Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Quotes
Teacher: If ya don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding! How can ya have any pudding if ya don't eat ya meat?
Teacher: What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? No! Poems, no less! Poems, everybody!
[classmates laughs]
Teacher: The laddie reckons himself a poet!
[reads poem from Pink's little black book]
Teacher: "Money, get back / I'm all right, Jack / Keep your hands off my stack / New car / Caviar / Four-star daydream / Think I'll buy me a football team."
[slams the book onto Pink's desk]
Teacher: Absolute rubbish, laddie.
[whacks him with a ruler, growls at Pink]
Teacher: Get on with your work.
Rock and Roll Manager: [Pinks Manager,Doctor and roadies trying to fix him] The boys an asthmatic.
Hotel Manager: [Outraged] Asthmatic?
Rock and Roll Manager: He's an Artist!
Judge Arse: [disgusted, singing] The evidence before the court is incontrovertible, there's no need for the jury to retire! In all my years of judging, I have never heard before some one more deserving of the full penalty of law! The way you made them suffer, your exquisite wife and mother, fills me with the urge to *defecate*! Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear, I sentence you to be exposed before your peers. Tear Down The Wall!
Pink: [singing] Are there any queers in the audience tonight? Get 'em up against the wall! That one in the spotlight, he don't look right! Get him up against the wall! And that one looks Jewish... and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff raff into the room? That one's smoking a joint! And that one's got spots! If I had my way, I'd have all of you shot!
Pink: [singing] Is there anybody out there? Is there anybody out there? Is there anybody out there? Is there anybody out there?
[Groupie is amazed at Pink's room, while Pink watches TV, ignoring her]
Groupie: Oh my God... what a fabulous room. Are all these your guitars?
[touches guitars]
Groupie: God, this place is bigger than our whole apartment.
[pause]
Groupie: You like the tube, huh? Can I get a drink of water? Can I get YOU a drink of water?
[goes into the bathroom]
Groupie: Oh, wow! Look at this tub? Wanna take a bath?
[comes back out]
Groupie: What are you watching? Hello?
["Hello" echoes]
Groupie: Hey, are you feeling okay?
Pink: [singing] We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teacher, leave them kids alone. Hey, teachers, leave them kids alone! All in all, it's just another brick in the wall. All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.
Rock and Roll Manager: [Discovers hotel room trashed, and Pink unconsious] Fuck me! He's gone completely around the bleedin' twist!
[to Pink]
Rock and Roll Manager: You vicious bastard, you never did like me, did you?
Pink: [singing] Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A snapshot in the family album. Daddy, what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd ya leave behind for me? All in all, it was just a brick in the wall. All in all, it was all just bricks in the wall.
Prosecutor: Good morning, Worm, Your Honor! / The crown will testify that the prisoner who stands before you / Was caught red-handed showing feelings / Showing feelings of an almost human nature / This will not do.
Mother: [singing] Hush now baby, baby, don't you cry / Mother's gonna make all of your nightmares come true / Mother's gonna put all of her fears into you / Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing / She won't let you fly, but she might let you sing / Mama will keep baby cozy and warm / Ooooh babe, ooooh babe, oooooh babe / Of course Mama's gonna help build the wall.
Pink: [trashes his room, throws the TV out the window] Take That, Fuckers!
Pink: Stop! I wanna go home, take off this uniform, and leave the show. I'm waiting in this cell because I have to know... have I been guilty all this time?
[Pink is playing the piano, ignoring his wife]
Pink's Wife: [muffled, slowly growing more distinct] Hello? Hello? Is there anybody in there?
[Pink looks up, finally]
Pink's Wife: Do you remember me? I'm the one from the registry office.
Pink: [singing] I don't need no arms around me. And I don't need no drugs to calm me. I have seen the writing on the wall. Don't think I need anything at all. No! Don't think I'll need anything at all. All at all, it was all just bricks in the wall. All in all, you were all just bricks in the wall.
[first lines]
Pink: [singing] So ya, thought ya might like to, go to the show. To feel the warm thrill of confusing that space cadet glow. Tell me is something eluding you sunshine? Is this not what you expected to see? If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes, you'll just have to claw your way through this disguise!
Pink: Stoooooooooop!
Teacher: Wrong! Do it again!
Pink's Friend: Pinky get off the track here comes a train!
Pink: [singing quitely to himself with his poems in a bathroom stall] Do you remember me? The way it used to be? Do you think we should have been closer? Put out my hand, just to touch your soft hair. To make sure in the darkness, that you were still there. And I have to admit, I was just a little afraid. Of the ones living under the dirty old knife. And the ones who were pointed with guns to their backs.
Pink: [speaking and screaming into megaphone] The worms will convince outside Brixton Bud Station will be moving along at about twelve o' clock down Stockwell road, and then point will start heading Abbots road and walk calmly with resistance, leaving twelve minutes to three will be moving along Lambeth road towards Vauxhall Bridge. Now when we get to the other side of Vauxhall Bridge where in the Westminster brought area it's quite possible we may encounter some Jew boys all the way from four and five and take them back by the way we go. And they came Midds Abbots and we saw them killed! Million of gay people screaming murder, murder came all around and shoot! Remember to make it to high clock corner or all of you are killed! Were in the door! now close the door, close the damn door! the door! the door! the door!
Playground Father: [pushing kids on roundabout] Easy, be careful.
Playground Father: [Little Pink tugs his coat] What?
Little Pink: Will you put me on that?
Playground Father: Well where's your mum at?
Little Pink: She's gone to the shops.
Playground Father: Yes all right.
Playground Father: [Pushes little pink and the other kids on the roundabout] How's that then enjoying it?
Playground Father: Ooh Wabba lovely lovely.
Playground Father: [Little Pink follows him] What you again?
[shoos him away]
Playground Father: Off you go, Go on.
Playground Father: [Little pink still follows him much to the Mans annoyance] What have I told you about this? What have I told you; your not mine. Now sling your hook, Go on sling your hook.
Little Pink: [walks to a swing set by himself and sits down as he sees many children playing with their parents, and frowns]
Rock and Roll Manager: [Trying to get Pink Up] He's coming around there you see! How do ya feel?
Pink's Wife: You little shit you're in it now I hope they throw away the key you should have talked to me more often than did, but you had to go you're way have you broken any homes up lately? Just 5 minutes worm your honer him me alone
Pink: And that's how the High Command took my Daddy from me.
Pink: Mother, am I really dying?
Pink: You'll always be a baby to me.
Pink: [singing] I got the obligatory Hendrix perm, And the inevitable pinhole burns, All down the front of my favorite satin shirt, I've got nicotine stains on my fingers, I've got a silver spoon on a chain...
Pink: [singing] Got those swollen-hand blues, I've got 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from...
Pink: [singing] Why are you running away?
Pink: [singing] Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb, Mother, do you think they'll like the song, Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls, Mother, should I build the wall...
Pink: [singing] I got a strong urge to fly, But I got nowhere to fly to...
Pink: [singing] You are only coming through in waves, Your lips move, But I can't hear what you're saying...
Pink: [in his fascist persona] I got some bad news for you, sunshine. Pink isn 't well. He's, uh, back at the hotel. And they sent us along as a surrogate band. Now tonight, we 're gonna find out where you fans really stand!
Pink: [singing] When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse, Out of the corner of my eye, I turned to look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now, The child is grown, The dream is gone, I, have become, Comfortably numb...
Pink: [singing] Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn, Remember how she said, That we would meet again, Some sunny day, Vera, Vera, What has become of you, Does anybody else in here, Feel the way I do...
Pink: [singing] Oh, babe, When I pick up the phone, There's still nobody home...
Pink: [singing] Would you like to see, Britannia rule again, My friend, All you need to do, Is follow the worms...
Lover: [sleeping in bed with Mrs. Floyd, the phone rings, he answers] Hello?
Telephone Operator: Yes, a collect call for Mrs. Floyd from Mr. Floyd. Will you accept the charge from the United States? I wonder why he hung up. Is there supposed to be someone else there besides your wife, sir, to answer?
Lover: [operator calls back, he answers the phone again] Hello?
Telephone Operator: This is United States calling. Are we reaching... See, he keeps hanging up, and it's a man answering.
Teacher: I always said he'd come to no good in the end you're honer if they let me have my what I could have flayed him into shape, but my hands were tied the bleeding hearts and artist let him get away with murder I hope you hammer him today.
