Love Affair (1939)

Irene Dunne: Terry McKay

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• Terry McKay : My father used to say, "It's a funny thing, but the things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening."

• Terry McKay : How's your fiancee?

  Michel : She's got a cold.

  Terry McKay : Oh, that's too bad. Got it at Lake Como?

  Michel : No, she wasn't there.

  Terry McKay : Uhh... , Uh, you mean the Lady of the Lake was not...

  Michel : [Shakes head]  That was her best friend.

  Terry McKay : Oh.

  Michel : [Another shake, and grimace] 

  Terry McKay : Chummy bunch.

• Terry McKay : What are you trying to say, Michel?

  Michel : I'm trying to say that it would take me six months to find out if I'm worthy to say what's in my heart.

  Terry McKay : Oh, that's just about the nicest thing...

• Terry McKay : It's not that I'm prudish but my mother told me never to be in a man's room in any month ending in 'r'!

• Terry McKay : We're heading into a rough sea, Michel.

• Terry McKay : Have you been getting results with a line like that? Or, would I be surprised.

  Michel : If you were surprised, that would surprise me!

• Michel : Hundred and second floor, top of the Empire State Building?

  Terry McKay : Yes. That's it right there. It's the tallest building in the world - you can't miss that. It's the nearest thing to heaven we have in New York. Be sure you take the elevator. Well, until we meet again.

• Michel : You have an honest face.

  Terry McKay : Oh?

  Michel : I can trust you, can't I?

  Terry McKay : Yes, I guess so.

  Michel : Come with me.

  Terry McKay : But, look, the captain has an honest face too, and... .

• Terry McKay : My father used to say, "wishes are the dreams we dream when we're awake."

  Michel : Your father said that?

  Terry McKay : He drank a lot.

• Terry McKay : Well, that just about brings us up-to-date. Now my life's an open book.

  Michel : It's only one page.

• Michel : I must talk to someone.

  Terry McKay : Well, I'm really not very good about that sort of thing. I talk a lot. I try to break myself of the habit.

• Grandmother : This is a far as I can go. This is the boundary of my small world.

  Terry McKay : It's a perfect world. Thank you for letting me trespass.

• Michel : I'm in trouble - serious trouble.

  Terry McKay : I could have told you - playing around Lake Como, the poor thing.

• Terry McKay : Being seen with you is ruins, and I don't wanna get my picture in the paper. So we'd better spread out.

• Michel : What's the name of that - strange place you came from?

  Terry McKay : Kansas.

• Michel : [in Terry's cabin, sees a photo of her fiancé]  Where is he now?

  Terry McKay : Well, he's visiting his parents. He sends me on a buying trip every once in awhile. You see, he's my boss too.

  [plays with her pearls] 

• Terry McKay : That sounds like a nasty crack.

• Terry McKay : Instead of Mother Goose, you were probably brought up on the memoirs of Casanova.

  Michel : Not at all.

  Terry McKay : [sucks on the straw in her cocktail]  But you've heard of the little fella, haven't you? I imagine you've known quite a few women, haven't you? Or maybe "few" is the wrong word. And I gather you haven't very much respect for them?

  [Michel shakes his head no] 

• Terry McKay : I've never seen such lovely colors. Everything's so vivid.

  Michel : Yes.

  Terry McKay : Even the green seems greener.

• Boy on Ship : Everybody on the ship's talking about ya.

  Terry McKay : No. What do they say about me?

  Boy on Ship : Well, I don't know. Every time they start talking about you, they make me leave the room.

• Terry McKay : You have a lovely place here.

  Grandmother : Thank you.

  Terry McKay : I'd like to stay on for ever.

  Grandmother : You are too young for that. It's a good place to sit and remember, but you still have to create your memories.

• Terry McKay : I went to New York and got a job singing in a nightclub from ten to three in the morning, and then the manager used to chase me around his office until about four, and then I went home.

• Terry McKay : Looks like stormy weather ahead.

• Terry McKay : He's going to be married and settle down. Can't you just see him with his slippers and his pipe?

  Grandmother : No. There is many a slip betwixt the lip and the water and anything could happen on a boat.

• Terry McKay : I guess you and I have been more or less used to a life of pink champagne. Maybe it'd be a little difficult to...

  Michel : Hmm?

  Terry McKay : You like beer?

  Michel : Yes, I do, but...

  Terry McKay : I know, it's bad for the figure.

• Terry McKay : [singing]  Remember love is not an easy game, No two hearts ever beat quite the same, Go on and dance, my heart, This is romance, my heart, So keep pretending, Do not despair, my heart, We still may share, my heart, That happy ending...

• Terry McKay : I think I'll turn in. Do a little more rolling and tossing.

• Terry McKay : If you say, "A penny for your thoughts," I'll jump overboard.

• Terry McKay : I like them.

  Orphanage Superintendent : I do, too. But they don't like me. They call me Picklepuss. At heart, they're just little savages. But music, you know, has charms to soothe the savage breast.

• Kenneth Bradley : I'm going to ask you once more, why don't you let me help you?

  Terry McKay : And I'm going to tell you once more, if I let you finance my getting well, he wouldn't like it. And if he wouldn't like it, then I wouldn't like it. And if you did get me well and I went to him, you wouldn't like it.

  Kenneth Bradley : Then, certainly, he ought to know.

  Terry McKay : No, because if he found out, he'd want to do something about it. Then if I didn't get well, well, he wouldn't like it, and I wouldn't like it, you wouldn't like it. It would be awful! No.

• Terry McKay : I was on my way to be a good girl.

• Michel : And then what did you say to yourself?

  Terry McKay : Well, then I said, "Why don't you go home and get tight?"

  Michel : You didn't do that.

  Terry McKay : Didn't I?

  Michel : Maybe you took a little one every hour for about a month.

  Terry McKay : Well, can you blame me?

• Terry McKay : The other one shouldn't ask questions. Asking questions is - life must be bright. We must keep it beautiful and bubbling like pink champagne. So there'll be no questions asked. I hope.

• Terry McKay : Oh, that's swell! That's keen!

• Terry McKay : I've got my job now and I'm on a budget and if everything works out all right and I'm a good little girl, maybe I'll get what I want next Christmas.

• Terry McKay : It wasn't anybody's fault but my own. I was looking - up.

• Terry McKay : Well, the show's over. The boy got the girl. Shall we go?