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Equus (film) Quotes

Equus (film) is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Equus ended in 1970.

It features Elliott Kastner as producer, Richard Rodney Bennett in charge of musical score, and Oswald Morris as head of cinematography.

Equus (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Equus (film) is 137 minutes long. Equus (film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Richard Burton as Martin Dysart, Peter Firth as Alan Strang, Joan Plowright as Dora Strang, and John Wyman as Horseman.

Equus (film) Quotes

Peter Firth as Alan Strang

  • (Peter Firth) "He sees -- he sees -- My God hath seen."
  • (Peter Firth) "Here I am. Find me. Find me. Kill me. Kill me. Find me, and kill me. Kill me. Find me, and kill me. Find me, and kill me. Find me, and kill meeeeeeee."
  • (Peter Firth) "Nosey Parker."

Richard Burton as Martin Dysart

  • (Richard Burton) "Worship all you can see, and more will appear."
  • (Richard Burton) "Moments snap together like magnets forged in a chain of shackles. Why? I can trace them, I can even with time pull them apart again. But why at the start were they ever magnetized at all. Why those particular moments of experience and no others, I do not know. And nor does ANY BODY ELSE. And if I don't know, if I can never know, what am I doing here? I don't mean clinically doing, or socially doing, but fundamentally. These whys, these questions, are fundamental. Yet they have no place in a consulting room. So then do I? Do any of us?"
  • (Richard Burton) "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created."
  • (Richard Burton) "All right. The normal is the good smile in a child's eyes. There's also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills, like a god. It is the ordinary made beautiful, it is also the average made lethal. Normal is the indispensable murderous god of health and I am his priest."
  • (Richard Burton) "He won't gallop anymore, and; horses will be quite safe."
  • (Richard Burton) "You have a special dream?"
  • (Peter Firth) "No. You?"
  • (Richard Burton) "Yes; what was your dream about last night?"
  • (Peter Firth) "Can't remember; what was yours about?"
  • (Richard Burton) "I said the truth."
  • (Peter Firth) "That is the truth. What was yours about, the special one?"
  • (Richard Burton) "Carving up children."
  • (Richard Burton) "Afterward he says, they always embrace. The animal digs his sweaty brow into his cheek, and they stand in the dark for an hour, like a sated couple. And of all nonsensical things, I keep thinking about the horse, not the boy. The horse and what he might be trying to do. I keep seeing the huge head, kissing him with its chained mouth, nudging from the metal some desire absolutely irrelevant to fulfilling its bearing or propagating its own kind. What desire could this be? Not to stay a horse any longer, not to remain reigned up forever in those particular genetic strengths. Is it possible that at certain moments, we can not imagine, the horse can add its sufferings together, the nonstop jibs and jabs that are its daily life, and turn them into grief? What use is grief; to a horse. You see, I'm lost."
  • (Richard Burton) "When Equus leaves, if he leaves at all, it will be with your intestines in his teeth; and I don't stock replacements."
  • (Richard Burton) "That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped; when did you?'"
  • (Richard Burton) "There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain; and it never comes out."

Joan Plowright as Dora Strang

  • (Joan Plowright) "I only know that he was my little Alan; and then the devil came."

John Wyman as Horseman

  • (John Wyman) "I didn't know I'd get a loony, did I?"

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