A Clockwork Orange is a brutal Stanley Kubrick film, based on the Anthony Burgess novel. In the near future society is in decay, and the streets are overrun by violent gangs. The government has a new heavy-handed test project, designed to re-program these renegades, in order to free up the overcrowded prisons to make space for political prisoners.
Malcolm McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange: "What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent."
Aubrey Morris as Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange: "What gets into you all? We study the problem. We've been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies. You've got a good home here, good loving parents, you've got not too bad of a brain. Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?"
Anthony Sharp as Minister of the Interior in A Clockwork Orange: "Public opinion has a way of changing."
- Movie
- A Clockwork Orange
- Year
- 1971
- Character
- Psychiatrist
- Actor
- Pauline Taylor
The psychiatrist interviews Alex as a part of his ‘re-processing’ under the Ludovico technique project.
A Clockwork Orange – Psychiatrist Quotes
Alex is in the psychiatrist’s chair:
Alex: What are we gonna do? Talk about me sex life?
Psychiatrist: Oh, no. I’m going to show you some slides and you’re going to tell me what you think about them. Alright?
Alex: Jolly good. Do you know anything about dreams?
Psychiatrist: Something, yes.
Alex: Do you know what they mean?
Psychiatrist: Perhaps. Are you concerned about something?
Alex: Oh, no, no… not concerned really. But I’ve been having this very nasty dream. Very nasty.
Psychaitrist: Now then. Each of the slides needs a reply from one of the people in the picture. You tell me what you think the person would say. Alright?
Alex: Righty right.
Psychiatrist: [Changes to a slide with two people looking at a peacock] “Isn’t the plumage beautiful?”Alex: I just say what the other person would say?
Psychiatrist: Yes.
Alex: Isn’t the plumage beautiful…Psychiatrist: Oh yes well don’t think about it too long, just say the first thing that pops into your mind.
Alex: Cabbages, knickers, uh, it’s not got a… A BEAK![laughs]
Psychiatrist: Good.
[Changes to a slide with a women and two boys]
Psychiatrist: “The boy you always quarrelled with is seriously ill.”
Alex: My mind is a blank. Uh, and I’ll smash your face for you, yarblockos!
[laughs]
Psychiatrist: Good.
[Changes slide to a man climbing into a naked woman's bedroom]
Psychiatrist: “What do you want?”
Alex: Uh, no time for the ol’ in-out, love. I’ve just come to read the meter!
Psychiatrist: Good.
[Changes slide to a man in a clock store]
Psychiatrist: “You sold me a crummy watch, I want my money back.”
Alex: You know what you can do with that watch? Stick it up your ass!
[laughs]
Psychiatrist: Good.
[Changes slide to woman handing bird eggs to a man]
Psychiatrist: “You can do whatever you like with these.”
Alex: Eggiweggs. I would like… to smash them. And pick ‘em all up, and THROW-
[moves injured arm]
Alex: OW! Fucking hell!
Psychiatrist: Well there, that’s all there is to it. Are you alright?
Alex: Hope so. Is that the end then?
Psychiatrist: Yes.
Alex: I was quite enjoying that.
Psychiatrist: Good, I’m glad!
Alex: How many did I get right?
Psychiatrist: It’s not that kind of a test, but you seem well on the way to making a complete recovery!
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Cast and Characters
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Malcolm McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange: "What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent."
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Sheila Raynor as Mum in A Clockwork Orange: "But you've not been to school all week, son."
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Michael Bates as Chief Guard Barnes in A Clockwork Orange: "Shut your filthy hole, you scum!"
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Aubrey Morris as Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange: "What gets into you all? We study the problem. We've been studying it for damn well near a century, yes, but we get no further with our studies. You've got a good home here, good loving parents, you've got not too bad of a brain. Is it some devil that crawls inside of you?"
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Warren Clark as Dim in A Clockwork Orange: "Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you. I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime, not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. Well, it stands to reason I won't have it."
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Madge Ryan as Dr. Branom in A Clockwork Orange: "Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it...You felt ill this afternoon because you're getting better. You see, when we are healthy, we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all. By this time tomorrow, you'll be healthier still."
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Carl Duering as Dr. Brodsky in A Clockwork Orange: "Very soon now, the drug will cause the subject to experience a death-like paralysis, together with deep feelings of terror and helplessness. One of our early test subjects described it as being like death, a sense of stifling or drowning, and it is during this period we have found that the subject will make his most rewarding associations between his catastrophic experience-environment and the violence he sees."
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Patrick Magee as Frank Alexander in A Clockwork Orange: "Recruiting brutal young roughs into the police, proposing debilitating and will-sapping techniques of conditioning. Oh, we've seen it all before in other countries. The thin end of the wedge. Before we know where we are, we shall have the full apparatus of totalitarianism."
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James Marcus as Georgie in A Clockwork Orange: "All right, no more picking on Dim, brother. That's part of the new way."
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Clive Francis as Joe in A Clockwork Orange: "Look, he's weeping now. But that's all his craft and artfulness. Let him go and find a room somewhere else."
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Anthony Sharp as Minister of the Interior in A Clockwork Orange: "Public opinion has a way of changing."
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Godfrey Quigley as Prison Chaplain in A Clockwork Orange: "Choice! The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fear of physical pain drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. The insincerity was clear to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice."
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Pauline Taylor as Psychiatrist in A Clockwork Orange: "Now then. Each of the slides needs a reply from one of the people in the picture. You tell me what you think the person would say. Alright?"
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Paul Farrell as Tramp in A Clockwork Orange: "Well, go on, do me in you bastard cowards! I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this!"
Random Dystopia Quotes
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William Sanderson as J.F. Sebastian in Blade Runner: "I make friends. They’re toys. My friends are toys. I make them. It’s a hobby. I’m a genetic designer."
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Sheila Raynor as Mum in A Clockwork Orange: "But you've not been to school all week, son."
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Joe Pantoliano as Cypher in The Matrix: "I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?"
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Julie Christie as Clarisse in Fahrenheit 451: "Is it true that a long time ago, firemen used to put out fires and not burn books?"
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Roger Allam as Lewis Prothero in V For Vendetta: [shouting into phone] "England prevails because I say it does!"
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Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity in The Matrix: "The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to."
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Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen in Metropolis: "Beginning today, I wish to be kept informed of every step taken by my son."
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Belinda McClory as Switch in The Matrix: "Not like this... not like this."
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Madge Ryan as Dr. Branom in A Clockwork Orange: "Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it...You felt ill this afternoon because you're getting better. You see, when we are healthy, we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all. By this time tomorrow, you'll be healthier still."
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