The Strawberry Statement (1970)

Bruce Davison: Simon

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• Linda : What are you doing?

  Simon : I wanna feel... what it feels like to... *litter* from the back of a paddy wagon.

  Linda : So how does it feel?

  Simon : Nice. Not terrific, not fantastic, but... but nice.

• Linda : You smell like the President.

  Simon : I'll wash.

• Linda : You don't want an uptight chick like me.

  Simon : Yes, I do! I really do.

  Linda : If I were going with you you wouldn't want me to go out with someone like you.

  Simon : That's a very complicated idea.

• Simon : Well, if there's blood, I hope its a day of massive casualties; because, I don't wanna be part of light to moderate casualties.

  Lucas : I can dig it.

• Elliot - Coxswain : [describing a large breasted woman who looks for Simon]  Do you remember that... National Geographic you have in your back room?

  Simon : [laughs]  Yeah.

  Elliot - Coxswain : Yeah, well this one is a white version of page 43.

• Simon : How many kids *will* show, do you think?

  Charlie : It's worth taking a look. I mean, a lot of kids'll show because of that strawberry statement.

  Simon : What?

  Charlie : The dean. He said our telling him we had an opinion is like telling him we like strawberries.

  Simon : Oh, I love straw - I love strawberries!

  Charlie : Oh, schmuck.

  Simon : Strawberries? What's he got against strawberries?

  Charlie : Must be their color.

• Simon : [on the phone in jail]  Dad, what do you mean "Simon Who?" Yeah. Good. How's mom? Good. Got arrested. Yeah, jail. Uh. Well, yes, well, uh, if, well, it has been growing for two months, I mean, it's gotta be longer, right? Well, some people have bad associations when they see long hair, and some have them when they see long Cadillacs. Oh, I solved my identity crisis. Yeah. Hey, lemme - I'll - I'll call you later, OK? Bye-bye.

• Linda : You're not really serious about this.

  Simon : I am, too.

  Linda : The university is burning babies and killing men, and you're on the rowing team.

  Simon : Rowing *crew*. Linda...

  Linda : It's a waste. This strike is part of something real. That's better than being a rowing jock.

  Simon : Now, look, most of the guys on the crew aren't jocks. I mean, uh, crew doesn't even have as many WASPs as it should have, according to the population percentage of WASPs in the nation.

  Linda : Maybe it should be shut down.

  Simon : Now, look, I mean they have uh, mustaches and everything.

  Linda : Simon, if you wanna row a boat, row a boat.

  Simon : Look, you don't understand what it's like. I mean it's, uh... it's erotic. I mean, you should try it. I mean it's a commitment. It's real.

  Linda : It's not real. It's a game. The movement is real.

  Simon : Linda...

  Linda : What?

  Simon : I am so incredibly confused.

  Linda : So am I.

• Charlie : [walks in on his roommate, Charlie, in bed with Irma, she runs out of the room]  I'm not gonna take this lying down.

  Simon : You know, you keep smoking in bed and you're gonna burn the place down.

  Charlie : You couldn't knock?

  Simon : No, I couldn't knock. Now, I'm not gonna get in a hassle over some strange chick getting balled...

  Irma : [from the other room]  Woman! I'm not a strange chick. I'm a strange woman!

  Simon : A strange woman getting balled in my room, on my bed, especially if I'm not balling her.

  Charlie : Couldn't you knock first?

• George : Pinko spades. SDS creeps.

  Simon : I know. I know.

  George : Mafia acidheads. They're gonna get the school closed down.

• Simon : Hey, you know what? I think somebody peed in your telephone booth.

• Policeman at Gate : Let's see your ID. Both of 'em.

  Simon : What is this? France?

  Policeman at Gate : Don't give me any crap, kid. My number's on my badge. You want to report me? Report me. You think I give a god damn?

• Simon : They're not all freaks, George. I mean, I met a girl today...

  George : They're all Commie liberals.

  Simon : I'm a liberal.

  George : You're a Commie too.

• Simon : You going with someone?

  Linda : Yes.

  Simon : Is it serious?

  Linda : Well, yes.

  Simon : At Western?

  Linda : No.

  Simon : Could you please help me steer this.

  Linda : I am.

  Simon : Well, eh, anybody for an extra-Revolutionary relationship?

• Simon : I met this chick. I slept with her in the office and she's going with this creep or something. So, nothing's going to come out of it. Its just a big drag.

• Simon : What if the Paris Commune was this dull?

• Policeman at Gate : Look at these kids. Look at 'em. What do they want from us, huh? With their long, dirty hair. They say they want the niggers to have their playground and their swimmin' pool. Terrific. As far as I'm concerned, you take every nigger in the city and throw 'em straight in the swimmin' pool. See? I'm with the kids. You know what I mean?

  Simon : Oh, I know what you mean.

  Policeman at Gate : I've seen niggers shootin' heroin. And shootin' anything they can get their hands on.

• Simon , Linda , Student Protestors : [singing]  All we are saying is give peace a chance, All we are saying is give peace a chance, All we are saying is give peace a chance, All we are saying is give peace a chance, All we are saying is give peace a chance, All we are saying is give peace a chance, All we are saying is give peace a chance...

• Linda : No grass though. If we get busted, we got to be clean.

  Simon : Yeah, well, I don't smoke anyway.

  Linda : What are you? Speed?

  Simon : Well, actually, I don't - I don't use anything. I used to snort - everything. I got tired of it. I had a couple of bad experiences with acid and I - don't need it anymore.

  Linda : Well, I haven't tried it yet, either.

  Simon : No, I mean, really, I - carbon monoxide - I used to sniff it all the time, you know. Sit outside the tunnels. I was a carbon mohead for three years.

• Simon : Drafted, murdered, buried, reborn as a politician.

• Simon : Unless this school gives the building and the playground back to the neighborhood, unless this school gives some room for some jet black faces around here, unless this school gives up its war research program, unless this school gives up the fucking 19th Century and calls off the pigs, it's gonna be all over. Now, you've been hearing about revolution, right? Watching it on the television, reading it in the newspapers. Well, it's not there. It's here! Here! In every room, in every toilet of this idiot school there is a - there is a - I'm sorry - there is a - there is a kid waiting for tonight. And unless you call off the pigs, its gonna be a mess. And war. And - not because there has to be, but, because you started it.