The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)

Ray Brooks: Tolen

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• Tolen : [suspicious]  Are you a homosexual?

  Tom : No. Thanks all the same.

• Colin : Is that it? Cheese, eggs, milk, meat, skirt. Is that it?

  Tolen : What?

  Colin : How you do it?

  Tolen : Skirt is meat.

• Tolen : Women, not indivduals, just types. Types. Women surrendering, free from responsibility, if pushed. Man must dominate. Dominate. Dominate. Dominate.

• Tolen : The feeling could be developed with experience and confidence, in certain people, Colin.

  Colin : Yes.

  Tolen : To some degree, a man can develop the knack.

  Colin : A man can develop the knack.

• Tolen : Food is of the utmost importance. Food is of the essence. One's body needs protein and energy-giving substance. I find that with my, perhaps, unusual sexual demands, my body requires at least twice the normal daily intake of protein.

• Tolen : How do I acquire the knack, Tolen?

  Colin : Yes! How, Tolen. How? The knack?

  Tolen : Well, now, first you must establish contact.

  Colin : Yes! Contact, Tolen!

  Tolen : I'm busy, Colin.

  Colin : Come on, Tolen. You were telling me to establish contact.

  Tolen : Yes and I'm not referring to touch.

  Colin : Not to touch.

  Tolen : Tactile communication. But, of course, touch comes later.

  Colin : Touch comes later!

  Tolen : Excuse me. I mean, there's a feeling - between you.

  Colin : A feeling!

  Tolen : You're aware of the girl.

  Colin : You're aware!

  Tolen : The girl is aware of of you.

  Colin : She's aware!

  Tolen : The vibrations between you.

  Colin : Vibrations!

• Tolen : That last one had very nice ear lobes.

  Colin : Ear lobes.

• Tolen : Rory is well aware that he will profit by the arrangement. He will learn much, Colin, from the women who have been with me.

• Tolen : A clever man. A gifted man. A man I can respect. He knows a great many things. Rory McBryde was doing things at 13, Colin, that you haven't ever done. Things you don't even know about.

• Tolen : Tell me, Colin, how many women have you had?

  Colin : Well, I was late starting.

  Tolen : Two?

  Colin : Late!

  Tolen : Two women in two years. Well, some of us have had more women in two hours.

  Colin : I was late starting!

• Tolen : Shall I show you, Colin? Shall I advise you? Women like to be dominated.

• Tolen : I could tell you what I know intellectually, what my experience has been.

  Colin : Has been.

  Tolen : But, beyond that, it's a question of intuition. And intuition is to some degree inborn.

  Colin : Intuition - is to some degree - inborn.

• Tolen : I would consider, Colin, letting you come in on this arrangement.

  Colin : Sharing?

  Tolen : You would learn a great many things.

  Colin : What sort of things?

  Tolen : It would be a privilege for you - a great privilege.

  Colin : No.

  Tolen : I feel you deserve to be helped, Colin.

• Tolen : What's the matter? Is anything wrong? Is there anything the matter with you?

  Nancy Jones : No, no.

  Tolen : Why are you so nervous?

  Nancy Jones : I'm not.

  Tolen : You look nervous.

  Nancy Jones : Me? Nervous? Do I?

  Tolen : Yes.

  Nancy Jones : Oh.

  Tolen : Yes.

  Nancy Jones : Nothing.

  Tolen : What's the matter?

  Nancy Jones : It - it's...

  Tolen : What?

  Nancy Jones : It's...

  Tolen : You are nervous, aren't you. Very nervous. Why don't you take your clothes off.

  Nancy Jones : I don't want to.

  Tolen : Oh, my dear. No. You - you take it off.

  Nancy Jones : I don't want to.

  Tolen : Why don't you want to?

• Tolen : No ones going to rape you.

  Nancy Jones : Oh?

  Tolen : No. Girls don't get raped unless they want it.

  Nancy Jones : Want it?

• Tolen : You've got Chinese eyebrows.

  Nancy Jones : Eh?

  Tolen : Chinese eyebrows. Very clear arch. Very delicate.

  Nancy Jones : Have I?

  Tolen : If you've got a mirror, I'll show you.

• Tolen : All right, Colin, she's all yours.

  Colin : What?

  Tolen : You have a try.

  Colin : Me?

  Tolen : Yes.

  Colin : Has Cardiff got big docks?

  Nancy Jones : What?

  Tolen : Has Cardiff got big docks?

  Nancy Jones : What?

  Colin : Welsh.

  Nancy Jones : Welsh?

  Colin : Aren't you?

  Nancy Jones : Where did you say the YWCA was?

• Tolen : I have this fatal knack, you see.

• Tolen : How sweet you are. Such a sweet face. Such sweetness. Come upstairs. Come. Come up. Come upstairs.

  Nancy Jones : Oh?

• Tolen : I've got some records upstairs.

  Nancy Jones : Oh?

  Tolen : You'll like Thelonious. He's very deep. Very satisfying.

  Nancy Jones : Ohhh?

  Tolen : You'll like his music. I'll play you some of his records upstairs.

• Tolen : He's a sexual incompetent!

  Nancy Jones : What's that?

  Tom : Not good at it.

  Nancy Jones : No good? Get on. He's marvelous. He raped me.

• Tolen : What day is this? It want clear out of my head. I can't get involved raping girls *today*. Eighth of December. Albert Hall. I want my suit!

  Colin : Your suit?

  Tolen : Certainly. The mohair.

• [on being blockaded by a huge crowd of women to see Rory] 

  Tolen : It's exaggeration. I mean, Rory's got these friends, that's all. Well, I've got one or two regular. I mean, not as many as Rory, but...