The V.I.P.s (1963)
Richard Burton: Paul Andros
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Quotes
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Paul Andros : Pay no attention. Drunks cry very easily. It's only the whiskey.
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Miss Mead : Mm, Mr. Andros?
Paul Andros : Hm?
Miss Mead : I don't suppose you've ever before been approached by a perfectly strange woman in a hotel lounge asking you for 153,750 pounds?
Paul Andros : No, I don't think I have.
Miss Mead : My name is Miss Mead. I'm the personal private secretary of Mr. Les Mangrum.
Paul Andros : Who's he?
Miss Mead : The President of Mangrum Tractors. You've heard of Mangrum Tractors?
Paul Andros : Yes, I have, I think. That's the firm that's been taken over by Amalgamated Motors.
Miss Mead : They haven't, not yet, they will tomorrow. Of course, it's not a very big firm, as far as your standards are concerned, but it's a wonderful firm, and it... makes wonderful tractors.
Paul Andros : I have no reason to doubt what you're telling me. If Mangrum Tractors wasn't a good firm, Amalgamated Motors would hardly have wanted to take it over.
Miss Mead : This is... this is the last balance sheet
[handing it to him]
Miss Mead : .
Paul Andros : [looking at it] Yes, very impressive. I can see well why Mr. Mangrum wishes to keep it as his own.
Miss Mead : And he should keep it as his own! He built it from nothing into this, and these big monopoly combines should be fought!
Paul Andros : Yes, I agree. They should be fought.
Miss Mead : If only you knew the fight he put up these last three months.
Paul Andros : I can well imagine. To fight Amalgamated Motors would be quite a battle, Miss Mead, even for me.
Miss Mead : And until today - well, a few hours ago even - he'd won it. And then someone let him down, and he had to write a check, and there's no money to cover it. And now this fog.
[getting her handkerchief]
Miss Mead : I feel so sorry for him, Mr. Andros, he's, he's such a wonderful man, and he's so young, and I'm sorry, you must think I'm mad, it's just that
[wiping her nose]
Miss Mead : we've been through so much, and tonight I had some champagne...
Paul Andros : Does he know how much you love him?
Miss Mead : [stunned] Who... who said I loved him? It's the company.
Paul Andros : Yes... they make wonderful tractors.
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Paul Andros : Where do you want to go, Marc?
Marc Champselle : What do you mean?
Paul Andros : Cannes is a bit dead in January. What about the West Indies? No, of course, you'd miss your gambling, wouldn't you. What about Rio? That's pleasant at this time of year.
Marc Champselle : I'm going to New York, Paul. With your wife.
Paul Andros : I made this out for 10,000 pounds. That's at least twice your nuisance value. But, I don't enjoy haggling.
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Miss Mead : Mr, Mr, Andros? I-I don't suppose you've ever before been approached by a perfectly strange woman in a hotel lounge asking you for 153,750 pounds?
Paul Andros : No, I, don't think I have.
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Marc Champselle : I've been on the receiving end for most of my life, so I know what I've talking about... generosity is a killer. Checkbook generosity. It... it kills your pride, you see. I remember...
Paul Andros : We were talking about my wife.
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Paul Andros : Well, if it isn't sex, what is it, then?
Frances Andros : The words you've been using - need, and love.
Paul Andros : He's incapable of love.
Frances Andros : His need. My love.
Paul Andros : His need is for charvet ties and silk shirts, and your love is too precious to be thrown away on a Marc Champselle. There are thousands of them! Later on, perhaps, when you're at the right age. Only don't let me know about him, in case I shoot him. At least that would make some kind of sense! But to destroy both of our lives for a male whore...
Frances Andros : Paul! Paul, I think you'd better go now.