Kinsey (2004)

Laura Linney: Clara McMillen

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Quotes 

• Clyde Martin : You know what amazes me? There's no relation between how sexy a girl looks and her sex life. The ugly ones seem to get all the action.

  Clara McMillen : I always thought ugly was an ugly word.

• Alfred Kinsey : Mac, did I ever tell you about the Mbeere?

  Clara McMillen : No, not that I recall.

  Alfred Kinsey : They're an ancient East African tribe. They believe that trees are imperfect men... eternally bemoaning their imprisonment. The roots that keep them stuck in one place. But I've never seen a discontented tree. Look at this one! The way its roots are gripping the ground. I believe it really loves it.

• Alfred Kinsey : I'm trying to find out why people hate this book so.

  Clara McMillen : You told them their grandmothers and their daughters are masturbating, having pre-maritial sex, sex with each other. What did you expect?

  Alfred Kinsey : Some respect!

• Clara McMillen : I consider myself a free-thinker, and... frankly... I find you a little churchy.

• Clyde Martin : You know, this thing between Prok and me was fine for a while, but I guess I just really miss sleeping with women.

  Alfred Kinsey : That's perfectly understandable. It's clear from your history you have a greater sexual interest in women than men.

  Clyde Martin : Good. Then you won't mind if I ask Mac to have sex with me. Only if it appeals to you, of course.

  Clara McMillen : Would it be separately or together?

  Clyde Martin : Oh, no, definitely just you and I.

  Clara McMillen : I think I might like that. What do you think, Prok?

• Alfred Kinsey : I felt like a blundering amateur. I couldn't imagine where those kids' crazy idea came from until I discovered this, "Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique."

  Clara McMillen : Oh, dear.

  Alfred Kinsey : [reading from the book]  "Oral contact, while acceptable as a means of stimulation is pathological if carried through to orgasm and possibly injurious."

  Clara McMillen : I must be in *grave* danger then.

• Alfred Kinsey : You're just afraid that I won't love you anymore, which is impossible Mac. The human animal is capable of all kinds of sexual expression. Not all sex has to be sanctioned by love, enriched by emotion. To the Greeks...

  Clara McMillen : Stop! Stop lecturing, Prok. Stop using science to justify what you've done!

• Clara McMillen : [to Clyde]  You have better things to do than to help a middle aged woman home with her groceries.

• Clara McMillen : A gall wasp in amber! How old is it?

  Alfred Kinsey : About 80 million years or so. Does Mrs. Kinsey like her wedding present?

  Clara McMillen : It's perfect.

• [last lines] 

  Alfred Kinsey : Come on, Mac.

  Clara McMillen : What's the hurry?

  Alfred Kinsey : There's a lot of work to do!