River of No Return (1954)

Marilyn Monroe: Kay Weston

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• Kay Weston : This country is crawling with Indians, and you're going fishing.

  Matt Calder : There are lots of ways to die. Starving to death isn't my favorite.

• Kay Weston : One thing about this, the longer you last the less you care.

• Mark Calder : How do you know when you fall in love?

  Kay Weston : I dunno. Can't eat or sleep.

  Mark Calder : Like an ache in the stomach?

  Kay Weston : Same thing - only in the heart.

• Kay Weston : [Harry pulls out a pistol]  What's that for?

  Harry Weston : In case he's hard of hearing.

• Kay Weston : If something's easy to get, people don't care about it. They don't value it. If it's hard to get, well, then you've got something.

• Kay Weston : I suppose you never made a mistake. You're too perfect. You never made any.

• Matt Calder : Now, what's all this? What kind of an act is this?

  Kay Weston : I'm a performer. Didn't you know? Songs and dances.

  Matt Calder : I think I know you pretty well.

  Kay Weston : I think I know you, too.

  Matt Calder : Hm? What am I like?

  Kay Weston : Really not so bad. Not so tough and grim as you seem. I think you do a little acting yourself.

• Kay Weston : You oughta take a dip in the falls yourself. Might wash some of the starch out of you or rust.

• Kay Weston : [singing]  I lost my love on the river, And for ever my heart will yearn, Gone, gone for ever, Down the River of No Return...

• Kay Weston : [singing]  There is a river, Called the River of No Return, Sometimes it's peaceful, And sometimes wild and free, Love is a traveler, On the River of No Return, Swept on for ever, To be lost in the stormy sea ..

• [last lines] 

  Kay Weston : Where are you taking me?

  Matt Calder : Home.

• Kay Weston : [singing]  I got the fever, Oooooo the fever, But not for gold in the ground, I want the title, To something vital, That I can throw my fences around...

• Kay Weston : [singing]  Down in the meadow, Corn stalks are high, Pumpkins are ripe and ready for pie.

• Mark Calder : I said you were beautiful, and he said beauty was skin-deep.

  Kay Weston : Who did?

  Mark Calder : Matt, my dad. He said it was an old saying.

  Kay Weston : It's an old saying by an old crow!

• Kay Weston : You said no one could go down the river. You said it'd be suicide if he tried it.

  Matt Calder : He's not trying. I am. There's a difference.

• Kay Weston : [singing]  Down in the meadow, Snow softly gleams, Earth goes to sleep, And smiles in her dreams.

• Kay Weston : I'll tell you how he didn't treat me. He didn't treat me like a tramp. He treated me like a woman. So he made a mistake. If you had lived like he has all of his life, on crumbs and bones, maybe you'd do a crazy thing if you had a chance to make a fortune. Maybe you'd do a foolish thing yourself.

  Matt Calder : I wouldn't leave a kid to die - or a woman, even if she was a tramp.

• Mark Calder : How was the water?

  Kay Weston : Freezing, but I'm becoming hardened. I guess it's from seeing life in the raw and running around with strong, silent types like you guys.

  Matt Calder : Yeah.

• Kay Weston : I'm sorry I opened my big mouth in front of the boy. You hurt me and I wanted to hurt you back.

  Matt Calder : Well, that's the way it works.

• Kay Weston : You don't have to hate me just because you hate him.

• Kay Weston : We're never gonna get there, are we?

  Matt Calder : Like you said, who gets anywhere?