Poor Things (2023)

Jerrod Carmichael: Harry Astley

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Quotes 

• Bella Baxter : If I know the world I can improve it.

  Harry Astley : You can't. This is the real point. Don't accept the lie of religion, socialism, capitalism. We are a fucked species. Know it. Hope is smash-able, realism is not. Protect yourself with the truth.

  Bella Baxter : I realize what you are now Harry. Just a broken little boy who cannot bear the pain of the world.

  Harry Astley : I suppose so.

• Harry Astley : A lot of dead babies.

  Bella Baxter : [distraught]  We must go help them.

  Harry Astley : How will we do that? When we go down there, they'll quite rightfully rope us, rob us and rape us. And if they were here, and we were there, we'd do the same to them.

• Harry Astley : This improvement through philosophy is people trying to run away from the fact that we are all cruel beasts. Born that way. Die that way.

• Duncan Wedderburn : Martha! She is the problem! I will throw that fucking perfumed bag of flesh overboard.

  Bella Baxter : I dare you.

  [Duncan storms toward the deck] 

  Harry Astley : Where are you going?

  Duncan Wedderburn : She's going over the side!

  Martha von Kurtzroc : Marvellous. I never imagined I'd be murdered. How dramatic!