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Quotes of Movie: Look Back in Anger [1958]
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Jimmy Porter: Nigel and Alison, they're what they sound like, sycophantic, phlegmatic and pusillanimous.
Cliff Lewis: Big words.
Jimmy Porter: Shall I tell you what they mean?
Jimmy Porter: No not interested, don't want to know.
Jimmy Porter: Soapy, stodgy and dim. (unknown)
Jimmy Porter: Do you know brother Nigel?
Cliff Lewis: No I don't.
Jimmy Porter: You never heard so many well-bred commonplaces come from beneath the same bowler hat, the platitude from outer space, that's brother Nigel. (unknown)
Alison Porter: I don't think I want anything more to do with love. Not any more, I can't take it on. (unknown)
Jimmy Porter: Ladies and gentlemen, a little recitation entitled 'she was only a gravediggers daughter but she loved lying under the sod'. (unknown)
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Alison Porter: I suppose none of this could ever really have worked. I do love you Jimmy, I shall never love anyone as I love you, but I can't go on, I can't take part in all this suffering, I can't.
Jimmy Porter: It's no good fooling about with love you know. You can't fall into it like a soft job without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. If you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, tidy soul, you better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint, because you'll never make it as a human being. It's either this world... or the next. (unknown)
Jimmy Porter: I'm sorry.
Alison Porter: Get out.
Jimmy Porter: You think I did it on purpose?
Alison Porter: Clear out of my sight! (unknown)
Cliff Lewis: You're a brave girl.
Alison Porter: I don't feel very brave Cliff, I really don't. I don't think I can take much more, I feel rather sick. (unknown)
Alison Porter: I keep looking back as far as I remember. I can't think what it was like to feel young, really young. Jimmy said the same thing to me the other day and I pretended not to be listening because I thought it would hurt him I suppose. But I knew just what he meant. Oh I suppose it would've been so easy to say 'oh yes darling, I know what you mean, I know how you're feeling'. Its these easy things that seem to be so impossible with us. (unknown)
Cliff Lewis: 14lbs of jelly babies, what do you want to get all them for?
Jimmy Porter: Kids have got a craze on.
Cliff Lewis: They better have. (unknown)
Doctor: What does your husband do, what's his profession?
Alison Porter: He runs a sweet stall at the market.
Doctor: I thought you said he's been to university. (unknown)
Jimmy Porter: I'm getting hungry.
Cliff Lewis: You're a bloody pig.
Jimmy Porter: You're like a sex maniac only with you it's food - you'll end up in the News of the World, you wait - James Porter, 25, was bound over last night after pleading guilty to interfering with a small cabbage and a tin of beans. The accused said he hadn't been feeling well for some time and had been having blackouts. (unknown)
Jimmy Porter: Look down your nose at her once more...
Alison Porter: I just didn't want to touched.
Jimmy Porter: You made that perfectly plain. (unknown)
Mrs. Tanner: I'm just going to have a look at me husband's grave, make sure it's kept nice. You know, if you don't keep an eye on things people steal the flower boxes and grass grows all over the place. I wouldn't want him to think I was neglecting him. (unknown)
Mrs. Tanner: We had lots of fun, him and me. Being alive, just being alive. That's enough for an old girl like me. Chewing the cud and having a little of what you fancy. (unknown)
Mrs. Tanner: What do you *really* want, Jimmy?
Jimmy Porter: Everything... nothing. (unknown)
Jimmy Porter: Hardly a moment when I'm not watching, wanting you. Nearly 2 years in the same room as you and I still can't stop my sweat breaking out when I see you do something as ordinary as cooking or leaning over the ironing board. Trouble is... you get used to people, even their trivialities become indispensable to you. (unknown)
Jimmy Porter: What friend?
Alison Porter: Helena Charles, I meant to say, she telephoned, she's playing at the theatre next week.
Jimmy Porter: I see, she said 'can I come over' and you said 'My husband Jimmy, if you'll pardon my using such a dirty word, will be delighted to see you, he'll kick your teeth in'. (unknown)
Helena Charles: Does he drink?
Alison Porter: He's not an alcoholic if that's what you mean.
Helena Charles: Oh, that trumpet! It's almost as if he wanted to kill someone and me in particular. I've never seen such hatred in someone's eyes before, it's horrifying... and slightly exciting. (unknown)
Helena Charles: Tell me, why did you?
Alison Porter: Marry him? Oh there must be about six different answers. I met him at a party, he'd come there on his bicycle and there was oil on his jacket, it had been such a lovely day, everything about him seemed to burn - his face, the edges of his hair glistened. His eyes were so blue and full of sun.
Helena Charles: So you took him on.
Alison Porter: There never seemed to be any choice. (unknown)
Helena Charles: Did he love you?
Helena Charles: A howl of outrage went up from my family.
Helena Charles: Well, you can see their point.
Alison Porter: And that made up his mind, he had to marry me. (unknown)
Jimmy Porter: Anyone who doesn't like jazz has no real feeling for music, or people.
Helena Charles: Rubbish. (unknown)
Helena Charles: I think you're a very tiresome young man.
Jimmy Porter: Oh dear, oh dear, my wife's friends. Pass Lady Bracknell the cucumber sandwiches. (unknown)
Jimmy Porter: What about you, do you want to come?
Alison Porter: I'm going out with Helena.
Alison Porter: That's not a direction, its an affliction. (unknown)
Helena Charles: He doesn't know what love or anything else means. (unknown)
Alison Porter: [on bears and squirrels] Its sort of a silly symphony for people who can't bear the pain of being human any longer. (unknown)
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Movie: Look Back in Anger [1958] | [2]
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