Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971)

Malcolm McDowell: Bruce

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Quotes 

• Bruce Pritchard : Hey, don't cry.There's nothing to cry about.

  Jill Matthews : I'm not.

  Bruce Pritchard : It's no good being in love if it makes you cry.

  Jill Matthews : I'm not crying.

  Bruce Pritchard : I only want to make you happy.

  Jill Matthews : Oh, you do.

  Bruce Pritchard : What?

  Jill Matthews : You do.

  Bruce Pritchard : That's why you're crying? Because you're happy? You're going to be crying for all your married life, then.

• Bruce Pritchard : It does matter. Everything matters. If I don't believe that, I've had it.

• Bruce Pritchard : I hate that bloody Geoffery, 'cause he kissed you before I did.

  Jill Matthews : I didn't know you then, did I?

  Bruce Pritchard : Just as well, you wouldn't have looked at me twice. I'm much nicer a cripple.

• Sarah : Are you a writer?

  Bruce Pritchard : Not really. Trying to be.

  Sarah : What do you write about?

  Bruce Pritchard : This and that.

  Sarah : What, thrillers? Love stories?

  Bruce Pritchard : Why should I write love stories?

  Sarah : People do, you know. Even people in wheelchairs.

• [Mocking abled patrons at a charity event] 

  Bruce Pritchard : How fascinating! Some of them can move!

  Jill Matthews : Yes, and they speak, too. That one talked so clearly.

  Bruce Pritchard : Have you noticed, some of them have got five fingers. That bloke over there's got it.

  Jill Matthews : Sad, isn't it? Doctors say five fingers on the hand is almost impossible to cure.

  Bruce Pritchard : Oh, they get it from shaking, you know.

  Jill Matthews : Still, they all look terribly cheerful.

  Bruce Pritchard : Oh yes, some of them are very brave. Imagine, going through life on legs.

  Jill Matthews : Yes, and you'd be surprised how clever they are on those legs, once they get used to them. You know, some of them even dance.

  Bruce Pritchard : How fascinating! Do you think they'll dance for us?

  Jill Matthews : Oh no, they only do that on special occasions. They have to have injections first.

  Bruce Pritchard : What kind of injections?

  Jill Matthews : They inject them with gin.

• Bruce Pritchard : Do you realize I'm twenty-four years old? Feel more like bloody sixty.

  Terry : Aye, you look bloody sixty as well.

  Bruce Pritchard : My looks are the results of my efforts to become a great writer.

• Bruce Pritchard : I'm not getting at you or anything but, have you ever done it with Gladys?

  Harold : No, I never have.

  Bruce Pritchard : With anybody?

  Harold : Not really.

  Bruce Pritchard : What does that mean?

  Harold : Well, you know, not really.

  Bruce Pritchard : Well, you're lucky. It's not that much. It's not that much without love.

• Terry : You alright?

  Bruce Pritchard : 'Course I'm alright. I'm so alright I wish to be alone.

  [Terry leaves, Bruce walks into an elevator and collapses] 

• Mr. Latbury : I understand from the vicar that you haven't been inside our church since you arrived here.

  Rev. Corbett : Well, I daresay we shall see him admitted to the kingdom of heaven in the end, Mr. Latbury.

  Bruce Pritchard : No, not me. Deuteronomy, chapter twenty three, verse one, and I quote; He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the lord. That's me, ladies and gentlemen.