La Femme sur la plage (1947)
Joan Bennett: Peggy
Quotes
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Tod : Peggy, did it ever occur to you that to me you'll always be young and beautiful? No matter how old you grow - I'll always remember you as you were the last day I saw you - young, beautiful, bright, exciting. No one who can see can say that to you. - - Peg, you're so beautiful... so beautiful outside, so rotten inside.
Peggy : You're no angel.
Tod : No. I guess we're two of a kind.
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Peggy : We used to - drink a lot. We lived in a sort of strange state of excitement, always off balance, high pitched, tense, always just at the breaking point.
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Peggy : I was so proud of you: the great Tod Butler - fiery American painter who approached his canvas' like a prizefighter.
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Peggy : [to Scott, who's clutching a dead man's life jacket he has found] If you're so afraid about ghosts, Lieutenant, what about that jacket you're holding?
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Peggy : I wish I'd never heard of painting - or artists.
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Tod : [dictating some text to Peggy, who is typing it out for him] The theory that man is inherently good is bunk. Pure bunk. Each individual possesses a split personality, which...
[pauses]
Tod : Oh, that's pretty dull stuff, isn't it?
Peggy : Yes, it is.
Tod : Thanks... That bad?
Peggy : Mm-hmm.
Tod : Oh, what's the use of kidding. I can't write.
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Peggy : Tod, please listen!
Tod : I've listened to you enough. I listen to you tiptoeing in the dark, and sighing in your sleep. You think I need eyes to tell me you want to get rid of me? You murderous little sneak!
Peggy : Tod...
Tod : So, you wanna' be free? You'll get away when I choose to let you go! And I'm not ready yet - not quite!