Experiment Perilous (1944)

Paul Lukas: Nick Bederaux

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• Nick Bederaux : Life is short and the art long. Decision difficult, experiment perilous.

• Nick Bederaux : If any man had one moment of sanity, in that one moment, he would take himself out of this world.

• Clag : Well, you've seen the portrait and the model. Is it a speaking likeness?

  Dr. Huntington Bailey : No, I don't think it is. If I were painting her, I'd do it quite differently.

  Nick Bederaux : How would you paint her?

  Dr. Huntington Bailey : Well, it wouldn't be a sullen face or a woman dressed up behind a tea tray. I'd paint her full length for one thing. In a country field with a sky behind. Long grasses till her knees. The wind blowing across the field - and the daisies too.

  Clag : Well, well, daisies too. Quite an effect. I take back what I said about you never really looking into a woman's eyes. We may make an artist of you yet.

• Nick Bederaux : I read your article on the Napoleonic complex last year. Always suspected I might have something of that sort.

• Nick Bederaux : Mentality never quite makes up for the physical, does it, my dear?

• Young Alec : Deria's an ugly witch, isn't she?

  Nick Bederaux : Yes. But not so dangerous as a beautiful witch. They are the really dangerous ones.

  Young Alec : Mommy's beautiful.