Daniel Day-Lewis credited as playing...
Christy Brown
- Christy Brown: I've had nothing but Platonic love all me life. Do you know what I say? FUCK PLATO! And fuck all love that's not a hundred percent commitment!
- Dr. Eileen Cole: Christy, if you like, we can work here.
- Christy Brown: Fuck off.
- Dr. Eileen Cole: With speech therapy, I could teach you how to say "fuck off" more clearly.
- [sarcastically offering congratulations to Eileen, his beloved therapist]
- Christy Brown: Con... Con... Con... gra... tu... la... tions, Peter and Eileen on the won... wonderful news. I'm glad you taught me how to speak so I could say that, Eileen.
- [last lines]
- Christy Brown: What'll we drink to?
- Mary: Let's drink to Dublin.
- Christy Brown: To Dublin? Why?
- Mary: Because Christy Brown was born there.
- Christy Brown: I need a light
- Mary: What?
- Christy Brown: I need a light.
- Mary: I don't smoke.
- Christy Brown: I need a light.
- Mary: I'm not deaf, I can hear you. I haven't got any matches, so you'll just have to wait here while I go and get one... Don't think I'm your mother just because I'm looking after you for the evening.
- Christy Brown: I don't need a fucking psychology lesson, I just need a fucking light.
- Christy Brown: What are you going to do about it, Peter? You're a nice man. What are you going to do about it?
- Peter: I'm gonna wheel you out of this restaurant.
- Christy Brown: Yeah?
- [starts beating his head on the table]
- Christy Brown: [chanting] Wheel out the cripple! Wheel out the cripple!
- Peter: Tim. Let Christy try the wine.
- Christy Brown: Introibo ad altare Dei.
- Petra: What's he saying?
- Peter: The Latin mass.
- Christy Brown: I thought that was James Joyce.
- Mary: I can't talk about this now. I'm going.
- Christy Brown: Why can't we talk now? Now's a good enough time for me.
- Mary: I'll see you again some time.
- Christy Brown: "Again some time." I've heard that before, Mary. Why is it always some fucking time? Mary, stay. Stay!
- Christy Brown: I think you're brilliant.
- Dr. Eileen Cole: Yeah. I'm only as brilliant as my patients.
- Christy Brown: Whiskey!
- Dr. Eileen Cole: Take it easy, Christy.
- Christy Brown: You're not my mother. Never forget that.
- Dr. Eileen Cole: What do you think about Hamlet, Christy?
- Christy Brown: A cripple. He can't act.
- Dr. Eileen Cole: He did in the end.
- Christy Brown: Too late.
- Mary: The book is great.
- Christy Brown: It's not bad. Do you know what I was going to call it?
- Mary: What?
- Christy Brown: The Reminiscences...
- Mary: Reminiscences?
- Christy Brown: Of A Mental Defective.
- Mary: That's a terrible title.
- Christy Brown: It was my blue period.
- Christy Brown: What are you afraid of?
- Mary: I'm not afraid of anything. You imagine that people are afraid of you. I'm not afraid of you, okay?
- Christy Brown: You're afraid of yourself.