Q: "How was your trip?"
JOHN: "Pardon?"
RINGO: "Very tiring."
JOHN: "It was sort of like a plane trip, you know... Boring."
RINGO: "We've been going seventeen hours now, you know."
Q: "How often do you get haircuts?"
JOHN: "Uhh, about once every three weeks."
Q: "Each of you?"
PAUL: "Yeah. Actually, it's cut."
Q: "This is your second trip to San Francisco, are you going to see more of it this time than you did last?"
RINGO: "Well, I only saw the airport last time, so I've seen more already."
JOHN: "Can you direct your questions so that everybody can hear them, please?"
PAUL: "Just a minute... Here's Derek. I'd like to introduce you..."
GEORGE: "A big hand for Mr. Taylor."
JOHN: "This is our press representative."
Q: "Who is your tailor?"
PAUL: "A fella called Millings of London."
Q: "In Savile Row?"
JOHN: "No."
Q: "Where?"
PAUL: "A little back street in London."
JOHN: "Old Compton Road. He keeps moving with all the profit he makes... Hmmmm hmmmm, he said."
Q: Are you working on another movie soon?"
PAUL: "Yes, in February."
Q: "Is it coming out then?"
RINGO: "No, we start making it."
JOHN: "We start making it then."
Q: "How frightened were you getting in that cage today?"
JOHN: "What cage?"
PAUL: "At the airport."
JOHN: Uh, it wasn't bad, 'cuz somebody had been up there and tested it."
RINGO: "In fact, all the press went up and tested it."
Q: "Why did you leave so soon?"
RINGO: "We got told, you know."
JOHN: "Some people said, 'Climb up on the thing,' and then we wave, and then they said, 'Get off,' You know. And we come down and wave."
PAUL: "And so we got off, you know. We're very obedient."
JOHN: "Oh we are! Arf arf!"
Q: "Do you think San Franciscans are any worse than any other place in the world?"
BEATLES: "No!"
PAUL: (sings) "'San Francisco.' Good town."
Q: "The people... the crowd that you had... Were they any worse?"
PAUL: "Marvelous. Very good crowds."
JOHN: How do you mean, 'worse'? What's he mean, 'worse'?"
Q: "Why did you start the tour in San Francisco?"
RINGO: "Well, you'd better ask someone else. I don't know."
JOHN: We don't plan the tours. They're planned for us, you see. We just say we don't want to go to, sort of, Buh-boo-boo land... and we leave the rest of the world open. It's all planned for us with a hearty, healthy Hey! Jolly good."
PAUL: "True."
Q: "How do you like not having any privacy?"
PAUL: "We do have some, you know."
JOHN: "We just had some before. Didn't we, Paul?"
PAUL: "We don't have alot."
Q: (to John) "Your hair looks like it's red. Is it red or is it wind-blown?"
JOHN: "Red? Oh no. Well, I've had a shower, you see. It sometimes goes a bit funny. You know, one can never tell... One gets underwater."
Q: "Ringo? You didn't look too happy when you got off the airplane."
RINGO: "If you'd been on it fifteen hours, how would you look?"
JOHN: "How would he look, Ringo?"
RINGO: "Look at him now!"
Q: "Which one of you is married?"
RINGO: "John's married. We'll all get married in the end."
JOHN: "Will you?"
RINGO: "In the end. Two or three years, you know. Plenty of time."
JOHN: "Do you mean you're not 'funny' like the rumor says?"
PAUL: "Lots of rumors in America."
Q: (to John) "Are you writing now?"
JOHN: "Yes. I wrote all the way over on the plane."
Q: "'Partly Dave' and that sort of thing?"
JOHN: "No. I've already written that one, thank you. I wrote 'Snore Wife and the Seven Dwarts.'"
Q: "What is the name of the next movie?"
RINGO: "We don't know yet?"
Q: "When is it coming out?"
RINGO: "We don't know. We don't start it until February."
Q: "Now that you've made a movie, do you dig the acting bit?"
JOHN: "We don't profess to be actors."
PAUL: "Besides... it's only Americans that 'dig.'"
JOHN: "Dig?"
PAUL: "Dig your baby, daddy!"
JOHN: "Oh, I get it."
PAUL: "With it!!"
Q: "In America, the current slang is: 'tough,' 'boss,' and 'dig.' What are some of England's?"
RINGO: "Fab... Gear."
JOHN: "They're ever-changing, you know, Madam. 'Alec Douglas-Hume,' That's a big one. 'Wilson,' Everyone does it."
PAUL: "Harold Wilson?"
JOHN: "Always."
PAUL: "There's alot of slang. 'Barry Goldwater.'"
JOHN: "That's a new one over there. It means, 'Drag.'"
Q: "What does it mean over there?"
JOHN: No, it means... uh... 'Happy days are here again.'"
PAUL: "Said he."
Q: "Are you going to be back in time for the elections?"
JOHN: "Back here?"
Q: "No. Back in England."
JOHN: "Are they having them again?"
GEORGE: "They have 'em every week."
JOHN: "Drat."
Q: "Ringo, how do you feel about the 'Ringo for President' campaign?"
RINGO: "Well, it's rather... It's marvelous!"
Q: "Assuming you were President of the United States, would you make any political promises?"
RINGO: "I don't know, you know. I'm not sort of politically minded."
JOHN: "Aren't you?"
RINGO: "No, John. Believe me."
PAUL: "I think you should be President."
JOHN: "I saw you dancing with Bessie Braddock."
Q: "How do the other guys feel about Ringo being nominated for President?"
JOHN: "We think he should win, you know."
PAUL: "Yes, we think he should."
GEORGE: "Definitely in favor."
Q: "Ringo, would you nominate the others as part of your cabinet?"
RINGO: "Well, I'd have to... wouldn't I?"
GEORGE: "I could be the door."
RINGO: "I'd have George as treasurer."
JOHN: "I could be the cupboard."
RINGO: "He looks after the money."
Q: "Are you going to be visiting Miami again this year?"
GEORGE: "No."
RINGO: "Not unless it's on the tour."
JOHN: "Aren't we?"
GEORGE: "We're going to Florida to do a show in Jacksonville... the Gator Bowl. But we won't be going to Miami."
Q: "Is Liverpool going to win the first division this year?"
RINGO: "I don't know, I don't follow football, you know."
Q: "You don't follow football?"
RINGO: "No. I don't follow football! You got the message. I don't know, are they winning or something?"
JOHN: "We don't like any sport. Waste of time."
PAUL: "Swimming."
JOHN: "No, we can all swim."
Q: "John, when do you write your next book?"
JOHN: "Uhh, well... All the time, you know."
Q: "Do you keep little notes?"
JOHN: "Yes... here and there."
Q: "Ringo, can we see your rings?"
PAUL: "Show 'em. Go on."
JOHN: "Show him."
Q: "Ringo, can you look this way and hold your rings up?"
JOHN: (jokingly) "Could you do it again, Ringo?"
PAUL: "Ringo, just one more for the east coast! One more for the east coast!"
JOHN: "I've got it! I've got it!"
RINGO: "Have you got it?"
JOHN: "Oh, me flash is gone."
PAUL: "One for 'Life' magazine."
JOHN: "Ha ha ha, eh Ringo?"
RINGO: "'Life'? That's a big magazine."
Q: "Ringo, you're on the cover."
RINGO: "Are we?"
JOHN: "Are we?"
Q: "What do you boys plan to do in San Francisco other than sleep?"
JOHN: "Sleep."
RINGO: "Just play the 'Cow Palace,' that's about it."
Q: "You're not going to see the town?"
RINGO: "No, we're not going to see your beautiful city that we've heard so much about."
Q: "Why not?"
GEORGE: "It'd take too much organization, wouldn't it?"
RINGO: Oh, you wouldn't see anyway, just speeding along in a car."
JOHN: "Help, Derek! They're getting out of hand!"
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