Daddy Long Legs (1955)

Larry Keating: Ambassador Alexander Williamson

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• Ambassador Alexander Williamson : You can't adopt an 18-year-old girl. You can't ask me - they have a *name* for what you're asking me to do.

  Jervis Pendleton III : That is narrow-minded, bigoted and evil.

  Ambassador Alexander Williamson : Jervis, have you any idea how easy it is to lose a job at the State Department these days?

• Ambassador Alexander Williamson : You've obviously swept her off her feet. You're older than she is. That's always very attractive. You're rich, and that's even more attractive. You've changed her life completely, for which she must be very grateful.

  Jervis Pendleton III : She doesn't know anything about that. She doesn't know that I'm her Daddy...

  Ambassador Alexander Williamson : Daddy what? Daddy Sugar?

• Ambassador Alexander Williamson : King David.

  Jervis Pendleton III : What are you talking about?

  Ambassador Alexander Williamson : David sent Uriah into battle because he coveted Bathsheba.