Temple Grandin (film) Quotes

Temple Grandin is a TV show that debuted in 2010 on HBO. Temple Grandin stopped airing in 1970.

It features Scott Ferguson, and Emily Gerson Saines as producer, and Alex Wurman in charge of musical score.

Temple Grandin is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Temple Grandin is 107 minutes long. Temple Grandin is distributed by HBO Films.

The cast includes: Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, David Strathairn as Dr. Carlock, Julia Ormond as Eustacia, and Barry Tubb as Randy.

Temple Grandin Quotes

Claire Danes as Temple Grandin

• (Claire Danes) "Spooked cattle don't act straight. They get bruised, scraped, drowned -- that all cost money. It takes a good half an hour to calm a herd, and that all cost money too. It's not a good way to run a stockyard. I believe what's good for cattle is also good for business."

• (Professor Shanklin) "Mooing? You want to do research and write your master's on mooing?"
• (Claire Danes) "Curves. Cattle like curves. They don't moo at curves."

• (Claire Danes) "I've always wanted to understand the gentleness that other people feel by being hugged by their mothers. And now I've made a machine that lets me do that. It feels like a wire gets reconnected. Like something gets repaired."

• (Claire Danes) "Of course they're gonna get slaughtered. You think we'd have cattle if people didn't eat 'em everyday? They'd just be funny-lookin' animals in zoos. But we raise them for us. That means we owe them some respect. Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be. I would'nt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion, I'd much rather die in a slaughterhouse if it was done right."
• (David Strathairn) "It seems to me that you should be the one to design -- the slaughterhouse --"
• (Claire Danes) "We can easily do a way where they don't feel pain and they don't get scared."
• (David Strathairn) "Did you hear what I said, Temple? I think you're the one who should design it."

• (Claire Danes) "I've lots of important information on all this and I need Mr. Michaels to sign off on it."
• (Barry Tubb) "Don? Don don't sign nothing."
• (Claire Danes) "I need Mr. Michaels to sign --"
• (Barry Tubb) "You're not hearing me right. Don don't sign nothing. I sign everything around here. His signature, but I do the signing."

• (Claire Danes) "I've eaten bulls' testicles. Ate them in my aunt's ranch. Regularly. This is a waste."

• (Jeff Brown) "How'd you get on with old Don Michaels over at Scottsdale?"
• (Claire Danes) "I told him I've eaten bull testicles, sir."

• (Claire Danes) "Sir, Scottsdale Feedlot signed off on my cattle agitation study."
• (Professor Shanklin) "Smells like half the herd signed it first"
• (Claire Danes) "No, sir. Cattle can't do that."

Julia Ormond as Eustacia

• (Julia Ormond) "I have done everything that I can for Temple, and if it isn't good enough, then it just isn't good enough. But you cannot even begin to imagine the chaos, the upheavals, the tantrums and the pain."
• (Julia Ormond) "Her pain."
• (David Strathairn) "You seem to be acting as if you have done something wrong, when it's obvious you've done everything right. I think she's terrific."

• (Julia Ormond) "Temple, look at me. Look at me. Do you know how people tell each other things with their eyes? This is me telling you that I love you and I respect you."
• (Claire Danes) "I will never learn how to do that."
• (Julia Ormond) "I know."

• (Julia Ormond) "Temple, are you alright?"
• (Claire Danes) "I'm leaving now."
• (Julia Ormond) "It isn't over yet."
• (Claire Danes) "I said goodbye when I saw him, he isn't there. I've got him in my mind."

David Strathairn as Dr. Carlock

• (David Strathairn) "And trust me, we know how different she is."
• (Julia Ormond) "Different, not less."
• (David Strathairn) "Different, but not less."

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