The Country Girl - Confronting Hidden Emotions and Distance
Georgie Elgin:
How could you be so angry at someone you didn't even know?
Bernie Dodd:
Maybe I really wasn't. Maybe I screamed at you to keep myself at an angry distance.
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The Country Girl - Conflict Between Love and Harsh Reality
Bernie Dodd:
You make him tense and uneasy. You never stop handling him and now you're trying to handle me too!
Georgie Elgin:
And don't think I couldn't, after handling a cunning drunkard for 10 years.
Bernie Dodd:
If you had any compassion or love whatsoever for this man, you could never call him a cunning drunkard.
Georgie Elgin:
Maybe I have a greater love for the truth. That's what he is and I'm a drunkard's wife. That's the truth, too. And I think it's high time you stop looking at everything as if it were a musical comedy!
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The Country Girl - Strength and Dependency in Relationships
Georgie Elgin:
Frank's weak. He's a leaner! I happen to be the one he leans on.
Bernie Dodd:
The good, strong helpmate. Did it ever occur to you that you and your strength might be the very reason he is weak. I don't like strong women, Mrs. Elgin.
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The Country Girl - Navigating Truth in Relationships and Critique
Georgie Elgin:
I try to be careful, Mr. Dodd, but being an actor's wife is not the easiest of jobs. If I tell him he's magnificent, he says I'm not honest. If I tell him he's not magnificent, he says I don't love him.
Bernie Dodd:
Why don't you tell him he's good but can be better.
Georgie Elgin:
Is that what the critics will tell him?
Bernie Dodd:
Are you a critic or a wife?
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The Country Girl - The Mystery of a Dark Theatre
Georgie Elgin:
You're sure I'm not in the way?
Bernie Dodd:
No, no. We're just closing up shop, giving it back to the theatre ghosts.
Georgie Elgin:
There's nothing quite so mysterious and silent as a dark theatre. A night without a star.
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The Country Girl - Loyalty in Personal Relationships
Bernie Dodd:
Are you for him or against him?
Georgie Elgin:
I'm his wife.
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The Country Girl - A Girl's Perspective on Theatre and Acting
Bernie Dodd:
I'm just trying to find out if you were ever an actress?
Georgie Elgin:
Oh, no. Not me. Thank you. I'm just a girl from the country. The theatre and its people have always been a complete mystery to me. They still are.
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The Country Girl - Balcony Manners and Stage Anxiety
Georgie Elgin:
How's Frank?
Bernie Dodd:
Okay. How's it been back here?
Georgie Elgin:
He was a little uneasy with the curtain going up so late.
Bernie Dodd:
If only the first few rows had the balcony's manners, what a wonderful world this would be.
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The Country Girl - Understanding Between Men and Women
Georgie Elgin:
For your edification, he's heading for a bender.
Bernie Dodd:
Why is it that women always think they understand men better than men do?
Georgie Elgin:
Maybe because they live with them.
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The Country Girl - The Impact of Guidance in Success
Georgie Elgin:
Let's say I try my small way to help.
Bernie Dodd:
That's what my ex-wife used to keep me reminding of, cheerfully. She had a theory that behind every great man there was a great woman. She also was thoroughly convinced that she was great and all I needed to qualify was guidance on her part.
Georgie Elgin:
Still does not prove that the theory is completely wrong. I imagine one can go through history and find a few good examples.
Bernie Dodd: [[Leonardo da Vinci]
It's a pity that ] never had a wife to guide him; he might have really gotten somewhere.
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The Country Girl - Perceptions of Age and Self-Presentation
Georgie Elgin:
You're even younger than I thought.
Bernie Dodd:
And you try to look like an old lady. You're not. You shouldn't wear your hair like that. There are two kinds of women: those who pay too much attention to themselves and those who don't pay enough.
Georgie Elgin: [sarcastically]
Say, that's quite a pearl of wisdom. May I quote you?
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The Country Girl - The Complexity of Seeking Approval
Georgie Elgin:
He hates himself. Consequently, he'll do or say anything to be liked by others. People like Frank ought to have two votes. Then they could mark their ballot: Democrat and Republican. That way, everybody would love them.
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The Country Girl - Caution Against Overindulgence in Alcohol
Georgie Elgin:
If you're not careful you're going to have him full of whisky before morning. He's getting a cold and that's a respectable surface reason for any drinker to jump down the well.
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The Country Girl - The Paradox of Appearances and Despair
Georgie Elgin:
Certain men are very strange. Business couldn't be better, wife and kiddies are fine, jokes with the boys at the club. And the next day you read he's hung himself from the chandelier.
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The Country Girl - The Value of Truth Over Flattery
Georgie Elgin:
Flattery is cheap, Mr. Dodd. How about a little costly truth?
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The Country Girl - Embracing Honesty and Real Expectations
Georgie Elgin:
No pity. I like that. Now at least he knows what to expect.
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The Country Girl - Childhood Comparisons and Misunderstandings
Georgie Elgin:
Mr. Dodd, when I was a child, we had a town idiot who kept insisting that elephant tusks came from piano keys, but he had nothing on you.
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