Madame X (1966)
Lana Turner: Holly Parker
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Quotes
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Dan Sullivan : I'll buy you some new clothes, fix that hair a believable color. You'll be respectable.
Holly Parker : The road between me and respectability is strewn with broken bottles.
Dan Sullivan : Respectable enough for my purposes.
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Holly Parker : I don't share your life. I exist in a cubbyhole of it.
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Phil Benton : In our neck of the woods, it's the facade that counts. It covers our corrosion.
Holly Parker : Well, that's hardly unique to Fairfield County.
Phil Benton : It was spawned here. This is the breeding ground of the shallow set.
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Holly Parker : If you want Washington, why are you going to North Africa?
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Phil Benton : You have to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
Holly Parker : Why, thank you, kind sir. You make me feel like a woman again.
Phil Benton : Darling, no one could possibly miss the fact you're a woman.
Holly Parker : Now there's really a subtle compliment.
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Phil Benton : We are the greatest couple in the world.
Holly Parker : If not the most modest.
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Holly Parker : I've been so lost lately. I needed to see you, to be close to you again. I guess I needed to feel needed.
Clayton 'Clay' Anderson : Don't you ever doubt that you're needed.
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Clayton 'Clay' Anderson : I want to kiss you, but you seem so far away.
Holly Parker : It's been - such a long time.
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Phil Benton : Don't tell me you're afraid of your husband?
Holly Parker : I'm in love with my husband.
Phil Benton : Are you sure?
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Phil Benton : To life! It's only a bore when you take it seriously.
Holly Parker : Well, I'll drink to that!
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Holly Parker : Why, you contemptible, rotten...
Phil Benton : Contemptible, rotten what? Never end on a dangling insult.
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Holly Parker : Please. Please, I'll get on my knees to you. I'll do anything you ask.
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Dan Sullivan : What you need is a hair of the dog. Come on, I've got a bottle.
Holly Parker : Friend, you are a friend.
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Dan Sullivan : You're Suzy Somebody, ain't you?
Holly Parker : You bet your brass I'm Suzy Somebody.
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Holly Parker : You take a lot for granted.
Dan Sullivan : I just don't take no for an answer.
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Holly Parker : I, my friend, am very drunk. With any luck at all, very soon, I'm gonna be a lot drunker.
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Holly Parker : I don't have much to leave my son. Only a lie that his mother was clean and good.
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Holly Parker : He fished me out of the sewers of Mexico. He bought me dirt cheap. A couple of aspirin, a few bottles of whiskey.
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Dan Sullivan : Keep drinking, honey. I like you better drunk than sober.
Holly Parker : I like the world better drunk than sober. I can forget that it's filled with vermin.
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Holly Parker : All right, I'll go a few rounds with you. But I warn you, if you're thinking of playing against me, think again.
Dan Sullivan : What makes you so suspicious?
Holly Parker : Experience, friend.
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Holly Parker : The moments of love are the only ones that matter. The moments of love illuminate and are gone. Treasure them.