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 Judy Davis Quotation[On working with David Lean] "There was a touch of the bully about him - he'd take it out on the people who were the weakest and most dependent." "When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was, I thought well, I suppose it is. It is if you get to play Macbeth or Hamlet. But who wants to play bloody Lady Macbeth or Ophelia? And it struck me that most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God." "I was always terribly shy, so a great thing that acting has done for me has forced me out of myself and made me more generous." "I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it." Movie Title: Children of the Revolution (1996) as Joan Fraser: Joan Fraser : Discreet! Oh, for God's sake! We're not talking about dance classes, we're talking about the bloody proletariat revolution! David Hoyle : Stalin? You killed Josef Stalin? Joan Fraser : Yes. David Hoyle : What did you do to him? Joan Fraser : I don't know I don't remember... I don't recall. I think we were in his room. David Hoyle : You were in his... bedroom, Joan? His bedroom! Joan Fraser : I think so. Joan Fraser : There's no father Welch. Zachary Welch : Joan I'm not an educated man but I do understand a few basic facts. Joan Fraser : [in reference to her unborn child] It's a bastard of a world out there if you know what I mean. Joan Fraser : All your life you'll here a lot of things about important people and some of them will be true and some of them will not. Movie Title: A Cooler Climate (1999) as Paula Tanner: Paula Tanner : Iris, I don't want to breathe. Why the hell would I want to go to the garage? Movie Title: Naked Lunch (1991) as Joan Lee: [Joan Lee is explaining the joys of injecting oneself with insecticide] Bill Lee : What do you mean, "it's a literary high"? Joan Lee : It's a Kafka high. You feel like a bug. Movie Title: My Brilliant Career (1979) as Sybylla: Sybylla : Dear fellow countrymen, just a few words to let you know that this story is going to be all about me. So, in answer to many requests, here is the story of my career... here is the story, of my career...my brilliant career. I make no apologies for sounding egotistical...because I am! Sybylla : I think ugly girls should be shot at birth by their parents. It's bad enough being born a girl...but ugly and clever... Aunt Gussie: Oh, fancy you're clever, do you? Sybylla : I rather hope so. I'm done for if I'm not! Movie Title: Absolute Power (1997) as Gloria Russell: Gloria Russell : Allen, did you have sex with her? Allen Richmond : I... I don't know. Gloria Russell : Bill, I need you to examine her. Bill Burton : I'm no gynecologist. Gloria Russell : I just made you one! Bill Burton : Oh, Christ... Movie Title: The Man Who Sued God (2001) as Anna: Anna : The church can only win if it proves God does not exist. Movie Title: The Ref (1994) as Caroline: Caroline : How can we both be in the marriage and I'm miserable and you're content? Lloyd : Luck? Caroline : I had this dream... Lloyd : Do we have to do dreams? Caroline : I'm in this restaurant, and the waiter brings me my entree. It was a salad. It was Lloyd's head on a plate of spinach with his penis sticking out of his ear. And I said, "I didn't order this." And the waiter said, "Oh you must try it, it's a delicacy. But don't eat the penis, it's just garnish." Dr. Wong : Lloyd, what do you think about the dream? Lloyd : I think she should stop telling it at dinner parties to all our friends. Rose : Sounds too sweet! Caroline : Then don't eat it! (Throws pie down on the table) Caroline : You're the one who suffocated him with limitations. Our son's a very sensative, creative... Lloyd : Juvenile delinquent. Caroline : ...boy. He has the kind of imagination... Lloyd : That the mafia gives scholarships for. Lloyd : Caroline? Why don't you eat something? Caroline : [Drunk] Loyd? Why don't you eat me? Connie Chasseur : Kids, go to into the den. This not a conversation for children. Rose Chasseur : It is not an apprioprate conversation for adults either. Gus : Where are you going? Rose Chasseur : To the living room. To leave you to your quilting. I be there to open presents. If my plans change I will contact you. Lloyd : Why don't we all go into the living room, we'll have our drink and deserts in there. Caroline : [to Loyd] Phoney Bastard! Gus : Caroline, shut up. Connie Chasseur : Let's all go to the den... Gus : Sit down Connie sit. Connie Chasseur : Excuse me, I am not one of you patients. Gus : You'll be someones patient if you don't sit your as in that chair. Caroline : He sounded upset. Gus : He should be. He's going to die a horrible fucking death. Lloyd : She's my mother. Gus : She's a fucking Bitch, Lloyd. Lloyd : You're not supposed to take sides. Caroline : No, no, no, thank you so much Gus. Finally somebody else sees. Gus : You'd have to be blind not to see. Gus : Soooo... got any cigarettes? Lloyd : I don't smoke and Caroline just quit. Gus : Really? Just quit, huh? Caroline : [she nods her head yes] Gus : So... where are they? Caroline : What do you mean? Gus : Where aaare they, Caroliiiiine? Caroline : [sighs] They're behind the checkerboard. Lloyd : What? You lied to me! You said you were finished! Caroline : I said I hadn't finished a cigarette. I take a couple drags, I don't finish it. Lloyd : Oh you are such a liar! Caroline : I am not, I said... Gus : [Gus is sick of the argument and pushes both of them over in thier chairs] Did you say that you would quit, Caroline? DID YOU SAY... that you would quit? Caroline : [shaking her head yes] Gus : YES! So that means that YOU are a liar, end of story. Lloyd : [chuckles thinking he's won, but Gus looks over and comes towards him] Gus : [putting the gun to his head] You saw the stop sign didn't you, Lloyd? [waving the gun back and forth] Gus : You... saw the... stop sign... DIDN'T YOU? Lloyd : Y-yes, I did. Gus : YES! So that means that you, too, are a liar! Capital "L", small "i", small "a", small "r", period. Now shut... the fuck... up! Movie Title: Impromptu (1991) as George Sand: George Sand : I used to think I'd die of suffocation when I was married. Now it's my freedom that's killing me. George Sand : I am not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love. That is all. But I love strongly, exclusively and steadfastly. [Their first meeting, after she sneaks in while he's playing the piano] George Sand : Oh, don't stop! Monsieur Chopin, you are in the middle of a miracle! --I'm not quite yet cured. Frederic Chopin : How did you get in here? Who are you? George Sand : I am your slave, and you have summoned me with your music. Frederic Chopin : Oh, yes. I think I know who you are: I have heard you described. Madame Sand, rumor has it you are a woman, and so I must ask you to leave my private chambers. George Sand : Have I offended your modesty? I apologize. Only play me one more piece and I'll go. Frederic Chopin : No! This is ridiculously improper. And frightening, as well. Franz Liszt : [as God] This is my servant Noah, and his wife Noëtte, and their children. Into their hands do I place the future of mankind. George Sand : [as Noëtte] Oh, this heat! Will it never rain? Here sits my stupid husband; I don't know what God sees in him. Oh, who can express the despair of youth married to age? My husband is 600 years old, while I am but 150! Franz Liszt : [as God] Hurry, Noah, to the Ark, and fill it with two each of the creatures of land, sea, and air. George Sand : [as Noëtte] Lord, we have no need for animals -- art alone will save the world. Let's see, we'll need two of everything: two poets, two painters, two musicians... Franz Liszt : [as God] Impossible, they will not come. Your conversation is not witty and you have no ideals. George Sand : [as Noëtte] Ha ha, true, but we shall also give them free food and lodging for forty days and forty nights. Now, we shall also need two playwrights, two composers, two makers of velvet flowers... George Sand : [picking up a picture] This your family? Frederic Chopin : No, that's my fiancée. Well, we're no longer engaged. Um, her family didn't feel that I was a very good risk for a husband. You know, no one really expects me to live very long. George Sand : Balls! Frederic Chopin : I beg your pardon? George Sand : I don't believe you're, you're ill at all. You just need more strength. Take mine. Really -- I have too much of it. George Sand : Chopin, do you love me? Frederic Chopin : God help me, I do. You are superb. [They kiss passionately, but Chopin stops] Frederic Chopin : No! George Sand : [desperately] What is wrong now? Frederic Chopin : I'm frightened. George Sand : Of me? Frederic Chopin : Certain acts are... uh, unseemly. They are unsuitable. George Sand : Chopin... it's an act of love! It's the divine mystery itself! Frederic Chopin : You must think I'm inexperienced, but I assure you, I was baptized... in the brothels of Paris, when I first arrived. But, um... I'm so ill... and I have been for such a long time, and my body is such a great disappointment to me, that I've already said goodbye to it, I'm... not really *in it* any more, I'm just... happier floating about in music. And if I should come back... inside this miserable collection of bones, then I... am afraid that it would probably collapse altogether. Forgive me. I'm ashamed. George Sand : No, no. Forgive me. I'm a fraud, you know. "Divine mystery"? I never experienced that with anyone! Always had disastrous relationships. And I never manage to stay in love. Frederic Chopin : What? George Sand : I don't know. I want too much... I think. Except when I hear you play... and when I'm around you. Look... I simply want to be with you. The rest doesn't matter. Really. Do you think we could just be together, like this? Frederic Chopin : Yes. Yes. Movie Title: Deconstructing Harry (1997) as Lucy: Lucy : You take everyone's suffering and turn it into gold, LITERARY GOLD! Movie Title: Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001) as Judy Garland: Judy Garland : I've got rainbows coming out my arse Judy Garland : If I took myself seriously I'd die, and I don't wants to die despite what you might have heard in the papers Judy Garland : Oh for god sakes Liza can't you see I'm busy Judy Garland : He adores me and I need to be adored. Judy Garland : Since I was twelve years old they've been taking me out the closet and winding me up to sing and stuffing me back in again. Well maybe I don't feel like singing. Judy Garland : I'm only really at home in the spotlight Movie Title: Husbands and Wives (1992) as Sally: [On Gail, the woman she thinks her husband has been sleeping with.] Sally : What can I say? She's me, but she's younger. [On finding out that her husband, with whom she separated recently, had been cheating on her.] Sally : It was a huge blow to my ego. You know, I thought he loved me, that, uh, that we were experimenting, you know. Interviewer : But if you had met someone first? Sally : [smiling] Probably right. Probably would have done the same thing. Sally : Fucking men! Woman gets to be over a certain age, it becomes a different ballgame. Paul : Oh, no, no--- Sally : Don't defend your sex! It's true! You're great 'til you start to show your age -- then they want a newer model. Sally : It's the Second Law of Thermodynamics: sooner or later everything turns to shit. That's my phrasing, not the Encyclopedia Britannica. Sally : I thought that I liked what Michael was doing to me, and that it felt different to Jack- more gentle. And more exciting. And I thought how different Michael was from Jack how much deeper his vision of life was. And, I thought Michael was a hedgehog and Jack was a fox. And then I thought Judy was a fox and Gabe was a hedgehog. And I thought about all the people I knew, and which were hedgehogs and which were foxes. Al Simon, our friend, was a hedgehog, and his wife Jenny was a hedgehog. And Cindy Salchime was a fox, and Luke Trinow was a hedgehog. Movie Title: Dark Blood (1993) as Buffy: Boy : He died in a mental institution. Melancholia, so I'm told. Buffy : Your great, great grandfather? So that makes you...? Boy : One eighth Hopi and prone to depression. (pause) Dark blood in my veins. Got some dark blood yourself. You're familiar with... the dark side of things. |
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