Cactus Flower (1969)
Ingrid Bergman: Stephanie Dickinson
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Quotes
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Dr. Julian Winston : I must say, it's grotesque. A woman your age, throwing yourself at a kid like that!
Stephanie : And what about that eh, father-daughter thing of yours, if you don't think that's ridiculous...
Dr. Julian Winston : Well, it's different for a man. If a man is with a younger woman it looks entirely appropriate, but when it's the other way around, it's disg...
Stephanie : Well, you go to your church and I'll go to mine.
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Stephanie : Well... I am no sex goddess, but I haven't spent my life up on a tree.
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Stephanie : Mr Greenfield, please don't handle the instruments.
Harvey Greenfield : I was reading the other day, a dentist in New Jersey has topless nurses.
Stephanie : I didn't know you were interested in reading.
[She exits]
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Stephanie : [looking at the label on the bottle] Oh, I didn't know they made champagne in Idaho.
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Stephanie : I was married, when I was young.
Dr. Julian Winston : Married? I had no idea!
Stephanie : Neither did he!
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Dr. Julian Winston : Stephanie?
Stephanie : Doctor?
Dr. Julian Winston : I think I'm going to kiss you.
Stephanie : When will you know for sure?
Dr. Julian Winston : [They kiss passionately] I plan to do this often.
Stephanie : I'll make a note to remind you.
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Stephanie : Funny how whenever people hurt your feelings, they're always doing it for your own good.
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[in the X-ray room, Julian reveals that he has hurt Mrs Durant - the first time he has caused a patient pain]
Stephanie : Pity it wasn't Mr Greenfield!
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Stephanie : Really, Mrs Durant. Your teeth are more important than your hair.
Mrs. Durant : You really believe that, don't you. Sad.
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Harvey Greenfield : Drink up. It'll make me look better to you.
Stephanie : There isn't that much wine in the world.
Harvey Greenfield : To our love affair.
[clinking glasses]
Stephanie : God forbid.
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Stephanie : Did you ever have a gin and tonic made with tequila?
Dr. Julian Winston : [Looking slightly disgusted] No thank you. Tequila and tonic.
Stephanie : No-no. No. You substitute the tequila! No, you substitute the tonic for the tequila.
Dr. Julian Winston : The tequila for the tonic?
Stephanie : Yes. Yes, they call it...
Dr. Julian Winston : Gin and tequila?
Stephanie : Yes. They call it the 'Mexican *Measles*'
Dr. Julian Winston : [Correcting her] 'Missile.'
Stephanie : Missile!
[laughs]
Stephanie : Yes and they tell me it prevents malaria.
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Toni Simmons : A man who lies cannot love.
Stephanie : [about to close the door] That sounds like something out of a fortune cookie.
Toni Simmons : [after Stephanie leaves] Dirty married bachelor!
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[an Airline hostess from an Australian airline has phoned to ask if Dr Winston is free for a date that evening]
Dr. Julian Winston : Tell her I'm grounded!
Stephanie : [down the phone] I'm sorry, Miss, but Dr Winston doesn't do that kind of work any more.
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Dr. Julian Winston : Where were you all night?
Stephanie : It's all a blur, a beautiful blurry blur.
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Dr. Julian Winston : Her name is Toni Simmons.
Stephanie : Oh. I'm supposed to give you a message: She's alive.
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Stephanie : Julian is going to marry you. A lot of girls would leap at that sort of swindle.
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Stephanie : [after putting the x-ray gun into place] Hold still, Señor Sánchez, or the basic woman is liable to x-ray your nose.
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Señor Sánchez : What shall we drink?
Stephanie : Oh, let's have some of that crazy Idaho champagne.
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Stephanie : How do you like children?
Harvey Greenfield : Barbecued.
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Stephanie : Why did you choose this place?
Harvey Greenfield : It's the new in-spot.
Stephanie : I never heard of it.
Harvey Greenfield : Nobody has, that's why it's so popular.
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Señor Sánchez : Miss Dickinson, you are a most attractive woman. Yet, you try to conceal it.
Stephanie : Very successfully, I'd say.
Señor Sánchez : Aw, but we Latins have a great eye for hidden beauty. You know, for centuries our women were all covered up with materials, long dresses, veils. So, we, in self defense, have had to develop an instinct for guessing what was underneath.
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Señor Sánchez : I would like for us to have dinner, one of these nights. Candle light. Soft guitars.
Stephanie : Will you bring along your wife?
Señor Sánchez : My wife? You would not like her. Nobody likes her.
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Stephanie : Doctor, you were the one who said that I was discouraging men, stifling my femininity. For the first time, an attractive young man pays a little attention to me, you go to pieces.
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Stephanie : Why don't you come right out an ask me if I went to bed with him?
Dr. Julian Winston : Alright, did you go to bed with him?
Stephanie : It's none of your business!
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[Julian has asked Stephanie if she would like to have a drink with him]
Stephanie : Are you asking me to go out?
Dr. Julian Winston : Why? Is there someone else in that closet?
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Stephanie : No-one needs a reason to hate Harvey.
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Dr. Julian Winston : It's just not practical to keep one in the city.
Stephanie : A girl?
Dr. Julian Winston : No, a CAR !
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Stephanie : Excuse me, Doctor, Miss Andrews is on the phone. Her bridge is wobbly.
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Harvey Greenfield : Excuse me, Sergeant, eh, Miss Dickinson. Dr. Winston asked me to make an appointment for a lady friend of mine.
Stephanie : How about a week from Tuesday at 7 AM?
Harvey Greenfield : You're kidding. I'm asleep at 7 AM.
Stephanie : Oh, I thought the appointment was for a lady?
Harvey Greenfield : That's right. We're both asleep as 7 AM. I'm sorry, I hope I haven't shocked you.
Stephanie : No, but, it must be a terrible shock for her.
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Dr. Julian Winston : I thought maybe you'd like to come out and have a drink with me.
Stephanie : What? Are you asking me to go out?
Dr. Julian Winston : Why? Is there somebody else in that closet?
Stephanie : I don't understand.
Dr. Julian Winston : Its the most natural thing in the world for a doctor to take his nurse out.
Stephanie : Yes, but I've been working for you for almost ten years and this is the first time that you have ever invited me.
Dr. Julian Winston : Well, better a little late, than a little never.
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Stephanie : Why don't you try me?
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Dr. Julian Winston : Miss Dickinson, you could do me a great service. You see, I'm desperately in need of a wife.
Stephanie : Oh, Doctor...
Dr. Julian Winston : Oh, please don't misunderstand me!
Stephanie : I never expected...
Dr. Julian Winston : Well, I need a wife temporarily - 15 or 20 minutes.
Stephanie : 15 or 20 minutes?
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Dr. Julian Winston : I'm the first decent man that she's ever met.
Stephanie : Are you quoting her or you?
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Dr. Julian Winston : My happiness lies in your two hands.
Stephanie : For years these two hands have held nothing but your instruments.
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Dr. Julian Winston : All we have to do is find someone to play the part of your boyfriend.
Stephanie : What about Señor Sanchez? He keeps sniffing around me.
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Harvey Greenfield : What'll you have to drink?
Stephanie : Lets go all out and have champagne.
First Waiter : Very good.
Harvey Greenfield : Domestic.
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Harvey Greenfield : I'm supposed to be your lover, remember. That's the reason you're getting a divorce. So, lets act a little crazy about me, shall we.
Stephanie : Your hand.
Harvey Greenfield : What about my hand.
Stephanie : It's on my knee.
Harvey Greenfield : Sorry, I thought it was mine.
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Stephanie : [Harvey places his hand on her bottom] Your hand!
Harvey Greenfield : Look, I'm only human.
Stephanie : Barely.
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Dr. Julian Winston : It's strange to see you in a nightclub. I didn't realize you were such a swinger!
Stephanie : Oh, you never really ever knew me, my dear.
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Stephanie : Would you excuse me, please. I'm going to powder my nose.
Toni Simmons : Do you want me to go with you?
Stephanie : No, dear, I'm alright.
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Dr. Julian Winston : You completely de-feminize yourself. I've noticed it around the office and around me.
Stephanie : Now, Doctor, I was hired as a nurse/receptionist, not as a geisha girl.
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Señor Sánchez : Tonight there will be such a function at the Waldorf. It will be very boring unless you will do me the honors of accompanying me.
Stephanie : What about your wife?
Señor Sánchez : Must we take my wife everywhere? Besides, she's spending a weekend at a fat farm.
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Stephanie : Let's ignore him. After all, my evenings are my own.
Señor Sánchez : What about your weekends?
Stephanie : They belong to my nephews.
Señor Sánchez : Oh, I see.
Stephanie : Herr Bravo, you are not going to give up that easily are you?
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Dr. Julian Winston : Well, you're certainly blossoming out.
Stephanie : Doctor, you once compared me to my cactus plant. Well, every so often, that prickly little thing puts out a flower.
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Dr. Julian Winston : You know what I've done, I've created a monster, that's what.
Stephanie : No, Dr. Frankenstein, this is no creation of yours. This is me! Me! Experiencing new things, things I've never done before. I'm having a helluva good time.
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Stephanie : We had to lie on something.
Dr. Julian Winston : Wait a minute, you said you were sitting. Were you sitting or lying?
Stephanie : A little of this and a little of that.
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Stephanie : My cactus! It's blooming!
Dr. Julian Winston : Never mind that, what about your night of debauchery?
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Dr. Julian Winston : You spent the night with that hippie?
Stephanie : You're wrong about Igor. He's sensitive and he's sincere and very poetic.
Dr. Julian Winston : Poetic? I saw him kiss you on the neck.
Stephanie : He's also very friendly.
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Stephanie : There's something else that you have to know and I'm going to come straight to the point. I have no patience with people that shilly-shally white these things. Julian and I - - Julian - - My God, it isn't as easy as I thought.
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Toni Simmons : He lied to me.
Stephanie : I'm sorry, Toni. I know this is a shock for anyone and even great for someone with your youth and idealism that...
Toni Simmons : That dirty son of a bitch.
Stephanie : That's one way of looking at it.
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[last lines]
Stephanie : Sorry, Miss, but Dr. Winston doesn't do that sort of work anymore.
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Stephanie : [to Dr. Julian Winston] I told everyone you had to go to your dentist. That made them happy.
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Harvey Greenfield : Shall we dance?
Stephanie : I'd rather walk on hot coals.
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Dr. Julian Winston : I'm the first decent man she's ever met?
Stephanie : Are you quoting her or you?