Klute (1971) - Quotes

Dangerous Encounters with a Call Girl

Taglines: Lots of guys swing with a call girl like Bree. One guy just wants to kill her.

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Perceptions of Identity and Profession

Taglines: You'd never take her for a call girl. You'd never take him for a cop.

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A Mystery Surrounds Missing Man and Deaths

Taglines: One man is missing. Two girls lie dead. ...and someone breathing on the other end of the phone.

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Exploring Guilt and Manipulation in Relationships

Peter Cable: I have no idea what I'm going to do. I'm so deeply puzzled. I've done terrible things, I've killed three people. Really, I don't consider myself a terrible man, no more than-than others. See, Tom Gruneman had discovered me. We were here on business together and he found me and Jane McKenna in my hotel room. She had become hysterical and she started screaming and I guess I hit her. I don't actually recall, it all happened so quickly. Anyway, she fell and hit her head and that's when Tom came in the room. I guess he must have heard her screaming. But I never understood really why she... she did that, she had never screamed before. And it was the revulsion and the contempt that I saw in his face. And the certainty that sooner or later he would use it against me within the company. And I tried to endure that as long as I possibly could, you see. Just want me to keep on talking, don't you?

Bree Daniel: No, I don't. I do understand, I really do.

Peter Cable: Make a man think that he's accepted. It's all a great big game to you. I mean, you're all obviously too lazy and too warped to do anything meaningful with your lives, so you prey upon the sexual fantasies of others. I'm sure it comes as no great surprise to you when I say that there are little corners in everyone which were better off left alone; sicknesses, weaknesses, which-which should never be exposed. But... that's your stock in trade, isn't it - a man's weakness? And I was never really fully aware of mine... until you brought them out.

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Tension Between Klute and Ligourin Emerges

John Klute: I understand you use narcotics. Maybe I can have a policeman come here and look at your... arms.

Frank Ligourin: You know, I may stand better with the cops than you do, pal. Why don't you just sit down and relax, eh?

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Power Dynamics in Professional Relationships

Frank Ligourin: I was just finishing up some work here. I used to be a photographer, you know... before I got into publishing.

Bree Daniels: He knows you're a pimp, Frankie. He knows you were my pimp.

Frank Ligourin: [annoyed; she leaves] Excuse me... Bree, would you mind waiting outside? I always respected Bree. I want to make something clear: you know, I don't go to a woman. A woman comes to me. Her choice.

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Exploring Identity and Hypocrisy in Klute

Bree Daniel: What's your bag, Klute? What do you like? Are you a talker? A button freak? Maybe you like to get your chest walked around with high heeled shoes. Or make em watch you tinkle. Or maybe you get off wearing women's clothes. Goddamned hypocrite squares!

John Klute: Okay...

Bree Daniels: I hope this doesn't make my cold any worse.

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City Life and Its Temptations

Bree Daniel: Tell me, Klute. Did we get you a little? Huh? Just a little bit? Us city folk? The sin, the glitter, the wickedness? Huh?

John Klute: Ah - that's so pathetic.

Bree Daniel: Fuck off!

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Struggles of a Former Lifestyle

Bree Daniel: Look, will you please just try to get it from my side? A year ago I was in the life full time, I was living on Park Avenue. It was a very nice apartment, leather furniture... and then the cops dropped on me, they caged me. They started asking me about a guy, some guy, that I'm supposed to have seen a year before that. Two years ago! He could be in Yemen. Gruneman... what does that mean? It's a name! I don't know him! And they start showing me these pictures, and they don't mean anything to me. And then they started asking me if I've been getting letters from some guy out in Cabbageville.

John Klute: [coldly] Tuscarora.

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Questioning Trust and Survival

John Klute: Miss Daniels, can I ask you some questions now?

Bree Daniel: [notices Klute's surveillance gear] You bastard! Is this a shakedown, hon'? Cause you picked a loser, I don't have it.

John Klute: I'm looking for Tom Gr...

Bree Daniel: [interrupts him] Jesus, do you think I'd still be living in this kip if I was still in the line fulltime? I'd be back on Park Avenue.

John Klute: Can I ask you some questions?

Bree Daniel: Or you'll have me thrown back in the brig, you mean.

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Uncertainty and the Desire for Change

Bree Daniel: [voiceover] I have no idea what's going to happen. I... I just can't stay in this city, you know? Maybe I'll come back. You'll probably see me next week.

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The Illusion of Perfection in Performance

Bree Daniel: And for an hour... for an hour, I'm the best actress in the world, and the best fuck in the world.

Valuing Relationships Over Transactional Encounters

Bree Daniel: Men have paid $200 for me and here you are turning down a freebie. You could get a perfectly good dishwasher for that.

Reflections on Intimacy and Expectations

Bree Daniel: What's the matter? You were terrific. A real tiger. Are you upset because you didn't make me come? I never come with a john. Don't feel bad about losing your virtue. I sort of knew you would. Everybody always does.

The Reality of Pimp Relationships

Bree Daniel: Oh ho, you're very square, cookie. No, pimps don't do dates for you, they just take your money.

Embracing Authenticity for Happiness

Bree Daniel: Nothing is wrong. I think the only way that any of us can ever be happy is to... is to let it all hang out, you know. Do it all, and fuck it.