[in anger for ruining Elaine's wedding] You punk! You crazy punk! I'll kill you!
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Mr. Robinson, Murray Hamilton, The Graduate
[in anger for ruining Elaine's wedding] You punk! You crazy punk! I'll kill you!
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Mr. Robinson, Murray Hamilton, The Graduate
Mr. Robinson: You'll never be young again. Benjamin: I know.
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Benjamin: For God's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now, you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours. Mrs. Robinson: So? Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Mr. Robinson: Do you ummm... do you want to tell me why you did it? Benjamin: Mr. Robinson! Mr. Robinson: Do you have a special grudge against me? Do you feel a particularly strong resentment? Is there something I've said that's caused this contempt, or is it just things I stand for that you despise…
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Benjamin: Listen to me. What happened between Mrs. Robinson and me was nothing. It didn't mean anything. We might just as well have been shaking hands. Mr. Robinson: Shaking hands? Well, that's not saying much for my wife, is it?
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Mrs. Robinson, if you don't mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange.
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Mrs. Braddock: What makes you think she wants to marry you? Benjamin: Oh, she doesn't. To be perfectly honest, she doesn't like me.
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Elaine: Good night. Benjamin: Are we getting married tomorrow? Elaine: No... Benjamin: Day after tomorrow? Elaine: I don't know. Maybe we are, and maybe we're not.
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin, I am not trying to seduce you. Benjamin: I know that, but please, Mrs. Robinson, this is difficult... Mrs. Robinson: Would you like me to seduce you? Benjamin: What? Mrs. Robinson: Is that what you're trying to tell me? Benjamin: I'm going home now. I apologize for what I sa…
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin, I want you to know that I'm available to you, and if you won't sleep with me this time... Benjamin: Oh, my Christ. Mrs. Robinson: If you won't sleep with me this time I want you to know that you can call me up anytime you want and we'll make some kind of arrangement.
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, I can't do this anymore. Mrs. Robinson: You what? Benjamin: This is all terribly wrong. Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable? Benjamin: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that.
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Thinking I can still smoke pot and enjoy it like I used to has been a revealing feature of my mid-to-late-twenties. Nowadays, it seems, I prefer my altered states much less altered. Though weed obviously has different effects on different people, I have too much to worry about by simply pretending t…
Mr. Braddock: Ben, what are you doing? Benjamin: Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool. Mr. Braddock: Why? Benjamin: Well, it's very comfortable just to drift here.
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate
Holmes is obviously guilty of many more serious crimes, but faking one’s voice is just weird, and embarrassing, in much the same way that bad toupees are: they place one’s bodily insecurities center stage.
“There is so much going on right now. I think one of the best ways we can combat the ignorance, the divisiveness, the hatred, is to go out there and push love, express love and practice love — and it definitely comes through, that love comes through in Woodstock.”
You stop and think about it, we are in the biggest information explosion I think in the history of the world. It's just in this generation that when you and I were growing up, there wasn't even a word for Internet or World Wide Web, for example. We had three TV channels. We were watching either Lucy…
What upsets people is not what happens in our lives. What upsets people is if something happens different than we expect.
I believe that every person has what I call a personal truth. That's what they believe about themselves when nobody's looking or nobody's listening. We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth,…