Shock Corridor (1963)

Constance Towers: Cathy

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• Cathy : [Appearing in John's dream]  All of the men want me, Johnny. But I want you. And you - you want the Pulitzer Prize.

• Cathy : Hamlet was made for Freud. Not you.

• Cathy : Do you think I like singing in that sewer with a hot light on my navel? I'm doing it because it pays more than shorthand or clerking or typing.

• Cathy : Johnny, you've gotta' be crazy to want to be committed to an insane asylum to solve a murder.

• Cathy : You're on a hopped up, lunatic stage. Get off it! Don't be Moses leading your lunatics to the Pulitzer Prize.

  Johnny Barrett : [Ignoring her completely]  Would you care for a cigarette?

  Cathy : You make me sick! Sick at the thought of you playing games with your mind and riding that crazy horse.

• Cathy : Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry. Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot explainatory medical terms!

• Cathy : He was sane enough to write that story. He's been sane for weeks. Don't you stand there and tell me there's nothing you can do for him. Why? Why does he look like that?

  [Pan left to see Johnny sitting there motionless] 

  Cathy : Oh, god in heaven...