“Henry & June” quotes

“You fall in love with people's minds.”

Richard R. Grant - Hugo

“I wanna be drunk. And make... you drunk. Because I'm intimidated by you. I need to feel free to say anything, and know that you'll forgive me.”
Uma Thurman - June Miller

“- June Miller: What don't I understand?
- Anaïs Nin: That I love you.
- June Miller: Love? You just want experience. You're a writer. You make love to whatever you need. You're just like Henry.”
Uma Thurman - June Miller
Maria de Medeiros - Anaïs Nin

“- Anaïs Nin: I'm passing through a crisis Eduardo.
- Eduardo: Be careful Anaïs, abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”
Maria de Medeiros - Anaïs Nin
Jean-Philippe Écoffey - Eduardo

“- Henry Miller: I'm not a portrait painter.
- June Miller: I'll say you're not. Look what you've done to Anaïs. You make everything ugly! Beauty is a joke for you. You're so negative. You're a failure as a writer. You're not a man, you're a child! You use women! You used me, you fucker!”
Fred Ward - Henry Miller
Uma Thurman - June Miller

“- Henry Miller: She is my fucking wife.
- Anaïs Nin: You don't understand your own fucking wife.”

Fred Ward - Henry Miller
Maria de Medeiros - Anaïs Nin

“- Anaïs Nin: Posses her like a man. I want to fuck her like a man. Fuck her, Hugo.
- Hugo: I am fucking her, pussy willow.”

Maria de Medeiros - Anaïs Nin
Richard R. Grant - Hugo

“Oh, Henry, I want to know what you want to know. I want my life to match your life.”
Maria de Medeiros - Anaïs Nin

“I'd believe only in a god that understood how to dance. Isn't that something?”
Fred Ward - Henry Miller

“- Anaïs Nin: How would you lie to June if you were making love to her?
- Hugo: Making love to her?
- Anaïs Nin: Yes. To her body. To her voluptuous body. She is so perverse, so naked. Tell her that you love her.
- Hugo: I love you.”
Maria de Medeiros - Anaïs Nin
Richard R. Grant - Hugo

“- Henry Miller: All right, I'll tell you. June appeared like an Angel, and I offered her a fool's faith. She was a taxi dancer. I paid my dime, she put her head on my shoulder, but then the lies began. She told me her mother was a gypsy and her father was a count. Later, I saw a film and realized she swiped her whole childhood right out of the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Fred Ward - Henry Miller
Maria de Medeiros - Anaïs Nin

“I've done the vilest things - the foulest things - but I've done them... superbly.”
Uma Thurman - June Miller

“That's our task. Liberation. Freedom. Let's toast to Lawrence. Let's toast to our defects. Toast, to our friendship. Drink cold, piss warm.”
Fred Ward - Henry Miller