Bell Book and Candle (1958)

James Stewart: Shepherd Henderson

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• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : That girl you know, Gillian Holroyd, she's one.

  Merle Kittridge : A witch?

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Yes!

  Merle Kittridge : Shep, you just never learned to spell.

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Hasn't this cat got anything better to do? Couldn't you give him something to read?

• Merle Kittridge : Are you trying to say you're... *jilting* me?

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : W-well, that's a very heavy word, Merle. It's a very heavy word. Let's just say that we're... uncoupling.

• Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : But what on earth are you doing with Pyewacket?

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Somebody gave him my address.

• [Last lines. Shep Henderson is surprised when Gillian breaks down in tears, since he knows that witches can't cry] 

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : How did it happen?

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : It just happened. It does sometimes.

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : No, it only happens one way. The story is that it only happens if you fall in love. And it's been happening to me too, Gil. Ever since I walked in here. Only it's real this time.

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : [kisses him]  Oh, Shep!

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Or has it been real all along? Who's to say what magic is? Oh, Gil, don't you want to stop crying now?

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : I don't think I can. I'm only human.

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : I may sound like a lunatic, but I'm not crazy!

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : [At the Zodiac; Shep referring to Mrs. De Passe]  You won't catch her at El Morocco.

  Merle Kittridge : She looks like she's been living in a pickle barrel.

• Bianca de Passe : Do you know what she used?

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Used?

  Bianca de Passe : Heart of toad, white vinegar, swallows liver?

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : She used a cat.

  Parrot : Cat!

• Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : [referring to "Magic in Mexico"]  Did you publish that?

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : No, but I wish I had. Sold like the Kinsey Report.

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : Well, I can't think why. It's completely phony.

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Oh, it is?

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : I spent a year in Mexico. I'm sure they fed him a lot of fake tourist stuff, and he swallowed it whole.

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Well, maybe they did that to Kinsey too.

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : What have you been up to? Have you been engaging in un-American activities or something?

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : No, I'd say very American. Early American.

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : And now, if you'll forgive me, I think I'll be going. Believe me, I've had my fill of this "bell, book and candle" set.

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : [Redlitch gestures to Shep for another drink]  Oh sure, go ahead.

  Sidney Redlitch : [handing Tina his empty glass]  Uh, what was that?

  Tina - Shep's Secretary : Scotch.

  Sidney Redlitch : Make this one bourbon, would you?

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : [responding to Redlitch's hint for "a little post-Christmas cheer"]  Oh, certainly... Scotch? Bourbon?

  Sidney Redlitch : Uh, it doesn't make any difference.

• Queenie : Nicky's the one playing the bongos. You know, up to a few months ago, he'd never studied music.

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : He's quite remarkable.

  Queenie : Yes, particularly when you consider that, before that, he used to work in an herb shop.

  Merle Kittridge : Looks to me as if he's eaten one herb too many. That's why he acts so creepy, I suppose.

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : No, it's not that at all. It's just that all the Holroyds are a little sinister. You see, Nicky's my brother.

• Tina - Shep's Secretary : Bergdorf called about that negligee you wanted sent to Miss Kittridge.

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : I see. Well, now, Tina, why don't you just have them send that to your house? And I'm not going to have lunch with Miss Kittridge or dinner. So you can just cancel all those reservations.

  Tina - Shep's Secretary : You mean you've broken up with that...

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : And we don't want to have a perfectly good negligee go to waste, do we?

• Nicky Holroyd : Warlock. Well, you'd never know it to look at him, would you?

  Sidney Redlitch : You wouldn't, but I would.

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : You can recognize them?

  Sidney Redlitch : Like a shot.

  Queenie : How?

  Nicky Holroyd : Just a look or a feeling or something. I can't put my finger on it, but if one came in here right now I'd know him in a minute.

  Nicky Holroyd : Yeah. I wonder if we know any of them?

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : I wonder. I suppose there's lots of it around.

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Yeah, it's sort of like the flu.

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : We're just gonna drive up-state or over to Jersey or wherever it is that you do it - and - do it!

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : The amazing thing about it, I think he really believes there are such things as witches.

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : Just so he doesn't think I'm one.

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Is Pyewacket a witch too?

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : I'm afraid I never gave you much of anything.

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : Oh, yes, yes, you did. You gave me something wonderful. You made me unhappy.

• Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : You wanted to go dancing in the snow. Of course, you don't remember.

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : I remember every single moment, and I'm going to mush your nose.

  [kiss] 

• Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : I want you as much as you want me.

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : Would you like it to go on for always?

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Does anything go on for always?

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : Well, one likes to think some things do.