Lions Love (... and Lies) (1969)

James Rado: Jim

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• Viva : Even if he is corrupt, at least he does it with style.

  Jim : Viva, you're too much.

  Viva : Of course, all politics is the same thing. They're just better actors. Much better actors. If you were as good an actor as Bobby Kennedy you'd be where Bobby Kennedy is up on the podium.

  Jim : Who wants to be up there? You could get killed.

  Viva : Influencing the masses.

• Jim : A sharp mind is the death of love.

• Jim : Oh, if we had kids, oh, my God, they could entertain us. They could support us in our old age, they could just - oh.

  Viva : Do you think I could go through nine months of it?

  Jim : I think it'd be a bit much.

  Viva : To only come out with one?

  Jerry : Make us feel like adults.

  Jim : Maybe you'd have triplets.

  Viva : Oh, God. Triplets. Wouldn't you think they'd have it - speeded up by now, the process?

  Jim : Someday, and in test tubes. You won't even have to carry it around.

• Jim : We have to become mature if we're gonna be gods.

• Jim : I hate every form of entertainment, including living.

• Viva : That Harlow was so vulgar. So disgustingly vulgar. They should've done it on Garbo. She didn't have to have scandals, beatings, uremic poisoning, bellhop screwing. She was the star.

  Jerry : One thing - one thing about stars: they have to tell you how they sleep at night.

  Jim : Let's go to bed.

• Viva : How dare you touch me! Don't you know I'm supposed to be divine?

  Jim : We are all divine.

• Jim : Hey, you sack of meat, let's go to bed!

  Viva : You're always calling me a sack of meat. Jesus! You're just jealous of my beauty. You filthy rat. You fucking sadist.

• Jim : [singing]  I have a guru. But he's not too good, though, He reads the Tarot, And The New York Times

• Viva : Star!

  Jim : That word gets to me.

  Jerry : We...

  Viva , Jim : Stars!

  Jerry : Are stars.

  Viva : Star. Ex-star.

  Jerry : We are stars.

  Viva : Ex-star-sy!

  Jim : Ecstasy.

  Viva : Ex-star-sy and me!

  Jim : Hedy.

  Jerry : Stars.

  Jim : Hedy!

  Viva : L'amour!

  Jerry : L'amour.

  Jim : Star. Star. Star!

  Viva , Jim , Jerry : Star!

• Jerry : Is it true about the way that Jean Harlow died?

  Viva : Probably.

  Jim : Some sex thing.

• Jim : In the dryness of the sky, we should fly slowly.

• Jim : There are no messages, only mistakes.

• Jim : What kind of movies are you making?

  Shirley Clarke : You know how movie people are - superstitious. But, I'm supposed to be making a film using movie stars as if they were real people.

  Jerry : You should see me when I'm real.

  Viva : You know, she's supposed to be the best. People are fantastic with her!

  Shirley Clarke : it's very simple. I just use real people.

  Jerry : You making lots of money?

  Shirley Clarke : Honey, it'll be something new if I do. None of my films ever made a nickel before. It may change my life. I'm not sure I like that. Anyhow, I'm going to be meeting a lot of movie stars.

  Jim : [in drag]  Do you want a Harlow?

  Viva : Instant Harlow.

  Shirley Clarke : I can't use people that are supposed to be dead.

• Viva : Aren't they terrible? But, I love them anyway.

  Jerry : We - love them.

  Jim : I love you. I love you.

  Viva , Jerry : I love you.

  Jerry : I love you.

  Jim : We love.

  Jerry : We love.

  Jim : We love you.

  Jerry : I love you.

  Jim : I love you. We love...

  Viva : Television.

  [turns it on] 

  Jerry : I love the test pattern.

• Viva : In this kingdom, all the princes are sick.

  Jerry : We - reject decadence. We fight decadence with decadence.

  Jim : Sex with sex.

  Jerry : Fire with fire.

• Jim : We three.

  Jerry : We are three.

  Viva : Three trees.

  Jerry : We are three.

  Viva : Three free trees.

  Jerry : We are trees.

  Jim : Three trees.

  Jerry : We are...

  Viva , Jerry : Three - free - trees.

  Viva : Three...

• Viva : Oh, sweet mystery of love.

  Jerry : Number three - the perfect number.

  Viva : The Holy Trinity.

  Jim : I am the Father. He is the Son. And he is the Holy Ghost.

  Viva : Couldn't that be the daughter?

  Jim : No. You want to be the Holy Ghost?

  Viva : All right. Oh, I can be the Holy Ghost. I can fly. It's easy to fly.

• Jerry : Oh, Los Angeles. The angels. The Los Angeles angels are falling into the sea.

  Jim : The earthquake is coming. Quick! Get up and make coffee before we die.

  Viva : Who cares?

• Viva : What about seven?

  Jim : It's a magic number.

  Viva : Yeah, three, seven...

  Jerry : Ten.

  Viva : Ten. No. Six and nine.

• Jim : Is their luck really lucky?

• Viva : Your eyes are really blue.

  Jim : The whites of your eyes are really blue. Your eyes are - no, they're bloodshot. Little red things, radially, running - running to the center, sort of like Washington, D.C.

• Viva : Is he dead?

  Jerry : Hey, don't make fun of being dead.

  Viva : Who's making fun? What else can you do?

  Jerry : Don't say that about me.

  Viva : I mean - I mean,"fun" - it's a...

  Jim : I'm gonna cry in a minute.

  Viva : National pastime - is televised death. You have to make fun or you get crazy. I don't want to get as crazy as they are.

• Viva : [Bobby Kennedy's funeral on the TV]  These Kennedys are pretty courageous.

  Jim : That's the human level. That's the human scene.

  Viva : So sad.

• Jim : I'm an actor and I just go into a part. But, no matter what that part is, I'm myself... Because, I think my self has all things in it - and all people.