Equus (film) Quotes

“Richard Burton - Martin Dysart”

“Why me? Why me? First, account for me.”

“Worship all you can see, and more will appear.”

“It WAS sexy! That's what you wanted to know, isn't it?”

“And he said 'Behold, I give you Equus, my only begotten son.'”

“Forgive me. I'm not making much sense. Let me start properly, in order.”

“Double your pleasure, double your fun with double good double good double mint gum.”

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“Peter Firth - Alan Strang”

“That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: "At least I galloped — when did you?"”

“Jenny Agutter - Jill Mason”

“Colin Blakely - Frank Strang”

“Joan Plowright - Dora Strang”

“And Flequs spoke out of his chinkle chankle and he said "Behold, I give you Equus, my only begotten son."”

“Know that, when Equus leaves — if he leaves at all — it will be with your intestines in his teeth — and I don't stock replacements.”

“Dora Strang: Alan is himself. Every soul is itself. If you added up everything we ever did to him, from his first day on earth to this, you wouldn't find why he did this terrible thing... because that's him: not just all of our things added up.”

“All right! The normal is the good smile in a child's eyes. There's also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills, like a god. It is the ordinary made beautiful, it is also the average made lethal. Normal is the indispensable murderous God of health and I am his priest.”

“Prince begat Prance. And Prance begat Prankus. And Prankus begat Flankus. And Flankus begat Spankus. And Spankus begat Spunkus the Great, who lived threescore years. And Leckwus begat Neckwus. And Neckwus begat Fleckwus, the King of Spit. And Fleckwus spoke out of his chinkle-chankle...”

“How can I? In an ultimate sense, I cannot know what I do in this place, but I do ultimate things, irreversible things and I, I stand in the dark with a blade in my hand, striking at heads, I need, more desperately than my children need me, a way of seeing in the dark; what way is this? what dark is this? I cannot call it "ordained of God" — I cannot go so far. I will however, pay it so much homage. There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.”

“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. You won't gallop anymore, Alan, the horses will be quite safe. You can save your money each week and change that scooter for a car. You'll spend glorious weekends grooming that. You'll pop round to the betting shops and put fifty pence on a nag, forgetting they ever meant anything more to you than bearers of little profits and little losses. You will, however, be without pain; almost completely without...pain.. and now... for me... it never stops... the voice of Equus, out of the cave.”