Quotes

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Sophie: So, are you Louise's boyfriend? Johnny: No. Sophie: Oh, right. What, you're just, like, a mate? Johnny: Primate. Sophie: You must be the missing link then. Johnny: Yeah, that's me. Sophie: You're not gonna tell me your name. Johnny: No. Sophie: I'm not gonna tell you mine neither. Johnny: All right. We'll be strangers.

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Louise: So what happened? Were you bored in Manchester? Johnny: Was I bored? No, I wasn't fuckin' bored. I'm never bored. That's the trouble with everybody – you're all so bored. You've 'ad nature explained to you, and you're bored with it. You've 'ad the living body explained to you, and you're bored with it. You've 'ad the universe explained to you, and you're bored with it. So now you just want cheap thrills and like plenty of 'em, and it dun matter 'ow tawdry or vacuous they are as long as it's new, as long as it's new, as long as it flashes and fucking bleeps in forty different colours. Well, whatever else you can say about me, I'm not fuckin' bored.

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Johnny: Bonjour. Brian: What's goin' on? What're you doin' 'ere? Johnny: Well, you see. I was over 'ere [takes a step to the left], like this, but that didn't work for me, so I thought I'd try over here [steps back], but I don't think there's much future in this one either.

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Louise: Well, I don't know if I want to get married, but I wouldn't say no to a proper relationship. Sophie: What is a proper relationship? Louise: Living with someone who talks to ya after they've bonked ya.

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Poster man: Shift. Johnny: It's all goin' very well. Poster man: Shift out the fuckin' way, will you? Johnny: No, I like Laurel and Hardy, you know, although apparently they didn't get on in real life, you know, another illusion shattered. Sorry about that pal, it's just I've 'ad a lot of bad experience with walls, you know, what with talking to them and climbing them, and me dad's driven me up a good few of them in 'is time, you know what I mean? But I think I've got the secret. The saucy little secret, this solipsistic, sagacious little secret is just, you got, you just gotta bang your fuckin' head against them. Just crack the old pate. Are you with me?! 'Ave you got it? And that's it, that's the key to enlightenment, which is, it's like that's why, it's like such a potent motif of civilization – it's the wall. It's like the, the Great Wall of China, and the Wall of Jericho and the Berlin Wall, and the Wailin' Wall. Now you see the Jews, they've almost got it, an't they? What with th

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Jeremy: You're very beautiful, aren't you? Sophie: Am I? Jeremy: In a quirky sort of way.

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Louise: How did you get here? Johnny: Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday.