They Might Be Giants (1971)

George C. Scott: Justin

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• Dr. Mildred Watson : You're just like Don Quixote. You think that everything is always something else.

  Justin Playfair : Well, he had a point. 'Course he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That's insane. But, thinking that they might be, well... All the best minds used to think the world was flat. But what if it isn't? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what might be, why we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes.

• Justin Playfair : Dear friends, would those of you who know what this is all about please raise your hands? I think if God is dead he laughed himself to death. Because, you see, we live in Eden. Genesis has got it all wrong. We never left the Garden. Look about you. This is paradise. It's hard to find, I, I'll grant you, but it is here. Under our feet, beneath the surface, all around us is everything we want. The earth is shining under the soot. We are all fools. Ha ha. Moriarty has made fools of all of us. But together, you and I, tonight... we'll bring him down.

• Justin Playfair : Watson, your first impression of a detective worker, like it?

  Dr. Mildred Watson : No!

  Justin Playfair : [chuckles]  Good girl! I know how girls are. No means yes.

  Dr. Mildred Watson : I haven't been a girl in twenty years, and when I say "no", i mean "no"!

• Dr. Mildred Watson : Holmes, he's not there. There isn't any Moriarty, just

  [interrupted by horse hoof clops] 

  Justin Playfair : You hear it? Nearer. Nearer. Ah, now there! Do you see him now?

  Dr. Mildred Watson : Not yet. Yes. I see him. He's everything you said he was.

  Justin Playfair : He makes you proud.

  Dr. Mildred Watson : He does!

  Justin Playfair : Stand closer to me.

  Dr. Mildred Watson : Hold my hand.

  Justin Playfair : And now we're together. Let it be said they found us very close, together in the light.

• Justin Playfair : Just keep saying to yourself "I'm adequate."

• Justin Playfair : There are no masses in Dodge City, only individuals taking responsibility for their own actions.

• Justin Playfair : If there is no Moriarty, then I am not Holmes.

• Justin Playfair : Somewhere, out in the dark he waits.

  Dr. Mildred Watson : I'm not afraid, because you're with me.

  Justin Playfair : And we'll always be together?

  Dr. Mildred Watson : All our lives.

  Justin Playfair : Can't remember how I lived before you came.

  Dr. Mildred Watson : Holmes, I love you.

• Justin Playfair : It's him! It's Moriarty.

  Dr. Mildred Watson : There's nothing.

  Justin Playfair : Now. He's coming. On horseback riding like a king.

  Dr. Mildred Watson : I can't hear.

  Justin Playfair : [getting up]  Not on my knees.

  Dr. Mildred Watson : There's nothing. There's nothing!

  Justin Playfair : On your feet by me.

  Dr. Mildred Watson : A sound. Please, just a little sound.

  Justin Playfair : Stand up.

• Justin Playfair : Hershey's Kisses! Out the Back!

• Dr. Mildred Watson : What am I going to do with you?

  Justin Playfair : Well, you might try smiling. Nothing much - just once a day or so.