Carol Quotes

Abby Gerhard: I got my eye on this redhead who owns a steak house outside of Paramus. I'm talking serious 'Rita Hayworth' redhead.
Carol Aird: Really? You think you got what it takes to handle a redhead?

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Carol Aird: I'm going away for awhile.
Therese Belivet: When? Where?
Carol Aird: Wherever my car will take me. West. Soon. - And, I thought, perhaps, you might want to come with me. - Would you?
Therese Belivet: Yes. Yes, I would.

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Therese Belivet: Wine makes me feel naughty; but, in a good way.

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Harge Aird: You smell good.
Carol Aird: You're drunk.

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Harge Aird: Dammit! I put nothing past women like you, Carol.
Carol Aird: You married a woman like me.

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Carol Aird: My conduct! Jesus Christ. I'm her mother, for God's sake. [pause]
Carol Aird: Morality clause. I see.
Fred Haymes: Do you?
Carol Aird: No. There's nothing moral about keeping Rindy from me.

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Therese Belivet: You don't understand!
Richard Semco: Oh, I do. I understand completely. You're in a trance!
Therese Belivet: I'm wide awake! I've never been more awake in my life! Why don't you leave me alone!

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Carol Aird: My suitcase! WHERE'S MY FUCKING SUITCASE?

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Carol Aird: Harge, I want you to be happy. I didn't give you that. I failed you. We both could have given more, but... we gave each other Rindy. And that is the most breathtaking, the most generous, of gifts.

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Fred Haymes: Why don't you seat?
Carol Aird: Why is it people think you take bad news better if you're sitting down?

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Harge Aird: How do you know my wife?
Carol Aird: Harge, please.
Therese Belivet: I work at Frankenberg's, the department store.
Carol Aird: I ordered a gift from her desk. I forgot my gloves. So, she returned them and I thanked her.
Harge Aird: Well, that's bold.

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Richard Semco: What? You've got one helluva crush on this woman, is what. You're like a school girl.
Therese Belivet: I do not! I just like is all. I'm fond of anyone I can really talk to.
Richard Semco: Nice!

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Therese Belivet: How many times have you been in love?
Richard Semco: Never - until you.
Therese Belivet: Don't lie. You told me about those other two girls.
Richard Semco: Come on, they were - I had sex with them. It's not the same thing.
Therese Belivet: Meaning I'm different because - we haven't gone all the way?

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Genevieve Cantrell: You're Phil's friend, aren't you?
Therese Belivet: I am, yes, and Dannie's.
Genevieve Cantrell: Aren't you going to ask me how I knew that?
Therese Belivet: Aren't most people here Phil's friends?
Genevieve Cantrell: I can see why Phil speaks so highly of you.
Therese Belivet: Can you?

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Dannie McElroy: All of us, you know, we have affinities for people. We like certain people. You like certain people, right?
Therese Belivet: Sometimes.
Dannie McElroy: You don't like others. And you don't know why you are attracted to some people and not others. The only thing you really know is - you either are attracted or you're not.

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Therese Belivet: You have a job, Phil.
Phil McElroy: You call that a job? I call that an illusion.
Dannie McElroy: You get paid. Is money an illusion?
Phil McElroy: My kid brother - the jerk philosopher.

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Carol Aird: Ready?
Therese Belivet: Ready!

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Carol Aird: Don't be daft.

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Charles, Party Guest: You can have her. She's one of these real Greenwich Village phonies, if you ask me.

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