Jimmy Porter:
Anyone who doesn't like jazz has no real feeling for music, or people.
Helena Charles: Rubbish.
--Claire Bloom (as Helena Charles) in Look Back in Anger
Helena Charles: Rubbish.
--Claire Bloom (as Helena Charles) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
Well, what's the matter with you?
Helena Charles: I just feel quite sick, that's all. Sick with contempt and loathing.
--Claire Bloom (as Helena Charles) in Look Back in Anger
Helena Charles: I just feel quite sick, that's all. Sick with contempt and loathing.
--Claire Bloom (as Helena Charles) in Look Back in Anger
Jimmy Porter:
What do you say we get out of this place and start from scratch, what do you say?
Helena Charles: I'd say that's wonderful.
Jimmy Porter: Come on, we'll do that. We'll get pleasantly tiddly, then I'll take you home and make such love to you as you'll forget about anything at all.
Helena Charles: Let's go and have a drink.
--Claire Bloom (as Helena Charles) in Look Back in Anger
Helena Charles: I'd say that's wonderful.
Jimmy Porter: Come on, we'll do that. We'll get pleasantly tiddly, then I'll take you home and make such love to you as you'll forget about anything at all.
Helena Charles: Let's go and have a drink.
--Claire Bloom (as Helena Charles) in Look Back in Anger
Charly Gordon:
Marry me, pretty girl, marry me.
Alice Kinnian: We will marry at... quarter past Wednesday on the 74th of November, and our anniversary will happily be... on those days where we both remember.
--Claire Bloom (as Alice Kinian) in Charly
Alice Kinnian: We will marry at... quarter past Wednesday on the 74th of November, and our anniversary will happily be... on those days where we both remember.
--Claire Bloom (as Alice Kinian) in Charly
Charly Gordon:
Say, Miss Kinnian... where's Mr. Kinnian?
Alice Kinnian: He died, Charly.
--Claire Bloom (as Alice Kinian) in Charly
Alice Kinnian: He died, Charly.
--Claire Bloom (as Alice Kinian) in Charly
Charly Gordon:
What's enough love?
Alice Kinnian: Always a little more than anyone ever gets.
--Claire Bloom (as Alice Kinian) in Charly
Alice Kinnian: Always a little more than anyone ever gets.
--Claire Bloom (as Alice Kinian) in Charly
Cliff Lewis:
I love those two people very much and I pity all of us.
Helena Charles: I don't understand you or him or any of it.
--Claire Bloom (as Helena Charles) in Look Back in Anger
Helena Charles: I don't understand you or him or any of it.
--Claire Bloom (as Helena Charles) in Look Back in Anger
Alice Kinnian:
[writes a sentence on the blackboard for Charly to punctuate] Punctuate it. Go ahead, punctuate it.
[Charly does, and does it correctly]
Alice Kinnian: That's very good!
Charly Gordon: Now I have something for you to punctuate!
[Turns over blackboard where he has written a sentence]
Alice Kinnian: That does not make sense!
Charly Gordon: [Starts to punctuate it] 'That that is
[adds a comma]
Charly Gordon: , is
[adds a period]
Charly Gordon: . That that is not
[adds a comma]
Charly Gordon: , is not
[adds a period]
Charly Gordon: .'
Alice Kinnian: [Figures it out] 'Is that it?'
Charly Gordon: 'It is!'
Alice Kinnian: So. Student surpasses the teacher!
[Charly nods eagerly]
--Claire Bloom (as Alice Kinian) in Charly
[Charly does, and does it correctly]
Alice Kinnian: That's very good!
Charly Gordon: Now I have something for you to punctuate!
[Turns over blackboard where he has written a sentence]
Alice Kinnian: That does not make sense!
Charly Gordon: [Starts to punctuate it] 'That that is
[adds a comma]
Charly Gordon: , is
[adds a period]
Charly Gordon: . That that is not
[adds a comma]
Charly Gordon: , is not
[adds a period]
Charly Gordon: .'
Alice Kinnian: [Figures it out] 'Is that it?'
Charly Gordon: 'It is!'
Alice Kinnian: So. Student surpasses the teacher!
[Charly nods eagerly]
--Claire Bloom (as Alice Kinian) in Charly
Alice Kinnian:
They say, Charly, that true love is letting go.
--Claire Bloom (as Alice Kinian) in Charly
--Claire Bloom (as Alice Kinian) in Charly
