Carnal Knowledge (1971)

Ann-Margret: Bobbie

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• Bobbie : The reason I sleep all day is because I can't stand my life!

  Jonathan : What life?

  Bobbie : Sleeping all day!

• Jonathan : Look, sister, I'm out there in the jungle - eight hours a day!

  Bobbie : You wouldn't even let me canvas for Kennedy.

  Jonathan : You want a job? I got a job for you. Fix up this pigsty! You get a pretty Goddammed good salary for testing out this bed all day! You want an extra fifty dollars a week, try vacuuming! You want an extra hundred, make this Goddammed bed! Try opening some Goddammed windows! That's why you can't stand up in here, the Goddammed place smells like a coffin!

• Bobbie : I need a life.

  Jonathan : Get a job!

  Bobbie : I don't want a job! I want you.

  Jonathan : I'm taken, by me! Get out of the house! Do something useful, goddammit.

• Jonathan : Talk about the pot and the kettle. When I caught wind of your checkered past, I felt like a celibate.

  Bobbie : You made me tell you.

  Jonathan : Sure. I twisted your arm.

  Bobbie : It got you hot!

  Jonathan : Something has to.

• Jonathan : Oh, Bobbie. You don't need me. Why do you let yourself in for this kind of abuse? Walk out. Leave me. Please leave me. God's sake, I'd almost marry you if you'd leave me.

  Bobbie : You call that abuse? You don't know what I'm used to. With all your carrying on, to me you're a gift.

• Bobbie : Marry me, Jonathan! Please, please!

  Jonathan : You're trying to kill me.

• Jonathan : Let me see your hand. Ahh... mmm...

  Bobbie : Well?

  Jonathan : You are built.

  Bobbie : You see that in my hand?

  Jonathan : Even your hand is built.

  Bobbie : I think you're a dirty old man.

  Jonathan : I'm a dirty young man.

• Jonathan : You won't take pity on me?

  Bobbie : Only if you say you're sorry.

  Jonathan : I'm sorry.

  Bobbie : And you'll never do it again.

  Jonathan : I'll never do it again.

  Bobbie : And you'll always be a good boy.

  Jonathan : Yes, Mama.

  Bobbie : You like to be mothered?

  Jonathan : I'd like to be smothered by you.

  Bobbie : What else would you like me to do to you?

• Jonathan : How do you like it?

  Bobbie : How do I like what?

  Jonathan : My, uh, you know.

  Bobbie : What do I know?

  Jonathan : You know everything.

  Bobbie : I know you.

  Jonathan : And I know you.

• Bobbie : Most guys I know are pricks. I don't know anymore what they want.

  Jonathan : I'll be happy to tell you. They want

  [slaps Bobbie's behind] 

  Jonathan : the boodle. But they ain't gonna get the boodle.

  Bobbie : Goddamn right.

  Jonathan : Because this kid here has got the boodle.

  Bobbie : You're pretty sure of yourself, aren't you?

• Jonathan : Our eyes should be open. If we should go into this, we should know exactly what we're getting into.

  Bobbie : It's just a shack-up. I'm not asking for your hand in marriage.

  Jonathan : Well, as long as we both understand that.

  Bobbie : We do.

• Jonathan : What will you do?

  Bobbie : What would you like me to do?

  Jonathan : What would you like to do?

• Jonathan : A second ago you had me screwing Cindy. Who am I screwing now, Sandy?

  Bobbie : You're going too fast for me.

  Jonathan : I'm going too fast for you? Your little mind operates like an IBM, like a pinball machine. First Cindy. Oh, no, not Cindy? How about Sandy? How about Cindy and Sandy?

• Bobbie : You have such contempt for me.

  Jonathan : Kid, you worked hard for it. It's yours.

  Bobbie : The way you paw me at parties.

  Jonathan : Now affection is contempt. Upside down. Everything upside down.

  Bobbie : Feeling me up in public is not affection.

• Bobbie : I know I sleep all day. I know I'm doing a terrible job, but you're not helping me any.

  Jonathan : And who helps me?

  Bobbie : I help you.

  Jonathan : Your kind of help I can do without.

• Bobbie : Jonathan, do you want it over between us?

  Jonathan : Why does it have to be one way or the other?

  Bobbie : You don't want me to leave?

  Jonathan : I want you right here where you belong!

  Bobbie : And what about you?

  Jonathan : When I'm here, I'm here. When I'm not here, I'm there.

  Bobbie : Where?

  Jonathan : Wherever!

• Bobbie : I'm a man-eater or a ball-buster and a castrator. I want to get married.

• Jonathan : [looking at a bill]  You and Lord & Taylor's are gonna have to work out a trial separation.

  Bobbie : I had the water running. What did you say?

  Jonathan : You and Lord & Taylor's are going to have to work out a trial separation.