Performance (1970)

Anita Pallenberg: Pherber

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Quotes 

• Pherber : I don't recognize your voice.

  Chas : Well, I've been away, haven't I?

  Pherber : And I don't recognize your face.

  Chas : You should see my motor.

  Pherber : [looks at Chas quizzically] 

  Chas : My motor. Had an argument with a cement wall on the way over. Goodbye the Ferrari.

• Pherber : How do you think Turner feels like, huh?

  Chas : I don't know. He's weird. And you're weird. You're kinky!

  Pherber : He's a man! Male and female man! And he feels like me.

  Chas : No! No he doesn't!

• Chas : There's nothing wrong with me! I'm normal!

  Pherber : [laughs] 

• [on the intercom outside as Chas rings the front door] 

  Pherber : "Leave a message after the beep. Beep, beep, BEEP!

• Chas : Can I use the blower up here.

  Turner : We haven't got a blower up here.

  Pherber : Huh! What in God's name has he done to his hair?

  Turner : He's blown it.

  Chas : Yeah, well, that's it dear. I got to ring my agent again.

  Turner : I fancy the red.

  Chas : No. No. The red was dye.

  Turner : Dead.

  Chas : Dyed. Red.

  Pherber : Dyed it? Dead!

  Chas : Red! Red!

  Turner : Van Gogh, eh?

• Pherber : Do you like my physique?

  Chas : Yeah. It's in - good condition.

• Pherber : Did you never have a female feel?

  Chas : No! Never! I feel like a man! A man - all the time.

  Pherber : That's awful. That's what's wrong with you, isn't it?

  Chas : What do you mean?

  Pherber : A man's man's world.

• Pherber : He's stuck! Stuck!

  Chas : Why?

  Pherber : Why? Because he's lost his demons, that's why. Yeah, he thought he had it under control. Juggling all those balls - millions of them. Until one day he was looking at his favorite mirror, admiring his image, see. And when suddenly he saw, a little clearly, it was just a beautiful, little, freaky, stripy, beast, darling. So, he thought, maybe, maybe its time for a change, he thought. Then, immediately, as he watched, the image faded. His demon had abandoned him! Pluff! He was gone! He's still tryin' to figure out whether he wants it back.

• Turner : We've gone too far. He means we haven't really got anywhere.

  Pherber : He means we've got to go much further out.

  Turner : We have to go much further, much further back! And faster.

• Turner : You shoot too much of that shit, Pherber.

  Pherber : Too much vitamin B12, has never hurt anybody.

• Chas : Was it sixty-seven?

  Pherber : Sixty-six!

  Turner : Sixty-nine!

• Turner : [to Chas]  I know how you do it! I know a thing or two about performing, my boy. I can tell you.

  Pherber : He had the gift too, once upon a time. You should have seen him ten years ago.

• Pherber : Never trust old men, old show men, old wankers!

• Pherber : He wants to know why your show is a bigger turn-on than his ever was!

  Chas : How should I know?

• Turner : Time for your new image. It's totally different.

  Pherber : Now we're getting somewhere!

  Chas : America's a blindin' place.

• Pherber : His mother is a 1,000 years old. Imagine yourself being a 1,000 years younger.

• Pherber : I'm gonna take you down on the riverside. I might powder you. I might polish you. I might make you shiny like a mirror! You just don't know.