The Misfits (1961)
Marilyn Monroe: Roslyn Taber
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Quotes
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Roslyn : Horse killers! Killers! Murderers! You're liars! All of you, liars! You're only happy when you can see something die! Why don't you kill yourself to be happy? You and your God's country! Freedom! I pity you! You're three dear, sweet, dead men!
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Gay : What makes you so sad? I think you're the saddest girl I ever met.
Roslyn : You're the first man that ever said that. I'm usually told how happy I am.
Gay : That's because you make a man feel happy.
[He tries to kiss her, but she demurs]
Roslyn : I don't feel that way about you, Gay.
Gay : Well, don't get discouraged girl, you might.
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Roslyn : If I'm going to be alone, I want to be by myself.
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[Last lines]
Roslyn : I'll leave tomorrow, okay?
Gay : God bless you, girl.
Roslyn : Gay, if there could be one person in the world, a child who could be brave from the beginning. I was scared to, when you asked me. But, I'm not so much now, are you?
Gay : No.
Roslyn : How do you find your way back in the dark?
Gay : Just head for that big star straight on. The highway's under it. It'll take us right home.
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Guido : Have you ever been outside Reno, Ms. Taber?
Roslyn : Once I walked to the edge of town; doesn't look like there's much out there.
Gay : Everything's there!
Roslyn : Like what?
Gay : The country!
Roslyn : Well, what do you do with yourself?
Gay : Just live.
Roslyn : How does anyone "just live"?
Gay : Well, you start by going to sleep. You get up when you feel like it. You scratch yourself. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is; throw stones at a can, whistle.
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Roslyn : You have to get something to be human? You never felt anything for anybody in your life. All you know is the sad words. You could blow up the world and all you would feel is sorry for yourself!
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Roslyn : We're all dying aren't we. All the husbands and all the wives. Every minute. And we're not teaching each other what we really know, are we?
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Roslyn : [to Guido, who is driving drunkenly at breakneck speed] Please, Guido! Don't kill us!
Guido : How do you get to know somebody, kid? I can't make a landing, and I... can't get up to God, either. Help me. I never said "help me" in my life. I don't know anybody. So how do I land, honey? Will you give me a little time? Say yes.
[Sourly]
Guido : At least say, "Hello, Guido".
Roslyn : [Nervously] Yes, Guido. Hello, Guido.
Guido : [a pause between the two] Hello, Roslyn.
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Roslyn : How quiet it is. You can hear your skin against your clothes.
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Guido : Listen, do you want me to stop this? I know how you feel, Roslyn. I never liked this part myself. Truthfully, the only part I enjoyed is the flying. You want me to stop it?
Roslyn : You would?
Guido : You're through with Gay now, right? Well, tell me. He doesn't know what you're all about. He'll never know. Tell me, Roslyn. I been waitin'. I'm goin' out of my mind with waitin'. Come back with me. Give me a week, two weeks. Let me show you what I am. Tell me, Roslyn. Give me a reason and I'll stop it. There'll be hell to pay, but give me a reason and I'll do it.
Roslyn : A reason? You, a sensitive fellow. So sad for his wife. Crying about the bombs you dropped and the people you killed. You have to get something to be human? You never felt anything for anybody in your life. All you know is the sad words. You could blow up the world, and all you'd feel is sorry for yourself!
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Roslyn : [to Perce] Didn't anyone ever cry for you before?
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Roslyn : Why can't I just say he wasn't there. He - I mean you could touch him, but he wasn't there.
Isabelle Steers : Darling, girl, if that was grounds for divorce, there'd only be about 11 marriages left in the United States.
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Roslyn : You're a mechanic too?
Isabelle Steers : Him? He's a cowboy!
Gay : How'd you know?
Isabelle Steers : I can smell, can't I.
Gay : Hey, you can't smell cows on me.
Isabelle Steers : I can smell the look on your face, cowboy. But, I love every miserable one of you. Of course, you're all good for nothin' as you well know.
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Roslyn : That star is so far away, that by the time the light from it reaches us here on Earth, it might not even be up there anymore.
Perce : Boy, you sure know a lot, don't you, pilot?
Guido : Astronomy is in all the library books, Perce. Nothin' to it but readin'.
Roslyn : Still, it's wonderful to know things.
Guido : Knowing things don't matter much. You got somethin' a lot more important.
Roslyn : What?
Guido : You care. Whatever happens to anybody, it happens to you. You're really hooked into the whole thing, Roslyn. It's a blessing.
Roslyn : People say I'm just nervous.
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Guido : Boy, am I in the right place?
Roslyn : Have you seen the vegetable garden? It took Gay about a week just to get the soil turned over.
Gay : Yeah, I moved the grass. Sprayed them flowers too. Oh, I got your windows unstuck. Fireplace don't smoke anymore.
Guido : Roslyn, you must be a magician. The only thing this boy ever did for a woman was get out the ice cubes.
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Roslyn : I can't memorize this. It's not the way it was.
Isabelle Steers : Just say it. It doesn't have to be true. This isn't a quiz show, it's only a court.
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Isabelle Steers : Look, here girl, I think I better tell you somethin' about cowboys.
Roslyn : You really worry about me, don't you.
Isabelle Steers : Well, you're too believin'! Cowboys are the last real men left in the world and they're about as reliable as jackrabbits.
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Roslyn : That's what I can't get used to. Everything keeps changing.
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Roslyn : What if, someday, you suddenly turn around and you don't like me anymore? Like before, when Perce got hurt, you started to give me a look. I know that look and it scares me, Gay. I couldn't be with strangers anymore.
Gay : [Drunkenly] Honey, honey, I got a little mad, that's all. That don't mean I didn't like ya. Didn't your Papa ever spank you and then pick you up and give you a big kiss? He did, didn't he?
Roslyn : He was never there long enough. Strangers spanked me for kicks. Oh, Gay, love me, love me!
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[first lines]
Isabelle Steers : Young man, do you have the time? I got six clocks in the house and none of them work.
Guido : Twenty after nine.
Isabelle Steers : After? It's twenty after, dear. Dahlin'. Five minutes.
Roslyn : What about you?
Isabelle Steers : I'm all set, I just tyin' my sling. The lawyer said nine thirty sharp, dahlin'.
Roslyn : Okay.
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Isabelle Steers : This'll be my 77th time I've witnessed for a divorce. Two 7s! That's lucky, darling!
Roslyn : Oh, Is, I hope.
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Guido : Listen, now, if you're not going back East right away, I'd be glad to take you out and show you the country. Beautiful country around here, you know.
Roslyn : Well, I don't know were I'll be, but, okay. Thanks, again.
Isabelle Steers : My name is Isabelle Steers.
Guido : Isabelle. Well, okay, you come along too.
Isabelle Steers : That's a sweet afterthought. You Reno men!
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Roslyn : Who was he? Maybe they know him.
Isabelle Steers : Darling, you can't go around lookin' for a man
Gay : What'd - he take off?
Isabelle Steers : No. Not exactly.
[laughs]
Isabelle Steers : He just never came back.
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Roslyn : Let's go out in the sunshine. Come on. - - Let's just live, like you said in the bar. I don't know where I am yet.
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Raymond Taber : I just got off the plane. I'm not too late, am I?
Roslyn Taber : I don't want to hear anything. My mind is made up. I want a divorce...
Raymond Taber : Just give me five minutes. After two years of marriage, five minutes is all I ask...
Roslyn Taber : [interrupting] You can't have me just so you can want me, that's all. Please, I'm not blaming you. It's just... I never looked at it any different. I just don't believe in the whole thing anymore. You left your pregnant wife for me, but you never gave me any attention.
Raymond Taber : Kid, I understand. I understand.
Roslyn Taber : You don't understand. You're not there, Raymond. If I'm going to be alone, I want be all by myself. Go back. You're not going to make me feel sorry for you anymore.
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Roslyn : Come on, let's have lots of drinks.