The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Sondra Locke: Mick
Photos
Quotes
-
Mick : [At the gravesite] Why did he do it? I keep asking myself that over and over.
Doctor Copeland : Oh, I don't suppose any of us will ever know that. None of us ever knew him... not really. We all brought our troubles to him, never stopping to think he may have troubles of his own.
-
Mick : But Mama! I wanna make somethin' of myself, Mama! I got this feelin' inside me like I was destined for somethin'!
Mrs. Kelly : We all have that feelin' when we are young. It will pass.
Mr. Kelly : [to Mrs. Kelly] Margaret. Don't!
Mick : Well I know it won't be easy but without a high school diploma what chance have I got?
Mrs. Kelly : The same chance I had: You'll meet some fella and get married. If you're lucky you'll love him. You'll have kids. That's what life is, Mick, that's all it is.
Mick : You make it sound awful.
-
Mrs. Kelly : [watching Mick's party guests leave] Well! There they go. Can't say as I blame them, either.
[shakes her head]
Mrs. Kelly : After all you did throw 'em out!
Mick : Well I don't care! I don't care one little bit! Here I thought they were all so smart and grown-up and everything. And they're not! They're not even as grown-up as me!
-
Mick : [describing music to Singer] The beginning. This part that's on now. Now it's - slooowww. And - kinda solemn. Like old ladies, when you see 'em walkin' to church?
[smiles]
Mick : Oh, oh now a horn comes in here. A horn, a h-. A horn...
[singer flutters his fingers in front of his face]
Mick : Yeah. But it sounds like - like the sun feels on a hot day when you don't have a hat on? Oh, and everything's all much faster now. Each part has a different speed, you see. Yet it all fits together somehow. It's like, like - like water running down a hill. Like... Or li-, like the leaves are. You know, the leaves? Just before it starts to rain when the *wind* blows 'em all upside down? You ever seen that? Now all the instruments are playin' together. It's as if they were dancin'! Some of them to one tune 'n' some to another, but it all works! They're all part of one beautiful thing. Oh, I wish I could make you hear.
-
Mick : Nice idn't it? All the other girls are wearin' ten-cent store perfume. I think it smells cheap. 'Sides, it costs too much. So I just swiped some vanilla extract from the kitchen! I figure if I don't smell sexy at least I'll be appetizin'!
-
Mick : This summer sure scared me. When everything happened so fast. Papa's hip not mendin'. And me not goin' back to school. I guess I'm all grown up now. That scares me most of all.
-
Jake Blount : [he and Mick wave to each other on the merry-go-round] Hey, you wanna be sure and try the, the Whirligig, that's the best ride in the place!
Mick : Yeah well - What about the Ferris wheel?
Jake Blount : [runs up to them] Ferris wheel?
Mick : Yeah!
Jake Blount : H'Well I don't know, it'd get pretty scary up there!
Mick : Ah! We're not scared o' anything, are we Mr. Singer?
Jake Blount : Ha ha ha!
-
[last lines]
Mick : Mr. Singer? Can you hear me? I just wanted you to know, Mr. Singer, that I loved you. I loved you.
-
Harry : Listen here.
Mick : Yeah?
Harry : We've got to understand this.
[pause]
Harry : Do you?
Mick : I don't know.
Harry : I-I never did more than, than kiss a girl before this...
Mick : Me neither.
Harry : It's all my fault. Any way you look at it it's my fault. It, it's a terrible sin, and you're two years younger than me.
Mick : No. I wanted it to happen.
[pause]
Mick : I wasn't any kid. I wish I was.
[pause]
Harry : D- do you think we oughta get married or something?
Mick : Uh, no. I don't think I'll ever get married.
Harry : Mm, me neither.
