Blow-Up 1966 quotes

14 quotes · 3 characters
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Characters
Thomas David Hemmings · 13 quotes
Jane Vanessa Redgrave · 4 quotes
Clown 1 quote

Most scenes together: Thomas & Jane (4)

Blow-Up quotes

Blonde woman

Couldn't you give us just a couple of minutes?

Couple of minutes? I haven't even got a couple of minutes to have my appendix out.

My private life's already a mess. It would be a disaster if…

So what? Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.

What are you doing? Stop it! Stop it! Give me those pictures. You can't photograph people like that.

Who says I can't? I'm only doing my job. Some people are bullfighters, some people are politicians. I'm a photographer.

This is a public place — everyone has the right to be left in peace.

It's not my fault if there's no peace. You know, most girls would pay me to photograph them.

I'll pay you.

I overcharge. There are other things I want on the reel.

[seeing Verushka at a London party]

I thought you were supposed to be in Paris.

Verushka

I am in Paris.

Don't let's spoil everything, we've only just met.

No, we haven't met — you've never seen me.

I'm fed up with those bloody bitches. I wish I had tons of money. Then I'd be free.

Ron

Free to do what?

What's your name? Oh, forget it — what's the use of a name? What do you they call you in bed?

Brunette woman

I only go to bed to sleep.

Why are you selling?

Shop-owner

I'd like to try something different — get off some somewhere. I'm fed up with antiques.

Get off where?

Shop-owner

To Nepal.

Nepal is all antiques.

Shop-owner

Is it? Perhaps I better try … Morocco.

Thomas [after handing Jane the phone]: It's my wife.

[handing him back the phone]

Why should I speak to her?

Sorry love, the bird I'm with won't talk to you. [hangs up the phone, and walks around the room] … She isn't my wife, really. We just have some kids. … No, no kids, not even kids. Sometimes, though, it feels as if we had kids. … She isn't beautiful, she's... easy to live with. … No, she isn't. … That's why I don't live with her. … But even with beautiful girls, you look at them and that's that.