Marilyn Monroe: Roslyn Taber

The Misfits

Roslyn Taber

Roslyn: Horse killers! Killers! Murderers! You're liars! All of you, liars! You're only happy when you can see something die! Why don't you kill yourself to be happy? You and your God's country! Freedom! I pity you! You're three dear, sweet, dead men!

Gay: What makes you so sad? I think you're the saddest girl I ever met.
Roslyn: You're the first man that ever said that. I'm usually told how happy I am.
Gay: That's because you make a man feel happy.
[He tries to kiss her, but she demurs]
Roslyn: I don't feel that way about you, Gay.
Gay: Well, don't get discouraged girl, you might.

[Last lines]
Roslyn: I'll leave tomorrow, okay?
Gay: God bless you, girl.
Roslyn: Gay, if there could be one person in the world, a child who could be brave from the beginning. I was scared to, when you asked me. But, I'm not so much now, are you?
Gay: No.
Roslyn: How do you find your way back in the dark?
Gay: Just head for that big star straight on. The highway's under it. It'll take us right home.

Guido: Have you ever been outside Reno, Ms. Taber?
Roslyn: Once I walked to the edge of town; doesn't look like there's much out there.
Gay: Everything's there!
Roslyn: Like what?
Gay: The country!
Roslyn: Well, what do you do with yourself?
Gay: Just live.
Roslyn: How does anyone "just live"?
Gay: Well, you start by going to sleep. You get up when you feel like it. You scratch yourself. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is; throw stones at a can, whistle.

Roslyn: You have to get something to be human? You never felt anything for anybody in your life. All you know is the sad words. You could blow up the world and all you would feel is sorry for yourself!

Perce: So what I want to know... what I want to know is: who do you depend on?
Roslyn: I don't know. Maybe all there really is is just the next thing. The next thing that happens. Maybe you're not supposed to remember anybody's promises.

Roslyn: We're all dying aren't we. All the husbands and all the wives. Every minute. And we're not teaching each other what we really know, are we?

Guido: She wasn't like any other woman. Stood by me 100%, uncomplaining as a tree.
Roslyn: Maybe that's what killed her.

Guido: Listen, do you want me to stop this? I know how you feel, Roslyn. I never liked this part myself. Truthfully, the only part I enjoyed is the flying. You want me to stop it?
Roslyn: You would?
Guido: You're through with Gay now, right? Well, tell me. He doesn't know what you're all about. He'll never know. Tell me, Roslyn. I been waitin'. I'm goin' out of my mind with waitin'. Come back with me. Give me a week, two weeks. Let me show you what I am. Tell me, Roslyn. Give me a reason and I'll stop it. There'll be hell to pay, but give me a reason and I'll do it.
Roslyn: A reason? You, a sensitive fellow. So sad for his wife. Crying about the bombs you dropped and the people you killed. You have to get something to be human? You never felt anything for anybody in your life. All you know is the sad words. You could blow up the world, and all you'd feel is sorry for yourself!

Roslyn: [to Guido, who is driving drunkenly at breakneck speed] Please, Guido! Don't kill us!
Guido: How do you get to know somebody, kid? I can't make a landing, and I... can't get up to God, either. Help me. I never said "help me" in my life. I don't know anybody. So how do I land, honey? Will you give me a little time? Say yes.
[Sourly]
Guido: At least say, "Hello, Guido".
Roslyn: [Nervously] Yes, Guido. Hello, Guido.
Guido: [a pause between the two] Hello, Roslyn.

Roslyn: I've known of so-called happily married couples. One time, the wife was in the hospital - to have the baby. And the husband calling me up. I mean, he was calling - *me*. They're still supposed to be happily married.
Gay: I guess you believe in true love.

Roslyn: Why can't I just say he wasn't there. He - I mean you could touch him, but he wasn't there.
Isabelle Steers: Darling, girl, if that was grounds for divorce, there'd only be about 11 marriages left in the United States.

Gay: Hey, you really go all out, don't cha? Even the way you eat. I like that. Women generally pick.
Roslyn: [smiles] You like me, huh?

Roslyn: Listen, if you want to go somewhere, I don't mind being alone.
Gay: Do I look like I want to leave?
Roslyn: I just mean I want you to do what you feel like.
Gay: You ain't kiddin'. Even when you're kiddin' you ain't kiddin'. No. You make me feel peaceful.

Roslyn: I never really saw anything grow before. How tiny those seeds were and yet they know they were supposed to be lettuces.
Gay: [laughs] You say the darnedest things. You know that, don't you?

Roslyn: That star is so far away, that by the time the light from it reaches us here on Earth, it might not even be up there anymore.
Perce: Boy, you sure know a lot, don't you, pilot?
Guido: Astronomy is in all the library books, Perce. Nothin' to it but readin'.
Roslyn: Still, it's wonderful to know things.
Guido: Knowing things don't matter much. You got somethin' a lot more important.
Roslyn: What?
Guido: You care. Whatever happens to anybody, it happens to you. You're really hooked into the whole thing, Roslyn. It's a blessing.
Roslyn: People say I'm just nervous.