Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

Capucine: Hallie

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Quotes 

• Hallie : He's a sculptor, darling. Like Michelangelo, Maillol, Rodin and me.

  Frank Bonito : Last time you told me you wrote poetry.

  Hallie : No. I just echo it.

• Hallie : I'm a sculptress. Or rather, I used to be before I fell down the well. But it's a very nice well. Cozy. And all the little frogs love me. And the big frog, Madame Jo, adores me. Yes, it's a very nice well. I have the run of the bottom of the well.

• Jo Courtney : Perhaps maturity will change all that.

  Hallie : What do you think I'll mature into? You?

  [Jo slaps Hallie] 

• Jo Courtney : [of a bust Hallie is sculpting of her]  Oh, I see you've started working again. Why don't you go back to it?

  Hallie : [despondently]  Suddenly I don't feel like working.

  Jo Courtney : [brightly]  All right, then let's go shopping!

• Hallie : You haven't got the patience.

  Jo Courtney : Oh, you know me better than that, Hallie. Sometimes I've waited years for what I wanted.

• Hallie : Summers end, things change.

• Dove Linkhorn : It's so quiet here.

  Hallie : My father used to say that love came on silent feet.

• Jo Courtney : You're being perverse.

  Hallie : I was born perverse. Isn't that a woman's nature?

• Jo Courtney : My, we are depressed, aren't we?

  Hallie : No, I'm bored. And I've only just gotten up. Maybe I ought to go back to bed.

• Miss Precious : Hallie, let's get out of this place. Let's leave here.

  Hallie : To do what? Where would we go? After three years of this easy life, I don't have energy for anything else.

• Hallie : I can't stay cooped up here. I've got to break out, to find excitement. Lock me up, swallow the key, and I'll still crawl out - nibble my way out through the plaster.

• Hallie : Stop hammering at me. Stop trying to change me, because I cannot change. Oh, Jo, stop trying. Just let me go on being what I am, whatever that is.

• Jo Courtney : I'll tell you what. Let's spend the afternoon here. You can start a new head of me. Or my hands. You've always wanted to do my hands.

  Hallie : I'm not in the mood.

• Hallie : "And when she smiled it was as if the moon came out." A remark by T.S. Eliot. Ever heard of Eliot? A bank clerk.

• Hallie : It's nothing unusual for a love to end, any more than it is for it to begin.

• Hallie : Oh, damn it, Dove! Go away! Will you go away!

• Hallie : I'm sorry you found me.

  Dove Linkhorn : I didn't find you. I found somebody else.

• Hallie : She was so greedy for life. She wanted so much. Not even a husband and child were enough. She wanted to taste everything. And I am my mother's child.

• Dove Linkhorn : I'd like to know everything about you.

  Hallie : There should be secrets - unknown things.

• Hallie : After I left Texas, I went to New York. New York. A mob of six million people, and every one of them a stranger. Sometimes the weeks passed and nobody spoke to me, except a waitress, a bus driver, or a guy on the make. I was so lonely I ached all over.

• Hallie : Taste and good manners impress me, not $20 worth of flowers.

• Hallie : Well, what are you going to do, just sit there looking at me?

  Dove Linkhorn : If you let me.

  Hallie : Only money buys attention here.

• Hallie : Dove, think.

  Dove Linkhorn : Thinking's no good, only feeling is.

  Hallie : Feeling can be a trap. Please, think.