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Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Total quotes: 53
“Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion.”
— Col. Dax, Paths of Glory
Tagged: Best Military Movies, Shame, human race
“I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'Sir.' Do you maggots understand that?”
— Gny. Sgt. Hartman, Full Metal Jacket
Tagged: Best Military Movies, Maggots, Drill Sergeant
“Bobby: I had my first wet dream in a sleepin' bag.

Ed: How was it?

Bobby: Great. [pause] There's no repeatin' it.”
— Bobby Trippe, Deliverance
Tagged: wet dream, camping
“She was very badly raped, you see! We were assaulted by a gang of vicious, young, hoodlums in this house! In this very room you are sitting in now! I was left a helpless cripple, but for her the agony was too great! The doctor said it was pneumonia; because it happened some months later! During a flu epidemic! The doctors told me it was pneumonia, but I knew what it was! A VICTIM OF THE MODERN AGE! Poor, poor girl!”
— Mr. Alexander, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Rape, hoodlums, modern world, Flu
“Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear?

Alex: As an unmuddied lake, friend. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, friend.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: clear, unmuddied lake
“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep for ever, and ever and ever.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: suicide attempt, cruel world, Pain
“Alex: Hey dad, there's a strange fella sittin' on the sofa munchy-wunching lomticks of toast.

Dad: That's Joe. He lives here now. The lodger, that's what he is. He rents your room.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: surrogate son
“I jumped, O my brothers, and I fell hard but I did not snuff it, oh no. if I had snuffed it, I would not be here to tell what I have told.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: suicide attempt
“We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: shagged, fagged, fashed, Tired
“What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Music, sound system
“I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Pain, sickness, Beethoven, Beethoven's Ninth
“As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time. So now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use, like, inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on and I viddied right at once what to do.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: inspiration, Music
“Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: yarbles, balls, poison, insults
“Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Beethoven, bliss, Gorgeousness
“No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: the old in-out
“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Ultraviolence
“I was cured, all right!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: cured, atavism
“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Viddy, Colors
“I was excited by everything about [A Clockwork Orange]: the plot, the ideas, the characters, and, of course, the language. The story functions, of course, on several levels: political, sociological, philosophical, and, what's most important, on a dreamlike psychological-symbolic level”
— Stanley Kubrick, Work and life of Stanley Kubrick
Tagged: film
“The only film of mine that I don’t like is Spartacus”
— Stanley Kubrick, Work and life of Stanley Kubrick
Tagged: film
“Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: bliss, Heaven, Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven's 9th
“General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no.

General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
— Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Tagged: Communist, Red Scare, infiltration, Conspiracy, precious bodily fluids
“Larry, just between you and me, we got a very serious problem with the people taking care of the place. They turned out to be completely unreliable assholes.”
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Tagged: Assholes, Unreliable
“We've got canned fruits and vegetables, canned fish and meats, hot and cold syrups, Post Toasties, Corn Flakes, Sugar Puffs, Rice Krispies, Oatmeal... and Cream of Wheat. You got... [then, telepathically to Danny] How'd you like some ice cream, Doc?...a dozen jugs of black molasses, we got sixty boxes of dried milk, thirty twelve-pound bags of sugar... Now we got dried peaches, dried apricots, dried raisins and dried prunes. You know Mrs. Torrance, you got to keep regular, if you want to be happy!”
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Tagged: ice cream, Fruits, vegetables, corn flakes, cereal, sugar puffs, rice krispies
“Some places are like people: some shine and some don't.”
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Tagged: Places, People, Shine
“[smashing the door to bits with an axe] Wendy, I'm home.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: scary, axe
“White Man's Burden, Lloyd, my man! White Man's Burden.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: white man's burden, rudyard kipling
“Come out, come out, whereever you are.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Threat
“Jack Torrance: [laughs] Well, it's certainly got plenty of that.

Stuart Ullman: ...The winters can be fantastically cruel. And the basic idea is to cope with the very costly damage and depreciation which can occur. And this consists mainly of running the boiler, heating different parts of the hotel on a daily, rotating basis, repair damage as it occurs, and doing repairs so that the elements can't get a foothold.

Jack Torrance: Well, that sounds fine to me.

Stuart Ullman: Physically, it's not a very demanding job. The only thing that can get a bit trying up here during the winter is, uh, a tremendous sense of isolation.

Jack Torrance: Well, that just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'm outlining a new writing project and, uh, five months of peace is just what I want.

Stuart Ullman: That's very good Jack, because, uh, for some people, solitude and isolation can, of itself become a problem.

Jack Torrance: Not for me.

Stuart Ullman: How about your wife and son? How do you think they'll take to it?

Jack Torrance: They'll love it.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: wrinters, cruel, Isolation
“Lloyd: What will you be drinking, sir?

Jack Torrance: Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Drinking, hair of the dog
“Wendy, listen. Let me out of here and I'll forget the whole damn thing! It'll be just like nothing ever happened. Wendy, baby, I think you hurt my head real bad. I'm dizzy, I need a doctor. Honey, don't leave me here.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: dizzy, pleading, Begging
“[staring at the drink in his hand] Here's to five miserable months on the wagon, and all the irreparable harm it has caused me.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Alcoholism, on the wagon
“[about Wendy]
Delbert Grady: I feel you will have to deal with this matter in the harshest possible way, Mr. Torrance.

Jack Torrance: There's nothing I look forward to with greater pleasure, Mr. Grady.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Pleasure, punishment
“Jack Torrance: Well, that is quite a story.

Stuart Ullman: Yeah it is. It's still hard for me to believe it happened here. It did, and I think you can appreciate why I wanted to tell you about it.

Jack Torrance: I certainly can and I also understand why your people in Denver left it for you to tell me.

Stuart Ullman: Well obviously some people can be put off by staying alone in a place where something like that actually happened.

Jack Torrance: Well you can rest assured, Mr. Ullman, that's not going to happen with me.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Story, unbelievable
“I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Portland, Maine, Portland, Oregon, Tikmbuktu, Goddamned, Bartender
“Jack Torrance: The most terrible nightmare I ever had. It's the most horrible dream I ever had.

Wendy Torrance: It's OK, it's OK now. Really.

Jack Torrance: I dreamed that I, that I killed you and Danny. But I didn't just kill ya. I cut you up in little pieces. Oh my God. I must be losing my mind.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Nightmare, Murder
“God, I'd give anything for a drink. I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Drink, Soul, Beer, Goddamned
“Wendy Torrance: Hey. Wasn't it around here that the Donner Party got snowbound?

Jack Torrance: I think that was farther west in the Sierras.

Wendy Torrance: Oh.

Danny Torrance: What was the Donner Party?

Jack Torrance: They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.

Danny Torrance: You mean they ate each other up?

Jack Torrance: They had to, in order to survive.

Wendy Torrance: Jack...

Danny Torrance: Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.

Jack Torrance: See, it's OK. He saw it on the television.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: donner party, Sierras, Mountains, Cannibalism
“Jack Torrance: Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here. I recognize ya. I saw your picture in the newspapers. You, uh, chopped your wife and daughters up into little bits. And then you blew your brains out.

Delbert Grady: That's strange, sir. I don't have any recollection of that at all.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: caretaker, Murder, Amnesia
“Danny Torrance: Dad?

Jack Torrance: Yes?

Danny Torrance: Do you like this hotel?

Jack Torrance: Yes, I do. I love it. Don't you?

Danny Torrance: I guess so.

Jack Torrance: Good. I want you to like it here. I wish we could stay here forever... and ever... and ever.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: hotel, Forever
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