Come September (1961)
Rock Hudson: Robert L. Talbot
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Quotes
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Lisa Helena Fellini : How could I be that stupid? You're wealthy, good-looking, intelligent, charming! I should have known better than to get mixed up with someone like that.
Robert L. Talbot : You're not making any sense.
Lisa Helena Fellini : I don't have to make sense. I'm Italian!
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Sandy : It must have been a terrible war.
Robert L. Talbot : They usually are.
Sandy : Yes well I'd like to talk to you about it sometime.
Robert L. Talbot : About what?
Sandy : The war.
Robert L. Talbot : The *war*?
Sandy : I have a feeling I can help.
Robert L. Talbot : I doubt it. It's over.
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Robert L. Talbot : We never spoke of marriage! We were Happy!
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Robert L. Talbot : Lisa, I'm asking you in a nice way. Now stop being an idiot! Get off that blasted bus and marry me.
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Robert L. Talbot : You know, man is the only animal clever enough to build the Empire State Building, and *stupid* enough to jump off it!
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Robert L. Talbot : I can go to *jail* for what can happen to those girls!
Lisa Helena Fellini : What can happen to them? They are four boys and six girls. That adds up to ten, and there's safety in numbers.
Robert L. Talbot : Now there's more to mathematics than adding. Those boys look *quite capable* of dividing and multiplying!
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Robert L. Talbot : Lisa, believe me, no love affair can survive if the either part starts to *think*!
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Robert L. Talbot : I want that villa put up for *sale*! And if you can't *sell* it, *burn* it! I've *had* it with this country!
Maurice Clavell : Sir, this is not time to be burning your villas behind you. She loves you. She wants to marry you!
Robert L. Talbot : Yeah, she has a funny way of showing it!
Maurice Clavell : Italian women are emotional. Sh- sh... she been hurt. She wants time to think.
Robert L. Talbot : Well, I wanna go back to America... where people get married *without* thinking!
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Robert L. Talbot : You wouldn't think a cork this small could lay out a woman that big.
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Lisa Helena Fellini : They are normal, healthy boys and normal, healthy girls, no?
Robert L. Talbot : That can lead to a normal, unhealthy situation, yes.
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Robert L. Talbot : The bedroom is like a wedding gown; it's bad luck to let the fella see you in it before you marry him.
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Lisa Helena Fellini : Robert! How could you do this? Hm?
Robert L. Talbot : I was only following their golden rule: do unto others before they do it to you!
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Robert L. Talbot : Somebody has to look after those girls.
Lisa Helena Fellini : I think that they're parents' responsibility.
Robert L. Talbot : You know the trouble with the American parent? They have a new gimmick. Keep your kids off the streets, send them to Europe.
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Lisa Helena Fellini : Robert?
Robert L. Talbot : Mhm?
Lisa Helena Fellini : When you get to the terrace, would you do me a favour?
Robert L. Talbot : Sure.
Lisa Helena Fellini : Jump off.
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Robert L. Talbot : It's gone!
Lisa Helena Fellini : What?
Robert L. Talbot : There's a body missing. It's the one body I don't wanna have missing.
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Robert L. Talbot : [looking at his villa] I said, isn't that a new color?
Maurice Clavell : [chuckles] Houses are like women; The older they get, the more paint they need.
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Robert L. Talbot : [speaking to Lisa] Teenagers are like the H bomb. When they go off, it's much better to observe them from a distance.
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Lisa Helena Fellini : Really, Robert, they're very nice American boys.
Robert L. Talbot : So was the Dalton gang.
Lisa Helena Fellini : You know the boys are very hurt; they think you don't like them.
Robert L. Talbot : The boys are right.
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Lisa Helena Fellini : Robert! You have a moral streak.
Robert L. Talbot : You know me better than that.
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Lisa Helena Fellini : Ah! That's another thing. If you loved me, you'd have learned my language! But no, I had to do it. The weeks I spent studying... Learning to speak this... fluid English.
Robert L. Talbot : Not "fluid." Fluent!
Lisa Helena Fellini : Big shot! Knows all the words!
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Robert L. Talbot : Thank you, you've reaffirmed my lack of confidence in my fellow man.
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Maurice Clavell : A martini for breakfast?
Robert L. Talbot : It's great for the morning after, especially if there hasn't been a night before.
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Robert L. Talbot : I just wanna get out of here. If there's a plane, train, or a bus, or a jackass leaving this city, get me on it!
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Robert L. Talbot : Mr Clavell!
Maurice Clavell : Sir?
Robert L. Talbot : You are to go with them and you are not to let those girls out of your sight.
Maurice Clavell : Sir, I can't ride a motor scooter.
Robert L. Talbot : Then learn.
Maurice Clavell : I have no sense of balance. I was the only child that ever had to be strapped to his tricycle.
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Robert L. Talbot : We never even talked about the future!
Lisa Helena Fellini : Women don't want talk, they go by intuition. And I've learned one thing: A woman's intuition is a man's best friend!
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Robert L. Talbot : I'm like this goose; I know when I've laid an egg.
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Lisa Helena Fellini : Please. Oh, please listen to me.
Robert L. Talbot : There is nothing I'd rather do than listen to you. I couldn't even wait till September. I rearranged my entire schedule to be here early - just to be with you.
Lisa Helena Fellini : Did you?
Robert L. Talbot : Mm-hmm. Did you miss me?
Lisa Helena Fellini : Yes.
Robert L. Talbot : Well, tell me.
Lisa Helena Fellini : I missed you.
Robert L. Talbot : Oh, Lisa. Lisa. My sweet, sweet Lisa.
Lisa Helena Fellini : Yes, Roberto.
Robert L. Talbot : Now, listen carefully...
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Robert L. Talbot : What's the big joke?
Lisa Helena Fellini : He said, how could he tell her? She was taking a bath, and they're not that friendly.
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Robert L. Talbot : How would you feel if you found out Brutus was your majordomo, Lucrezia Borgia your cook, and Benedict Arnold your upstairs maid?
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Robert L. Talbot : I know those boys. I know what's on their mind.
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Lisa Helena Fellini : Everybody looked suspicious, and Sandy knew about us. I couldn't leave. It would've been too obvious.
Robert L. Talbot : Sandy seems to know about everything. Now I know what she's doing in Europe. Her neighbors decided to chip in and send her.
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Robert L. Talbot : You are to go with them and you are not to let those girls out of your sight.
Maurice Clavell : Sir, I can't ride a motor scooter.
Robert L. Talbot : Then learn.
Maurice Clavell : I have no sense of balance. I was the only child that ever had to be strapped to his tricycle.
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Lisa Helena Fellini : You know, this is a side of you I've never seen before.
Robert L. Talbot : What is?
Lisa Helena Fellini : This protective attitude toward women.
Robert L. Talbot : Women? They're only 18. Children! No older than my niece.
Lisa Helena Fellini : So?
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Sandy : Uh, Tony was just examining my bone structure.
Lisa Helena Fellini : He's studying to be a doctor.
Sandy : Oh, yes.
Robert L. Talbot : Where does he plan to intern? At the Folies Bergère? I don't want to interfere with medical progress, but we're ready to leave. After you, *Doctor*.
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Robert L. Talbot : It's respect. That's what a girl wants from a boy. If the girl gives in too easy, the boy'll never take her seriously.
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Robert L. Talbot : It's something I told some impressionable young girls. To protect their morals.
Lisa Helena Fellini : What about my morals?
Robert L. Talbot : What's that got to do with it? We're adults.
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Robert L. Talbot : That's been the beauty of our relationship. No thinking. No pressure. No questions asked.
Lisa Helena Fellini : It's time someone started asking questions.
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Robert L. Talbot : Lisa, don't you walk out that door.
Lisa Helena Fellini : Oh, what would I lose? The privilege of seeing you every September? Well, I'm tired of being "girl of the month."
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Robert L. Talbot : Lisa, come back here.
Lisa Helena Fellini : I said don't touch me!
Robert L. Talbot : If you'd wait a while, everybody will be gone. We can talk this over like adults.
Lisa Helena Fellini : I don't want to talk like an adult. That's how I got into all this trouble.
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Robert L. Talbot : I knew those girls would get me in trouble!
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Robert L. Talbot : Well, if it isn't the prowling physician!
Tony : I don't blame you, sir. After the way I acted with Sandy last night, I'm no credit to the medical profession.
Robert L. Talbot : Hardly.
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Maurice Clavell : Before I leave, can I get you some breakfast?
Robert L. Talbot : No. Yes, get me an olive.
Maurice Clavell : A martini for breakfast?
Robert L. Talbot : It's great for the morning after - especially if there hasn't been a night before.
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Robert L. Talbot : Let me tell you something about Italian women. They're not to be trusted. They're deceitful. They're - they're emotionally unstable.
Warren : Doesn't that apply to all women?
Robert L. Talbot : Well, of course it does! That's where they've got us. We have nothing else to replace 'em with.
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Robert L. Talbot : [referring to his Rolls Royce] A $20,000 car isn't supposed to get a flat!
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Robert L. Talbot : You're a thief! And a liar! Completely untrustworthy!
Maurice Clavell : A thief and a liar, yes. But not untrustworthy. I really don't think this is the time to talk the matter out. Not while your mind is bristling with negative thoughts of me.
Robert L. Talbot : I haven't even BEGUN to bristle!