Simon (1980)

Judy Graubart: Lisa

Quotes 

• Lisa : Simon, they hypnotized you. Your friend, Becker, Mr. Wizard, he washed your brain and it shrunk!

• Commune leader : We have seen you on the sacred box.

  Lisa : The sacred box?

  Commune leader : The sacred box with the pictures.

  Lisa : Oh, television.

  Commune leader : We do not speak its name.

• Lisa : What happened?

  Josh : Well, when he came out, he was convinced he'd turned into a six foot tall penis named Bob. Other than that, he's perfectly normal.

• Lisa : Are you telling me that you come from out of space?

  Prof. Simon Mendelssohn : Not out of space. Outer space! Out of space doesn't mean anything.

• Lisa : I went to the drug store to buy this test. They have these tests you can buy now. You do it yourself and it turned out positive. And so, I went to the clinic, because, I had them do a test on me and theirs was also positive. It confirmed - that they were both positive.

  Prof. Simon Mendelssohn : Right. So, what's that? You sick or what?

  Lisa : No, I'm pregnant.

  Prof. Simon Mendelssohn : Are you sure?

  Lisa : I guess I'm positive.

• Prof. Simon Mendelssohn : I give my best stuff too. Shakespeare. Pogo. The Prophets.

  Lisa : Maybe they don't want their lives improved. You know, maybe they like their lives the way they are.

  Prof. Simon Mendelssohn : They like that fake music in the elevators? They like those thin, gray hamburgers with the imitation sauce?

  Lisa : Simon, you just can't show up out of nowhere and tell a whole country what to like.

  Prof. Simon Mendelssohn : Emptiness. Emptiness. Ten billion years of evolution. Up from the slime! For what? They call this a culture.

  Lisa : I don't think its so bad. I think we've produced some good things too.

  Prof. Simon Mendelssohn : Oh, yeah? Such as?

  Lisa : I don't know. Fred Astaire. Penicillin. Air Conditioning.

• Lisa : Do you remember what happened last time with the peyote?

  Prof. Simon Mendelssohn : Nothing happened with the peyote.

  Lisa : You threw up for five days! You were dizzy. You missed your class. You made sounds like a wolf howling.

  Prof. Simon Mendelssohn : Three days is a completely normal side affect.