'Atta boy, Mike. 'Atta boy. 'Atta boy, Mike. 'Atta boy, Mike.
Davy Jones
Davy Jones · 5 quotes
Peter Tork
Peter Tork · 5 quotes
Mike Nesmith
Michael Nesmith · 4 quotes
Lord High 'n' Low
Timothy Carey · 3 quotes
Micky
Micky Dolenz · 3 quotes
The Monkees
2 quotes
Swami
Abraham Sofaer · 1 quote
Most scenes together: Peter Tork & Micky (3), Peter Tork & Davy Jones (2)
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Bearded Man
Skunk bait. That's what the world is full of; that's what it's based on. That's what this economy is based on.
Cow
Monkees is the craziest people!
Crowd
We want the Monkees! We want the Monkees! Peter, Davy, Micky, Mike, oh god! Here they come!!!
Hello everybody. How is it going today?
Crowd
(cheering)
Michael
Great. And now, we are going to bring you a song for the audience, and it's called... "Circle Sky".
So, we have to get our instruments ready.
Michael
That should do it, Micky.
All right everybody, let's get this party started, and make... lots... of... NOISE!
Crowd
(cheering wildly once again)
[The Monkees started playing "Circle Sky". The crowd goes wild.]
Inspector Shrink Pleasure – the inevitable byproduct of our civilization. A new world – the only preoccupation will be: how to amuse itself. The tragedy of your time, my young friends, is that you may get exactly what you want.
Interviewee
Are you telling me that you don't see the connection between government and laughing at people?
And, uh, I'd like a glass of cold gravy with a hair in it, please.
Mrs. Ace [sarcastically]
One of your own?
Mrs. Ace Changing your image, darling? While you're at it, why don't you have them write you some talent.
Everybody's where they wanna be.
That is a particularly inept thing to say, Peter, considering that we are in a vacuum cleaner.
Hey, Mike, son of a gun, a millionaire at 25.
Ask me how does it feel.
What?
Ask me how does it feel.
How does it feel?
I'll tell you how it feels. I don't like it, that's how it feels! I don't like surprises, I don't like all these people jumping around and shouting, wha - I don't even wanna HEAR what you're saying! Because you know what you're saying to me? You're saying "Happy Birthday" and you're jumping out of the walls and it's scaring me to death, and I'm supposed to be HAPPY about that.
Aww, come on, Mike. Be a good sport.
Well, WHO NEEDS IT? Who needs surprises, and pajamas. You want to throw a birthday party, you don't kidnap me, you send me an invitation. Besides, I probably would have been happier where I was, sleeping. "Happy birthday"... HAH! [embarrassed murmur from party guests] And I'll tell you something else too: the same thing goes for Christmas. [shocked gasps from the guests] Well, how 'bout THEM apples!
We were talking with the Master regarding the nature of conceptual reality. Psychologically speaking, the human mind, or brain or whatever, is almost incapable of distinguishing between the real and the vividly imagined experience. Sound and film and music and radio. Even these manipulative experiences are received more or less directly and uninterpretive by the mind. They are cataloged and recorded and either acted upon directly, or stored in the memory, or both. Now this process, unless we pay it tremendous attention, begins to separate us from the reality of the now. Am I being clear? For we must allow the reality of the now to just happen, as it happens. Observe and act with clarity. For where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
Nothing? You know nothing?
That's right.
You mean to tell me we've been here sitting listening to you and you know nothing?
Don't you see, David? It doesn't matter whether we're in the box or not.
Play Man
Somebody come up and giggle at ya, that's a violation of your civil rights.
Testy True [holding out her snake-bitten finger]
Quick! Suck it before the venom reaches my heart.
WHAT heart?
The Critic Song was pretty white.
Well, so am I, what can I tell ya?
The Critic You've been working on your dancing, though.
Oh, yeah, yeah. I've been rehearsing it lately. You noticed that.
The Critic Yeah, it doesn't leave you much time for your music. You should spend more time on it; because, the youth of America depends on you to show the way.
Yeah?
The Critic Yeah.
[chanted in unison]
Hey hey we are the Monkees, you know we aim to please. A manufactured image with no philosophies.