The Best Man (1964)

Margaret Leighton: Alice Russell

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• Alice Russell : I find I'm unexpectedly ambitious. I'd like to be First Lady. I really would. I wouldn't mind seeing you now and then - oh, not often, of course - just occasionally. An ambiguous encounter in the Lincoln Bedroom.

  William Russell : I didn't know you cared.

  Alice Russell : Do I?

• Alice Russell : Do your shy smile - the one the housewives adore.

• Alice Russell : Are you sure you understood him? You know politicians, they talk in Morse Code.

  William Russell : I decoded it.

• Alice Russell : As someone sooner or later is bound to say, 'politics makes strange bedfellows.'

  William Russell : I was hoping it wouldn't be you who said it.

• Alice Russell : It's considered bad form to get rid of the old wife.

  William Russell : Especially when I don't want to get rid of her.

  Alice Russell : You mean when you can't get rid of her.

• Alice Russell : I'm going to insist on my one condition. There's going to be no house on K Street or wherever it was that President Harding used to go. And no girls in the White House. Or, even on tour.