Elegy (film) Quotes

Elegy (film) is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Elegy completed its run in 1970.

It features Tom Rosenberg as producer, Cliff Eidelman in charge of musical score, and Jean-Claude Larrieu as head of cinematography.

Elegy (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Elegy (film) is 112 minutes long. Elegy (film) is distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films.

The cast includes: Dennis Hopper as George O'Hearn, Ben Kingsley as David Kepesh, and Penélope Cruz as Consuela Castillo.

Elegy (film) Quotes

Ben Kingsley as David Kepesh

• (Ben Kingsley) "We're not all descended from the Puritans."
• (Charlie Rose) "No?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "There was another colony 30 miles from Plymouth, it's not on the maps today. Marymount it was called."
• (Charlie Rose) "Yeah, alright, you mention in your book --"
• (Ben Kingsley) "The colony where anything goes, went."
• (Charlie Rose) "There was booze --"
• (Ben Kingsley) "here was booze. There was fornication. There was music. There was -- they even ah, ah, ah, you name it, you name it. They even danced around the maypole once a month, wearing masks, worshiping god knows what, Whites and Indians together, all going for broke --"
• (Charlie Rose) "Who was responsible for all of this?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "A character by the name of Thomas Morton."
• (Charlie Rose) "Aah, the "Hugh Hefner" of the Puritans."
• (Ben Kingsley) "You could say that. I'm going to read you a quote of what the Puritans thought of Morton's followers: 'Debauched bacchanalians and atheists, falling into great licentiousness, and leading degenerate lives'. When I heard that, I packed my bags, I left Oxford, and I came straight to America, America the licentious."
• (Charlie Rose) "So what happened to all of those people?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "Well, the Puritans shot them down. They sent in Miles Standish leading the militia. He chopped down the maypole, cut down those colored ribbons, banners, everything; party was over"
• (Charlie Rose) "And we became a nation of straight-laced Puritans."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Well --"
• (Charlie Rose) "Isn't that your point though? The Puritans won, they stamped out all things sexual -- how would you say it?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "Sexual happiness."
• (Charlie Rose) "Exactly. Until the 1960s."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Until the 1960s when it all exploded again all over the place."
• (Charlie Rose) "Right, everyone was dancing around the maypole, then, make love not war."
• (Ben Kingsley) "If you remember, only a decade earlier, if you wanted to have sex, if you wanted to make love in the 1950s, you had to beg for it, you had to cop a feel."
• (Charlie Rose) "Or -- get married."
• (Ben Kingsley) "As I did in the 1960s."
• (Charlie Rose) "Any regrets?"
• (Ben Kingsley) "Plenty. Um, but that's our secret. Don't tell anybody."
• (Ben Kingsley) "That's just between you and me."

• (Ben Kingsley) "She is a throwback to a completely different time. She has to be wooed."

• (Ben Kingsley) "When you make love to a woman you get revenge for all the things that defeated you in life."

• (Ben Kingsley) "I think it was Betty Davis who said old age is not for sissies. But it was Tolstoy who said the biggest surprise in a man's life is old age. Old age sneaks up on you, and the next thing you know you're asking yourself, I'm asking myself, why can't an old man act his real age? How is it possible for me to still be involved in the carnal aspects of the human comedy? Because, in my head, nothing has changed."

Dennis Hopper as George O'Hearn

• (Dennis Hopper) "Beautiful women are invisible."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Invisible? What the hell does that mean? Invisible? They jump out at you. A beautiful woman, she stands out. She stands apart. You can't miss her."
• (Dennis Hopper) "But we never actually see the person. We see the beautiful shell. We're blocked by the beauty barrier. Yeah, we're so dazzled by the outside that we never make it inside."

Penélope Cruz as Consuela Castillo

• (Penélope Cruz) "Beautiful picture."
• (Ben Kingsley) "Beautiful woman."

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