Gaby (1956)

John Kerr: Gregory Y. Wendell

Quotes 

• Gaby : Thank you for coming tonight. Good luck to you.

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Hey, wait a minute, give a break, will ya? Look, I'm here in London for the first time on a 48-hour pass and I was kinda hopin' you might come out with me after the show. I'm loaded - a month's pay. Well, you know the places. Anywhere you say. I thought, eh, champagne, maybe and, eh, eh, caviar or whatever it is that actresses eat.

• Gregory Y. Wendell : Back home you get a lot of funny ideas about the French. Especially when you live in Nebraska, where there aren't many.

  Gaby : What kind of funny ideas?

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Well, for instance, you think a Frenchman, all he cares about is drinking wine and making love.

  Gaby : Oh, and the French woman, what is she doing?

• Gregory Y. Wendell : You've got to admit you are different from American girls.

  Gaby : Yes? In what way?

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Oh, in nice ways. Not only the way you talk with that cute little accent.

  Gaby : Accent? I have no accent.

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Oh, that's right. And you're not always putting in a plug for yourself, either. Then, you're built differently. American girls have got - angles. But, you're, well, rounder, somehow. Your face and your - well, you're rounder - all around.

• Gaby : Come, teach me how to dance.

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Me teach you?

  Gaby : Teach me how to dance - American.

• Gaby : Oh, I wish you weren't a paratrooper. Why did you ever choose a horrible thing like that. It's terribly dangerous.

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Well, what about you? Here, in London with the bombs.

  Gaby : I work here. If they fall, there is nothing I can do. I don't run to meet danger. I don't throw myself at it as if it were my lover.

• Gaby : This is gay! You said there were first times for you tonight; well, so there are for me. This is the first time I go to a bottle club. And the first time I'm out with an American man. I've always been afraid them. Then, you're not like an American.

  Gregory Y. Wendell : I'm not? Sure, I am.

  Gaby : Oh, not like the Americans that dine in London now. I don't dare go anywhere alone, they whistle so.

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Whistle? Oh! Ha-ha-ha...

  Gaby : And they yell, "Mama, buy me that".

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Well, can you blame them?

• Gaby : [singing]  Some things that happen for the first time, seem to be happening again...

  Gregory Y. Wendell : That's the way I felt about you this afternoon. The minute I saw you.

• Gregory Y. Wendell : If we were willing to wait, it wouldn't be worth waiting for.

• Gaby : What do they eat in America, when they have nothing else?

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Hamburgers.

• Gregory Y. Wendell : Can you say Omaha?

  Gaby : Omawa.

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Well, that's close enough.

  Gaby : What is that, Omawa?

  Gregory Y. Wendell : A place to live. A beautiful place to live with running water and drug stores and drive-ins and country club dances. We'd be happy anywhere, Gaby. But, in Omawa...

• Gregory Y. Wendell : You don't mind my being jealous, do you, honey? After all, when a fella finds a girl a couple of light years too good for him, jealousy's sort of natural.

• Gaby : Oh, Greg, I'm happy, I'm so happy. I love you.

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Well, I should hope so.

  Mrs. Helen Carrington : And I love you, too.

  Gregory Y. Wendell : Have you girls been at the brandy?

  Mrs. Helen Carrington : Ha-ha-ha. Good idea.

• Gregory Y. Wendell : You funny, goofy girl.

• Gregory Y. Wendell : Could you just let me have it straight once! You want to leave me on account of this other man? Right?

  Gaby : Not a man, Greg. Men!

• Gregory Y. Wendell : Gaby, we can't blame each other for what the war's done.