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On the Beach (1959)

Ava Gardner: Moira Davidson

On the Beach

Ava Gardner credited as playing...

Moira Davidson

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Quotes20

  • Moira Davidson: There isn't time. No time to love... nothing to remember... nothing worth remembering.
  • Moira Davidson: All I want to know is: if everybody was so smart, why didn't they know what would happen?
  • Dwight Towers: They did.
  • Moira Davidson: Well, I - I can't take it. I - oh, yes, I can take it! But, it's unfair. It's unfair because I didn't do anything. And nobody I know did anything.
  • Dwight Towers: Well... how'd you recognize me?
  • Moira Davidson: I love Americans. They're so naive.
  • Moira Davidson: You know, I think I've discovered why you fascinate me. Shall I tell you?
  • Dwight Towers: Uh-huh.
  • Moira Davidson: Because you take me for granted. I know women aren't supposed to like that sort of thing, but somehow I do. I've been treated in every other way. Like a child. And sometimes like - well, like things I've probably deserved. But I've never been pushed around in - in such a nice way and treated something like a wife. - - I suppose what I mean is - like an American wife.
  • Moira Davidson: A very nice man asked me to wait here. I don't think he knew what to do with me.
  • Dwight Towers: That's debatable.
  • Dwight Towers: Is your invitation to spread a little fertilizer still open?
  • Moira Davidson: [Smiles, laughs] Can you stay for a few day?
  • Moira Davidson: I wouldn't really mind... if you could forget entirely who I am... I don't like myself very much anyway.
  • Moira Davidson: When the dentist is drilling your tooth, what do you think about? The nicest thing or sex or what?
  • Dwight Towers: Fishing. Trout fishing - in a clean mountain stream.
  • Moira Davidson: Dwight... even if you don't like me, would you please hold on to me just for a moment longer?
  • Moira Davidson: You're looking for me.
  • Dwight Towers: Am I?
  • Moira Davidson: I'm Moira Davidson. M-O-I-R-A. It was a very fashionable name when... my mother was young and impressionable. I'm a throwback.
  • Dwight Towers: Where's Holmes?
  • Moira Davidson: Oh, he's decking the halls with holly. He sent me for better or worse.
  • Dwight Towers: Better, I'd say.
  • Moira Davidson: I'm your date - or, whatever you call it.
  • Moira Davidson: The only thing I could understand is geography. And I like geography.
  • Dwight Towers: Is there a place where I might stop where I can get a little breakfast?
  • Moira Davidson: What?
  • Dwight Towers: A little breakfast.
  • Moira Davidson: Do you mean that in addition to everything else, I have to watch you eat bacon and eggs and all that muck?
  • Moira Davidson: You have to buy me a couple of drinks to get me started.
  • Moira Davidson: I can't decide if I'm more objectionable drunk or sober?
  • Moira Davidson: I take it you put me to bed?
  • Moira Davidson: I've never had it happen quite like that before.
  • Moira Davidson: My obvious job was to seduce you. So, I suppose my pride is hurt. I also feel ashamed.
  • Moira Davidson: Wouldn't you like to try?
  • Moira Davidson: I can't pretend any longer, Julian. I'm afraid. I have nobody, and I'm afraid.
  • Julian Osborne: What about Dwight?
  • Moira Davidson: He's married. He's married to a girl named Sharon, And they have two children.
  • Julian Osborne: Mm-hmm, i know.
  • Moira Davidson: [sighs] but if things were different, If she were alive, I'd do anything... Any mean trick I know to get him.

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