“Harold and Maude” quotes
(1971)
Title Harold and Maude
Year 1971
Director Hal Ashby
Genre Drama, Comedy
Year 1971
Director Hal Ashby
Genre Drama, Comedy
Plot – Harold is a neurotic teenager who cultivates dismal interests - funerals and visits to the cemetery. After many failed attempts to save him, one day at the cemetery Harold meets crazy old Maude, an eighty-year-old lady still in love with life. After yet another failed attempt of his mother to arrange a date for him, Harold announces he will marry Maude.
All actors – Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Ellen Geer, Eric Christmas, G. Wood, Judy Engles, Shari Summers, Tom Skerritt, Susan Madigan, Ray K. Goman, Gordon Devol, Harvey Brumfield, Henry Dieckoff, Philip Schultz, Sonia Sorel, Margot Jones, Barry Higgins, Hal Ashby, Michael L. Davis, Marjorie Eaton, William Lucking, Jerry Randall, Cat Stevens
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“I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple.”
“Consistency is not really a human trait.”
Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls. For me they will always be “glorious birds”.
“- Harold: You sure have a way with people.
- Maude: Well, they're my species!”“I haven't lived. I've died a few times.”
“- Motorcycle Officer: License, lady?
- Maude: I don't have one. I don't believe in them.”“Everybody should be able to make some music. That's the cosmic dance.”
“A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.”
- Maude: “The earth is my body, my head is in the stars”. Who said that, Harold?
- Harold: I don't know.
- Maude: Well, I suppose I did, then.“- Psychiatrist: Tell me, Harold, what do you do for fun? What activity gives you a different sense of enjoyment from the others? Uh, what do you find fulfilling? What gives you that... special satisfaction?
- Harold: I go to funerals.”“Everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much.”
“- Harold: [referring to police officer] He's following us.
- Maude: Is he? Police always want to play games!”“- Harold: Do you pray?
- Maude: Pray? No. I communicate.
- Harold: With God?
- Maude: With life.”“- Harold: You hop in any car you want and just drive off?
- Maude: Well, not any car, I like to keep a variety. I'm always looking for the new experience.
- Harold: Maybe… Nevertheless, I think you're upsetting people. I don't know if that's right.
- Maude: Well, if some people get upset because they feel they have a hold on some things, I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)“Who sends dead flowers to a funeral? It's absurd.”
“- Harold: What were you fighting for?
- Maude: Oh, big issues. Liberty. Rights. Justice. Kings died, kingdoms fell. I don't regret the kingdoms, what sense in borders and nations and patriotism? But I miss the kings.”
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