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Lolita (1997 film) Quotes

Lolita (1997 film) is a television show that first aired in 1970 . Lolita ended its run in 1970.

It features Mario Kassar; Joel B. Michaels as producer, Ennio Morricone in charge of musical score, and Howard Atherton as head of cinematography.

Lolita (1997 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States, and France. Each episode of Lolita (1997 film) is 137 minutes long. Lolita (1997 film) is distributed by The Samuel Goldwyn Company.

The cast includes: Jeremy Irons as Humbert, Frank Langella as Clare Quilty, Dominique Swain as Lolita, Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert, Suzanne Shepherd as Miss Pratt, and Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze.

Lolita (1997 film) Quotes

Jeremy Irons as Humbert

  • (Jeremy Irons) "I was not quite prepared for the reality of my dual role. On the one hand, the willing corruptor of an innocent, and on the other, Humbert the happy housewife."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks, she was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always; Lolita. Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin. My soul."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "Lolita."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "What I heard then was the melody of children at play, nothing but that. And I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that chorus."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if my happiness could have talked it would have filled that hotel with a deafening roar."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago; but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither; I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "I missed you. I missed you a lot."
  • (Dominique Swain) "Well I haven't missed you. In fact, I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you. But it doesn't matter, because you don't care about me anymore anyway."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "What makes you think I don't care about you?"
  • (Dominique Swain) "Well you haven't kissed me yet, have you?"
  • (Jeremy Irons) "A normal man, given a group photograph of school girls and asked to point out the loveliest one, will not necessarily choose the nymphet among them."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "The shock of her death froze something in me. The child I loved was gone, but I kept looking for her; long after I had left my own childhood behind. The poison was in the wound, you see. And the wound wouldn't heal."

Frank Langella as Clare Quilty

  • (Frank Langella) "Where the devil did you get her?"
  • (Jeremy Irons) "I beg your pardon?"
  • (Frank Langella) "I said, "The weather's getting better.""
  • (Jeremy Irons) "Seems so."
  • (Frank Langella) "Who's the lassie?"
  • (Jeremy Irons) "Um; my daughter."
  • (Frank Langella) "You lie, she is not."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "What?"
  • (Frank Langella) "I said "July was hot.""

Dominique Swain as Lolita

  • (Dominique Swain) "Wait a sec. You're telling me we're sleeping in one room? With one bed?"
  • (Jeremy Irons) "I've asked them to bring up a cot, which I'll use if you like."
  • (Dominique Swain) "You're crazy."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "Why, my darling?"
  • (Dominique Swain) "Because, my darrr-ling, when my darrr-ling mother finds out she'll divorce you and strangle me."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "Lo, listen a moment. For all intents and purposes I am your father and I am responsible for your welfare. We are not rich, so when we travel, we shall be; we shall uh -- we shall be thrown together a great deal. And two people who enter into a cohabitation inevitably lead into a kind of --"
  • (Dominique Swain) "The word is "incest"."
  • (Dominique Swain) "Murder me. Murder me like you murdered my mother."
  • (Dominique Swain) "I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me."
  • (Dominique Swain) "Do not tell me you've never done as a boy."
  • (Jeremy Irons) "Never."
  • (Dominique Swain) "I think I'll have to show you everything."

Suzanne Shepherd as Miss Pratt

  • (Suzanne Shepherd) "I know you have accepted a post at Beardsley College, and I know that there, academics are first, last, and always. Well, that's not us, Mister Humper. Here at Beardsley Prep -- what we stress are the three Ds. Dramatics, Dancing, and Dating."
  • (Suzanne Shepherd) "She's a lovely child, Mr. Haze, but the onset of sexual maturing seems to be giving her trouble. It is the general impression that 14-year-old Dolores is morbidly disinterested in sexual matters."

Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze

  • (Melanie Griffith) "I asked you to make your bed. Didn't I?"
  • (Dominique Swain) "No. You asked me if I'd made my bed."

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