Latest Quotes

“I'll see you in a year or two if I don't get shot.”

— Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, Duane Jackson, Jeff Bridges, The Last Picture Show

“I was married for four years, and pretended to be happy; and I had six years of analysis, and pretended to be sane. My husband ran off with his boyfriend, and I had an affair with my analyst, who told me I was the worst lay he'd ever had. I can't tell you how many men have told me what a lousy lay I…”

— Paddy Chayefsky, Diana Christensen, Faye Dunaway, Network

“[to Lester Marlow] Thank God, I'm glad I weren't on fire—I would've burned to death before you got one button undone.”

— Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, Jacy Farrow, Cybill Shepherd, The Last Picture Show

“Jacy Farrow: Well you married Daddy when he was poor and he got rich, didn't he? Lois Farrow: Scared your daddy into getting rich, beautiful. Jacy Farrow: Well if Daddy could do it, Duane could, too. Lois Farrow: Not married to you. You're not scary enough.”

— Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, Jacy Farrow, Cybill Shepherd, The Last Picture Show

“You boys can get on out of here, I don't want to have no more to do with you. Scarin' a poor, unfortunate creature like Billy just so's you could have a few laughs—I've been around that trashy behavior all my life, I'm gettin' tired of puttin' up with it. Now you can stay out of this pool hall, out…”

— Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, Sam the Lion, Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show

“[to Genevieve] Chicken fry me a steak and try to use meat this time!”

— Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, Sam the Lion, Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show

“If she was here I'd probably be just as crazy now as I was then in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?... Naw, it ain't really. 'Cause being crazy about a woman like her is always the right thing to do. Being an old decrepit bag of bones, that's what's ridiculous. Gettin' old.”

— Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, Sam the Lion, Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show

“She was very badly raped, you see! We were assaulted by a gang of vicious, young, hoodlums in this house! In this very room you are sitting in now! I was left a helpless cripple, but for her the agony was too great! The doctor said it was pneumonia; because it happened some months later! During a fl…”

— Stanley Kubrick, Mr. Alexander, Patrick Magee, A Clockwork Orange

“Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear? Alex: As an unmuddied lake, friend. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, friend.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep for ever, and ever and ever.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“Alex: Hey dad, there's a strange fella sittin' on the sofa munchy-wunching lomticks of toast. Dad: That's Joe. He lives here now. The lodger, that's what he is. He rents your room.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“I jumped, O my brothers, and I fell hard but I did not snuff it, oh no. if I had snuffed it, I would not be here to tell what I have told.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time. So now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oom…”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange

“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would…”

— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange