The Fountainhead - A Marriage Without Expectations
Dominique Francon:
I'll marry you. Don't you want to ask me any questions?
Gail Wynand:
No.
Dominique Francon:
Thank you. You're making it easier for me.
Gail Wynand:
Whatever your reason, I shall accept it. What I want to find in our marriage will remain my own concern. I exact no promises and impose no obligations. Incidentally, since it is of no importance to you, I love you.
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The Fountainhead - The Struggle Between Individuality and Compromise
Dominique Francon: [to Roark]
I wish I had never seen your building. It's the things that we admire or want that enslave us. I'm not easy to bring into submission.
Henry Cameron:
I told them that the form of a building must follow its function.
Gail Wynand: [to Roark, regarding the Wynand Building]
Build it as a monument to that spirit which is yours - and could have been mine.
Peter Keating:
You can't hope to survive unless you learn how to compromise. Now, watch me! In just a few short years I'll shoot to the top of the architectural profession because I'm going to give the public what it wants.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still - Warning about Gort's potential actions
Klaatu:
I'm worried about Gort. If anything should happen to me, I'm worried about what he might do.
Helen Benson: [[robot]
Gort? But he's a ]. Without you, what can he do?
Klaatu:
There's no limit to what he can do! He could destroy the Earth. Helen: if anything should happen to me, go to Gort, and repeat these words: Klaatu… barada… nikto.
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A Face in the Crowd - Manipulation and Power in a Crowded Nation
Lonesome Rhodes:
This whole country's just like my flock of sheep!
Marcia Jeffries:
Sheep?
Lonesome Rhodes:
Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers - everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle. They don't know it yet, but they're all gonna be Fighters for Fuller'. They're mine! I own em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for em. Marcia, you just wait and see. I'm gonna be the power behind the president - and you'll be the power behind me! You made me, Marcia. You made me. I always say that. I owe it all to you. I owe it all to you.
Marcia Jeffries:
I know it. I know it. I know it.
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A Face in the Crowd - Fear and Approval in Relationships
Lonesome Rhodes:
I was afraid to marry you, and that's the truth. The dirt-root, cotton-pickin truth.
Marcia Jeffries:
Last time, you said you were afraid not to.
Lonesome Rhodes:
Both were true. You sort of overawe me. You know more than I do. I can feel you being so gol-darned critical all the time. You and that smart-alecky Mel. And you don't really approve of me. That's so, ain't it?
Marcia Jeffries:
You're gettin to be all the things you used to harpoon.
Lonesome Rhodes:
See what I mean? The bigger I get, the smaller you make me feel. You take Betty Lou...
Marcia Jeffries:
Larry, don't try to explain. Betty Lou is your public, all wrapped up with yellow ribbons into one cute little package. She's the logical culmination of the great 20th-century love affair between Lonesome Rhodes and his mass audience.
Lonesome Rhodes:
Well, I wish you wasn't so bitter.
Marcia Jeffries:
I'm not bitter. If I sound stridently female about Miss Drum Majorette, I don't mean to be. I knew you married her just as a way of not marryin me.
Lonesome Rhodes:
Look, Marcia, I'm not forgettin what I owe ya. I'm gonna give ya a healthy slice of our whole operation. Say, ten percent of my end. And you won't have to lift your finger with what I'm givin you.
Marcia Jeffries:
Givin me? Givin me? You're not givin me anything. And you're not throwin me off the train like poor Abe Steiner, either. A Face in the Crowd was my idea. The whole idea of Lonesome Rhodes belongs to me. I always should've been an equal partner. Well, now I'm gonna be an equal partner. I'm gonna get somethin I deserve....AND I WANT IT ON PAPER!
Lonesome Rhodes:
Okay. All right. I'll tell Joey to draw up the papers. Look at yourself in the mirror, Marcia. You'll see a millionaire.
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A Face in the Crowd - Questioning the Truth of Riddle
Marcia Jeffries:
You always drink like that?
Lonesome Rhodes:
Not always. Back in Riddle they was pretty strict. Didn't allow us to touch hard liquor till we was 10 or 11.
Marcia Jeffries:
Now is there really a town called Riddle?
Lonesome Rhodes:
Well, tell you the flat truth, it's just a sort of a whatchacallit, a...
Marcia Jeffries:
...Composite?
Lonesome Rhodes:
Compost heap's more like it.
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A Face in the Crowd - The Burden of Influence and Responsibility
Lonesome Rhodes:
Look at all them TV aerials sticking up like branches down there. There's a whole forest of em from here to San Diego. All of em waitin to hear what I got to say.
Marcia Jeffries:
Is that what you woke me up in the middle of the night for?
Lonesome Rhodes:
Marcia, what I'm tryin to say is, all of them millions of people believin in me, doin what I tell em to, scares me. Honest. General and all them big shots tryin to educate me.
Marcia Jeffries:
Educate you or use you?
Lonesome Rhodes: [He snaps off a dead rose stem]
That's it, see? The General says our country needs me. I'm supposed to be an influence. That's mighty tall grass, Marcia. We're gettin in deep, Marcia. A thousand times deeper than we ever dreamed when we were startin out in Arkansas. I know on the set, I'm beginnin to act like I just ate the Western Hemisphere for breakfast. But then, down here in the boiler room, I know I need advice. Not the kind I get from Joey or the Madison Avenue high-domes who say gesundheit before I even pucker up to sneeze. No. And now, when I'm comin to the top of the mountain, I need you, because you level with me. You're my lifeline to truth, and... Well, marry me, Marcia - will ya? That's what I called you over here for. Can't keep anything alive up here. Dust in this city kills everythin'.
Marcia Jeffries: [She pulled his downcast head up by the hair]
Larry, don't play with me. Don't hurt me. Don't hurt me.
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A Face in the Crowd - Whole Self in Every Endeavor
Marcia Jeffries:
You put your whole self into that laugh, don't you?
Lonesome Rhodes:
Marcia, I put my whole self into everything I do.
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A Face in the Crowd - Perception vs. Reality in Celebrity Influence
Marcia Jeffries:
They love his voice, they love his guitar, they love his ideas... they should know some of his ideas.
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Hud - A Request for a Clean Shirt
Hud Bannon:
Give me a clean white shirt.
Alma Brown:
Boy, you're real big with the "please" and "thank you," aren't you?
Hud Bannon:
Please get up off your lazy butt and get me a clean white shirt. Thank you.
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Hud - Self-Reliance Amidst Past Hardships
Hud Bannon:
You're a fine housekeeper, a fine cook, and a fine laundress. What else are you good at?
Alma Brown:
Taking care of myself.
Hud Bannon:
A piece of corn-silk like you shouldn't need to.
Alma Brown:
That's what my first husband used to tell me. Then he took my wallet and my gasoline card, left me stranded at a hotel in downtown Albuquerque.
Hud Bannon:
What did you do, wear your curlers to bed? Is that why he made for the hills?
Alma Brown:
He was a gambler. He's probably up at Vegas right now, dealing all night and losing it back in the daytime.
Hud Bannon:
Man like that sounds no better than a heel.
Alma Brown:
Aren't you all?
Hud Bannon:
Honey, don't go shooting all the dogs just because one of them's got fleas.
Alma Brown:
I was married to Ed for six years. Only thing he was ever good for was scratching my back where I couldn't reach it.
Hud Bannon:
You still got that itch?
Alma Brown:
Off and on.
Hud Bannon:
Well, let me know when it gets to bothering you.
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Hud - Afternoon Rendezvous and Suspicion
Alma Brown:
You and your car smell like Chanel #5. You weren't riding the range this afternoon, were you?
Hud Bannon:
I sure wasn't.
Alma Brown:
How does Truman Peters's wife make time for you, in the middle of the day?
Hud Bannon:
She just drops everything for me, honey.
Alma Brown:
I guess it beats housework, doesn't it?
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Hud - Conflict Over Parking and Flowers
Alma Brown:
Why do you ALWAYS park that thing in my flowers!?
Hud Bannon:
Because you keep planting them where I park, that's why.
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Hud - A Tense Exchange Over Alcohol and Boundaries
Hud Bannon:
...Where's my Jack Daniels?
Alma Brown:
I'd say you already drank it.
Alma Brown:
I don't like sudden passes.
Hud Bannon:
Well, there's another coming up on your right.
Alma Brown:
Don't you ever ask?
Hud Bannon:
The only question I ever ask any woman is, "What time is your husband coming home?" Now come on, let's get our shoelaces untied.
Alma Brown:
I've been asked with more finesse in my day.
Hud Bannon:
I wouldn't want to come off crude. Want some perfume?
Alma Brown:
Sure; how about some colored beads and wampum, while you're at it?
Hud Bannon:
Whatever I need to make you trade.
Alma Brown:
Thanks, but I've done my time with one cold-blooded bastard; I'm not looking for another.
Hud Bannon:
It's too late, honey. You've already found him.
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Hud - Consequences of Impure Thoughts in Adolescence
Alma Brown: [to Lonnie]
Boys with impure thoughts break into acne. Keep it up and you'll see.
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