Naked Lunch (1991)

Judy Davis: Joan Frost, Joan Lee

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Quotes 

• [Joan Lee is explaining the joys of injecting oneself with insecticide] 

  Bill Lee : What do you mean, "it's a literary high"?

  Joan Lee : It's a Kafka high. You feel like a bug.

• Bill Lee : I thought you were finished with doing weird stuff.

  Joan Lee : I thought I was too, but I guess I'm not.

• Joan Lee : [typing]  It's a little uncivilised.

  Bill Lee : More uncivilised.

  Joan Lee : MORE uncivilised?

• Bill Lee : How did you know it wouldn't just kill you?

  Joan Lee : I don't know, I felt drawn to it. Like you'd feel drawn to an old lover.

• Joan Frost : You were a hit with Cloquet. He said you did a little routine that made him chuckle to himself all night long.

• Bill Lee : I suffer from sporadic hallucinations.

  Joan Frost : Join the Club.

• Joan Frost : It launched itself off of its own accord! Did you see that?

• Joan Frost : No-one controls me.

  Hafid : That's not true! She's making you say everything! Even that!

• Joan Frost : I don't like machines, they intimidate me.

• Joan Frost : We don't trespass on each other.

• Bill Lee : [Hank has left]  Not before he came, I hope.

  Joan Lee : Hank's on junk. He doesn't come.

  Bill Lee : Not before you came, I hope.

  Joan Lee : I'm on bug powder. I don't need to come.