Lions Love (... and Lies) (1969)
Gerome Ragni: Jerry
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Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Jerry : Oh, I hate the beard. I hate the beard. I love hair.
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Viva : I just found out about this new religion called The Cosmic Climax.
Jerry : What about it?
Viva : Well, it's the last step - The Cosmic Climax.
Jim : How do you know?
Jerry : How do you know?
Viva : Because, love is a bore. Sex is a fucking bore. Fucking is a fucking bore. The word "fucking" is a fucking bore. So let's quit fucking and just have The Cosmic Climax. There's a difference between eroticism and The Cosmic Climax. In fact, it all has to do with intake and outtake of air. Like the Japanese pearl divers.
Jerry : Oh, I've had enough freedom-liberation.
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Jerry : Walt Disney - is up 51. Desilu - "Desillusion" - Down. Down-down. Down-down-down-down.
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Jerry : MGM is up 25 percent. Paramount pictures, 22 percent. 20th Century Fox, 30 percent. Andy Warhol, 2 percent.
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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.
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Jim : I wish I had something wonderful to say. But, I don't.
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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.
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Jerry : I don't mind plastic flowers; except, when they are mixed with real ones.
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Jerry : [sitting naked with Viva and Jim looking out a window] Look at this landscape. It's beautiful.
[turns around and looks at the camera]
Jerry : This - this is not a TV dinner. This is a landscape dinner. And we are watching a landscape and you're watching a landscape. But I'm in a movie, and you're not! Na-na-na-na-na-na. Na-na-na-na-na-na.
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Jerry : But why Kennedy? Why do they always shoot Kennedys?
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Jerry : The man who says nothing, who does nothing, who goes nowhere, who is nothing - this is the man to be.
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Jim : I traveled centuries ago; oh, centuries ago. Miraculously through the sunrise. Sifting the sunset flower. Outliving hundreds of thousands of lives. I don't need anyone fo tell me, that I was born, that I am living, that I am going to die.
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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.
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Jerry : [drinking a glass of milk] I drink to America. I drink to her violence. I drink to her wars. I drink to her highway deaths. I drink to her poverty. I drink to her wars. I drink to her cows. I drink to her movies. And I drink to you. And I drink to me. And I drink to Hair. And I drink to, um, money. I drink to fame. I drink to all the movie stars. I drink to my family. I drink to the airplanes. And I drink to, um, I have a little bit left. Who should I drink that to? Hmm?
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Jerry : [while an audience of children clap and smoke pot] This was an aquatic remake of the beard. And a salute to Michael McClure - who wrote the original one. You have just witnessed the premiere in this natural amphitheater. The role of Harlow was played by Viva Harlot. And the role of Billy the Kid, by your humble servant. We were honored fo perform in front of you: the up-and-coming generation, the new audience, the future, the space future, the space-children future. You! You. You.
