Patricia Neal Quotes

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.

Dominique Francon 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 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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Alma Brown Boys with impure thoughts break into acne. Keep it up and you'll see.

Klaatu I'm worried about Gort. If anything should happen to me, I'm worried about what he might do.

Helen Benson 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.

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.

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.

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.

Marcia Jeffries They love his voice, they love his guitar, they love his ideas... they should know some of his ideas.

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 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 Larry, don't play with me. Don't hurt me. Don't hurt me.

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.

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.