An American Werewolf in London (1981)

David Naughton: David Kessler

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Quotes 

• David : I want you to arrest me, you asshole!

  Bobby in Trafalgar Square : There's no call for that kind of language.

  David : Queen Elizabeth is a man! Prince Charles is a faggot! Winston Churchill was full of shit!

  Bobby in Trafalgar Square : That's enough.

  David : No! Let go of me!

  Alex : David, please!

  David : Shakespeare's French! Fuck! Shit! Cunt! Shit!

• David : Nurse!

  Jack : Listen to me!

  David : [crying]  Nurse!

  Jack : The undead surround me. Have you ever talked to a corpse? It's boring! I'm lonely! Kill yourself, David, before you kill others.

  [David continues crying] 

  Jack : Please don't cry.

• Dart Player : Go. Stay on the road. Keep clear of the moors.

  David : Yeah. Thank you.

  Chess Player : Beware the moon, lads.

• [still discussing how David can kill himself in order to lift the curse] 

  Harry Berman : A gun is good.

  Judith Browns : You just put the gun to your forehead and pull the trigger.

  Gerald Bringsley : If you put it in your mouth, then you'd be sure not to miss.

  David : Thank you, you're all so thoughtful.

• Jack : It's a full moon...

  Jack , David : [remembering the warning they received]  Beware the moon...

  David : And stick to the road. Oops.

  Jack : I vote we go back to the Slaughtered Lamb.

• David : I will not be threatened by a walking meat loaf!

• Jack : Did you hear that?

  David : I heard that.

  Jack : What was it?

  David : Could be a lot of things.

  Jack : Yeah?

  David : A coyote.

  Jack : There aren't any coyotes in England.

  David : The Hound of the Baskervilles.

  Jack : Pecos Bill.

  David : Heathcliff.

  Jack : Heathcliff didn't howl!

  David : No, but he was on the moors.

• Jack : [describing his funeral]  Debbie Klein cried a lot. So, so, you know what she does? She's soooo grief-stricken, she runs to find solace in Mark Levine's bed.

  David : Mark... Levine?

  Jack : An asshole! Life mocks me even in death!

• David : [while transforming]  I didn't mean to call you a meat loaf, Jack!

• Jack : Now, I'm really sorry to be upsetting you, but I have to warn you.

  David : Warn me?

  Jack : We were attacked by a werewolf.

  David : [putting his hands over his ears]  I'm not listening to this!

  Jack : On the moors, we were attacked by a lycanthrope, a werewolf. I was murdered, an unnatural death, and now I walk the earth in limbo until the werewolf's curse is lifted.

  David : Shut up!

  Jack : The wolf's bloodline must be severed; the last remaining werewolf must be destroyed. It's you, David.

• David : I'm a werewolf.

  Alex : Are you alright?

  David : I don't know, I'll let you know the next full moon.

• Jack : David, you are hurting my feelings!

  David : Hurting your feelings? Has it occurred to you that it might be unsettling to see you arise from the grave to visit me?

• Taxi Driver : Puts you in mind of the days of the old demon barber of Fleet Street, don't it?

  Alex : Sorry?

  Taxi Driver : The murders.

  David : What murders?

  Taxi Driver : Haven't you heard? Last night... six of 'em. All in different parts of the city, all mutilated. He must be a real right maniac, this fella.

• David : [sees Jack's reflection in bathroom mirror and shrieks]  You're not real.

  Jack : Ah, don't be a putz, David. Come here.

  [motions, walks out of bathroom and looks inside bedroom door] 

  Jack : A nurse, huh?

  David : [closes bedroom door]  Shhh. Come on.

  [motions and walks to living room] 

  David : What are you doing here?

  Jack : I wanted to see you.

  [picks up Mickey Mouse figure, moves its arm and uses high-pitched voice] 

  Jack : Hi, David!

  David : Put that down! Okay, you've seen me. Now, go away.

  Jack : I'm sorry I'm upsetting you, David, but you don't understand what's going on.

  David : I understand all right. You're one of the "undead," and I'm a werewolf.

  Jack : Yes, that's right.

  David : Get out of here, Jack.

  Jack : Tomorrow night's the full moon. You're gonna change. You'll become...

  Jack : I know. I know. A monster.

  Jack : You've gotta kill yourself, David, before it's too late.

  David : Are you really dead, Jack?

  Jack : What do you think?

  David : I think I've lost my mind. I think you're not real. I think you're just another part of bad dream.

  Jack : You've gotta believe me David.

  David : Believe what? That tomorrow night, under the full moon, I'll sprout hair and fangs and eat people? Bullshit!

  Jack : Oh, goddammit, David, please believe me! You'll kill and make others like me. I'm not havin' a nice time here. You've gotta take your own life.

  David : I will not accept this. Go away.

  Jack : This is not pretend, David.

  David : I will not be threatened by a walking meatloaf!

• David : I'm going to the police. Jack was right.

  Alex : Jack is dead!

  David : Jack is dead and six people are dead. There's gonna be a full moon tonight. I'm going to the cops.

  Alex : David, please be rational. Let's go to Dr. Hirsch.

  David : Yeah, be rational, sure. I'm a fucking werewolf, for Christ's sake!

• [first lines] 

  Truck Driver : That way is Proctor, and over here is the moors. I go this way.

  Jack : Thanks for the ride, sir. You have lovely sheep.

  Truck Driver : Boys, keep off the moors, stick to the roads. The best to ya...

  David : Thanks again.

  [then to the sheep] 

  David : We'll miss you.

  David : Bye girls...

• David : How could there have been witnesses? It was so dark. We were running, and I fell and Jack went to help me up, and this thing came from nowhere. I don't know what they're talking about.

• David : [David has returned to Alex's flat wearing a womans coat]  Good Morning. I'm freezing.

  Alex : David. Where on earth have you been.

  David : [excited]  Alex you wont believe this. I have lost my mind. I woke up at the zoo.

  Alex : The zoo?

  David : [confused]  What did I do last night?

  Alex : You don't remember?

  David : Well I remember seeing you to the door and waving goodbye, and getting locked out of the flat and coming in through the front window, I started to read then I woke up naked at the zoo.

• Alex : I'll be perfectly honest with you David, I'm not in the habit of bringing home stray, young American men.

  David : I should hope not.

  Alex : I find you very attractive - and a little bit sad.

• David : Look at me, here I sit in a porno theatre in Piccadilly Circus talking to a corpse.

• David : I think Debbie Klein is a mediocre person with a good body.

  Jack : There is nothing mediocre about Debbie Klein's body.

  David : She's a jerk!

  Jack : You're talking about the woman I love.

  David : I'm talking about a girl you want to fuck, so give me a break.

  Jack : Alright. Well, I have to make love to her. It's really very simple. She has not choice.

  David : You know, it just fascinates me how much energy you spend on somebody so dull.

  Jack : There's nothing dull - about that body.

  David : We've known Debbie - what? Since the 8th grade? How many years of foreplay is that?

  Jack : She says she likes me too much.

• David : It wasn't a lunatic.

  Alex : I beg your pardon.

  David : It was an animal.

  Alex : What?

  David : A wolf.

  Dr. J. S. Hirsch : Did he say wolf?

• David : I don't know why I feel so good. I haven't felt this good in a long time! You know, my body feels great! I feel like an athlete. Let's go back to your place for a quickie, huh?

• David : I could hang myself.

  Jack : No. No, if you did it wrong it could be painful. You'd choke to death.

• Alex : Remember I'm just a working girl, so don't expect too much.

  David : Do you live by yourself?

  Alex : Yes.

  David : Good.

  Alex : There's a shop on the corner, we'll get some food.

  David : [Inside store at checkout]  This suffs expensive.

  Alex : It's outrageous. My pay can't possibly keep up with inflation.

  David : How do you live?

  Alex : Carefully.

• David : Maybe it's a sheep dog... let's keep going.

• David : [to himself]  I'm going completely crazy.

• David : Maybe its a sheep dog... lets keep going

• David : My memory is fine. It's my sanity I'm beginning to worry about.

• Jack : Do you have any hot soup?

  Barmaid : No.

  David : Well, do you have any coffee then?

  Barmaid : No.

  Jack : Do you have any hot chocolate?

  Barmaid : We've spirits and beers. If its something hot you want, you can have tea.

  Jack : Then you have tea?

  Barmaid : No.

• David : That's easy for you to say. You're already dead.

  Gerald Bringsley : No, David. Harry and I and everyone you murdered are not dead. The undead!

• David : It's a sheepdog or something. Come on, turn slowly. Let's walk away.

• Jack : Remember the Alamo.

  Barmaid : I beg your pardon?

  David : Oh, he was just joking.

  Barmaid : Joking? I remember the Alamo. I saw it once in London... in Leicester Square.

  Chess Player : She means in the Cinema--that film with John Wayne.

  David : Oh yeah, of course. Right, with Laurence Harvey. Very bloody.

  Chess Player : Bloody awful, if you ask me.

  [he and the bar patrons laugh uproariously]