quote, if her opinions of him are important enough?

For that matter, all the quotes about Foucault semm to be negative. It's good that we get different perspectives and critical voices, so that an article isn't just a puff piece, but they shouldn't be exclusively critical either. I mean, people that are far more controversial than Foucault (like Sam Harris, for example) get only positive quotations about them in their wikiquote pages. I really think we should balance this out with some positive comments about the man, since he is widely influencial and admired in much of academia.
 * Please add any positive quotes by notable people that you might wish to about Foucault. Paglia has notably criticized him many times, and I believe 4 quotes by her is not excessive — but do welcome any positive quotes about him you might find. ~ Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:50, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It is excessive, considering that she is not a widely known critic and her quotes aren't particularly substantial - they're just abrupt dismissals. I could understand 4 quotes from Chomsky but not from her. --131.111.184.8 00:52, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I am inclined to agree with these criticisms of the quality of these quotes. We might at least dispense with all but the first. ~ Ningauble 14:12, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't know where the conversation on whether this page should be merged with anti-psychiatry is, but my immediate response is absolutely not. Foucault is quoted saying "I have written a book about the history of psychiatry from the seventeenth century to the very beginning of the nineteenth. In this book, I have said nearly nothing about the contemporary situation, but people still have read it as an antipsychiatry position...Why should so many people, including psychiatrists, believe that I am an antipsychiatrist? It's because they are not able to accept the real history of their institutions, which is, of course, a sign of psychiatry being a pseudoscience. A real science is able to accept even the shameful, dirty stories of its beginning." Michel Foucault in "An Interview by Stephen Riggins", taken from Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth.

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The Exorcist (film)

The Exorcist is a 1973 American film about the demonic possession of a 12-year-old girl and her mother's desperate attempts to win back her child through an exorcism conducted by two priests.
 * Directed by William Friedkin. Written by William Peter Blatty, based on his novel.

The Devil Inside. taglines

Father Damien Karras

 * There's not a day in my life that I don't feel like a fraud. Other priests, doctors, lawyers - I talk to them all. I don't know anyone who hasn't felt that.
 * [to the demon, after Merrin's death] You son of a bitch! Take me! Come into me! Goddamn you, TAKE ME! TAKE ME! [becomes possessed, tries to strangle Regan] NO!!! [throws himself out the window]

Regan MacNeil

 * My bed was shaking. I can't get to sleep.
 * You're going to die up there.
 * [as she is being thrown about on her bed] OH PLEASE MOTHER, MAKE IT STOP!!! IT'S HURTING!!!!! [possessed voice, after a doctor tried to hold her] Keep away! The sow is mine! Fuck me! Fuck me! Fuck me!
 * [possessed voice, as she masturbates with a crucifix] LET JESUS FUCK YOU! LET JESUS FUCK YOU! LET HIM FUCK YOU!!! [pressing Chris's face into her groin] LICK ME! LICK ME! [spins her head 180 degrees] You know what she did?! Your cunting daughter?!
 * [possessed voice, to Father Merrin] Stick your cock up her ass, you motherfucking worthless cocksucker!
 * [possessed voice] Your mother sucks cocks in hell, Karras, you faithless swine.

Father Merrin

 * [to Father Karras] Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.
 * THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!

Dialogue

 * Chris: [about a Ouija board] Wait a minute, you need two.
 * Regan: No ya don't. I do it all the time.
 * Chris: Oh yeah. Well let's both play.
 * [the planchette is jerked away from Chris]
 * Chris: You really don't want me to play, huh?
 * Regan: No, I do. Captain Howdy said no.
 * Chris: Captain who?
 * Regan: Captain Howdy.
 * Chris: Who's Captain Howdy?
 * Regan: You know, I make the questions and he does the answers.

 * Karras: It's my mother, Tom. She's alone. I never should have left her. At least in New York, I'd be near, I'd be closer.
 * Tom: Could see about a transfer, Damien.
 * Karras: I need re-assignment, Tom. I want out of this job. It's wrong. It's no good.
 * Tom: You're the best we've got.
 * Karras: Yeah, not really. It's more than psychiatry, and you know that Tom. Some of their problems come down to faith, their vocation and meaning of their lives, and I can't cut it anymore. I need out. I'm unfit. I think I've lost my faith, Tom.

 * Chris: What made you say that, Regan? Do you know, sweetheart?
 * Regan: Mother? What's wrong with me?
 * Chris: It's just like the doctor said. It's nerves, and that's all. OK? You just take your pills and you'll be fine, really. OK?

 * Dr. Klein: It's a symptom of a type of disturbance in the chemical-electrical activity of the brain. In the case of your daughter, in the temporal lobe - it's up here - in the lateral part of the brain. It's rare, but it does cause bizarre hallucinations and usually just before a convulsion...the shaking of the bed. It's doubtless due to muscular spasms.
 * Chris: Oh no. No, no. That was not a spasm. Look. I got on the bed. The whole bed was thumping and rising off the floor and shaking - the whole thing, with me on it!
 * Dr. Klein: Mrs. MacNeil, the problem with your daughter is not her bed, it's her brain.
 * Chris: So, uhm, what causes this...?
 * Dr. Klein: A lesion. A lesion in the temporal lobe. It's a kind of seizure disorder.
 * Chris: Now look Doc, I really don't understand how her whole personality could change.
 * Dr. Klein: The temporal lobe is very common...It could last for days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior.
 * Chris: Hey, do me a favor, will ya? Tell me somethin' good.
 * Dr. Klein: Don't be alarmed. If it's a lesion, in a way she's fortunate. All we have to do is remove the scar.

 * Chris: Well give me an example, like what specifically did she say?
 * Dr. Klein: Specifically Mrs. MacNeil she advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamned cunt.

 * Dr. Klein: She's heavily sedated. She'll probably sleep through tomorrow.
 * Chris: What was going on in there? How could she fly off the bed like that?
 * Dr. Klein: Pathological states can induce abnormal strength. Accelerated motor performance. Now, for example, say a 90 pound woman sees her child pinned under the wheel of a truck. Runs out and lifts the wheels a half a foot up off the ground - you've heard the story - same thing here. Same principle, I mean.
 * Chris: So what's wrong with her?
 * Dr. Klein: We still think the temporal lobe.
 * Chris: Oh what are you talking about, for Christ's sakes? Did you see her or not? She's acting like she's fucking out of her mind, psychotic, like a... split personality or ...
 * Dr. Klein: There haven't been more than a hundred authentic cases of so-called split personality, Mrs. MacNeil. Now I know the temptation is to leap to psychiatry. But any reasonable psychiatrist would exhaust the somatic possibilities first.
 * Chris: So, what's next?
 * Dr. Klein: A pneumoencephalogram, I would think. Pin down that lesion. It will involve another spinal.
 * Chris: Oh, Christ!
 * Dr. Klein: What we missed in the EEG and the arteriograms could conceivably turn up there. At least, it would eliminate certain other possibilities.

 * Psychiatrist: When I touch your forehead, open your eyes. How old are you?
 * Regan: Twelve.
 * Psychiatrist: Is there someone inside you?
 * Regan: Sometimes.
 * Psychiatrist: Who is it?
 * Regan: I don't know.
 * Psychiatrist: Is it Captain Howdy?
 * Regan: I don't know.
 * Psychiatrist: If I ask him to tell me, will you let him answer?
 * Regan: No!
 * Psychiatrist: Why not?
 * Regan: I'm afraid.
 * Psychiatrist: If he talks to me, I think he'll leave you. Do you want him to leave you?
 * Regan: Yes.
 * Psychiatrist: I'm speaking to the person inside of Regan now. If you are there, you too are hypnotized and must answer all my questions. Come forward and answer me now.
 * [Regan growls and contorts on the bed]
 * Psychiatrist: Are you the person inside of Regan? Who are you?
 * [Regan slams her fist into the Psychiatrist's groin]

 * Kinderman: Well, this desecration in the church. Do you think this has anything to do with witchcraft?
 * Karras: Maybe. Some rituals use the Black Mass. Maybe.
 * Kinderman: And now, Dennings, you read how he died?
 * Karras: In a fall.
 * Kinderman: Let me tell ya how, and please Father, confidential. Burke Dennings, good Father, was found at the bottom of those steps leading to M Street with his head turned completely around - facing backwards.
 * Karras: It didn't happen in the fall?
 * Kinderman: It's possible. Possible, however -
 * Karras: ...unlikely.
 * Kinderman: Exactly. So on the one hand, we've got a witchcraft kind of murder, and on the other hand a Black Mass type desecration in the church.
 * Karras: You think the killer and the desecrator are the same?
 * Kinderman: Maybe somebody crazy. Somebody with a spite against the church. Some unconscious rebellion.
 * Karras: A sick priest - is that it?
 * Kinderman: Look, Father, this is hard for you. Please, I understand, but for priests on the campus here, you're the psychiatrist. You know who was sick at the time, who wasn't. I mean, this kind of sickness. You'd know that.
 * Karras: I don't know anyone who fits that description.
 * Kinderman: Ah! Doctor's ethics! If you knew, you wouldn't tell, huh?
 * Karras: No, I probably wouldn't.
 * Kinderman: Not to bother you with trivia, but a psychiatrist, in sunny California no less, was put in jail for not telling the police what he knew about a patient.
 * Karras: Is that a threat?
 * Kinderman: No, I mention it only in passing.
 * Karras: Incidentally, I mention it only in passing. I could always tell the judge it was a matter of confession.

 * Dr. Barringer: There is one outside chance for a cure. I think of it as shock treatment - as I said, it's a very outside chance...Have you ever heard of exorcism? Well, it's a stylized ritual in which the rabbi or the priest try to drive out the so-called invading spirit. It's been pretty much discarded these days except by the Catholics who keep it in the closet as a sort of an embarrassment, but uh, it has worked. In fact, although not for the reasons they think, of course. It's purely a force of suggestion. The victim's belief in possession is what helped cause it, so in that same way, a belief in the power of exorcism can make it disappear.
 * Chris: You're telling me that I should take my daughter to a witch doctor? Is that it?

 * Kinderman: [about Burke] It's strange. The deceased comes to visit - stays only 20 minutes. And leaves all alone a very sick girl. And speaking plainly, Mrs. MacNeil, it isn't likely he would fall from a window. Besides, a fall wouldn't do to his neck what we found, except maybe one chance in a thousand. Nope, my hunch, my opinion - he was killed by a very powerful man - point one. And the fracturing of his skull - point two. Plus the various other things we mentioned would make it very probable, probable, not certain, that the deceased was killed and then pushed from your daughter's window. But nobody was in the room, except your daughter. So how can this be? It could be one way. If someone came calling between the time Miss Spencer left and the time you returned...
 * Chris: Judas Priest. Just a second.

 * Chris: How do you go about getting an exorcism?
 * Karras: I beg your pardon? Well, the first thing - I'd have to get into a time machine and get back to the 16th century...Well, it just doesn't happen any more, Mrs. MacNeil...since we learned about mental illness, paranoia, schizophrenia...Since the day I joined the Jesuits, I've never met one priest who has performed an exorcism. Not one.
 * Chris: Someone very close to me is probably possessed and needs an exorcism. Father Karras, it's my little girl.
 * Karras: The Catholic Church insists on proof that the devil is really in a person. Then that's all the more reason to forget about exorcism...To begin with, it could make things worse. Secondly, the church before it approves an exorcism conducts an investigation to see if it's warranted. That takes time...I need church approval and that's rarely given. I will see her as a psychiatrist.
 * Chris: Oh, not a psychiatrist. She needs a priest. She's already seen every fucking psychiatrist in the world and they sent me to you. Now you're gonna send me back to them? Jesus Christ! Won't somebody help me?...Can't you help her, just help her?

 * Karras: Hello, Regan. I'm a friend of your mother's. I'd like to help you.
 * Regan: [possessed voice] You might loosen these straps then.
 * Karras: I'm afraid you might hurt yourself, Regan.
 * Regan: I'm not Regan.
 * Karras: I see. Well then, let's introduce ourselves. I'm Damien Karras.
 * Regan: And I'm the devil. Now kindly undo these straps!
 * Karras: If you're the devil, why not make the straps disappear?
 * Regan: That's much too vulgar a display of power, Karras.
 * Karras: Where's Regan?
 * Regan: In here. With us.
 * Karras: Show me Regan and I'll loosen one of the straps.
 * Regan: [in the voice of a bum he saw on the subway] Can you help an old altar boy, Father?... [possessed voice] Your mother's in here with us, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.
 * Karras: If that's true, then you must know my mother's maiden name. What is it? What is it?
 * [Regan vomits onto Karras]

 * Karras: Look, I'm only against the possibility of doing your daughter more harm than good...I can't do it. I need evidence that the church would accept as signs of possession...like her speaking in a language she's never known or studied...Look, your daughter doesn't say she's a demon. She says she's the devil himself. Now if you've seen as many psychotics as I have, you realize that's the same thing as saying you're Napoleon Bonaparte. You asked me what I think is best for your daughter. Six months, under observation, in the best hospital you can find.
 * Chris: You show me Regan's double, same face, same voice, everything. And I'd know it wasn't Regan. I'd know in my gut. I'm telling you that that thing upstairs isn't my daughter. Now I want you to tell me that you know for a fact that there's nothing wrong with my daughter except in her mind. YOU TELL ME YOU KNOW FOR A FACT THAT AN EXORCISM WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD! YOU TELL ME THAT!

 * Regan: [possessed voice] What an excellent day for an exorcism.
 * Karras: You'd like that?
 * Regan: Intensely.
 * Karras: But wouldn't that drive you out of Regan?
 * Regan: It would bring us together.
 * Karras: You and Regan?
 * Regan: You and us.
 * [Karras sits down; a bedside drawer opens near him]
 * Karras: Did you do that? [Regan murmurs; Karras pushes the drawer closed] Do it again.
 * Regan: In time.
 * Karras: No, now.
 * Regan: In time. Mirabile dictu (Wonderful to relate), don't you agree?
 * Karras: You speak Latin? [starts recording their words on tape]
 * Regan: Ego te absolvo. (I absolve you.)
 * Karras: Quod nomen mihi est? (What is my name?)
 * Regan: [in French] Bonjour. (Hello.)
 * Karras: Quod nomen mihi est? (What is my name?)
 * Regan: La plume de ma tante. (The pen of my aunt.) [croaks out a laugh]
 * Karras: How long are you planning to stay in Regan?
 * Regan: Until she rots and lies stinking in the earth. [Father Karras pulls a vial from his pocket] What's that?
 * Karras: Holy water.
 * Regan: You keep it away... [Karras sprinkles the holy water onto Regan, who starts screaming] IT BURNS! IT BURNS!

 * Karras: I think it might be helpful if I gave you some background on the different personalities Regan has manifested. So far, I'd say there seem to be three. She's convinced...
 * Merrin: There is only one.

 * Merrin: I cast you out, unclean spirit!
 * Regan: [possessed voice] Shove it up your ass, you faggot!
 * Merrin: In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! It is he who commands you! He who flung you from the heights of heaven to the depths of hell!
 * Regan: Fuck him!
 * Merrin: Be gone...
 * Regan: Fuck him, Karras! Fuck him!
 * Merrin: ...from this creature of God!
 * [Regan collapses, moaning]
 * Merrin: Be gone! In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!

 * Chris: Would you like some brandy in that, father?
 * Merrin: Well, the doctors say I shouldn't, but thank God... my will is weak.

 * Karras: Why her? Why this girl?
 * Merrin: I think the point is to make us despair. To see ourselves as... animal and ugly. To make us reject the possibility that God could love us.

 * Regan: [in Karras' mother's voice] Dimmy, why did you do this to me? Please Dimmy, I'm afraid.
 * Karras: You're not my mother!
 * Merrin: Don't listen...Get out!

 * Chris: She doesn't remember any of it.
 * Father Dyer: That's good.

Taglines

 * The Devil Inside.
 * Somewhere between science and superstition, there is another world. The world of darkness.
 * Something beyond comprehension is happening to a girl on this street, in this house. And a man has been sent for as a last resort. This man is the Exorcist.
 * Nobody expected it, nobody believed it, and nothing could stop it. The one hope, the only hope: THE EXORCIST.

About

 * The 1973 horror flick "The Exorcist" is my favorite snapshot of the cultural place of (white) (cis) little girls. In the film, a little girl (with a single mother) is possessed by the devil. From another perspective, the little girl is actually exploring her sexuality (masturbation and so on) and her own demons/meanness. Obviously, (white) men from the church have to be brought in to save her since her single mom can't do it alone.
 * Alok Vaid-Menon, Alok Vaid-Menon on how the transphobic narrative constructs predators and victims

Cast

 * Ellen Burstyn - Chris MacNeil
 * Max von Sydow - Father Lankester Merrin
 * Jason Miller - Father Damien Karras
 * Linda Blair - Regan Teresa MacNeil
 * Lee J. Cobb - Lieutenant William Kinderman
 * Kitty Winn - Sharon Spencer
 * Jack MacGowran - Burke Dennings
 * Reverend William O'Malley - Father Dyer
 * Barton Heyman - Dr. Klein
 * Peter Masterson - Dr. Barringer, Clinic Director
 * Arthur Storch - Psychiatrist
 * Mercedes McCambridge - voice of Pazuzu

title: The Exorcist (film)