Elaine Robinson [in a letter]
Dear Benjamin. Please forgive me, because I know what I'm doing is the best thing for you. My father is so upset you've got to understand. I love you but it would never work out.
Most-quoted role: Elaine Robinson in The Graduate (1967), 32 quotes
Movies Elaine Robinson
Guests
We're all so proud of you, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud. What are you going to do now?
I was going to go upstairs for a minute.
Guests
I meant with your future, your life.
Well, that's a little hard to say.
Elaine, I like you. I like you so much. Do you believe that? [She nods] Do you?
Elaine Yes.
You're the first thing for so long that I like, the first person I could stand to be with. My whole life is such a waste. There's just nothing. I'm sorry. I'll take you home now.
Dr. Lilian Thurman If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories.
Dr. Lilian Thurman If this world were to end, there would only be you... and him... and no one else.
I made a new friend today.
Dr. Lilian Thurman Real or imaginary?
Imaginary.
Etta Place [before riding the bicycle]
Do you know what you're doing?
Theoretically.
Did you say they were hired permanent?
Etta Place No, just until they kill you.
[to Etta]
What I'm saying is, if you want to go, I won't stop you. But the minute you start to whine or make a nuisance, I don't care where we are, I'm dumping you flat.
Don't sugarcoat it like that, Kid. Tell her straight.
Etta Place I'm 26, and I'm single, and a school teacher, and that's the bottom of the pit. And the only excitement I've known is here with me now. I'll go with you, and I won't whine, and I'll sew your socks, and I'll stitch you when you're wounded, and I'll do anything you ask of me except one thing. I won't watch you die. I'll miss that scene if you don't mind.
...
[arriving in Bolivia]
You know, it could be worse. You get a lot more for your money in Bolivia, I checked on it.
What could they have here that you could possibly want to buy?
...
Jeesh, all Bolivia can't look like this.
How do you know? This might be the garden spot of the whole country. People may travel hundreds of miles just to get to this spot where we're standing now. This might be the Atlantic City, New Jersey of all Bolivia for all you know.
Look I know a lot more about Bolivia than you know about Atlantic City, New Jersey I can tell you that.
AHA. You do huh? I was born there, I was born in New Jersey. Was brought up there, so...
You're from the east? I didn't know that.
The total tonnage of what you don't know is enough to shatter...
Etta Place I'm not sure we're accomplishing as much as we'd like here.
Listen, you're job is to back me up, because you'd starve without me. [turns to Butch] And you, your job is to shut up.
He'll feel a lot better after he's robbed a couple of banks.
Bolivia. Ha-ha-ha-haa.