Naked Lunch (film) Quotes

Naked Lunch (film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Naked Lunch ended in 1970.

It features Jeremy Thomas; Gabriella Martinelli as producer, Howard Shore; Ornette Coleman in charge of musical score, and Peter Suschitzky as head of cinematography.

Naked Lunch (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in Canada, United Kingdom, and Japan. Each episode of Naked Lunch (film) is 115 minutes long. Naked Lunch (film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Ian Holm as Tom Frost, Nicholas Campbell as Hank, Judy Davis as Joan Lee, Julian Sands as Yves Cloquet, Robert A. Silverman as Hans, Joseph Scorsiani as Kiki, Monique Mercure as Fadela, and Michael Zelniker as Martin.

Naked Lunch (film) Quotes

Ian Holm as Tom Frost

• (Ian Holm) "Don't f*** with me, Lee. WHERE'S MY TYPEWRITER?"

• (Ian Holm) "They say you murdered your wife. Is that true?"
• (Bill Lee) "Who told you that?"
• (Ian Holm) "Word gets around."
• (Bill Lee) "It wasn't murder. It was an accident."
• (Ian Holm) "There are no accidents. For example, I've been killing my own wife slowly over a period of years."
• (Bill Lee) "What?"
• (Ian Holm) "Well, not intentionally. I mean, on the level of conscious intention, it's insane, monstrous."
• (Bill Lee) "But you do consciously know it. You just said it. We're discussing it."
• (Ian Holm) "Not consciously. This is all happening telepathically, non-consciously."
• (Bill Lee) "What do you mean?"
• (Ian Holm) "If you look carefully at my lips, you'll realize that I'm actually saying something else. I'm not actually telling you about the several ways I'm gradually murdering Joan."

• (Ian Holm) "It's my Muhajadeen."

• (Ian Holm) "No American should find himself in a foreign land without a pistol."

Robert A. Silverman as Hans

• (Robert A. Silverman) "A very professional operation."

• (Robert A. Silverman) "Dr Benway leaves his mark on a man like a liana vine pissed on by a lemur."

Judy Davis as Joan Lee

• (Bill Lee) "I thought you were finished with doing weird stuff."
• (Judy Davis) "I thought I was too, but I guess I'm not."

• (Bill Lee) "How did you know it wouldn't just kill you?"
• (Judy Davis) "I don't know, I felt drawn to it. Like you'd feel drawn to an old lover."

• (Bill Lee) "What do you mean, "it's a literary high"?"
• (Judy Davis) "It's a Kafka high. You feel like a bug."

Michael Zelniker as Martin

• (Michael Zelniker) "Is rewriting censorship, Bill? Because I'm totally if it is."

• (Michael Zelniker) "Doodling in Etruscan --"

Julian Sands as Yves Cloquet

• (Julian Sands) "I've seen you around, but I had no idea you were queer."
• (Bill Lee) "Queer?"
• (Julian Sands) "I saw you arrive with those three Interzone boys. What an entrance. You all looked very -- familiar with each other."
• (Bill Lee) "Queer. A curse. Been in our family for generations. The Lees have always been perverts. I shall never forget the unspeakable horror that froze the lymph in my glands when the baneful word seared my reeling brain; I was a homosexual. I thought of the painted simpering female impersonators I'd seen in a Baltimore nightclub. Could it be possible I was one of those subhuman things? I walked the streets in a daze like a man with a light concussion. I would've destroyed myself. And a wise old queen; Bobo, we called her; taught me that I had a duty to live and bear my burden proudly for all to see. Poor Bobo came to a sticky end; he was riding in the Duke Devanche's Hispano Suissa when his falling hemorrhoids blew out of the car and wrapped around the rear wheel. He was completely gutted leaving an empty shell sitting there on the giraffe skin upholstry. Even the eyes and the brain went with a horrible "shlupping" sound. The Duke says he would carry that ghastly "shlup" with him to his mausoleum."

Nicholas Campbell as Hank

• (Nicholas Campbell) "See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin."

• (Nicholas Campbell) "Go with this conspiracy."

Monique Mercure as Fadela

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