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William Holden, Capucine, and Trevor Howard in The Lion (1962)

Quotes

The Lion

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  • King: [Saves Tina's life from lioness]
  • Tina: [King comes to Tina] King! I knew you loved me. You saw King chose me. He's mine!
  • King: [Coming to Tina]
  • Tina: Stay away from her. You naughty thing.
  • King: [Mounting King]
  • Tina: King will see me home. He really loves me.
  • Christine: Now your beginning to see?
  • Robert Hayward: If I hadn't seen it... Well, I wouldn't have believed it. It's like witchcraft.
  • Tina: [Riding away on King] Now do you understand King? I don't want you to have anything more to do with that nasty lioness again. Who does she think she is?
  • Robert Hayward: Bullit this must be kind of a dull life for you. No more safaris for the great white hunter.
  • John Bullit: A man can't take his wife and child on safari. And he'd be a fool to leave a woman like this alone.
  • [puts his arm around Christine]
  • Robert Hayward: Especially when there's poachers about.
  • John Bullit: Right, Sport.
  • Christine: Robert, you're not to leave the compound without a Ranger. It's a game reserve - a sanctuary for the animals, you know.
  • Robert Hayward: I promise not to bite the animals.
  • Christine: Robert, I was not your property. Bullit did not steal me.
  • Robert Hayward: Do you always call him Bullit?
  • Christine: Everybody does. Are you trying to needle me again?
  • Robert Hayward: Of course not. I just thought that by now you'd be on more - intimate terms.
  • Christine: There are times when I call him John.
  • Tina: I don't know as much about people as I do about animals. Anyway, if you'd really love me, you'd have come to see me, sometime, somehow. Animals don't forget *their* cubs.
  • Christine: What's to become of her in this wild place? Nothing but primitives and animals for companions. Two hundred miles away from nowhere.
  • Christine: You don't want her to grow up completely wild.
  • Robert Hayward: Why not? She's your daughter. She'll have your kind of appetites.
  • Tina: I want you to come meet a friend of mine.
  • Robert Hayward: A friend? You mean, your Lion friend, King?
  • Tina: King understands everything I tell him. If I tell him to be your friend, he will. But, I could make him kill you.
  • Robert Hayward: I hope you won't.
  • Robert Hayward: Who's King?
  • Christine: King is a full grown lion. He happens to be Tina's constant companion. Her best friend.
  • John Bullit: Yes, you should see them romping together. It's quite a sight.
  • John Bullit: Rather posh for an ex-husband, isn't it?
  • Tina: He's mine. He belongs to me and I belong to him. I've got absolute control over him. He does everything I tell him. He could tear you to pieces if I wanted him to.
  • John Bullit: I never worry about things like that. Worrying can kill a man.
  • Robert Hayward: Everything and everybody needs love. Always remember that.
  • Christine: I knew you knew.
  • John Bullit: And you never think it's necessary for you to explain your actions, do you. I like it that way. You know you're somebody and you never forget it. Neither do I.
  • Robert Hayward: With you and me it's different. Because, it's you I remember - and you remember me. I let you go so easily - just for the asking.
  • John Bullit: Keep calm. This is just his way of asking for Tina as his bride. It's not meant as an insult.
  • John Bullit: The child wants her mother. The mother wants her husband. The hunter wants to hunt.
  • John Bullit: Now, the fat's in the fire.
  • John Bullit: He's as dead as he'll ever be.
  • Bogo: They no come back, Bwana?
  • John Bullit: No, Bogo. They no come back.

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