The Graduate (1967)
Anne Bancroft: Mrs. Robinson
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Quotes
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Benjamin : Oh, my God!
Mrs. Robinson : Pardon?
Benjamin : Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. Oh no.
Mrs. Robinson : What's wrong?
Benjamin : Mrs. Robinson, you didn't... I mean, you didn't expect...
Mrs. Robinson : What?
Benjamin : I mean, you didn't really think I'd do something like THAT.
Mrs. Robinson : Like what?
Benjamin : What do you think?
Mrs. Robinson : Well, I don't know.
Benjamin : For God's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now, you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won't be home for hours.
Mrs. Robinson : So?
Benjamin : Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!
Mrs. Robinson : [laughs] Huh?
Benjamin : Aren't you?
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Mrs. Robinson : Benjamin.
Benjamin : Yes?
Mrs. Robinson : Isn't there something you want to tell me?
Benjamin : Tell you?
Mrs. Robinson : Yes.
Benjamin : Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.
Mrs. Robinson : The number.
Benjamin : What?
Mrs. Robinson : The room number, Benjamin. I think you ought to tell me that.
Benjamin : Oh, you're absolutely right. It's 568.
Mrs. Robinson : Thank you.
Benjamin : You're welcome. Well... I'll see you later, Mrs. Robinson.
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Benjamin : Mrs. Robinson, I can't do this anymore.
Mrs. Robinson : You what?
Benjamin : This is all terribly wrong.
Mrs. Robinson : Do you find me undesirable?
Benjamin : Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that.
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[Mrs. Robinson comes into Elaine's room, naked, and locks the door with Benjamin inside with her]
Benjamin : Oh God. Oh, let me out.
Mrs. Robinson : Don't be nervous.
Benjamin : Get away from that door.
Mrs. Robinson : I want to say something first.
Benjamin : Jesus Christ.
Mrs. Robinson : Benjamin, I want you to know that I'm available to you, and if you won't sleep with me this time...
Benjamin : Oh, my Christ.
Mrs. Robinson : If you won't sleep with me this time I want you to know that you can call me up anytime you want and we'll make some kind of arrangement.
Benjamin : Oh...
Mrs. Robinson : Do you understand what I...
Benjamin : Let me out.
Mrs. Robinson : Benjamin, do you understand what I just said?
Benjamin : Yes! Yes. Let me out!
Mrs. Robinson : I find you very attractive.
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Mrs. Robinson : Benjamin, I am not trying to seduce you.
Benjamin : I know that, but please, Mrs. Robinson, this is difficult...
Mrs. Robinson : Would you like me to seduce you?
Benjamin : What?
Mrs. Robinson : Is that what you're trying to tell me?
Benjamin : I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.
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[Offering Mrs. Robinson a coat hanger]
Benjamin : Wood?
Mrs. Robinson : What?
Benjamin : Wood or wire? They have both.
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Benjamin : Where did you do it?
Mrs. Robinson : In his car.
Benjamin : What kind of car was it?
Mrs. Robinson : Come on now.
Benjamin : No, I really want to know.
Mrs. Robinson : A Ford.
Benjamin : Goddamn, that's great. So old Elaine Robinson got started in a Ford.
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Mr. Robinson : Ben, can I say something to you?
Benjamin : What?
Mr. Robinson : Uh, how long have we known each other now? How long have you and I known each other? How long have your dad and I been partners?
Benjamin : Quite a while.
Mr. Robinson : I watched you grow up, Ben.
Benjamin : Yes, sir.
Mr. Robinson : In many ways, I feel as though you were my own son.
Benjamin : Thank you.
Mr. Robinson : So I hope you won't mind my giving you a friendly piece of advice.
Benjamin : I'd like to hear it.
Mr. Robinson : Ben, I think... I think you ought to be taking it a little easier right now than you seem to be. Sow a few wild oats. Take things as they come. Have a good time with the girls and so forth.
Mrs. Robinson : [Mrs. Robinson joins them; Ben abruptly stands up] Don't get up.
Mr. Robinson : I was just telling... Ben. Ben, here, that he ought to sow a few wild oats. Have a good time while he can. You think that's sound advice?
Mrs. Robinson : Yes, I do.
Benjamin : I've got to go.
Mr. Robinson : You have yourself a few flings this summer. I bet you're quite a ladies' man, huh?
Benjamin : Oh, no.
Mr. Robinson : [taken aback] What?
Mr. Robinson : You look to me like the kind of guy who has to fight 'em off.
Mr. Robinson : [to his wife] Now, doesn't he look to you like the kind of guy who has to fight them off?
Mrs. Robinson : Yes, he does.
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Mrs. Robinson : Benjamin, I thought I made myself perfectly clear about this...
Benjamin : Look, I have no intention of taking your precious daughter out again in her life, so don't get upset about it!
Mrs. Robinson : I am. I'm *extremely* upset about it, Benjamin.
Elaine : [Mr. Robinson comes in with Elaine next to him] Hello.
Benjamin : Hello.
Mr. Robinson : [playfully giving advice to Elaine about Benjamin] Well, I want you to keep your wits about you tonight. You never know what *tricks* Ben picked up back there in the east. Heh heh...
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Benjamin : Don't talk about Elaine?
Mrs. Robinson : No.
Benjamin : Well, why not?
Mrs. Robinson : Because I don't want you to.
Benjamin : Well, why don't you? I wish you'd tell me.
Mrs. Robinson : There's nothing to tell.
Benjamin : Well, why is she a big taboo subject all of a sudden? Well, I guess I'll have to ask her out on a date and find out what the big deal is.
Mrs. Robinson : [turns on the lamp] Benjamin...
Benjamin : Ow!
Mrs. Robinson : Don't you ever take that girl out! Do you understand me?
Benjamin : Look, I have no intention of taking her out.
Mrs. Robinson : Good.
Benjamin : I was just kidding around.
Mrs. Robinson : Good.
Benjamin : But why shouldn't I?
Mrs. Robinson : I have my reasons.
Benjamin : Well, let's hear them.
Mrs. Robinson : No.
Benjamin : Let's hear them, Mrs. Robinson, because I think I know what they are; I'm not good enough for her to associate with, am I? I'm not good enough to even talk about her, am I?
Mrs. Robinson : Let's drop it.
Benjamin : We're not dropping it! I'm good enough for you, but I'm not good enough to associate with your daughter. That's it, isn't it! Isn't it?
Mrs. Robinson : [lengthy pause] Yes.
Benjamin : You go to hell! You go straight to hell, Mrs. Robinson! Do you think I'm proud of myself? Do you think I'm proud of this?
Mrs. Robinson : I wouldn't know.
Benjamin : Well, I am not! No sir, I am not proud that I spend my time with a broken-down alcoholic!
Mrs. Robinson : I see.
Benjamin : And if you think I come here for any reason besides pure boredom, then you're all wrong; because Mrs. Robinson, this is the sickest, most perverted thing in the world that ever happened to me! And you do what you want, but I'm getting the hell out!
Mrs. Robinson : Are you?
Benjamin : Goddam right I am!
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Benjamin Braddock : [runs into the Robinson's house, up the stairs to Elaine's bedroom] Elaine! Elaine!
Elaine Robinson : Benjamin?
Benjamin Braddock : I'm coming up!
Elaine Robinson : I'm not dressed yet!
Elaine Robinson : [Ben barges through her bedroom door] Benjamin, I said I wasn't dressed.
Benjamin Braddock : You've got to go over the back fence, and I'll meet you in the courtyard.
Elaine Robinson : What's the matter?
Benjamin Braddock : Hurry, put your shoes on.
Elaine Robinson : [hysterically] Benjamin, Benjamin!
Benjamin Braddock : Elaine.
Elaine Robinson : What are you doing?
Benjamin Braddock : Elaine, I have to tell you something.
Elaine Robinson : What is it?
Benjamin Braddock : That woman...
Elaine Robinson : What?
Benjamin Braddock : That woman - that older woman that I told you about?
Elaine Robinson : You mean that one?
Benjamin Braddock : Yes, the married woman; that wasn't just some woman.
Elaine Robinson : What are you telling me? Benjamin, will you just tell me what this is all about?
[Elaine turns around, and sees her mother, Mrs. Robinson standing in the bedroom doorway; her expression turns to shock]
Elaine Robinson : Oh, no.
Benjamin Braddock : Elaine...
Elaine Robinson : Oh my God.
Benjamin Braddock : Please.
Elaine Robinson : Get out of here.
Benjamin Braddock : Don't cry.
Elaine Robinson : [screams] Get out! Get out, out! Get out!
Mrs. Robinson : Goodbye, Benjamin.
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Mrs. Robinson : [gets into Benjamin's car] Drive down the block.
Benjamin : Mrs. Robinson, Elaine and I have a date, we're going for a drive.
Mrs. Robinson : [angrily] Do exactly as I say!
Benjamin : [Ben drives down the block] Now, it seems to me...
Mrs. Robinson : Listen very carefully to me, Benjamin: You are not to see Elaine again, ever! Those are my orders, is that clear?
Benjamin : Mrs. Robinson, do you think...
Mrs. Robinson : I can make things quite unpleasant.
Benjamin : How?
Mrs. Robinson : In order to keep Elaine away from you, I'm prepared to tell her everything.
Benjamin : [Ben stops the car] I don't believe you.
Mrs. Robinson : [threateningly] Then you better start believing me.
Benjamin : I just don't believe you would do that.
Mrs. Robinson : Try me.
[Ben gets out of the car]
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Benjamin : What kind of car was it?
Mrs. Robinson : What?
Benjamin : Do you remember the make of the car?
Mrs. Robinson : Oh, my God.
Benjamin : Really, I want to know.
Mrs. Robinson : It was a Ford, Benjamin.
Benjamin : [laughs] A Ford, a Ford! Goddam it, that's great. A Ford!
Mrs. Robinson : That's enough.
Benjamin : [Mrs. Robinson turns off the lights] So old Elaine Robinson got started in a Ford.
Mrs. Robinson : Don't talk about Elaine.
Benjamin : Don't talk about Elaine?
Mrs. Robinson : No.
Benjamin : Well, why not?
Mrs. Robinson : Because I don't want you to.
Benjamin : Well, why don't you? I wish you'd tell me.
Mrs. Robinson : There's nothing to tell.
Benjamin : Well, why is she a big taboo subject all of a sudden? Well, I guess I'll have to ask her out on a date and find out what the big deal is.
Mrs. Robinson : [Mrs. Robinson turns on the lights,sternly warning Benjamin] Benjamin.
Benjamin : Ow!
Mrs. Robinson : Don't you ever take that girl out! Do you understand that?
Benjamin : Look, I have no intention of taking her out!
Mrs. Robinson : Good.