Lolita (1962)
Sue Lyon: Lolita
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Humbert Humbert : [in car] You know, I've missed you terribly.
Lolita Haze : I haven't missed you. In fact, I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you.
Humbert Humbert : Oh?
Lolita Haze : But it doesn't matter a bit, because you've stopped caring anyway.
Humbert Humbert : What makes you say I've stopped caring for you?
Lolita Haze : Well, you haven't even kissed me yet, have you?
[causing Humbert to put his foot down on the accelerator]
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Lolita Haze : Do you always have to shave twice a day?
Humbert Humbert : Yes, of course, because all the best people shave twice a day.
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Lolita Haze : [on her new husband] Dick's very sweet.
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Lolita Haze : Why don't we play a game?
Humbert Humbert : A game? Come on. No, you get on to room service at once.
Lolita Haze : No, really. I learned some real good games in camp. One in "particularly" was fun.
Humbert Humbert : Well, why don't you describe this one in "particularly" good game?
Lolita Haze : Well, I played it with Charlie.
Humbert Humbert : Charlie? Who's he?
Lolita Haze : Charlie? He's that guy you met in the office.
Humbert Humbert : You mean that boy? You and he?
Lolita Haze : Yeah. You sure you can't guess what game I'm talking about?
Humbert Humbert : I'm not a very good guesser.
Lolita Haze : [whispers in his ear and giggles]
Humbert Humbert : I don't know what game you played.
Lolita Haze : [whispers in his ear again] You mean you never played that game when you were a kid?
Humbert Humbert : No.
Lolita Haze : Alrighty then...
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Lolita Haze : [Trying to console Humbert] I'm really sorry that I cheated so much. But I guess that's just the way things are.
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Humbert Humbert : [Referring to Quilty] What happened to this Oriental-minded genius? When you left the hospital, where did he take you?
Lolita Haze : To New Mexico.
Humbert Humbert : Whereabouts in New Mexico?
Lolita Haze : To a dude ranch near Santa Fe. The only problem with it was he had such a bunch of weird friends staying there.
Humbert Humbert : What kind of "weird" friends?
Lolita Haze : Weird! Painters, nudists, writers, weightlifters... But I figured I could take anything for a couple of weeks.
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Lolita Haze : 'Fraid someone's gonna steal your ideas and sell 'em to Hollywood, huh?
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Charlotte Haze : I forbid you to disturb Professor Humbert again. He is a writer and he is not to be disturbed.
Lolita Haze : [makes the Nazi salute] Sieg heil!
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Lolita Haze : Do you really shave twice a day?
Humbert Humbert : [affronted] The best people shave twice a day!
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Humbert Humbert : Would you like me to read you some poetry?
Lolita Haze : Sure, why not?
Humbert Humbert : This is my favorite poet. "It was..."
Lolita Haze : Who's the poet?
Humbert Humbert : The divine Edgar.
Lolita Haze : Who's the divine Edgar. Edgar who?
Humbert Humbert : Edgar Allan Poe, of course. "It was night in the lonesome October, Of my most immemorial year." Notice how he emphasizes this word. "It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir" You see, he takes a word like "dim" in one line and twists it. You see? And it comes back as "mid region of Weir."
Lolita Haze : "Mid region," and twists it to "dim." That's pretty good, pretty clever.
Humbert Humbert : "Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her, And conquered her scruples and gloom, And we passed to the end of the vista, But were stopped by the door of a tomb, And I said, 'What is written, sweet sister?' She replied, 'Ulalume, Ulalume."'
Lolita Haze : Well, I think it's a little corny, to tell you the truth.
Humbert Humbert : What do you object to?
Lolita Haze : Well, the "vista-sister," that's like, "Lolita-sweeter."
Humbert Humbert : That's very true. That's a very acute observation. If you were in my class I would give you an A plus.
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Lolita Haze : You're crazy.
Humbert Humbert : Why, my darling?
Lolita Haze : Because, my darling, when my darling mother finds out she's going to divorce you and strangle me.
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Lolita Haze : What happened to your bed? It looks a lot lower.
Humbert Humbert : Well, the bed collapsed. It's a collapsible bed.
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Lolita Haze : What shall we do now?
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Lolita Haze : You will promise, won't you?
Humbert Humbert : Yes, I promise.
Lolita Haze : Cross your heart and hope to die?
Humbert Humbert : Cross my heart and hope to die. Cross my heart and hope to die. Cross my heart and hope to die.
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Humbert Humbert : I don't want you around them. They're nasty-minded boys.
Lolita Haze : Oh! You're a fine one to talk about someone else's mind.
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Humbert Humbert : I told you no dates!
Lolita Haze : It wasn't a date.
Humbert Humbert : It was a date!
Lolita Haze : It wasn't a date!
Humbert Humbert : It was a date, Lolita.
Lolita Haze : It was not a date.
Humbert Humbert : It was a date!
Lolita Haze : It wasn't a date.
Humbert Humbert : Well, whatever you had yesterday, I don't want you to have it again.
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Humbert Humbert : I'm going to ask you something about Michele.
Lolita Haze : You can't have her. She belongs to a Marine.
Humbert Humbert : I will ignore that idiotic joke.
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Lolita Haze : You never let me have any fun.
Humbert Humbert : No fun? You have all the fun in the world! We have fun together, don't we? Whenever you want something, I buy it for you automatically. I take you to concerts, to museums, to movies. I do all the housework! Who does the tidying up? I do! Who does the cooking? I do! You and I, we have lots of fun, don't we, Lolita?
Lolita Haze : Come here.
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Lolita Haze : What's the matter with you anyway? You look kind of slimy.
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Lolita Haze : You'll have to excuse my appearance, but you've caught me on ironing day.
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Lolita Haze : I don't suppose it ever occurred to you that when you moved into our house my whole world didn't revolve around you.
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Lolita Haze : He wasn't like you and me. He wasn't a normal person. He was a genius. He had a kind of beautiful Japanese oriental philosophy of life.
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Lolita Haze : The cot came.
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Lolita Haze : I have to go to school. What about my education?
Humbert Humbert : What sort of an education do you think you're getting here? You got a much better education when you were traveling around with me.