Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Omar Sharif: Yuri

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• 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.

• Gromeko : [Aghast while reading newspaper]  They've shot the Czar. And all his family.

  [crumples newspaper] 

  Gromeko : Oh, that's a savage deed. What's it for?

  Zhivago : It's to show there's no going back.

• Tonya : Yuri, there's an extraordinary girl at this party.

  Zhivago : I know. I'm dancing with her.

• Pasha : I used to admire your poetry.

  Zhivago : Thank you.

  Pasha : I shouldn't admire it now. I should find it absurdly personal. Don't you agree? Feelings, insights, affections... it's suddenly trivial now. You don't agree; you're wrong. The personal life is dead in Russia. History has killed it. I can see why you might hate me.

  Zhivago : I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

• Zhivago : What happens to a girl like that, when a man like you is finished with her?

  Komarovski : You interested?

  Zhivago : You shouldn't smoke. You've had a shock.

  [he pulls the cigar from Viktor's mouth, tosses it into the toilet] 

  Komarovski : I give her to you, Yuri Andreevich. Wedding present.

• Zhivago : [to Yevgraf]  You lay life on a table and cut out all the tumors of injustice. Marvelous. Ah, but cutting out the tumours of injustice, that's a deep operation. Someone must keep life alive while you do it. By living. Isn't that right?

• Liberius : Comrade Doctor, I need a medical officer.

  Zhivago : I'm sorry, I have a wife and child in Varykino.

  Razin, Liberius' Lieutenant : ...and a mistress in Yuriatin.

  Liberius : [laughs]  Comrade Medical Officer, we are Red partisans, and we SHOOT deserters!

• Razin, Liberius' Lieutenant : [Zhivago is trying to aide a wounded White soldier]  It does not matter!

  Zhivago : Have you ever loved a woman, Razin?

  Razin, Liberius' Lieutenant : I once had a wife and four children.

• Pasha : The private life is dead - for a man with any manhood.

  Zhivago : I saw some of your 'manhood' on the way at a place called Minsk.

  Pasha : They were selling horses to the Whites.

  Zhivago : It seems you've burnt the wrong village.

  Pasha : They always say that, and what does it matter? A village betrays us, a village is burned. The point's made.

  Zhivago : Your point - their village.

• Zhivago : [to the local commissar after examining an old sickly man]  It isn't typhus. It's another disease we don't have in Moscow... starvation.

• Zhivago : You have no right whatever on me from work.

  Delegate : As a soviet deputy I...

  Zhivago : That gives you the power, not the right.

• Komarovski : Strelnikov is dead.

  Zhivago : What?

  Komarovski : Spare me your expressions of regret. He was a murderous neurotic of no use to anyone. Do you see how this affects Larissa? You don't. You're a fool. She's Strelnikov's wife. Why do you think they haven't arrested her - is this the usual practice? Why do you think they had her watched at Yuriatin? They were waiting for Strelnikov.

  Zhivago : If they thought Strelnikov would come running to his wife, they didn't know him...

  Komarovski : They knew him well enough. He was only five miles from here when they caught him. He was arrested on the open road. He didn't conceal his identity - indeed throughout the interview he insisted they call him Pavel Antipov, which is his right name, and refused to answer to the name Strelnikov. On his way to execution, he took a pistol from one of the guards and blew his own brains out.

  Zhivago : Oh my God... don't tell Lara this.

  Komarovski : I think I know Lara at least as well as you. But don't you see how this affects her position? She's served her purpose. These men that came with me today as an escort will come for her and the child tomorrow as a firing squad! Now, I know exactly what you think of me, and why, but if you're not coming with me she's not coming with me! So, are you coming with me? Do you accept the protection of this ignoble Caliban on any terms that Caliban cares to make... or is your delicacy so exorbitant that you would sacrifice a woman and a child to 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?

• 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.

• Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : [narrates]  He was walking about with a noose round his neck and didn't know. So I told him what I'd heard about his poems.

  Zhivago : Not... liked? Not liked by whom? Why not liked?

  Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : [narrates]  So I told him that

  Zhivago : Do you think it's personal, petit-bourgeoise and self-indulgent?

  [Yevgraf nods] 

  Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : [narrates]  I lied. But he believed me.