Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Julie Christie: Lara

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• Komarovski : Lara, I am determined to save you from a dreadful error. There are two kinds of men, and only two, and that young man is one kind. He is high-minded. He is pure. He is the kind of man that the world pretends to look up to and in fact despises. He is the kind of man who breeds unhappiness; particularly in women. Now, do you understand?

  Lara : No.

  Komarovski : I think you do. There's another kind. Not high-minded. Not pure. But alive. Now that your taste at this time should incline towards the juvenile is understandable. But for you to marry that boy would be a disaster. Because there's two kinds of women...

  [Lara covers her ears, he forces her arms down] 

  Komarovski : There are two kinds of women and you - as we well know - are not the first kind.

  [Lara slaps him, he slaps her back] 

  Komarovski : You, my dear, are a slut.

  Lara : I am not!

  Komarovski : We'll see.

• Lara : Wouldn't it have been lovely if we'd met before?

  Zhivago : Before we did? Yes.

  Lara : We'd have got married, had a house and children. If we'd had children, Yuri, would you like a boy or girl?

  Zhivago : I think we may go mad if we think about all that.

  Lara : I shall always think about it.

• Lara : You know, you often look at me as if you knew me.

  Zhivago : I have seen you before. Four years ago. Christmas Eve.

  Lara : Were you there? No wonder you look at me. Did you know Viktor Komarovsky?

  Zhivago : Yes I did. That young man who took you away...

  Lara : My husband.

  Zhivago : Lot of courage. He made the rest of us look very feeble. As a matter of fact, I thought you both did. Good man to shoot at.

  Lara : I'd give anything never to have met him.

• Zhivago : It's the tsar.

  Katya : The tsar was an enemy of the people.

  Zhivago : Well, he didn't know he was an enemy of the people, you know.

  Lara : Well, he should have known, shouldn't he?

• Priest : You know what our Lord said to the woman taken in adultery?

  Lara : Yes, father, "Go and sin no more."

  Priest : And did she?

  Lara : I don't know, father.

  Priest : Nobody does, child. Flesh is not weak. It's strong. Only the sacrament of marriage will contain it. Remember that.

• Komarovski : Your rarified selfishness is intolerable. Larissa's in danger too.

  Zhivago : By association with me?

  Komarovski : No, not by association with you; you're small fry. By association with Strelnikov.

  Lara : I've never met Strelnikov.

  Komarovski : You're married to Strelnikov! They know that.

  Lara : I was married to Pasha Antipov.

  Komarovski : I understand, I understand. But they don't.