The Honey Pot (1967)
Edie Adams: Merle McGill
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Quotes
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Merle McGill : I guess it must be hard for you to understand, Inspector, a man like me and Cecil Fox.
Inspector Rizzi : Not hard at all.
Merle McGill : But how can I say it, Inspector... He was my first... man. Somehow you just never forget your first man.
Inspector Rizzi : I remember mine - vividly.
[Merle throws him a curious glance]
Inspector Rizzi : He also got away.
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Merle McGill : After all, honesty is the best policy, right?
Inspector Rizzi : Debatable. But, at the moment I would appreciate it.
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William McFly : And there's a hot rumor you've got money problems.
Merle McGill : There's a hot rumor Sophia Loren's a boy.
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Merle McGill : Another thing, Dominque the Queen.
Cecil Fox : Royalty. Not like us. Not like you and me. Proud of our basic animal emotions. Where we feel, they pretend.
[embraces Merle]
Cecil Fox : God, you're basic. You even smell basic. What's that perfume?
Merle McGill : It comes from the jungle. The natives dip their arrows in it.
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Cecil Fox : Who am I to complain? Others have dead without knowing true gratitude. Others like me: Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Hitler.
Merle McGill : [seductively] Silly boy! I wouldn't look twice at Hitler.
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Merle McGill : [seeing the elaborate Renaissance clock on Fox's mantelpiece] That one looks like the old days, when they used to wind the clocks by hand.
Cecil Fox : At one time it belonged to Lucrezia Borgia.
Merle McGill : Oh? She give it to ya?
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Merle McGill : I might need your help here. Anything you can do for me, I'd certainly appreciate.
William McFly : I'll be sure to keep it in mind, Miss McGill.
Merle McGill : Make it Merle.
William McFly : Or even Myrtle?
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Cecil Fox : Lone Star was insatiable. A beautiful bottomless pit. There was never enough of anything: money, possessions, food, sex. I thought I had an exorbitant appetite for that particular pastime, but, Lone Star... Imagine if you can, a 17 year old combined Venus and giant squid.
Merle McGill : I'm trying very hard.
Cecil Fox : Four fantastic years it lasted. It wore me ought.
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Merle McGill : We're way up the creek. You know what that means? Just take my word for it. We've got to come up with a paddle real quick.
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Merle McGill : Mr. Fox, both of those broads are basically after your dough.
Cecil Fox : And you, Bunny?
Merle McGill : You know money never meant anything to me.
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Mrs. Sheridan : You get outta here. But, don't leave the house, I just might want to search your luggage.
Merle McGill : You're not giving any orders yet. Mr. Fox isn't even dead yet.
Mrs. Sheridan : He looks stiff as a mackerel to me.
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Inspector Rizzi : Miss McGill, I understand the necessity of you to arrive in Venice incognito.
Merle McGill : I wouldn't go anywheres uninvited.
Inspector Rizzi : I must have used the wrong word. My English is uh... .
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Merle McGill : When you do talk to Princess Dominique, you know what she's gonna tell ya?
Inspector Rizzi : If I had such capability, I would never get out of bed.
Merle McGill : She's gonna say that she and I were here, in my room, all night, playing gin rummy together. That'll be a lie. For one thing, she can't even play gin rummy.
Inspector Rizzi : Fascinating! Now, why would she choose a game she could not play?
Merle McGill : [with a "caught" look on her face] Yeah, that was stupid of her, but the name of the game isn't important.
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Merle McGill : OK, shamus, so what's on your mind? Or, to be exact, on both your minds?
Inspector Rizzi : Shamus? You use too many American idioms I do not know.
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Merle McGill : You know what would be wonderful? If life was like a movie script.
Princess Dominique : Even they have so few happy endings, these days.
Merle McGill : You want. Dissolve. You got. You can't say the world wouldn't be better off.
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Merle McGill : If you swallow the bullocks given off by that royal deep freeze, you could wind up the biggest jerk cop that ever swam a beat in downtown Venice.