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Elise Dunstan: Why, congratulations, papa!
Guy Woodhouse: Thanks! There was nothing to it.
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Edward "Hutch" Hutchins: Pregnant women are supposed to gain, not lose weight!
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Guy Woodhouse: What the hell is that?
Rosemary Woodhouse: I've been to Vidal Sassoon.
Guy Woodhouse: You mean you actually paid for it?
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Minnie Castevet: He chose you, honey! From all the women in the world to be the mother of his only living son!
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Roman Castevet: To 1966! The year One.
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[First lines]
Mr. Nicklas: Are you a doctor?
Guy Woodhouse: Yes. Yes.
Rosemary Woodhouse: He's an actor.
Mr. Nicklas: Oh, an actor. We're very popular with actors. Have I, uh, seen you in anything?
Guy Woodhouse: Well ,let's see, I-I did "Hamlet" a while back, didn't I, Liz? And then we did "The, uh, The Sandpiper" and then...
Rosemary Woodhouse: He's joking. He was in "Luther" and "Nobody Loves an Albatross" and a lot of television plays and commercials.
Mr. Nicklas: Well, that's where the money is, isn't it? Commercials?
Guy Woodhouse: And the artistic thrills, too!
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Minnie Castevet: Oh, are you *preg*nant?
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Mr. Nicklas: That's *odd*!
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Dr. Abe Sapirstein: Fantastic! Absolutely fantastic! What did you say the name was? Machado?
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Roman Castevet: I think we're offending Rosemary...
Rosemary Woodhouse: I wasn't offended, really I wasn't.
Roman Castevet: You're not religious, my dear, are you?
Rosemary Woodhouse: I was brought up a Catholic... now, I don't know.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: [crying] I *won't* have an abortion!
Joan Jellico, Rosemary's Girlfriend: But nobody's telling you to have an abortion!
Elise Dunstan: Rosie, a pain like that is a clear sign that something is not right. We just want you to get another opinion, see someone else, that's all.
Tiger, Rosemary's girlfriend: Yeah, some doctor besides that... that... *nut*!
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Minnie Castevet: Anyone! Anyone! It didn't have to be a no-good slut straight from the gutter. Just as long as she is young, healthy and not a virgin!
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Mrs. Gilmore: We're your friends, Rosemary. There's nothing to be scared about. Honest and truly, there isn't!
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Grace Cardiff: He told me to make sure and tell you: the name is an anagram.
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Roman Castevet: No pope ever visits a city where the newspapers are on strike.
Minnie Castevet: I heard he's gonna postpone and wait till it's over.
Guy Woodhouse: Well, that's showbiz.
Roman Castevet: That's exactly what it is: all the costumes, the rituals - all religions.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: What's in this drink?
Minnie Castevet: Snips and snails and puppy dog's tails.
Rosemary Woodhouse: Oh? And what if we wanted a girl?
Minnie Castevet: Do you?
Rosemary Woodhouse: Well, it would be nice if the first one was a boy.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Witches... All of them witches!
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Rosemary Woodhouse: This is no dream! This is really happening!
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Rosemary Woodhouse: I dreamed someone was raping me. I think it was someone inhuman.
Guy Woodhouse: Thanks a lot.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Pain, begone, I will have no more of thee!
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Oh, God. Oh, God.
Laura-Louise McBirney: Oh, shut up with your "Oh, Gods" or we'll kill you, milk or no milk!
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Guy Woodhouse: [on Rosemary's decision to switch doctors] You know what Dr. Hill is? He's a Charlie Nobody, that's who he is!
Rosemary Woodhouse: I'm tired of hearing about how great Dr. Sapirstein is!
Guy Woodhouse: Well, I won't let you do it Ro.
Rosemary Woodhouse: Why not?
Guy Woodhouse: Well, because... because it wouldn't be fair to Sapirstein.
Rosemary Woodhouse: Not fair to Sap... - what do you mean? What about what's fair to me?
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Roman Castevet: Rosemary...
Rosemary Woodhouse: Shut up.
Roman Castevet: Rosemary...
Rosemary Woodhouse: Shut up. You're in Dubrovnik, I don't hear you.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Isn't Hutch coming with us?
Skipper: Catholics only, Miss. I'm afraid that we're bound by these prejudices.
Rosemary Woodhouse: I understand.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!
Roman Castevet: He has his father's eyes.
Rosemary Woodhouse: What do you mean? Guy's eyes are normal!
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[Last lines]
Roman Castevet: Rock him.
Rosemary Woodhouse: You're trying to get me to be his mother.
Roman Castevet: Aren't you his mother?
[She starts to hum a lullaby]
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Rosemary Woodhouse: I thought you were Victoria Vetri, the actress.
Terry Gionoffrio: That's OK. Everybody thinks I'm Victoria. I don't see the resemblance, though.
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Joan Jellico, Rosemary's Girlfriend: You dirty stinking secret keeper!
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Minnie Castevet: Now! That's what I call the long arm of coincidence!
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Dr. Abe Sapirstein: Come with us quietly, Rosemary. Don't argue or make a scene. Because if you say anything more about witches or witchcraft, we're gonna be forced to take you to a mental hospital. You don't want that, do you?
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Rosemary Woodhouse: You're lying. It didn't die. You took it. You're lying. You witches! You're lying! You're lying! You're lying! You're LYING!
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Rosemary Woodhouse: They use blood in their rituals, and the blood with the most power is baby's blood!
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Awful things happen in every apartment house.
Edward "Hutch" Hutchins: This house has a high incident of unpleasant happenings.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: I look awful.
Guy Woodhouse: What are you talking about? You look great! It's that haircut that looks awful. If you want the truth, honey, that's the worst mistake you ever made.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Oh, God!
Roman Castevet: God is dead! Satan lives!
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Guy Woodhouse: I didn't want to miss baby night. A couple of nails were ragged.
Rosemary Woodhouse: You? While I was out?
Guy Woodhouse: And it was kinda fun - in a necrophile sort of way.
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Minnie Castevet: As long as she ate the mouse, she can't see nor hear. Now sing.
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Mrs. John F. Kennedy: I'm sorry to hear you aren't feeling well.
Rosemary Woodhouse: It's just a mouse bite.
Mrs. John F. Kennedy: Perhaps you'd better have your legs tied down in case of convulsions.
Rosemary Woodhouse: Yes, I suppose so. If it was rabid...
Mrs. John F. Kennedy: If the music bothers you, please let me know and I'll have it stopped.
Rosemary Woodhouse: Oh, no, no, no. Please don't change the program on my account...
Mrs. John F. Kennedy: All right. Now, try to sleep. We'll be waiting for you up on deck.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Unspeakable... unspeakable!
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Minnie Castevet: [whispers] Easy! Easy! You've got her too high!
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Tannis, anyone?
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Minnie Castevet: [through the wall] ... and please don't tell me what Laura-Louise said, 'cause I'm *not* interested!
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Rosemary Woodhouse: It has an under-taste.
[pause]
Rosemary Woodhouse: A chalky under-taste.
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Guy Woodhouse: Good ol' Hutch. He's spreading cheer wherever he goes. I'm gonna get a newspaper, honey.
[pause]
Guy Woodhouse: He's a professional crepe-hanger.
Rosemary Woodhouse: He's not a professional crepe-hanger.
Guy Woodhouse: Then he's one of the top-ranking amateurs.
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Roman Castevet: [Terry is dead on the street] I knew this would happen. I kept telling my wife that she would kill herself, but she pooh-pooh'd me.
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Edward "Hutch" Hutchins: I see you had another suicide up there at, uh, Happy House.
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Guy Woodhouse: What are all these things here?
Rosemary Woodhouse: Herbs, mostly. Mint, basil.
Guy Woodhouse: Yeah. No marijuana?
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Hey, let's make love.
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Terry Gionoffrio: The Castevets are the most wonderful people in the world. Bar none. You know, they picked me up off the sidewalk - literally.
Rosemary Woodhouse: You were sick?
Terry Gionoffrio: I was starving and on dope and doing a lot of other things. They're childless, though. I'm like the daughter they never had. At first, I thought they wanted me for some kind of sex thing; but, they turned out to be like real grandparents.
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Guy Woodhouse: If we get friendly with an old couple like that, we'll never get rid of them.
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[repeated line]
Roman Castevet: . You name a place and I've been there.
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Minnie Castevet: There's a chance you'll have lots of children too.
Rosemary Woodhouse: Oh, we're fertile, all right.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Guess what they have in their bathroom?
Guy Woodhouse: A bidet.
Rosemary Woodhouse: "Jokes For The John."
Guy Woodhouse: No.
Rosemary Woodhouse: A book on a hook, right next to the toilet.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: You know how actors are, they're all a bit - self-centred. I'll bet even Laurence Olivier is vain and self-centred.
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Guy Woodhouse: Let's have a baby. All right? Let's have three babies, one at a time. All right? A baby. You know, MaMa, DaDa, Poo-Poo. You know?
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Would you turn the record over, please?
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Dr. Abe Sapirstein: Please don't read books. No pregnancy was ever exactly like the ones described in the books. And don't listen to your friends, either. No two pregnancies are ever alike.
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Guy Woodhouse: They're a bunch of not very bright bitches who ought to mind their own God damn business!
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Don't be scared. It won't bite you.
Guy Woodhouse: It's wonderful. It really is.
Guy Woodhouse: I feel it kicking. It's alive! It's moving!
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Rosemary Woodhouse: There are no witches. Not really.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: I know that sounds crazy. You're probably thinking, "Oh, my God, this poor girl has really flipped," but I haven't flipped, Dr Hill, I swear, by all the Saints. I haven't.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: Monsters. Monsters! Unspeakable! Unspeakable.
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Guy Woodhouse: It's some kind of a hysteria. Boy, you were really kapow, out of your mind.
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Guy Woodhouse: Let's face it, darling, you had the - pre-partum crazies.
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Guy Woodhouse: I think I hear the Trench sisters chewing.
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Rosemary Woodhouse: You're rocking him too fast.
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Edward "Hutch" Hutchins: Typhoon! Typhoon! It killed 55 people in London!
Rosemary's Baby Quotes
Extended Reading
