“That's why I've been acting this way. I'm not like this. I hate...” – Benjamin Braddock, The Graduate ... Movie Quotes Database

[to Elaine]

That's why I've been acting this way. I'm not like this. I hate myself like this. Listen, could you just stop crying, please?...I've had this feeling ever since I graduated. This kind of compulsion that I have to be rude all the time...It's like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don't make any sense to me. They're being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.

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Benjamin Braddock Elaine, would you just tell me where he proposed to you? [shouting after her as she leaves the library] Oh God, it wasn't in his car, was it? Elaine Robinson Dear Benjamin. Please forgive me, because I know what I'm doing is the best thing for you. My father is so upset you've got to understand. I love you but it would never work out. Guests We're all so proud of you, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud. What are you going to do now? Benjamin I was going to go upstairs for a minute. Guests I meant with your future, your life. Benjamin Well, that's a little hard to say.