The Boys in the Band (1970 film)

"It's just that, today, I finally realized that I was raised to be a failure. I was groomed for it. [...] Today, I finally began to see how some of the other pieces of the puzzle relate to them. Like why I never finished anything I've started in my life. My neurotic compulsion to not succeed."

"There's one thing to be said about masturbation: you certainly don't have to look your best."

"Donald, you are a real card-carrying cunt."

"Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a gay corpse."

"I just didn't think I could survive another hangover, that's all. Didn't think I could get through one more morning-after ick attack. [...] Icks. Anxiety. Guilt. From that split second when your eyes pop open, and you say, "My God, what did I do last night?" And then suddenly, zap. Total recall. [...] And then that struggle to survive until lunchtime, when you have a double bloody mary. That is, if you've waited till lunch. And then you're half pissed and useless for the rest of the afternoon. So you hang on till cocktail time. And by then, you're ready for what the evening holds, which hopefully is another party, where the whole goddamn cycle starts all over again. Yeah, well, I've been on that merry-go-round long enough. And I either had to get off or die of centrifugal force."

"It's not always like it happens in plays. Not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story."

"You must never call anyone called Michael, Mickey. Those of us who are named Michael get very nervous about it."

"I feel like Old Man River. I'm tired of living and I'm scared of dying."

"Who is she? Who was she? Who does she hope to be?"

"Your lips are turning blue. You look like you've been rimming a snowman."

"Beware the hostile fag. When he's sober, he's dangerous. When he drinks, he's lethal."

"You're a sad and pathetic man. You're a homosexual and you don't want to be, but there's nothing you can do to change it. Not all the prayers to your god, not all the analysis you can buy in all the years you've go left to live. You may one day be able to know a heterosexual life if you want it desperately enough. If you pursue it with the fervor with which you annihilate. But you'll always be homosexual as well. Always Michael. Always. Until the day you die."

"Who do you have to fuck to get a drink around here?"

"Today is Harold's birthday. This is his present."

"Extraordinary. Groundbreaking. Controversial."

"He's unnaturally, naturally beautiful and he's just one of Harold's birthday presents!"

"Kenneth Nelson as Michael"

"Leonard Frey as Harold"

"Cliff Gorman as Emory"

"Laurence Luckinbill as Hank"

"Frederick Combs as Donald"

"Keith Prentice as Larry"

"Robert La Tourneaux as Cowboy Tex"

"Reuben Greene as Bernard"

"Peter White as Alan McCarthy"