Dolores 'Lolita' Haze [to Humbert, about his locked journal]
'Fraid somebody's gonna steal your ideas and sell 'em to Hollywood, huh?
Played by Sue Lyon 
Lolita (1962) · 63 quotes
Lolita (1962) · 63 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Lolita (1962): in 24 of its 63 quotes
Most scenes with: Professor Humbert (18), Charlotte Haze (2)
Dear Dad, How's everything? I have gone through much sadness and hardship. I'm married. I'm going to have a baby. I'm going nuts because we don't have enough to pay our debts and get out of here. Please send us a check.
More lines from Dolores 'Lolita' Haze
4 quotes Dolores 'Lolita' Haze Dolores 'Lolita' Haze [to Humbert]
Let go of me! You're hurting my arm! You let me go, you jerk! Let go of me!...You've got a big fat nerve dragging me away like that!...Who the heck do you think you are - not letting me go to my cast party? I wish the police do come in here. You creep!
Dolores 'Lolita' Haze [to Humbert]
Listen, I've decided something...I want to leave school...I don't want you to be mad at me anymore. Everything's gonna be great from now on...I hate school and I hate the play. I really do. I never want to go back...Let's leave tomorrow. We can go for a long trip and we'll go wherever I want to, won't we?
Dolores 'Lolita' Haze [to Humbert]
I'm afraid you'll have to excuse my appearance, but you caught me on ironing day. Do come in. Gee, you're looking marvelous...I wrote to you about a week ago. I was beginning to think maybe you were sore or something. I must say, I wouldn't blame you if you were. It's a fine thing me dropping out of sight for so long and then writing you for a handout.
Scenes with Dolores 'Lolita' Haze
19 scenes
I have a proposal. What say you I, uh, teach you some of the new steps, huh?
Oh Charlotte, I don't even know the old ones. And you do this so very well, I'd much rather sit down and watch you. Very good.
Oh come on, Humbert. Ah, Humbert Humbert, what a thrillingly different name.
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A little more joie de vivre! You know, when you smile like that, you remind me of someone. Oh, ah, a college boy I had, uh, a date with. I went dancing with him. A young, blue-blooded Bostonian. Oh, my very first glamour date. And you know, in certain lights, you remind me of Harold..I adored Harold, I really did. I swore at the time I would never marry again. I don't think I will, but, uh, it wouldn't be fair to his memory, do you think?
No, one doesn't always find such loyalty these days.
Shouldn't life be for the living? What think you? You see, I'm a strongly emotional woman. Very strongly emotional. Oh, don't be afraid of hurting me...Take me in your arms! Oh, I can't live in the past, not any more Hum, not any more.
Lolita Hi!
Darling, did you come back for something?
Lolita Mona's party turned out to be sorta a drag. So I thought I'd come back and see what you two were doing.
We had a wonderful evening. Your mother created a magnificent spread.
Lolita Did you have a good time dancing with Clare Quilty?
Of course. He's a very erudite gentleman.
Lolita Yeah, I know. All the girls are crazy about him, too.
That's neither here nor there.
Lolita Since when?
Lolita [about a secret she has with her friend Mona]
You'll blab.
I will never give away any of your secrets.
Lolita Well, for that, you get a little reward. [She dangles a fried egg above his open mouth] You can have one little bite.
Lolita Well, I guess I won't be seeing you again, huh?
I shall be moving on. I must prepare for my work at Beardsley College in the fall.
Lolita Then I guess this is goodbye.
Yes.
Lolita [She half-winks at him and races off]
Don't forget me.
You know, I've missed you terribly.
Lolita I haven't missed you. In fact, I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you.
Oh.
Lolita But it doesn't matter a bit, because you've stopped caring anyway.
What makes you say I've stopped caring for you?
Lolita Well, you haven't even kissed me yet, have you?
Lolita [entering the hotel room, which has only one bed]
Is, uh, this it?
You mean, uh...
Lolita Yeah.
Well, yes. You see, I-I-I-I-I, I'm quite sure that they'll manage to find a cot for us. I asked them downstairs in the lobby to find a cot.
Lolita A cot?
Yes.
Lolita You're crazy.
Why, my darling?
Lolita Because, my darling, when my darling mother finds out, she's going to divorce you and strangle me.
Yes, now look, now. I have a great feeling of, um, tenderness for you. While your mother is ill, I'm responsible for your welfare. We're not rich, but while we travel, we should be obliged - we should be thrown a good deal together - two people sharing one room inevitably enter into a kind of, um, how should I say? A kind of, hmm...
Lolita Aren't you going to go down and see about the cot?
Of course I need a shave, because I've not shaved since yesterday morning and I'm a man who (needs) two shaves a day.
Lolita Hmm. Do you always have to shave twice a day?
Yes, of course. All the best people shave twice a day.
Lolita ...I-I learned some real good games in camp. One in particular-ly was fun.
Well, why don't you describe this one in particular-ly - good game?
Lolita Well, I played it with Charlie...Charlie? He's that guy that you met in the office.
You mean that boy...?
Lolita Mmm, hmm.
You and he?
Lolita Yeah. You sure you can't guess what game I'm talking about?
No, I'm not a very good guesser. [She whispers in his ear and then giggles] I don't know what game you played. [She whispers a few more words]
Lolita You mean you never played that game when you were a kid?
Oh, no.
Lolita [smiling]
All righty then...
Lolita Hey, let's tell mother.
Tell mother what?
Lolita [she smiles knowingly]
You know what.
No, I don't think that would be very funny.
Lolita [laughing]
I wonder what she'd do? Hmm?
Lolita Why? What difference does it make? I want to call her.
I just don't think it would be a very good idea. That's all.
Lolita Why can't I call my mother if I want to?
Because you can't!
Lolita Why?
Because - [long pause] your mother is dead.
Lolita [laughs]
Come on, now, cut it out! Why can't I call her?
Your - mother - is - dead.
Try to stop crying. Everything's going to be all right.
Lolita Nothing will ever be all right.
I'm sure that we're gonna be very happy - you and I.
Lolita But everything is changed all of a sudden. Everything was so, oh, I don't know, normal.
Lolita, please, please stop crying. We'll do things, we'll go places.
Lolita But there's no place to go back to.
We'll find a new home.
Lolita Where?
Beardsley. My lectureship. It starts in September. It's in Ohio, you'll like it there.
Lolita I'll hate it, I know I will.
No you won't. It's a wonderful place.
Lolita But what about all my things back in Ramsdale? And our house?
We'll take care of all those things.
Lolita [curling up in his lap]
Promise you'll never leave me. I don't want to ever be in one of those horrible places for juvenile delinquents...And anyway, I'd rather be with you. You're a lot better than one of those places. You will promise, won't you?
Cross my heart and hope to die. Cross my heart and hope to die. Cross my heart and hope to die.
I thought we understood. No dates!
Lolita What do you mean, no dates?...
I don't want you around them. They're nasty-minded boys.
Lolita Oh, you're a fine one to talk about someone else's mind.
Don't avoid the issue. I told you, 'No dates.'
Lolita It wasn't a date.
It was a date.
Lolita It wasn't a date.
It was a date, Lolita.
Lolita It was not a date.
IT WAS A DATE!
Lolita It wasn't a date.
Well, whatever it was that you had yesterday afternoon, I don't want you to have again.
Why does she [Michelle] give me these searching looks whenever she comes to the house?
Lolita How should I know?
Have you told her anything about us?
Lolita No. Have you?
You've told her nothing -
Lolita You think I'm crazy?
Lolita You never let me have any fun.
No fun? You have all the fun in the world. We have fun together, don't we? Ay, whenever you want something, I buy it for you automatically. I take you to concerts, to museums, to movies. I do all the housework. Who does the-the tidying up? I do. Who does the cooking? I do. You and I have lots of fun - don't we Lolita?
Lolita [she smiles]
Come here. [He kneels in front of her] Still love me?
Completely. You know that.
Lolita You know what I want more than anything else in the world?
What do you want?
Lolita I want you to be proud of me.
I am proud of you, Lolita.
Lolita No, I mean really proud of me. You see, they want me for the lead in the school play. Isn't that fantastic? And I have to have a letter from you, giving your permission.
Who wants you?
Lolita Well, ...the drama teacher, Clare Quilty, and Vivian Darkbloom.
And who might they be?
Lolita They're the authors. They're here to supervise the production.
But you've never acted before.
Lolita Oh, they say I have a unique and rare talent.
And how do they know that?
Lolita Well, we had readings. I was chosen over thirty other girls.
That's the first I've heard about it.
Lolita I know. I wanted to surprise you.
And you suddenly are, overnight, an actress. Well, it's out of the question.
Lolita Out of the question?
I don't want you in that atmosphere.
Lolita What atmosphere? It's just a school play.
I've told you over and over again. I don't want you mixing with those boys. It's just another excuse to make dates with them, and to get together close with them.
Lolita You don't love me.
I do love you.
Lolita You don't love me.
I do love you, Lolita.
Lolita You're driving me crazy. You won't let me do anything. You just want to keep me locked up with you in this filthy house!...Someday you're going to regret this. You'll be sorry...
It's partly my fault, I realize that. It's something that's happened on account of this horrible place. All these people poking their nose into our business. And I never see you anymore what with your soda-fountains and your extra-c...[she pops her gum] STOP DOING THAT! If we could leave this place perhaps. Yes, there's there's nothing to keep us here. We haven't any obligations here...We could just pack up our bags - TONIGHT! We could go now. I could take you for a wonderful trip around the country!...Don't you want to get back to where we were before we came to this horrible place? Don't you want to come away with me?
Lolita NO! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!...WHY DON'T YOU LEAVE ME ALONE?...DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! YOU'RE A NAUSEATING CREEP!
You're not gonna see these filthy boys anymore, I can tell you that.
Lolita I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU. I'M GONNA DO ANYTHING I WANT TO, ANYTIME I WANT TO, WITH ANYBODY I WANT TO - AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!
Lolita You're gonna get us killed. What's the big fat hurry anyway?
[Their tire blows out, the other car stops 100 feet behind them]
He can't help us if he's stopping way back there like that. He can't be the police because if he were police, they'd just draw up beside us and start writing a ticket...Maybe it's a special kind of police who are just supposed to follow people.
Lolita Yeah, like the vice squad.
Lolita Oh, there's no point in going into that! It's all over.
Lolita. I have to know.
Lolita Well, I'm sorry, but I can't tell you.
...If you're a sensible girl, and if you want what I've come to give you, you'll tell me what I want to know.
Lolita Do you remember Dr. Zempf?...That German psychologist who came to see you at Beardsley.
Was it him?
Lolita Not exactly.
I didn't come here to play guessing games. Tell me who it was.
Lolita Well, give me a chance to explain...Do you remember that car that used to follow us around?...Do you remember mother's old flame at the school dance? No, you probably wouldn't remember him. Do you remember the guy that you talked to at that hotel on the way back from camp? He pretended that he was part of that police convention that was there...And do you remember that guy that called you at the hotel?
The night you disappeared? Yes, I remember him very well.
Lolita And yet you still haven't guessed.
I told you that I'm not playing games with you. Tell me who it was.
Lolita It was Clare Quilty.
Who was Clare Quilty?
Lolita All of them, of course.
You mean Dr. Zempf, he was Clare Quilty?
Lolita Well, congratulations. I don't suppose it ever occurred to you that when you moved into our house, my whole world didn't revolve around you. You see, I'd had a crush on him ever since the times that he used to come and visit mother. He wasn't like you and me. He wasn't a normal person. He was a genius. He had a kind of, uh, beautiful, Japanese, Oriental philosophy of life. You know that hotel that we stopped at on the way back from camp. Well, it was just by accident that he was staying there. But it didn't take him long to figure out what was going on between us. And from that moment on, he was up to every brilliant trick he could think of.
And he did all these brilliant tricks for the sheer fun of tormenting me?
Lolita Well, sometimes he had to. Like the German psychologist bit. He had to trick you into letting me be in his play. Otherwise, how would I ever get to see him?
So that's why you wanted to be in the play.
Lolita That's right.
And all those afternoons you were supposed to be practicing the piano, you were actually with this man?
Lolita Mmm, hmm. I guess he was the only guy I was ever really crazy about.
Aren't you forgetting something?
Lolita Oh, Dick. Dick's very sweet. We're very happy together, but I guess it's just not the same thing.
And I? I suppose I never counted, of course.
Lolita You have no right to say that. After all, the past is the past.
What happened to this Oriental-minded genius?
Lolita Look, don't make fun of me. I don't have to tell you a blasted thing.
I am not making fun of you. I am merely trying to find out what happened. When you left the hospital, where did he take you?
Lolita To New Mexico...to a dude ranch near Santa Fe. The only problem with it was, he had such a bunch of weird friends staying there...painters, nudists, writers, weight lifters. But I figured I could take anything for a couple of weeks because I loved him and he was on his way to Hollywood to write one of those spectaculars, and he promised to get me a studio contract. But it never turned out that way and instead, he wanted me to cooperate with the others making some kind of a, you know, an art movie.
An art movie?...And you did it?
Lolita No, I didn't do it. And so he kicked me out.
You could have come back to me.
This may be neither here nor there, but I've got to say it. Life is very short. Between here and that old car outside is twenty-five paces. Make them now, right now...Come away with me now, just as you are.
Lolita Oh, you mean you'll give us the money only if I go to a hotel with you.
No, you've got it all wrong. I want you to leave your husband and this awful house. I want you to live with me and die with me, and EVERYTHING with me.
Lolita You must be crazy!
I'm perfectly serious, Lo. I've never been less crazy in all my life. We'll start a-fresh. We can forget everything that has happened.
Lolita No, it's too late.
No, it's not too late...don't tell me that it's too late because it's not too late. If you want time to think it over, that's perfectly all right with me, because I've waited already for three years and I think I could wait for the rest of my life if necessary. You're not giving anything up. There's nothing here to keep you...You're not bound to him in any way, as you are bound to me by everything that we have lived through together - you and I.
Lolita I'm going to have his baby in three months...I've wrecked too many things in my life. I can't do that to him. He needs me. [Humbert begins crying] Oh, come on, now don't make a scene. Stop crying! He could walk in here at any minute. Will you please stop crying?
There are no strings attached. It's only money anyway. It comes from the rent of the house - that's four hundred dollars in cash...I made out a check here for two thousand, five hundred dollars. There's someone in Ramsdale who's prepared to take care of the mortgage of the house. There's the downpayment. That's the payment.
Lolita You mean we're getting thirteen thousand dollars? Wonderful. Oh, come on now, don't cry. I'm sorry. Try to understand. I'm really sorry that I cheated so much, but I guess that's just the way things are.
...
Lolita Hey, well listen, let's keep in touch, huh? I'll write to you when we get to Alaska.
