A Free Soul (1931)
Norma Shearer: Jan Ashe
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Quotes
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Jan Ashe : Come on, put 'em around me.
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Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Frightened?
Jan Ashe : No, I love it.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You love what?
Jan Ashe : Oh, I don't know. You're just a new kind of man in a new kind of world.
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Jan Ashe : [to Dwight] I just don't want to get married, Dwight. I don't want life to settle down around me like a pan of sour dough. I don't want it one little bit.
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Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Why did you cry for speed like that?
Jan Ashe : Oh, I haven't the least idea.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Yeah, I guess you figured I couldn't talk much at 100 miles per hour, eh?
Jan Ashe : What do you mean?
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Why, if I told you how often I wished I'd have you like this, you wouldn't believe it.
Jan Ashe : Why me? The world's full of girls.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Well, why'd Romeo take on so much grief?
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Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Do you think you could like me?
Jan Ashe : I don't quite know what's happened? Whether its just the end of a perfect day - or - whether I'm just a little mad.
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Jan Ashe : Don't run away from things. Don't hide. Get out in the middle of life and if the wind blows you over - pick yourself up again. Make your own mistakes and learn by them.
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Jan Ashe : Said he, and suddenly the moonbeams turn to worms - and crawl away.
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Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : That's all that marriage is, just two people that want to live together. You can call the rest, just nothin'! You're a thrill! You're mine, and I want ya!
Jan Ashe : [Sarcastically] Just the kind of a marriage I've always dreamed about.
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Jan Ashe : What's the tricks? What's the tricks?
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Jan Ashe : [Seductively] Hello, there.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Hello, yourself. Say, it's great to come up and find you here like this.
Jan Ashe : Is it now? Well, what are you going to do about it?
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Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : I was just wondering what I'd do if you stopped dropping in?
Jan Ashe : Very interesting. You just talked yourself out of the warmest osculation.
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Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Say, don't women ever want to talk?
Jan Ashe : Is it, eh, physiology or biology?
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : What do you mean?
Jan Ashe : Ha-ha. Men of action are better in action, they don't talk well.
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Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You do love me, don't you?
Jan Ashe : It's just madness, nothing else.
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Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : How much do you love me?
Jan Ashe : How much? Let me see how much... well, it's about ten feet high and about seven feet wide.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : No, no, never mind that.
Jan Ashe : Oh, I can't measure it now, its a storm at sea.
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Jan Ashe : What's on your mind, darling?
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : I want to marry you.
Jan Ashe : Why?
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Why? What do you think, why? I'm off my nut about you.
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Jan Ashe : Marrying you is serious, darn serious. It would mean the end of a lot of things for me. My world would close up on me in a minute.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Oh, why worry about 'em! A lot of high hat chislers!
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Jan Ashe : No, I'm not cheap. Not even you can say I am. I can't let you.
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Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You think you're quite a gal, don't you?
Jan Ashe : Oh, it doesn't matter what I think.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You can cut out the kiddin', Jan. You used to get away with that half-kiddin' stuff. I figured it was your language over my head.
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Jan Ashe : I didn't know until last night what I was really doing to myself. What a beast you were when the surface is scratched. I found out that only swines should travel with swines.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Say, you're talkin' to the man you love!
Jan Ashe : It makes me sick to even hear you say the word. I've lost the right ever again to think of what love can be or what it means. Marry you? For, the rest of my life can't wash the filthy mark of you out of my soul!
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Dwight Winthrop : Jan, darling, don't cry. There's so little to say, isn't there. Except, I love you.
Jan Ashe : You ought to hate me. I wish you did. I'm not worth what you've done.
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Jan Ashe : Oh, I love you. I love you as much as I despise myself.
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Prosecuting Attorney : Did he threaten to kidnap you?
Jan Ashe : Yes, he did.
Prosecuting Attorney : Was he truthful when he said you went to his place and stayed there?
Jan Ashe : Yes.
Prosecuting Attorney : Did he kidnap you the first time you went there and stayed?
Jan Ashe : No.
Prosecuting Attorney : You went because you wanted to, didn't you?
Jan Ashe : Yes.
Prosecuting Attorney : Over how long a period did you go to his place and stay because you wanted to?
Jan Ashe : Several months.
Prosecuting Attorney : You've been to school, haven't you, Miss Ashe?
Jan Ashe : Yes.
Prosecuting Attorney : Good American schools?
Jan Ashe : Yes.
Prosecuting Attorney : And you were over 21 when you went to Wilfong and belonged to him, weren't you?
Jan Ashe : Yes, sir.
Prosecuting Attorney : And he only became a beast after you were through with the experience, and he wasn't. Isn't that it?
Johnson - Defense Attorney : Your honor, I object to this form of bullying.
Prosecuting Attorney : I'm through.
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Jan Ashe : Wait a little while, darling. I'll be in New York, working at something.
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Jan Ashe : I know how you're suffering, dear, but just a little time, and then...
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : *Suffering*... it isn't suffering, it's *madness*. All this is really driving me to stark insanity.
Jan Ashe : Dad, if you don't stand now, dear, you never will.
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : Say, you're assuming a lot, Jan. I don't want a drink. It's this bargain I resent that cuts me off from all normal living. A bargain I had to make to keep you from playing with rattlesnakes.
Jan Ashe : Not very fair, darling.
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : A crook! With the mob! Mixed into everything from opium to white slavery. Huh! What kind of a "bargain" do you call that?
Jan Ashe : I know it isn't much of a bargain, dear, but we thought we ought to try it now, didn't we?
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : Oh, I can't stand it! If I could only get a little sleep. I'm going mad for sleep! I can't get a... just a few minutes and I'm wide awake again. It's frightful!
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Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : Where do you live?
Jan Ashe : St. Patrick's Hotel, San Francisco.
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : On the day of the killing, did you see Ace Wilfong?
Jan Ashe : Yes, I did.
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : Where?
Jan Ashe : St. Francis Hotel, he came there.
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : Tell us exactly what happened... in your own words.
Jan Ashe : He'd been very brutal the night before...
Prosecuting Attorney : I object, your honor.
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : It's all right, I'm not trying to juggle with this witness, your honor.
Judge : Objection sustained.
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney : All right, strike out the answer about Wilfong's brutality.
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Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : You know, I just happened to remember, I've had no dinner.
Jan Ashe : Darn thoughtless. I forgot all about it.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : How about you?
Jan Ashe : That's right. The air was so thick at the family table, I ate almost nothing.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : They have great hamburger with onions.
Jan Ashe : Mmmm. Make it two.
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant : Two... with onions.