Milk (film) Quotes

Milk (film) is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Milk stopped airing in 1970.

It features Dan Jinks; Bruce Cohen as producer, Danny Elfman in charge of musical score, and Harris Savides as head of cinematography.

Milk (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Milk (film) is 128 minutes long. Milk (film) is distributed by Focus Features.

The cast includes: Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, Josh Brolin as Dan White, Joseph Michael Cross as Dick Pabich, Alison Pill as Anne Kronenberg, Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones, James Franco as Scott Smith, Denis O'Hare as State Senator John Briggs, Ashlee Temple as Dianne Feinstein, Steven Wiig as McConnely, and Diego Luna as Jack Lira.

Milk (film) Quotes

James Franco as Scott Smith

• (James Franco) "Don't say ANYTHING."
• (Sean Penn) "Can I just tell you --"
• (James Franco) "If you say anything, about politics, or the campaign, or what speech you have to give, or anything, I swear to God I'm gonna stab you with this fork."
• (Sean Penn) "I just wanted to say -- that this is the most wonderful dinner I have ever had."
• (Sean Penn) "If we lose this, it'll just be you and me again, I promise."

• (James Franco) "'Harvey Milk will have a dream journey and nightmare to hell. A night of horror. He will be stabbed and have your genitals, cock balls and prick cut off.' I'm calling the police."
• (Sean Penn) "They probably wrote it. Look at it this way, if they try to kill me I'll get the sympathy vote, we might get the push we need."
• (James Franco) "You think this is funny? Look at it."
• (Sean Penn) "It's a total joke. I mean, it's got no rhythm, humor, it's insulting."
• (James Franco) "Don't do that."
• (Sean Penn) "If you put it away in a drawer it just gets bigger and scarier. Now it's right here, it can't get us."

• (James Franco) "Looks like you're gonna make it to fifty after all."

• (James Franco) "I'm sorry, I pissed in your pool."

Ashlee Temple as Dianne Feinstein

• (Ashlee Temple) "As President of the Board of Supervisors it's my duty to make this announcement: both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed."

Josh Brolin as Dan White

• (Josh Brolin) "Society can't exist without the family."
• (Sean Penn) "We're not against that."
• (Josh Brolin) "Can two men reproduce?"
• (Sean Penn) "No, but God knows we keep trying."

• (Josh Brolin) "You have an issue."
• (Sean Penn) "It's more than an issue. This is our life we're fighting for."

• (Josh Brolin) "Whatever. I don't even know who you are, you just showed up out of nowhere, Latino man."

• (Josh Brolin) "Dan White's got an issue."

Alison Pill as Anne Kronenberg

• (Alison Pill) "My girlfriend says you guys don't like women, I'm just asking: Is there a place for us in all this, or are you guys all scared of girls?"
• (Sean Penn) "Okay, gentlemen: We've already got a tinkerbell, a lotus blossom, we've got Jim and Dick in their three-piece suits, we need someone to manage things, a woman this time. Plus, she's the right price, and she's got bigger balls than anyone else here."

• (Michael Wong) "How do you know she's not a plant for Rick Stokes?"
• (Alison Pill) "Are you guys always this paranoid?"
• (Michael Wong) "Yes, we take after Harvey."
• (Sean Penn) "Shouldn't you be doing someone's laundry?"
• (Michael Wong) "Shouldn't you be at a hairdresser's convention?"
• (Sean Penn) "Aah."

Sean Penn as Harvey Milk

• (Sean Penn) "Okay. First order of business to come out of this office is the city-wide gay rights ordinance, just like the one that Anita shot down in Dade County. What do you think, Lotus Blossom?"
• (Michael Wong) "I think it's good. It's not great."
• (Sean Penn) "Okay, so make it brilliant. We want Anita's attention here, in San Francisco. I wanted to bring her fight to us. We need a unanimous vote; we need headlines."
• (Jim Rivaldo) "Dan White is not going to vote for this."
• (Sean Penn) "Dan White'll be fine, Dan White is just uneducated. We'll teach him."
• (Josh Brolin) "Hey, Harv. Committee meets at nine-thirty."
• (Josh Brolin) "Hi, you guys."
• (Josh Brolin) "Um, say, did you get the invitation to my son's christening? I invited a few of the other supes too."
• (Sean Penn) "Oh, well, I'll be there."
• (Josh Brolin) "Great. Thanks."
• (Joseph Michael Cross) "Did he hear you?"
• (Jim Rivaldo) "What the f***?"
• (Alison Pill) "Are you going?"
• (Sean Penn) "I would let him christen me if it means he's gonna vote for the gay rights ordinance."
• (Jim Rivaldo) "I think he can hear you. Jesus."
• (Sean Penn) "We need allies."
• (Joseph Michael Cross) "I don't think he heard you."
• (Emile Hirsch) "Is it just me or is he cute?"

• (Sean Penn) "All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words."

• (Sean Penn) "Even though the Castro was firmly our area by 1973 it wasn't safe for us. We would have to wear whistles on our necks or in our pockets and if you ever heard a whistle you would run for help."

• (Sean Penn) "If we had someone in the government who saw things the way we see them, the way the black community has black leaders who look out for their interests --"
• (James Franco) "You're gonna run for Supervisor, is that the idea?"
• (Sean Penn) "I could go right for mayor, but I think I should work my way up to it -- You'll be my campaign manager."
• (James Franco) "Because I have so much experience in politics."
• (Sean Penn) "Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, 'I'm here, pay attention to me.'"

• (Sean Penn) "Anita Bryant has already said that the Jews and the Muslims are going to hell, so you know she has a shopping list."

• (Sean Penn) "Hey, hey --"
• (Sean Penn) "I'm Harvey."
• (James Franco) "Okay, Harvey --"
• (Sean Penn) "Today's my birthday."
• (Sean Penn) "No, it actually is my birthday. At midnight."
• (James Franco) "Really."
• (Sean Penn) "And, believe it or not, I don't have any plans."
• (Sean Penn) "Some people took me out after work."
• (James Franco) "Oh, and that would be, ah, let me guess -- Ma Bell or AT&T.;"
• (Sean Penn) "The Great American Insurance Company. I'm part of that corporate establishment that, let me guess, you think is the cause of all the evil in the world from Vietnam to diaper rash."
• (James Franco) "You left out bad breath."
• (James Franco) "Just kidding."
• (Sean Penn) "You're not going to let me spend my birthday all by myself, are you?"
• (James Franco) "Listen, Harvey, you're pretty cute, but -- I don't date guys over forty."
• (Sean Penn) "Well, then this is my lucky night."
• (James Franco) "Why's that?"
• (Sean Penn) "I'm still thirty-nine --"
• (Sean Penn) "It's only eleven-fifteen."

• (Sean Penn) "A homosexual with power -- that's scary."

• (Sean Penn) "Not a good time, Don."
• (Paul) "This is Paul. Don just gave me the phone."
• (Sean Penn) "Paul who?"
• (Paul) "You spoke to me on the phone, a year or so ago. I'm in a wheelchair. I'm from Minnesota."
• (Sean Penn) "I thought you were a goner Paul."
• (Paul) "When I saw that you won the supervisor seat, I got a friend to put me on a bus to LA."
• (Sean Penn) "Who do you know in Los Angeles?"
• (Paul) "Nobody. I just didn't want to die anymore. I met your friend Don down here. And I turned 18, and I voted today against prop 6. I don't think I'd be alive right now if it weren't for you."

• (Sean Penn) "Scotty?"
• (Paul) "I'm sorry, sir. I read about you in the paper."
• (Sean Penn) "I'm sorry, I can't talk right now."
• (Paul) "Sir, I think I'm gonna kill myself."
• (Sean Penn) "No, you don't want to do that. Where are you calling from?"
• (Paul) "Minnesota."
• (Sean Penn) "You saw my picture in the paper in Minnesota? How did I look?"
• (Paul) "My folks are gonna take me to this place tomorrow. A hospital. To fix me."
• (Sean Penn) "There's nothing wrong with you; listen to me: You just get on a bus, to the nearest big city, to Los Angeles or New York or San Fransisco, it doesn't matter, you just leave. You are not sick, and you are not wrong and God does not hate you. Just leave."
• (Paul) "I can't. I can't walk sir."

• (Sean Penn) "Hey, I like the way your pants fit -- Where are you from, kid?"
• (Emile Hirsch) "Sorry old man, not interested."
• (Sean Penn) "I'm Harvey Milk. I'm running for Supervisor. What's your name?"
• (Emile Hirsch) "Cleve -- Jones."
• (Sean Penn) "Well Mr. Jones, we should walk up to my camera shop and register you."
• (Emile Hirsch) "f*** that. Elections of any kind are a f***ing bourgeois affectation."
• (Sean Penn) "Is that right? So do you trick up on Polk Street?"
• (Emile Hirsch) "If I need the cash -- But I'm selective about my clients."
• (Sean Penn) "Tell me one thing before you get back to work then. What was it like to be a little queer in Phoenix? Did the jocks beat you up?"
• (Emile Hirsch) "I faked a lung disease to get out of PE. So what? What are you, some kind of street shrink?"
• (Sean Penn) "Sometimes."

• (Sean Penn) "You know what I think, Cleve Jones?"
• (Emile Hirsch) "That you're gonna get somewhere if you keep talking?"
• (Sean Penn) "No, I think you should do what you do well- be a prick. But come with us and be a prick."

• (Sean Penn) "This is Harvey Milk speaking on Friday November the 18. This is only to be played in the event of my death by assassination. During one of my early campaigns I began to open speeches with a line that became kind of a signature. "My Name is Harvey Milk and I want to recruit you." If I was speaking to a slighly hostile audience, or a mostly straight one, I might break the tension with a joke. "I know, I'm not what you expected, but I left my high heels at home." I fully realize that what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, makes himself a target for someone who is insecure, terrified, afraid and disturbed themselves. Its a very real possibility you see, because in San Fransisco, we have broken the dam of a major prejudice in this country."

• (Sean Penn) "My fellow degenerates --"

• (Sean Penn) "Gentlemen, Anne Kronenberg; a woman. A woman who likes women, isn't that ususual?"

• (Sean Penn) "I know you're angry. I'm angry."

• (Sean Penn) "This is Harvey Milk speaking on Friday November 18th. This is to be played only in the event of my death by assassination. During one of the early campaigns, I started opening my speeches with the same line and it sort of became my signature -- Hello, I'm Harvey Milk, and I'm here to recruit you."

• (Sean Penn) "I am here tonight to say that we will no longer sit quietly in the closet. We must fight. And not only in the Castro, not only in San Francisco, but everywhere the Anitas go. Anita Bryant did not win tonight, Anita Bryant brought us together. She is going to create a national gay force. And the young people in Jackson Mississippi, in Minnesota, in the Richmond, in Woodmere New York, who are hearing her on television, hearing Anita Bryant telling them on television that they are sick, they are wrong, there is no place in this great country for them, no place in this world, they are looking to us for something tonight, and I say, we have got to give them hope."

• (San Francisco Cop) "The fruit was walking home with his trick when they were jumped. Name's Robert Hillsborough. Did you know him?"
• (Sean Penn) "He used to come into my shop. Are there any witnesses?"
• (San Francisco Cop) "Just the trick. Jerry Taylor."
• (Sean Penn) "Jerry wasn't a trick. They were lovers."
• (San Francisco Cop) "Call it what you will. He's our only witness and he says he can't identify the attackers."
• (Sean Penn) "There'd be a dozen witnesses if they thought you boys had any real interest in protecting them."

• (Sean Penn) "Without hope, life's not worth living."

• (Sean Penn) "How do you teach homosexuality? Is it like French?"

• (Sean Penn) "If it were true that children emulate their teachers, we'd have a lot more nuns running around."

Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones

• (Emile Hirsch) "The new Mrs. Milk. I give it a week."

• (Emile Hirsch) "Out of the bar and into the streets. Anita Bryant is coming for you."

Diego Luna as Jack Lira

• (Diego Luna) "I love you. I love you."
• (Sean Penn) "Do you even remember my name?"
• (Diego Luna) "No."
• (Sean Penn) "Harvey. I'm Harvey."
• (Diego Luna) "Harvey. I love you."

Denis O'Hare as State Senator John Briggs

• (Denis O'Hare) "It's time to root them out."
• (Tom Ammiano) "And how are you going to determine who's a homosexual?"
• (Denis O'Hare) "My bill outlines procedures for identifying homosexuals."
• (Tom Ammiano) "How? Will you be sucking them off?"

Steven Wiig as McConnely

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