Le Privé (1973)

Sterling Hayden: Roger Wade

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• Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : What'll you have?

  Philip Marlowe : What are you drinking?

  Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : What I'm drinking is called Aquavit.

  Philip Marlowe : I'm drinking what you're drinking.

  Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : Well God bless you. I like to hear that. People these days go, "Oh, I want a little of this. Oh, and a little of that and a twist of lemmon." Balls!

• Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : Do you ever think about suicide, Marlboro?

  Philip Marlowe : Me, I don't believe in it.

• Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : I tell you what we're gonna do, Marlboro. You're gonna take that goddamn J.C. Penney tie off and we're gonna have an old fashioned man to man drinking party.

  Philip Marlowe : Well, that's okay but I'm not taking off the tie.

• Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : You know, if I could just get you to understand that when a writer can't write, it's just like being impotent.

  Eileen Wade : I understand what that's like, too.

  Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : Oh, you do, do you? You do? BALLS, BABY, BALLS!

• Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : [on Dr. Verringer to party guests as Verrigner stands before him]  You know, this son of a bitch - let me tell you one thing about this bastard. He is the epitome of what's wrong - with this world - he really is actually, 'cause he pretends to cure people. Can you cure people?

• Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : [as Dr. Verringer walks up]  It's Minnie Mouse. It's the albino turd.

• Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : This place stinks, Doc. It's this place that's sick, not the people in it.

• Eileen Wade : Would you all like some fresh drinks? I'll go and get some more ice. Come on, don't let this break the party up.

  Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : Okay, okay, okay, get out. Get out, all of you, goddammit! Get outta here!

  Eileen Wade : Well, it seems the party's come to an abrupt end. Pumpkin time again.

• Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : You know what I wish you'd do? I wish you'd take that goddamn J.C. Penny tie off and settle down with me and what you and I are gonna do is have a little old-fashioned, man-to-man drinking party.

  Philip Marlowe : That's okay with me, but I'm not gonna take my tie off.

  Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : Alright, you leave your tie on. Now, I'll tell you what I got. I got champagne, beer, Scotch, bourbon, aquavit, tawny port...

• Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : When was the last time you made love at the lighthouse on Point Venus in Tahiti?" Or out on the lagoon, that shining lagoon with the goddamn surf booming on the Barrier Reef? Or up on Whitney that night of the blizzard in the double mummy bag?

• Philip Marlowe : Do you know Terry Lennox?

  Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know Terry Lennox; but, he's the kind of guy that if I knew him I wouldn't let on I knew him.

• Philip Marlowe : Did you know Sylvia Lennox?

  Roger Wade aka Billy Joe Smith : Sylvia. A beautiful broad.