My Favorite ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Quotes

Rosemary:Oh, it’s a wonderful apartment! I love it!

Guy:See what’s she’s trying to do? She’s trying to get you to lower the rent, see?

Mr. Nicklas:Yes. Well, we’d raise it if we were allowed.

Rosemary:Dr. Hill? Dr. Hill, there’s a plot. I know that sounds crazy. You’re probably thinking ‘My God, this poor girl has really flipped.’ but I haven’t flipped, Dr. Hill, I swear. By all the saints, I haven’t.

Rosemary:I- I’ve been to Vidal Sassoon.

Guy:Don’t tell me you paid for that.

Rosemary:I don’t believe you, you’re both lying. You’re lying! It didn’t die! You took it! You’re lying! You’re witches! You’re lying! You’re lying! You’re lying! You’re lying!

Dr. 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.

Pregnant Woman (Joan T. Reilly):You’re due any day now, aren’t you?

Rosemary:Tuesday.

Pregnant Woman:You’re smart to get it over with before August.

Roman:I knew this would happen. She got deeply depressed every three weeks or so. I told my wife about it, but she pooh-poohed me.

Minnie:Well, that’s- that doesn’t mean she killed herself. She was a very happy girl with no reason for self-destruction. She must have been cleaning the windows or something.

Roman:She wasn’t cleaning windows at midnight.

Minnie:Why not? Maybe she was!

Rosemary:You know how actors are. They’re all a bit self-centered. I’ll bet even Laurence Olivier is- is vain and self-centered.

Rosemary:I told her she could count on us.

Guy:You don’t have to sulk about it.

Rosemary:I’m not sulking. I see exactly what you mean.

Guy:Hell, we’ll go.

Rosemary:No, no. What for?

Guy:We’ll go!

Rosemary:No. We don’t have to if you don’t want to. That sounds so phony, but I really mean it. Really, I do.

Guy:Be my good deed for the day.

Guy:It’s not fair to Sapirstein.

Rosemary:Not fair to… what are you talking about?! What about what’s fair to me?!

Guy:Don’t you think you ought to check with Dr. Sapirstein first?

Rosemary:What for? I’m just giving a party. I’m not going to swim the English Channel.

Guy:What about the pain?

Rosemary:Oh, haven’t you heard? It’ll go away in a day or two.

Dr. Hill (Charles Grodin):I don’t believe in witchcraft, but there are plenty of maniacs and crazy people in this city.

Guy:Shh! I think I hear the Trench sisters chewing.

Rosemary:Oh, Andy… Andy or Jenny… I- I’m sorry, my little darling. Forgive me.

Minnie:You looked uncomfortable.

Rosemary:Well, he is the Pope.

Roman:Well, now, you don’t need to have respect for him because he pretends that he’s holy.

Elise Dunstan (Emmaline Henry):Rosie, do you feel okay? You look a little tired.

Rosemary:Thanks for the understatement.

Rosemary:Don’t you think we ought to talk about it?

Guy:About what?

Rosemary:The way you haven’t been looking at me.

Guy:What are you talking about? I’ve been looking at you.

Rosemary:You haven’t.

Guy:Uh, I know where you got the idea that Minnie and Roman were witches, but, um, how come you thought that Abe and I joined the party?

Guy:He’s a professional crepehanger.

Rosemary:He’s not a professional crepehanger.

Guy:And he’s one of the top-ranking amateurs.

Rosemary’s Girl Friend:Why don’t you go to see another doctor?

Rosemary:No. He’s very good. He was on Open End.

Rosemary’s Girl Friend (Wende Wagner):Well, he sounds like a sadistic nut.

Rosemary:I’m tired of hearing how great Dr. Sapirstein is!

Mr. Nicklas:Have I, uh, seen you in anything?

Guy:Let’s see, I-I did Hamlet a while back, didn’t I, Liz? And then we did the, uh, The… The Sandpiper. And-

Rosemary: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:And the artistic thrills, too.

Rosemary:This is no dream! This is really happening!

Roman:Satan is his father, not Guy. He came up from Hell and begat a son of mortal woman. Satan is his father and his name is Adrian. He shall overthrow the mighty and lay waste their temples. He shall redeem the despised and wreak vengeance in the name of the burned and the tortured! Hail, Adrian! Hail, Satan!

Minnie:Now, Roman, will you stop bending Guy’s ears with your Modjeska stories? He’s only listening ‘cause he’s polite.

Minnie:Are you alright, Dear? You look worn.

Rosemary:Oh, no. I’m fine. It’s the first day of my period.

Laura-Louise McBurney (Patsy Kelly):And you’re up and around? On my first day, I experienced such pain, I couldn’t move, eat, or anything. Dan used to give me gin through a straw to kill the pain.

Rosemary:We’re having a party a week from Saturday. It’s for our old- I mean our young friends. Minnie and Roman are not invited. Neither is Laura-Louise. Nor is Dr. Sapirstein. It’s going to be a very special party. You have to be under 60 to get in.

Guy:Well. For a minute there, I didn’t think I was going to make it.

Rosemary:Oh, you’ll make it, alright. You- you can be bartender.

Guy:Come on, open up, Ro.

Rosemary:Go to Hell!

Guy:Come on, honey. No one’s going to hurt you.

Rosemary:You promised them the baby, get out!

Guy:No, I didn’t promise them anything. What are you walking about? Promised who?

Dr. Sapirstein:Rosemary, you’re imagi-

Rosemary:You, too! Get away!

Hutch:In ‘59, a dead infant was found wrapped in newspaper in the basement.

Guy:Mmm! You really rouse my appetite.

Hutch:Have some more wine.

Rosemary:Oh, are you sure it wouldn’t be too much trouble for you?

Minnie:Oh, Honey, if it was trouble, I wouldn’t ask you.

Rosemary:What’s in it?

Minnie:Snips and snails and puppy dogs’ tales.

Rosemary:That’s fine, but what if we want a girl?

Terry:The Castavets are the most wonderful people in the world, bar none. You know, they picked me up off the sidewalk, literally?

Rosemary:You were sick?

Terry: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’ve turned out to be like real grandparents.

Rosemary:It’s nice to know there are people like that when you hear so much about apathy and people who are afraid of getting involved.

Minnie:He chose you out of all the world. Out of all the women in the whole world, he chose you. He arranged things because he wanted you to be the mother of his only living son.

Hutch:Thanks for the coffee, my dear.

Rosemary:Thank you for coming, my dear.

Minnie:The carpet!

Roman:Oh, dear.

Minnie:Brand new carpet. This man is so clumsy.

Rosemary:Now, maybe all of this is coincidence, but one thing is for sure. They have a coven and they want my baby.

Rosemary:Hey, let’s make love.

Hutch:World War II filled the house up again.

Rosemary:Terrific.

Guy:What? The house?

Rosemary:The lamb.

Guy:This is ridiculous. You’re pregnant, I’ve got the yens.

Bartender:I make their first one strong to get them happy, then I go light and conserve, huh? Huh?

Rosemary:Mrs. Castavet was here to thank me for what I said about Terry. She is the nosiest person I’ve ever seen. You know she actually asked the prices of things?

Rosemary:What have you done to it? What have you done to its eyes?

Roman:He has his father’s eyes.

Rosemary:What are you talking about? Guy’s eyes are normal. What have you done to him, you maniacs?!

Guy:I see now why she went into a coma.

Rosemary:What time did I go to sleep?

Guy:You didn’t go to sleep. You passed out. From now on, you get cocktails or wine, not cocktails and wine.

Guy:I generally prefer doing this to music. Left shoulder. Right shoulder. And that’s as far as I go without a blue light.

Guy:Even if I’m Mr. Yamaha for the rest of my days, I’m going to stop giving you the short end of the stick.

Roman:You have a most interesting inner quality, Guy. It appears in your television work, too. It should take you a long way, indeed. Provided, of course, that you get those initial breaks. Are you preparing for a show now?

Guy:Um, well, I’m up for a couple parts.

Roman:Well, I can’t believe that you won’t get them.

Guy:Well, I can.

Guy:The thing to do now is move.

Guy:What are all these things here?

Rosemary:Herbs, mostly. Mint. Basil.

Guy:Yeah. No marijuana?

Elise:Rosemary, pain like that is a warning that something isn’t right.

Roman:Rock him.

Rosemary:You’re trying to get me to be his mother.

Roman:Aren’t you his mother?

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