Love Affair (1939)

Charles Boyer: Michel Marnay

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• Terry McKay : How's your fiancee?

  Michel : She's got a cold.

  Terry McKay : Oh, that's too bad. Got it at Lake Como?

  Michel : No, she wasn't there.

  Terry McKay : Uhh... , Uh, you mean the Lady of the Lake was not...

  Michel : [Shakes head]  That was her best friend.

  Terry McKay : Oh.

  Michel : [Another shake, and grimace] 

  Terry McKay : Chummy bunch.

• Terry McKay : What are you trying to say, Michel?

  Michel : I'm trying to say that it would take me six months to find out if I'm worthy to say what's in my heart.

  Terry McKay : Oh, that's just about the nicest thing...

• Terry McKay : Have you been getting results with a line like that? Or, would I be surprised.

  Michel : If you were surprised, that would surprise me!

• Michel : If you don't mind, I think I'll take my pride for a walk.

• Michel : Hundred and second floor, top of the Empire State Building?

  Terry McKay : Yes. That's it right there. It's the tallest building in the world - you can't miss that. It's the nearest thing to heaven we have in New York. Be sure you take the elevator. Well, until we meet again.

• Michel : You have an honest face.

  Terry McKay : Oh?

  Michel : I can trust you, can't I?

  Terry McKay : Yes, I guess so.

  Michel : Come with me.

  Terry McKay : But, look, the captain has an honest face too, and... .

• Terry McKay : My father used to say, "wishes are the dreams we dream when we're awake."

  Michel : Your father said that?

  Terry McKay : He drank a lot.

• Terry McKay : Well, that just about brings us up-to-date. Now my life's an open book.

  Michel : It's only one page.

• Michel : I must talk to someone.

  Terry McKay : Well, I'm really not very good about that sort of thing. I talk a lot. I try to break myself of the habit.

• Michel : I'm in trouble - serious trouble.

  Terry McKay : I could have told you - playing around Lake Como, the poor thing.

• Michel : What's the name of that - strange place you came from?

  Terry McKay : Kansas.

• Michel : [in Terry's cabin, sees a photo of her fiancé]  Where is he now?

  Terry McKay : Well, he's visiting his parents. He sends me on a buying trip every once in awhile. You see, he's my boss too.

  [plays with her pearls] 

• Michel : You saved my life, you know. I was bored to tears! I haven't seen one attractive girl on this boat since we left. Can you imagine? Nine days like that? No, this is terrible. That's not for me! I should be bright, I should be beautiful and bubbling like pink champagne. I got scared. I said to myself, "Don't beautiful women travel any more?" Evidently not. Then I saw you and it was all right. I was saved. I hope. Cigarette?

• Terry McKay : Instead of Mother Goose, you were probably brought up on the memoirs of Casanova.

  Michel : Not at all.

  Terry McKay : [sucks on the straw in her cocktail]  But you've heard of the little fella, haven't you? I imagine you've known quite a few women, haven't you? Or maybe "few" is the wrong word. And I gather you haven't very much respect for them?

  [Michel shakes his head no] 

• Terry McKay : I've never seen such lovely colors. Everything's so vivid.

  Michel : Yes.

  Terry McKay : Even the green seems greener.

• Terry McKay : I guess you and I have been more or less used to a life of pink champagne. Maybe it'd be a little difficult to...

  Michel : Hmm?

  Terry McKay : You like beer?

  Michel : Yes, I do, but...

  Terry McKay : I know, it's bad for the figure.

• Michel : Where shall we go from here?

  Lois Clarke : Why, Michael, that's up to you - after all, this is your evening.

• Michel : No. No, a broken heart is not for me. Life is what you make it. From now on, I'm taking my fun where I find it.

• Michel : And then what did you say to yourself?

  Terry McKay : Well, then I said, "Why don't you go home and get tight?"

  Michel : You didn't do that.

  Terry McKay : Didn't I?

  Michel : Maybe you took a little one every hour for about a month.

  Terry McKay : Well, can you blame me?

• Michel : I thought everything was fine until I saw you last night. Then I knew there must be something between us. Even if only an ocean.