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Candice Bergen, Burt Reynolds, and Jill Clayburgh in Starting Over (1979)

Jill Clayburgh: Marilyn Holmberg

Starting Over

Jill Clayburgh credited as playing...

Marilyn Holmberg

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Quotes10

  • Phil Potter: What do you want?
  • Marilyn Holmberg: What do *you* want?
  • Phil Potter: I want us to live together. I want us to get married. I want us to have children together. I want us to put our teeth in the same cup. I want us buried together in a family plot with one headstone. What do you want?
  • Marilyn Holmberg: I want a separate cup for my teeth.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: [to Phil] Keep the fuck away from me! So help me, I've got a knife and I'll cut your fucking balls off!
  • [last lines]
  • Marilyn Holmberg: You bought the couch.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: Would you like some more of this?
  • Phil Potter: Did I eat some of that?
  • Marilyn Holmberg: Yeah.
  • Phil Potter: That's pudding. I hate pudding. I wonder why I ate it.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: Maybe you were so interested in me that you didn't know what you were doing.
  • Phil Potter: I knew that without the pudding.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: You bastard. I don't - breathe right without you. I just, I just breathe right when you're here. It scares the daylights out of me.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: [walks towards the bed] Don't be afraid to tell me what you want.
  • Phil Potter: I think I'd like to say good night.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: [sighs] I know. I - I understand. It's too much or it's too soon. Or you don't like me enough. Or you like me too much. Or you're frightened, or you're guilty. You can't get it up or out or in or what?
  • Phil Potter: That just about covers it.
  • Phil Potter: I wanna have sex with you.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: Gulp. I don't like the way you put that. It makes me feel very strange.
  • Phil Potter: I know. It did sound a little bit like Tarzan. It's just that I was trying to avoid the whole romantic thing.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: I don't like that, either. I hate that. But can't you just personalize it a little? I want to have sex with you, Marilyn?
  • Phil Potter: I want to have sex with you, Marilyn.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: I want to have sex with you, Potter.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: I am no one-nighter! And even if I have been, I won't be that for you.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: She seems like a very nice person. There's not too much you can tell about someone the very first time you meet them. Except, of course, that she has pretty tits.
  • John Morganson: [Marilyn bursts out laughing meeting 6'8'' John] What is it?
  • Marilyn Holmberg: No, no, no, it's nothing. I'm sorry.
  • Marva Potter: She's had a tough time recently.
  • Michael Potter: John - John's used to strange reactions. We went into it when he was my patient.
  • Marilyn Holmberg: No, it wasn't him.
  • Michael Potter: It has to do with a - a tension people feel over the disparity in height. And there's a - there's a sexual element.
  • [Marilyn laughing hysterically]
  • Michael Potter: There's - there's a sexual element. It has to...
  • Marilyn Holmberg: No, I'm sorry.
  • Michael Potter: You know, with everything else, uh, people feel: "Is everything on such a grand scale?"
  • Marva Potter: And is it?
  • John Morganson: Yes.

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