The Russia House (film) Quotes

The Russia House (film) is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . The Russia House ended in 1970.

It features Paul Maslansky as producer, Jerry Goldsmith in charge of musical score, and Ian Baker (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

The Russia House (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Russia House (film) is 122 minutes long. The Russia House (film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Michael Kitchen as Clive, Sean Connery as Barley, Michelle Pfeiffer as Katya, Roy Scheider as Russell, Sean Connery as Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair, John Mahoney as Brady, Ken Russell as Walter, James Fox as Ned, and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Dante.

The Russia House (film) Quotes

Sean Connery as Bartholomew "Barley" Scott Blair

• (Sean Connery) "Aren't we supposed to be such good friends now?"
• (James Fox) "Oh, my dear lord --"
• (Ken Russell) "Because this year it suits them to roll over on their backs and play nice doggie? Because this year they're on the floor anyway? You ninny. All the more reason to spy the living daylights out of them. Kick them in the balls every time they get to their knees."

• (Sean Connery) "Who are you, Dante? What do you do for a living?"
• (Klaus Maria Brandauer) "I am a moral outcast."
• (Sean Connery) "Well it's always nice to meet a writer."

• (Sean Connery) "I'm not the man you thought I was."
• (Klaus Maria Brandauer) "You do not have to remind me that man is not equal to his rhetoric."

• (Sean Connery) "Yes, because I prefer Russia. It's as corrupt as America, but there's less bulls***."

• (Sean Connery) "If there is to be a hope we must all betray our country, we have to save each other because all victims are equal and none is more equal than others. It's everyone's duty to start the avalanche."

• (Sean Connery) "So there was a crunch: to save your precious secrets or to trade them for Katya and her family. The easiest decision I ever made."

• (Sean Connery) "Smile, you must smile: they're watching us, your side and my side. We're going to beat them both. I can't save Yakov, nothing can; but you're safe, the children are safe, uncle Matvey's safe. I love you and I won't let you down."

• (Sean Connery) "Any decent church would have burned you bastards years ago."

• (Unnamed) "Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists?"
• (Sean Connery) "Hmmm -- ah, there was a trombone player, Wilfred Baker."
• (Sean Connery) "He's the only jazz musician I can think of who is completely devoid of anarchist tendencies."

• (Sean Connery) "It was my first good contract: real people for unreal arguments."

• (Sean Connery) "I love you. All my failings were preparation for me to you. It's like nothing I have ever known: it's unselfish love, grown up love. You know it is. It's mature, absolute, thrilling love."

Roy Scheider as Russell

• (Roy Scheider) "How the f*** do you peddle an arms race when the only asshole you've got to race against is yourself?"

• (Roy Scheider) "The trouble is, a lot of very favorite sons are in danger of having their rice bowls broken, all on account of these god**** notebooks. The Soviet military effort is stalled, the American military effort is stalled. These notebooks say their rocket motors suck instead of blow, they can't do solid fuel for s*** --"

• (Roy Scheider) "I am an honest-to-God glasnostic. My parents were glasnostics from way back. My children will be raised glasnostic, even though I don't have any children."

• (Roy Scheider) "Mr. Blair, we are buying a Picasso, ok? You don't mind an occasional metaphor now and then, do you?"
• (Sean Connery) "Not at all."
• (Roy Scheider) "Good. Some people don't like my metaphors; I don't know why, but -- Anyway, everyone in this room is buying the same Picasso. It's very rare -- medium rare -- well done, what the f***. The bottom line question is: did Picasso paint it? And you're the man who is selling it to us?"
• (Sean Connery) "It is not my Picasso, Russell, it is not my Picasso. And I'm not saying it is a Picasso. And, furthermore, I'm not selling it to you. And, lastly, I don't give a f*** whether you buy it or not."

• (Roy Scheider) "Dante is going to phone Katya at the hospital. If he does that, will you shut the f*** up? Or stay out of my operation?"

Michael Kitchen as Clive

• (Michael Kitchen) "And is there a conclusion?"
• (Roy Scheider) "Clive, there is a conclusion: drop it down the toilet."
• (James Fox) "And is that what you think, Russell?"
• (Roy Scheider) "Well, expert opinion has that this notebook was written very quickly -- or very slowly. By a man, or a woman. The writer was right-handed, or he was left-handed. What I think? For "experts," there's no toilet deep enough."

• (Michael Kitchen) "Do you believe this nonsense?"
• (Sean Connery) "I don't know. I believe it when I say it. But you've got to be there: you're taking a leak in some filthy public urinal and the man in the next stall leans across and asks you about God or Kafka or freedom versus responsibility; so you tell him because you know, because you're from the West. And before you've finished shaking your dick you think:"What a great country." That's why I love them -- and they're very fond of me."

• (Michael Kitchen) "You live in a free society; you have no choice."

Ken Russell as Walter

• (Ken Russell) "Reconstruction. Openness. You don't reconstruct the balance of terror and open the ultimate can of worms."

• (Ken Russell) "This is just like school. Dear old, bloody old, school."

• (Ken Russell) "How do you live with yourself?"
• (Sean Connery) "Actually I don't live with myself. I tend to give myself a pretty wide berth."

John Mahoney as Brady

• (John Mahoney) "Wasn't Ray the sweetest man you ever met?"
• (Sean Connery) "Ray was a prince."
• (John Mahoney) "Ever play chess with him?"
• (Sean Connery) "As a matter of fact I did."
• (John Mahoney) "Who won?"
• (Sean Connery) "I did."
• (John Mahoney) "So did I."

Michelle Pfeiffer as Katya

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "You have bewitched my family. My children think all you British are Santa Claus in beautiful tweed clothes."
• (Sean Connery) "There's no Santa Claus. Nobody is what it seems. Except you."

• (Michelle Pfeiffer) "Glasnost gives everyone the right to complain and accuse, but it doesn't make shoes."

James Fox as Ned

• (James Fox) "The issue is: "why"? That's what you're looking for all the time: we trust the motive, we trust the man, and we can trust the material. Why did Dante pick on Katya? Why does he put her life at risk? Why does she let him? Is she a spy?"

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