A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an "L". Give me an "I". Give me a "V". Give me an "E". L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.
Maude
Ruth Gordon · 20 quotes
Harold
Bud Cort · 15 quotes
Mrs. Chasen
Vivian Pickles · 13 quotes
Priest
Eric Christmas · 1 quote
Uncle Victor
Charles Tyner · 1 quote
Most scenes together: Harold & Mrs. Chasen (12), Maude & Harold (11), Maude & Mrs. Chasen (10)
Harold and Maude quotes
Page 2 of 2Ah, me. Free as a bird. You know, at one time I used to break into pet shops and liberate the canaries, but I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Ah, my. How the world still dearly loves a cage.
Do you enjoy knives?
Don't get officious. You're not yourself when you're officious. That is the curse of a government job.
Grab the shovel, Harold.
I haven't lived. [beat] I've died a few times.
I suppose you think that’s very funny, Harold.
I would be remiss in my duty, if I did not tell you, that the idea of...... intercourse... and the fact of your firm, young... body..... commingling, with the... withered flesh... sagging... breasts... and flabby b-... buttocks... makes me want... to vomit.
I'll never understand this mania for black. Nobody sends black flowers, do they? Black flowers are dead flowers. Who sends dead flowers to a funeral? It's absurd.
Well, what do you say, Harold? Ah, it's a great life. There's action, adventure, advising, and you'll get a chance to see the war first-hand. And there are plenty of slant-eyed girls. I'll make a man out of you, Harold. You'll travel the world, put on a uniform, and take on a man's job. You'll walk tall, with a glint in your eye and a spring in your step, and the knowledge in your heart that you are working for peace and are serving your country, just like Nathan Hale. Now, that's what this country needs - more Nathan Hales. [He salutes a picture of Nathan Hale] And, Harold, I think I can see a little Nathan Hale in you.
[A flock of sea gulls fly across the sky]
Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been sea gulls... For me they will always be -- glorious birds.
[to a police officer after they find her car parked on the street]
Turn the radio off, it saves battery.