The Ballad of the Sad Café (film) Quotes

The Ballad of the Sad Café (film) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . The Ballad of the Sad Café stopped airing in 1970.

It features Ismail Merchant as producer, Richard Robbins (composer) in charge of musical score, and Walter Lassally as head of cinematography.

The Ballad of the Sad Café (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Ballad of the Sad Café (film) is 100 minutes long.

The cast includes: Beth Dixon as Mary Hale, and Rod Steiger as Rev. Willin.

The Ballad of the Sad Café (film) Quotes

Beth Dixon as Mary Hale

• (Beth Dixon) "Marvin changed himself. That time he loved Miss Amelia. Well, it seemed like he changed completely -- he was -- he was good to me, and to Henry -- You remember that, doncha'?"
• (Rod Steiger) "I remember that."
• (Beth Dixon) "Why'd she throw him out? Why'd she marry him and then throw him out? Why?"
• (Rod Steiger) "I don't know. All I know is -- that it takes two people to be in love. It takes the -- lover -- and the beloved. But these two, they come from -- diff'rent countries. And sometimes, the -- the belove is the cause for all the, all the stored-up love that's lain in the heart of the lover for such -- a looong time, and every lover knows that -- deep -- deep in his soul, he knows that his love is a lonely and solitary thing --"
• (Rod Steiger) "-- and the funny thing is, the object of that love -- can be anybody, and it just don't -- matter one whit."
• (Rod Steiger) "That's why I guess most of us, we'd rather be -- the lover than to be loved, I mean, because the state of bein' -- beloved is -- is intolerable. See an' then, after a while -- the beloved gets to hate the lover, because the lover's always trying to strip, strip, strip baaare -- the beloved. See, that's because the -- the lover -- 'e craves that love -- even though he knows that that love can only cause 'im pain."

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