Naked Lunch (1991)

Judy Davis: Joan Frost, Joan Lee

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Quotes 

• [Joan Lee is explaining the joys of injecting oneself with insecticide] 

  Bill Lee : What do you mean, "it's a literary high"?

  Joan Lee : It's a Kafka high. You feel like a bug.

• Bill Lee : I thought you were finished with doing weird stuff.

  Joan Lee : I thought I was too, but I guess I'm not.

• Joan Lee : [typing]  It's a little uncivilised.

  Bill Lee : More uncivilised.

  Joan Lee : MORE uncivilised?

• Bill Lee : My God, Joan. You're acting like a full-fledged junkie. And it's *bug powder*, for Christ's sake!

  Joan Lee : Oh. I do have a little bit of a habit, yes, hon. You ought to at least give me a few marks for originality.

• Bill Lee : How did you know it wouldn't just kill you?

  Joan Lee : I don't know, I felt drawn to it. Like you'd feel drawn to an old lover.

• Tom Frost : This is how Fadela's been controlling you, Joan. Your blood, your pubic hair, your fingernails.

  Joan Frost : Fadela controls nobody, and you know it. We have forced control upon her.

• Joan Frost : You were a hit with Cloquet. He said you did a little routine that made him chuckle to himself all night long.

• Bill Lee : I suffer from sporadic hallucinations.

  Joan Frost : Join the Club.

• Joan Frost : It launched itself off of its own accord! Did you see that?

• Joan Frost : No-one controls me.

  Hafid : That's not true! She's making you say everything! Even that!

• Joan Frost : I don't like machines, they intimidate me.

• Joan Frost : We don't trespass on each other.

• Bill Lee : Where is Hank?

  Joan Lee : He got embarrassed and left.

  Bill Lee : Not before he came, I hope.

  Joan Lee : Hank's on junk. He doesn't come.

  Bill Lee : Not before you came, I hope.

  Joan Lee : I'm on bug powder. I don't need to come.

• Joan Lee : I'm shooting up your bug powder. You might like to try it yourself. Or, you might not.

  Bill Lee : I ran out in the middle of a job. You gotta stop using the stuff, Joan. They ration it out like snakebite serum.

  Joan Lee : Well, just do what everybody else does, cut it with baby laxative. The roaches will shit themselves to death.

• Joan Frost : Did you come to Interzone for the boys?

  Bill Lee : No, I didn't.

  Joan Frost : Tom and I did. That's quite a hot threesome you arrived with. They're very cheap and they're really a lot of fun.

• Bill Lee : [Joan typing in Arabic]  I can't read it. Is it erotic?

  Joan Frost : It's, um, fairly erotic. Kind of uncivilized.

  Bill Lee : More erotic. Filthier.

  Joan Frost : Filthier? Okay.

  Bill Lee : All you think about.

• Bill Lee : All those women - they work for her?

  Joan Frost : In a sense. They're all Fadela's lovers. I'm going to have to - I'm gonna have to stay here with Fadela - do penance.