Film Quotes Returns!

Elliot Gould in Robert Altman's MASH.

In this edition of Film Quotes, all quotes rae from American films of the 1970s.

I want to go to work in one hour. We are the Pros from Dover and we figure to crack this kid's chest and get out to golf course before it gets dark. So you go find the gas-passer and you have him pre-medicate this patient. Then bring me the latest pictures on him. The ones we saw must be 48 hours old by now. Then call the kitchen and have them rustle us up some lunch. — Elliot Gould as Trapper John in MASH (1970).

Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man. — Robert DeNiro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976).

Well, what I really want is to suck his cock. — Julie Christie as Jackie Shawn in Shampoo (1975).

Bluto's right. Psychotic... but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part! — Tim Matheson as Otter in Animal House (1978).

My analyst warned me, but you were so beautiful I got another analyst. — Woody Allen as Isaac Davis in Manhattan (1979).

It made me think of what you once told me: "In five years the Corleone family will be completely legitimate." That was seven years ago. — Diane Keaton as Kay in The Godfather Part II (1974).

You only have to lie on the grass at night and look straight up at some great star. And stare at it with all your might. And by and by, you feel you're falling into the sky, miles and miles from your body, which you don't seem to need at all. — Natasha Kinski as Tess in Tess (1979).

Liza Minelli in Bob Fosse's Cabaret.

Oh God, how depressing! You're meant to think I'm an international woman of mystery. I'm working on it like mad. --  Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles in Cabaret (1972).

It's amazing. It's incredible. But, I feel like a criminal 'cause I don't take money. — Al Pacino as Frank Serpico in Serpico (1973).

I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. — Martin Sheen as Capt. Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979).

Sir, you've been shot! When did you know it was all over? — Howard Cosell as himself in Bananas (1971).

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. — Malcom McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange (1971).

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh - erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. — Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

I love it. Suicides, assassinations, mad bombers, Mafia hitmen, automobile smash-ups: "The Death Hour." A great Sunday night show for the whole family. It'd wipe that fuckin' Disney right off the air. — William Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976).

You make it with some of these chicks, they think you gotta dance with them. — John Travolta as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977).

You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage. — Ruth Gordon as Maude in Harold and Maude (1971).

Me, I just want a yacht, a big mansion, a peacock or something to guard me, you know, walk around all day with a bowler hat, silk pajamas, play golf, smoke real Havanas. — Ben Gazzara as Jack Flowers in Saint Jack (1979).

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down. — Diane Keaton as Sonja in Love and Death (1975).