The Big Heat - Sisters Under the Mink
Bertha Duncan:
Did Mr. Stone send you?
Debby Marsh:
No. I've been thinking about you and me, how much alike we are. The mink-coated girls.
Bertha Duncan:
I don't understand you. What are you here for, Miss Marsh?
Debby Marsh:
Debby - we should use first names, Bertha. We're sisters under the mink.
Bertha Duncan:
You're not making any sense, Miss Marsh. I'd better call Mr. Stone and have him pick you up. You're not well.
Debby Marsh: [shoots Bertha]
I never felt better in my life!
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The Big Heat - Questioning Intentions in a Cross-Examination
Debby Marsh:
I'd just stop the cross-examination. I didn't come up here to talk out of school.
Dave Bannion:
Why did you come up?
Debby Marsh:
Well, why don't we call it research or something?
Dave Bannion:
Or to needle Stone.
Debby Marsh:
Oh, well, you're about as romantic as a pair of handcuffs. Didn't you ever tell a girl pretty things? You know, she's got hair like the west wind, eyes like limpid pools, skin like velvet...?
Dave Bannion: [He turns away from her]
I'll put you in a cab.
Debby Marsh:
Did I say something wrong?
Dave Bannion:
No.
Debby Marsh:
I must have broken one of the house rules. Do you really want me to go?
Dave Bannion:
I wouldn't touch anything of Vince Stone's with a ten foot pole.
Debby Marsh:
That's a rotten thing to say.
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The Big Heat - Balancing Good and Bad in Relationships
Debby Marsh:
Most times, it's a lot of fun, expensive fun...He can be a pretty good guy, and then other times he can be - but why kick, you gotta take the bad with the good.
Dave Bannion:
Is the good good enough?
Debby Marsh:
Clothes, travel, expensive excitement, what's wrong with that?
Dave Bannion:
Nothing, if you don't care where his money comes from.
Debby Marsh:
The main thing is to have the money. I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
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The Big Heat - Perfume's Unexpected Effect on Attraction
Vince Stone:
Hey, that's nice perfume.
Debby Marsh:
Something new. It attracts mosquitoes and repels men.
Vince Stone:
It doesn't work that way with me.
Debby Marsh:
It's not supposed to.
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The Big Heat - Appreciating Simplicity in Unremarkable Places
Debby Marsh:
(inspecting Bannion's cheap hotel room) "I like this. Early Nothing.
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The Big Heat - Embracing Imperfection and Life's Challenges
Debby Marsh:
I guess the scar isn't so bad, not if it's only on one side. I can always go through life sideways.
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In a Lonely Place - Conflicting Promises of Love and Fear
Laurel Gray:
I'll stay with you, Dix, I promise. I'll stay with you. I love you, Dix. I'll marry you. I'll go away with you. Take me...
Dixon Steele:
You'd run away from me the first chance you get.
Laurel Gray:
Don't act like this, Dix, I can't live with a maniac.
Dixon Steele: [choking her]
I'll never let you go.
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In a Lonely Place - The Complexity of Trust and Violence
Laurel Gray:
Dix doesn't act like a normal person. You don't go around hitting people, smashing cars, torturing your best friend. I'm scared of him. I don't trust him. I'm not even sure he didn't kill Mildred Atkinson.
Mel Lippmann:
Laurel! You're going too far.
Laurel Gray:
Am I? Have you forgot what you asked me when we first met? You weren't sure of him either, and you knew him better than anybody else. Why can't he be like other people?
Mel Lippmann:
Like other people - would you have liked him? You knew he was dynamite - he has to explode sometimes! Years ago, I tried to make him go and see a psychiatrist. I thought he'd kill me! Always violent. Well it's as much a part of him as the color of his eyes, the shape of his head. He's Dix Steele. And if you want him, you've gotta take it all, the good with the bad. I've taken it for 20 years and I'd do it again.
Laurel Gray:
You make me feel ashamed, Mel.
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In a Lonely Place - A Mutual Understanding of Boundaries
Dixon Steele:
You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, "There she is - the one that's different. She's not coy or cute or corny. She's a good guy - I'm glad she's on my side. She speaks her mind and she knows what she wants.
Laurel Gray:
Thank you, sir. But let me add: I also know what I don't want - and I don't want to be rushed.
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In a Lonely Place - Perceptions of Attractiveness and Affection
Dixon Steele:
You know, you're out of your mind - how can anyone like a face like this? Look at it...
Laurel Gray:
I said I liked it - I didn't say I wanted to kiss it.
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In a Lonely Place - Subtlety in Love Scenes
Laurel Gray: [on a scene in Dix's script]
I love the love scene - it's very good.
Dixon Steele:
Well that's because they're not always telling each other how much in love they are. A good love scene should be about something else besides love. For instance, this one. Me fixing grapefruit. You sitting over there, dopey, half-asleep. Anyone looking at us could tell we're in love.
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In a Lonely Place - Unequal Perspectives on Privacy and Trust
Dixon Steele: [noting the geography of their apartments]
You know, Ms. Gray, you're one up on me - you can see into my apartment but I can't see into yours.
Laurel Gray:
I promise you, I won't take advantage of it.
Dixon Steele:
I would, if it were the other way around.
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In a Lonely Place - A Brief Love Remembered
Laurel Gray:
I lived a few weeks while you loved me. Goodbye, Dix.
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In a Lonely Place - Loss of Meaning Over Time
Laurel Gray: [after the police tell her Dix is innocent]
Yesterday, this would have meant so much to us. Now it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter at all.
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