Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Irene Dailey: Samia Glavia

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• Samia Glavia : ...It was just what I was trying to point out...

  Bobby : [interrupting]  Don't sit there pointing at her.

  Samia Glavia : I beg your pardon.

  Bobby : I said don't point at her, you creep.

  Samia Glavia : But I was just telling about...

  Bobby : Where do you get the ass to tell anybody anything about class, or who the hell's got it, or what she typifies? You shouldn't even be in the same room with her, you pompous celibate... You're totally full of shit! You're all full of shit.

• Samia Glavia : But, you see, man is born into the world with his existent adversary from the first. It is his historic, mythic inheritance. So, is this startling? Aggression is prehistoric. An organism behaves according to its nature. And its nature derives from the circumstances of its inheritance. The fact remains that primitive man took absolute delight in tearing his adversary apart. And there is where I think the core of the problem resides.

  Party Guest : Doesn't that seem unnecessarily apocalyptic?

  Samia Glavia : I do not make poetry.

  Rayette : Is there a TV in the house?

• Samia Glavia : [to Carl and Catherine]  I remarked to John that rationality is not a device to alter facts. But moreover, I think of it as an extraneous tool, a gadget. Somewhat like, uh, the television. To look at it any other way is ridiculous.

  Rayette : There's some good things on it though.

  Samia Glavia : I beg your pardon?

  Rayette : The TV. There's some good things on it sometimes.

  Samia Glavia : I have strong doubts.