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 Deborah Kerr Quotation"All the most successful people these seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal." "I came over here [Hollywood] to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative." "I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes." [speaking in 1969] "When I was under contract to MGM, with people like poor Robert Taylor and so many others, the cinema's job was soley entertainment. It filled a public need then. Now the cinema serves so many other purposes; it functions as psychiatrist, politician, message-maker, money maker and, incidentally, entertainer. But it's no good regretting that things are different. Times have to change." "When You're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. You have higher standards of what's really good; you're fearful that you wont live up to what's expected of you." Movie Title: The King and I (1956) as Anna: King : You will order the finest gold chopsticks. Anna : Your Majesty, chopsticks? King : I make mistake, the British not scientific enough to know how to use chopsticks. King : ...Pairs of male elephants to be released into the forests of America. There it is hoped that they will grow in number and the people can tame them and use them as beasts of burden. Anna : But your majesty, I don't think you mean pairs of MALE elephants. King : [chanting to Buddha before banquet preparations] Help also Mrs. Anna to keep awake for scientific sewing of dresses, even though she be only a woman and a Christian and therefore unworthy of your interest! Anna : [greatly offended, rising] Your Majesty! King : A promise is a promise! Head must not be higher than mine! A promise! Louis : Mother, look! The Prime Minister is naked. Anna : Oh don't be ridiculous, Louis. He can't be all naked. He's only [looks through the telescope] Anna : ... half naked. Tuptim : Good day, Madam. My name is Tuptim. I already speak English. Anna : And very nicely, too. Anna : This girl hurt your vanity...she didn't hurt your heart! You have no heart! You've never loved anyone and you never will. King : You will say no more! Anna : I will say no more, because there's no more to say! King : You are very difficult woman! Anna : Perhaps so, Your Majesty. Kralahome: (to Anna) Why are you so blind; have you no eyes to see? King tries impossible task--wishing to be scientific man who know all modern things...... He will only tear himself in two, trying to be something he can never be! Anna : Of course he can never be, if those who are closest to him are unwilling to help him! Kralahome: You do not know King as well as you think you do. You believe you have great influence over him. You will end up as his slave-like all the others! Movie Title: Tea and Sympathy (1956) as Laura Reynolds: Laura Reynolds : Manliness is not all swagger and mountain climbing. It's also tenderness. Tom Lee : Ever since then, I've been a sucker for girls in polo coats. Laura Reynolds : I think I have one... Tom Lee : Yes, I know. Laura Reynolds : Years from now when you talk about this - and you will - be kind. Movie Title: The Adventuress (1946) as Bridie Quilty: J. Miller : You should visit England one day. You may change your mind. Bridie Quilty : There's no need. I've an aunt there who has told me all about it. She says the upper classes are cringing and always moaning about their troubles, and the lower classes are arrogant and think they own the Earth. J. Miller : I thought it was the other way round. Bridie Quilty : My aunt runs a servants' registry office. J. Miller : Ah! Bridie Quilty : There's no "ah" about it. She hates the whole lot of them, and so do I. My father fought for Ireland against the English in 1916, and if I ever get the chance I shall do the same. J. Miller : For a subject of a neutral country, aren't you being a little belligerent? Bridie Quilty : There's nothing belligerent about it. It's entirely a question of which side I'm neutral on. Bridie Quilty : I'm 21; I'm me own mistress. Woman: That's an occupation that could change hands overnight. [Bridie's thoughts as she sizes up her compartment-mate on a train.] Bridie Quilty : His hair is going grey, but it looks very nice the way he has it brushed. He's a faraway look in his eyes... a poet maybe. No, he's much too clean. And he puts his trousers under the mattress like Terence Delaney. Hasn't he the lovely nails? He's a gentleman, I think. I don't like being alone with a strange man at this time of night. He doesn't look that sort of man, of course, but how can you tell? Mr. McGee didn't look that sort of man, and Mr. Clogherty... was a terrible shock to me. Hmm, he's a traveller from abroad. Miller, Miller, that can't be an Irish name... he's English! Of all of the compartments of this train, I have to get into one with an Englishman. Why, I might have known it! Will you look at him, will you look at the cruel set of his jaw! You could mistake him for Cromwell! Lt. David Baynes : Where'd you get this? D'you realize you can go to prison for forging an identity card? What made you do it? Bridie Quilty : It's nothing to do with you; it's my business. Lt. David Baynes : It's my name! Small point, perhaps. Bridie Quilty : Oh, isn't it like an Englishman to niggle about a thing like that? Bridie Quilty : Will there be anything else you require, please? It's me half-day. Lt. David Baynes : No, I don't think so, thank you. Bridie Quilty : Thank you. Lt. David Baynes : Oh, I suppose you wouldn't know anyone who could show me around the town this afternoon, by any chance? Bridie Quilty : I would not. Lt. David Baynes : No, I... I only wondered. Bridie Quilty : You're awful quick, aren't you? Lt. David Baynes : Sorry. I've been working very closely with the American Army. Movie Title: An Affair to Remember (1957) as Terry McKay: Terry McKay : Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories... And we've already missed the spring! Nickie Ferrante : Tell me. Did you write the song "I'll Never Smile Again"? Terry McKay : [laughs] No. But I'm thinking of writing one called "Moon Over La Gabriella." Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball? [Shakes her head] Terry McKay : . Nickie Ferrante : But you have such an honest face. Terry McKay : I have? Nickie Ferrante : I can trust you can't I? Terry McKay : Yes, I suppose so. Nickie Ferrante : Good, come with me. Terry McKay : Yes, but the Captain has an honest face too! Why can't you tell him your troubles? Terry McKay : And all I could say was, "hello". Terry McKay : Oh, it's nobody's fault but my own! I was looking up... it was the nearest thing to heaven! You were there... Movie Title: Black Narcissus (1947) as Sister Clodagh: Sister Clodagh : We all need discipline. You said yourself they're like children. Without discipline we should all behave like children. Mr. Dean : Oh. Don't you like children, Sister? Mother Dorothea : Give her responsibility, Sister. She badly wants importance. Sister Clodagh : Do you think it's a good thing to let her feel important? Mother Dorothea : Spare her some of your own importance... if you can. Sister Clodagh : Well I really don't know what to do. Mr. Dean : What would Christ have done? Movie Title: From Here to Eternity (1953) as Karen Holmes: Karen Holmes : Come back here, Sergeant. I'll tell you the story; you can take it back to the barracks with you. I'd only been married to Dana two years when I found out he was cheating. And by that time I was pregnant. I thought I had something to hope for. I was almost happy the night the pains began. I remember Dana was going to an officers' conference. I told him to get home early, to bring the doctor with him. And maybe he would have... if his "conference" hadn't been with a hat-check girl! He was drunk when he came in at 5 AM. I was lying on the floor. I begged him to go for the doctor, but he fell on the couch and passed out. The baby was born about an hour later. Of course it was dead. It was a boy. But they worked over me at the hospital, they fixed me up fine, they even took my appendix out -- they threw that in free. Sergeant Milton Warden : Karen... Karen Holmes : And one more thing: no more children. Sure I went out with men after that. And if I'd ever found one that... Sergeant Milton Warden : Karen, listen to me, listen. Karen Holmes : I know. Until I met you I didn't think it was possible either. [Warden brings papers to Holmes' house for his signature, knowing that only his wife would be there.] Karen Holmes : Are these really important? Sergeant Milton Warden : Yes, but not important they get signed today. Tomorrow's okay. [She rips them up.] Sergeant Milton Warden : I have copies at the office, so it won't be much work to fix 'em up. Karen Holmes : That's what I like about you, Sergeant: you have confidence. It's also what I dislike about you. Sergeant Milton Warden : It's not confidence, ma'am; it's honesty. I just hate to see a beautiful woman going all to waste. Karen Holmes : Waste, did you say? There's a subject I might tell you something about. I know several kinds of waste, Sergeant. You're probably not even remotely aware of some of them. Would you like to hear? For instance, what about the house without a child? There's one sort for you. Then there's another... You're doing fine, Sergeant. My husband's off somewhere, and it's raining outside, and we're both drinking now. You've probably only got one thing wrong. The lady herself. The lady's not what she seems. She's a... washout, if you know what I mean... and I'm sure you know what I mean! Sergeant Milton Warden : You going to cry? Karen Holmes : Not if I can help it. What are you doing? Sergeant Milton Warden : I'm leaving. Isn't that what you want? Karen Holmes : I don't know, Sergeant. I don't know. [He kisses her.] Karen Holmes : Don't try to be gallant, Sergeant. If you think this is a mistake, come right out and say so. ...Well, I guess it's about time for me to be heading home, isn't it? ...Well, isn't it? Sergeant Milton Warden : What's the matter? What started all this, anyway? You think I'd be here if I thought it was a mistake? Taking a chance on 20 years in Leavenworth for making dates with the company commander's wife? And her acting like-- like Lady Astor's horse, and all because I got here on time! Karen Holmes : Well, on the other hand, I've got a bathing suit under my dress... Sergeant Milton Warden : Me too! Karen Holmes : I never knew it could be like this! Nobody ever kissed me the way you do. Sergeant Milton Warden : Nobody? Karen Holmes : No, nobody. Sergeant Milton Warden : Not even one? Out of all the men you've been kissed by? Karen Holmes : [giggling] Now that'd take some figuring. How many men do you think there've been? Sergeant Milton Warden : I wouldn't know. Can't you give me a rough estimate? Karen Holmes : Not without an adding machine. Do you have the adding machine with you? Sergeant Milton Warden : I forgot to bring it. Karen Holmes : You certainly chose a lovely spot for our meeting. I've had three chances to be picked up in the last five minutes. Movie Title: The Adventures of Colonel Blimp (1943) as Barbara Wynne / Edith Hunter / 'Johnny' Cannon: Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff : What is your first name, Miss Cannon? 'Johnny' Cannon : Angela. Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff : What a lovely name. It comes from Angel, doesn't it? 'Johnny' Cannon : I think it stinks. My friends call me Johnny. Clive Candy : The Kaiser spoke - and the Prince of Wales spoke - Edith Hunter : Spoke about what? Clive Candy : Nobody could remember. Barbara Wynne : We must go, darling, we have the Bishop for lunch. Clive Candy : I hope he's tender. Movie Title: Love on the Dole (1941) as Sally: Sally : I thought I'd have been married by now. Mrs. Bull : Huh! You've not missed much by missing that. Yer marry for love an' find you've let yourself in for a seven day a week job with no pay. An' yer don't find it out 'till it's too late. Mrs. Hardcastle : Eee Sal, you've changed. You're 'ard. Sally : Aye, I'm 'ard. And by gosh an' I need t'be. Movie Title: The Night of the Iguana (1964) as Hannah Jelkes: Hannah Jelkes : Nothing human disgusts me, Mr. Shannon, unless it's unkind, violent. Hannah Jelkes : There are worse things than chastity, Mr. Shannon. Lawrence Shannon : Yes: lunacy and death. |
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