Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
David Niven: Laurence Mackay
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Quotes
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Laurence Mackay : There are interesting failures. There are prestige failures, and there are financial failures, but this is the sort of failure that gives failures a bad name.
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Laurence Mackay : She doesn't like being awake in the day? What is she, a vampire bat?
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Laurence Mackay : [meets Deborah Vaughn in a trendy lounge with down-beat blues music playing] You know, it's funny. I always think of you at big, gay, noisy parties, surrounded by big, gay, noisy people.
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Deborah Vaughn : I'm thinking of going
[pauses while waiter leaves drinks]
Deborah Vaughn : on the make for you.
[Laurence stares]
Deborah Vaughn : Shock technique: Effective, isn't it?
Laurence Mackay : Staggering. But why?
Deborah Vaughn : The usual; I like the way you look.
Laurence Mackay : Since when?
Deborah Vaughn : Does it have to be retroactive?
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[the Mackays kiss in public, getting stares]
Laurence Mackay : I beg your pardon!
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Laurence Mackay : I'm not mean, no one thinks I'm mean! Except my wife.
Deborah Vaughn : Well, she can't always be wrong.
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Kate Robinson Mackay : Darling, interesting people don't want to make friends with housewives.
Laurence Mackay : You shouldn't call yourself a housewife. You're so much more than that.
Kate Robinson Mackay : So is every other housewife.
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Deborah Vaughn : You can relax now, I'm leaving. I have a performance to give.
Laurence Mackay : You've been giving one.
Deborah Vaughn : Just a warm-up for a cold critic.
Laurence Mackay : I'm not cold. I'm just not available.
Deborah Vaughn : Don't be silly, sweetie. Everyone's available who isn't dead.
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Laurence Mackay : Gus, have you ever been in a situation where you're right and everybody else is wrong, but you just can't get them to see it?
Gus : Every day of my life. My wife, my kids, the busboys, everybody.
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Laurence Mackay : You're like every hysterical writer in the world. All you want is praise, praise, and more praise.
