The Driver's Seat (1974)

Ian Bannen: Bill

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Quotes 

• Lise : I feel homesick.

  Bill : Homesick? For what?

  Lise : My loneliness. I want to go back home to feel all my loneliness again.

• Bill : I'm staying at the Metropole. I'll book you a room there next to mine. The company will pay for it because I have to have an orgasm a day on my macrobiotic diet, you see?

  Lise : I am an idealist.

  Bill : Oh, I only meant that... er... if we get acquainted, I think somehow that I'm your type, you know?

  Lise : Do you think so?

  [he nods] 

  Lise : Well you're mistaken. When I diet, I diet. And when I orgasm, I orgasm. I don't believe in mixing the two cultures.

• Lise : You look like Red Riding Hood's Grandmother. Do you want to eat me?

  Bill : [laughs]  I'd like to, I'd like to. Unfortunately, I'm on a macrobiotic diet and I can't eat meat.

  [laughs again] 

• Lise : If you think you're going to have sex with me, you're very much mistaken.

  Bill : But I haven't had my daily orgasm. It's an essential part of the diet; an orgasm a day. If you miss a day, you have to have two the next day and that gives me indigestion.

  Lise : I have no time for sex. I mean it. Sex is of no use to me, I assure you.

  Bill : But orgasms are yang!