The Story of Three Loves (1953)

James Mason: Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover")

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• Charles Coutray : You are coming up to my studio.

  Paula Woodward : Tonight?

  Charles Coutray : At once.

  Paula Woodward : [after a long pensive pause]  I don't think I possibly can.

  Charles Coutray : [Annoyed and impatient]  I don't know who you are, but let me tell you, you flatter yourself.

  Paula Woodward : Oh, no, I don't.

  Charles Coutray : Oh, yes, you do! You're afraid for your virtue, which is in no danger!

• Charles Coutray : [to Paula]  If there's one thing I hate, it's a jealous lover.

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : At least you're flesh and blood. I thought you might be an illusion.

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Have you been happy since you've given it up? Have you found life worth living since you've given it up?

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : And you call yourself a dancer?

  Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I don't.

  Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Well, I do!

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Oh, you poor lost child. I'll take you where you want to go. I don't know that it's right for you.

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : You think I'm an absolute brute.

  Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I haven't been shouted at once, since I stopped dancing. You brought it all back. Its like the drafts in the corridors, the messy dressing rooms, and the smells, the sweat, and the liniment. Oh, and breaking your back and being cursed at because you can't break it any more and, then, breaking it a bit more - and learning that's what matters.

  Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : That's when we're really alive. When we're making something. When we are something, bigger than ourselves. It comes so rarely those moments and if you turn your back on them, they're lost. And you're lost.

  Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Lost.

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I was looking over the usual string of girls, and one of them, she may have been an absolute imbecile as far as I know, but she danced, really, like a flame. Then she messed it up, and the moment was gone.

  Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Oh!

  Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : It was you! Now, don't attempt to deny it. I've got eyes in my head. It was you!

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I'll wait for you. Already I'm waiting for you.

  Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : You don't have to wait for someone who's with you always.

• Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I used to think of you as *so* terrifying.

  Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : You terrified me for a moment.

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I suppose you can't dance on a full stomach? Well, I can't watch on an empty one. A tiny drink?

  Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I don't need even a tiny drink.

  Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Well, maybe you'll have something afterwards.

  Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Oh, afterwards, I'll be a pig.

  Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : The slimmest pig that ever - what to pigs do?

  Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Eat.

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Don't stop. You can't stop now. Go on, please! Please. Please.

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : If you catch your flame, how do you keep it alive? You feed it.

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : You're a dancer and you're dancing itself. You're music. You're a poem. You're - you're a joy.

• Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : That's right! I, yeah. I, yeah. Good. Hold it. Good. Good!