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Peter
O'Toole Movies
High
Spirits | Lord Jim | How To Steal A
Million | Becket | The Lion In Winter
| Lawrence of Arabia
The
Ruling Class | What's New, Pussycat?
[This
conversation opens the movie, and I find it hilarious!]
Peter Plunkett (speaking on the phone): "Mr. Brogan, I assume you called in regards of the mortgage payment on Castle Plunkett, unfortunately still delayed by what seems to be our endless postal strike.......Dear sir, I must once again remind you, my first name is not *Dick*, nor is my last name *Face*. It is simply, *Peter* -- Peter Plunkett.......Nooooo, I was not given a middle name, but had I been, I feel certain my mother would not have chosen Low-life-shit-for-brains-peckerhead......Well, you obviously know a side of mother I have been happily sheltered from, nevertheless, I marvel at your colorfully creative, ever so American colloquialisms which flow so drippingly from your razor-like tongue......The hotel is in tip-top condition (water drips from the ceiling), the renovations are proceeding at..wh-what, what? Why shouldn't I bother? (his mother, who has been on the other line, interrupts: "Peter? Who are you calling?") Oh, mother! Will you please get off the line!?! (returning to Mr. Brogan on the phone) Turning the castle into a theme park? 'Irish World'? Gee, what an interesting notion. In-in-in Mal-ee-boo? What is Mal-ee-boo?....I see. You want to move the castle to Maleeboo, which, I am to presume, lies on the western corner of those United States.....Mr. Brogan, if I cannot send your payment, how on earth do you expect to transport an entire castle across the sea?!? The cost of stamps alone is mind-boggling! But I can assure you, Mr. Brogan, that if it goes on much longer, I will take this check which I am holding in my hand (he is holding a drink) and personally ferry it across the waters to England and mail it to you myself -- that's how much I care. (his mother interrupts again: "What postal strike?") Shut up mother!!.....(returning to Brogan, in a very high voice) I don't think that kind of language is necessary Mr. Brogan.....understandable.....So, what you're saying is that if I don't come up with the money in three weeks, you will foreclose and take over Castle Plunkett..... I see. Have you heard of the quality of mercy, Mr. Brogan?...No? You haven't read your Shakespeare, Mr. Brogan!"
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(Peter
is setting up books under a noose he has made for himself)
Mother: "OooOooh, there you are! Taking the easy way out -- you naughty boy!
Peter: "Mother, this is not easy, It is very, very difficult!"
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Jack: "Look, you're a ghost, I'm an American -- it would never work!"
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Peter (speaking to the ghost of his father) : "What did you have to give me this place for -- you knew I was an incompetent! All I wanted to be was happily useless -- you made me miserably useless. You give me this place -- bars(?) to run, bills to be paid, and then dying on me, just like that! Most people give some warning, you know. Premature senility, angina, gout, bed-ridden for years....but not you. Oh, no, no, no -- healthy as an old goat, you pop off one day in the orchard. And what then? Not a god-damned word, not a whisper? Did it never occur to you I might need some advice?..........I missed you Daddy.......(goes to hug his father, and falls through him, landing on the floor)."
Lord
Jim
Muslim: "Are we in danger?"
Jim: "Only if you panic. You must let me free the life boats."
Muslim: "Why, so you can abandon us?"
Jim: "You believe that?"
(Oh, my
God, I must say that this was thee best line/scene in this movie...the
look on his face.......it says it all.)
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Stein: "All you must do is kill an evil phantom."
Jim: "Now, let's see. Now, you can't kill a ghost with a bullet, or a spear…… black magic?"
Stein: "The weapon is the truth."
Jim: (look of surprise) "You know?…. That phantom's been with me a long time -- it won't die."
Stein: "No sir, not in the dark. But if you bring it
out into the open…"
Jim: "You expect me to tell
them? Why?"
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Stein: "If they can trust you with their faith, why can't you trust them with the truth?"
Jim: "Did you take a look at them out there? A good look? Do you know what they felt? What I feel right now? The trust in their eyes means more…you think I want to see in their eyes what I see in yours? I earned their respect, and you want me to…no, I can't. I won't."
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Jim: "You know the truth -- and you trust me?"
Stein: "I did!"
Jim: "Then, before you
knew -- what about now? 'Cause now you're thinking, 'it'll happen
again…tomorrow, the next day…when there's dirty weather -- watch out! he'll
slip -- turn coward, jump!' You expect it to happen. It'll always be
there…the doubt, waiting."
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Captain Brown: "No white man hides himself in the wilderness without a reason."
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Jim: "If even one of your people dies because of what I ask…I'll forfeit my own life."
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Jim: "Do facts ever explain anything?"
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Stein: "I know you, mister. You don't expect to die. You expect a miracle."
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Stein: "You think the world cares how you die?"
Jim: "I do."
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Jim: "Maybe cowards and heroes are just ordinary men who, for a split second, do something out of the ordinary -- that's all."
Nicole Bonnet: "Papa, I keep telling you: when you sell a fake
masterpiece, that is a crime."
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Nicole: "For a burglar you're not very brave, are you?"
Simon Dermott: "I'm a society burglar -- I don't expect people to rush about shooting me."
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Nicole: "There he was…tall, blue eyes, slim…quite good-looking [her father gives her a curious look] -- in a brutal, mean way, Papa! Terrible man."
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Simon: "It's national crime prevention week: 'take a burglar to dinner'."
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Mr. Bonnet: "American millionaires must be all quite mad. Perhaps it's something they put in the ink when they print the money?"
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Nicole: "It's worth a million dollars!"
Simon: "I know. But, also a million policemen are prowling around and that works out to about a dollar a policeman. I don't like the rate of exchange."
King Henry: "Well, Thomas Becket. Are you satisfied? Here I am....stripped...kneeling at your tomb. While those treacherous Saxon monks of yours are getting ready to thrash me. Me... with my delicate skin. I bet you'd never have done the same for me."
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Henry: "My reverend friend, I strongly suggest that you respect my Chancellor, or else I'll call my guards! Ah, here they are now. Oh no!.....it's only my snack."
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Thomas Becket: "Tonight you can do me the honor of
christening my forks."
Henry: "Forks?"
Becket: "Yes, from Florence. New little invention. It's for pronging meat
and carrying it to the mouth. It saves you dirtying your fingers."
Henry: "But then you dirty the fork."
Becket: "Yes, but it's washable."
Henry: "So are your fingers. I don't see the point."
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Henry: "I'm suddenly very intelligent! Probably comes from making love to that French girl last night…"
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Henry: "I behave like a brute, but I'm soft as swan's down inside."
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Becket:
"Honor is a private matter within. It's an idea. Every man has
his own version of it."
Henry: "How gracefully you
tell your king to mind his own business!"
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Henry: "He's [Becket's] read books you know! It's amazing -- he's drunk and wenched his way to London, but he's thinking all the time!"
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Henry: "You'll hate me now! And I'll never be able to trust you."
Thomas: "You have nothing to fear. You gave me your seal; and while I wear it, my duty is to my king."
Henry: "But I'll never know what you're thinking."
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Henry: "Whose honor is greater than the king's?"
Thomas: "The honor of God."
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Thomas Becket: "Please, Lord, teach me now how to serve you with all my heart -- to know at last what it really is to love, to adore."
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Henry: "You give the lions of England back to me, like a little boy who doesn't want to play anymore. I would've gone to war, with all England's might behind me and even against England's interests to defend you, Thomas. I would've given away my life, laughingly, for you. Only I loved you, and you didn't love me -- that's the difference."
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Henry: "But thank you for this last gift as you desert me. Now I shall learn to be alone."
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Bishop: "Is the king's friendship with Thomas Becket dead, your highness?"
Henry: "Yes, bishop. It died quite suddenly.....a sort of heart failure."
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Becket: "As head of the Church of England and as your spiritual father, I forbid you to pass judgment on me. I command you, and all you who charge me, to hold your peace on pain of endangering your immortal souls!"
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Henry: "I'm surrounded by fools!
Becket is the only intelligent man in my kingdom, and he's against me!" (laughs)
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Henry: "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"
Henry: "Well, what should we hang? -- the holly, or each other?"
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Eleanor: "Henry? I have a confession. I don't much like our children."
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John: "Poor John! Who says 'poor John'? Don't everybody sob at once. My God, if I were up in flames, there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out."
Richard: "Let's strike a flint and see!"
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Geoffrey: "I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family."
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Eleanor: "He [Henry] came down from the north to Paris, with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the commandments on the spot."
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Henry: "What ever are you giving me?"
Eleanor: "You're such a child -- you always are!"
Henry: "'To Henry.' Heavy. It's my tombstone! Eleanor, you spoil me!"
Eleanor: "I never could deny you anything."
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Alice: "Oh, I know that look. He's going to say he loves me."
Henry: (to Alice) "Like my life." (to Eleanor) "I talk that way to keep her spirits up."
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Henry: "I'm fifty now...good God, boy! I'm the oldest man I know! -- I've got a decade on the pope!"
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Richard: "I'll have the crown!"
Henry: "You'll have what Daddy gives you!"
Richard: "I am next in line!!!"
Henry: "To NOTHING!"
(love
this scene)
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John: "My God, I'm king again! Fantastic!"
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Henry: "I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be alive, king, and fifty all at once."
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Henry: "Women! I could have conquered all of Europe, but I had women in my life."
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Henry: "Oh God, but I do love being king!"
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Henry: (speaking to Alice; Eleanor has asked to watch them embrace) "Forget the dragon in the doorway. Come, believe I love you, for I do. Believe I'm yours forever, for I am. Believe in my contentment from the joy you give me and..." (to Eleanor) "You want more?"
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Philip: "What is so satisfactory?"
Henry: "Winning is. I did just win -- surely you noticed."
Philip: "You haven't won a damn thing."
Henry: "Hmmph. I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations. You've burbled every bit of strategy you've got! I know exactly what you will do and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes boy, that's what winning looks like!"
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Henry: "The royal boys are aging with the royal port."
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Henry: "You know, I hope we never die!"
Eleanor: "So do I."
Henry: "D'ya think there's any chance of it?" (laughs)
Jack Arnold: "....For I am creator and ruler of the universe -- coda: the one Supreme Being, infinite personal being, Yahweh, Shangri, Ti and El -- the first immovable mover. Yay! I am the absolute, unknowable, righteous, eternal -- the lord of hosts, king of kings, lord of lords...the Father, son and holy ghost...the one true god, the god of love -- the Christ!!!"
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Claire: "How do you know you're God?"
Jack: "It's simple -- when I pray to Him, I find I'm talking to myself."
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Claire: "Alright, if you're God, reveal your godness."
(Jack unzips his pants and is
quickly stopped)
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Jack: "Stop!! You're making me a stunted dwarf, a deformed midget, a crippled newt!
Donald: "Well, what on earth are you doing down there?"
Jack: "It's your negative incenuendo."
Donald: "Incenuendo?"
Jack: "Incenuendo is insinuation towards innuendo proffered by increased negativism out of a negative reaction to your father's positivism!"
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Jack: "The form unfinished, sent before my time, into this breathing world. I'm cured of fantasy obsessions, paranoid delusions; I master words. I -- straighten up there -- am -- close up there, I, you are but a little word -- God. I am God. Not the god of love, but God Almighty. I massacred the Malachites and the seven nations of Canon. I hacked a god to pieces and blasted the barren fig tree for the day of vengeance is in my heart! Heh he huh. You lunar jackass. You betrayed you -- guilty, guilty, guilty -- the punishment is death. I've finally been processed, they made me adjust to modern times. This is 1888 isn't it? (bitter) I'm JacK! Cunning Jack, quiet Jack. Jack whose sword never sleeps. Hats off -- I'm Jack!!! Not the good shepherd.....not the prince of peace......I'm red jack, spring hill jack, jack from hell -- tradename? Jack the Ripper!!!!!!"
Michael: "I know you'll
think this is crazy, but, when the light hits me in a certain direction, I'm
handsome."
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Michael: "Marriage is for life -- it's like cement."
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Michael: (looking at the viewer) "As a man's life goes down the drain, you are there."
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