Memorable quotes for
Gods and Monsters (1998)

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Clayton Boone: No, I don't have a girlfriend.
James Whale: Why not?
Clayton Boone: You have to kiss some ass to get a piece of it.

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James Whale: My life is a game of strip poker. Want to play?

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Clayton Boone: You must think the whole world is queer.

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[on meeting Princess Margaret]
James Whale: This is my gardener Clayton Boone. He's never met a princess before, only queens.

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James Whale: He's never met a princess - only queens.

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James Whale: Bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling, for you but not for me. O death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling? Grave, where thy victory?

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James Whale: One likes to live simply.

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James Whale: Oh, shut up. All we did was talk.

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James Whale: And we're quite informal around here - no need to worry about a bathing suit.

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James Whale: It is kind of you to indulge your elders in their vices. Just as I indulge the young in theirs.

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James Whale: Take off your shirt, and I'll tell you all about it.

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James Whale: Oh, don't be daft.

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James Whale: Making movies is the most wonderful thing in the world. Working with friends - entertaining people - yes, I suppose I miss it.

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James Whale: I suppose you'd like the top down?
Clayton Boone: If that's all right with you.
James Whale: Nothing would please me more.

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David Lewis: You only embarrass yourself.
James Whale: Oh dear, I'll never work in this town again.

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James Whale: There was a time when this place was full of pricks. Big, hard, arrogant pricks.
Clayton Boone: Enough already. Isn't it bad enough that you tell me you're a fucking homo? You have to rub it in my face?

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James Whale: Who is this new yardman?
Hannah: Mr. Bugen... something B... I don't know. He came cheap!

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James Whale: There are no Monsters here...

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James Whale: Hatred was the only thing that kept my soul alive. And amongst the men I hated... was my dear old dumb father, who put me in that hell in the first place.

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Clayton Boone: I am NOT... your monster.

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Hannah: Poor Mr. Jimmy. There is much good in him, but he will suffer the fires of hell.
Clayton Boone: Oh yeah?
Hannah: That is what the priests tell me. His sins of the flesh will keep him from heaven.
Clayton Boone: Hell, everybody's got those.
Hannah: No. His is the worst. The unspeakable. The deed no man can name without shame. What is the good English? All I know is bugger, he's a bugger, men who bugger each other...
Clayton Boone: A homo?
Hannah: *Yes*, you *know*...

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James Whale: [about the Frankenstein monster] He's noble. Noble and misunderstood.

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Edmund Kay: You're a dirty old man.
James Whale: Oh.

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