Sabrina (1995)

Harrison Ford: Linus Larrabee

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• Linus Larrabee : So, that really is a beautiful name. How did you get it?

  Sabrina : My father's reading. It's in a poem.

  Linus Larrabee : Oh?

  Sabrina : "Sabrina fair, listen where thou art sitting under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, in twisted braids of lilies knitting the loose train of thy amber-dropping hair."

  Sabrina : [laughs to herself]  It's an incredible airplane - it's beautiful. I've never seen anything like it.

  Linus Larrabee : Ah, yes.

  [returns to reading his work papers] 

  Sabrina : Don't you ever look out the window?

  Linus Larrabee : When do I have time?

  Sabrina : What happened to all that time we saved taking the helicopter?

  Linus Larrabee : [lightheartedly]  I'm storing it up.

  Sabrina : [seriously]  No, you're not.

  Linus Larrabee : [pause]  So, your little poem - what does it mean?

  Sabrina : It's the story of a water sprite who saved a virgin from a fate worse than death.

  Linus Larrabee : And Sabrina's the virgin.

  Sabrina : [quietly]  Sabrina's the savior.

• Linus Larrabee : [after he has sent Sabrina, presumably with David, back to Paris]  David, where's Sabrina? You didn't go with her?

  David Larrabee : Well obviously not, Linus, I mean, here I am, right? She's probably having her beverage service right about now.

  Mrs. Ingrid Tyson : Who's Sabrina?

  Patrick Tyson : The chauffeur's daughter!

  Linus Larrabee : Don't call her that!

  [David looks at him in amusement] 

  Elizabeth Tyson, MD : She was after David for a while, then apparently she switched to Linus. She seems to have decided that HE was the one with the power.

  Linus Larrabee : [outraged, pointing to David]  Is THAT what he told you?

  Elizabeth Tyson, MD : He told me everything, Linus.

  Linus Larrabee : [to David]  And you didn't see her before she left? You didn't talk to her?

  David Larrabee : Oh, sure, I said goodbye, and I think I wished her luck. Maybe not. I told her I felt kind of funny accepting my brother's hand-me-downs

  [Maude covers her mouth to keep from smiling] 

  David Larrabee : , and I said don't take it personally, and you've always been generous to your women in the past, and I was sure she'd be more than compensated for... whatever!

  [Linus punches him] 

  David Larrabee : See! I told you! He loves her!

  Mrs. Ingrid Tyson : Who?

  Patrick Tyson : Sabrina!

  David Larrabee : [touching his mouth]  Is he packed?

  Mack : Yes.

  Linus Larrabee : Is who packed?

  Mack : You are. Just one bag.

  Linus Larrabee : [flustered]  Wait a minute, you - you packed my clothes? You went to my apartment?

  Maude Larrabee : I took her!

  Mack : We were up to our elbows in your underwear drawer; it was like touching the Shroud of Turin.

  David Larrabee : Here, sign this. It's your authorization for the completion of the merger. AND this - it gives me the raise I deserve for the new position I'm assuming. There's a car waiting for you downstairs, a helicopter at East 60th... the plane ticket's been changed to the Concorde. It leaves in exactly 39 minutes. If you make it, you just might beat her there.

  [Linus turns away in thought] 

  Elizabeth Tyson, MD : Go, Linus! Don't think!

  Linus Larrabee : [hesitantly]  She... she must absolutely hate me!

  Maude Larrabee : She'll get over it. We all do... Linus, you know I love you. No mother could be prouder. But I think it's time that you ran away from home.

  David Larrabee : But sign these first.

  [Linus signs the forms and clasps David's shoulder] 

  Linus Larrabee : If you'll excuse me... it appears I have a previous engagement.

  [leaves] 

• Linus Larrabee : I've been following in footsteps all my life. Save me, Sabrina fair, you're the only one who can.

• David Larrabee : [as Linus & Maude board their chauffeured limo for the ride to work]  You guys work Sundays now, huh?

  Linus Larrabee : It's Wednesday, David.

• David Larrabee : You're talking about my life.

  Linus Larrabee : I pay for your life, David. My life makes your life possible.

  David Larrabee : I resent that.

  Linus Larrabee : So do I.

• Linus Larrabee : So, what do they say about me?

  Sabrina : Oh, you know...

  Linus Larrabee : No.

  Sabrina : That you're the world's only living heart donor.

  Linus Larrabee : Oh, that.

  Sabrina : And how does this one go? He thinks that morals are paintings on walls and scruples are money in Russia.

  Linus Larrabee : How droll.

  Sabrina : And then there's my favorite...

  Linus Larrabee : No, that's okay.

• Linus Larrabee : And I want tickets to whatever Broadway show nobody can get tickets to.

  [Mack looks inquisitively at him] 

  Linus Larrabee : I know, I seldom go to the theatre.

  Mack : Seldom?

  Linus Larrabee : So, I'm not a theatre buff.

  Mack : Buff? The most difficult tickets to get will be for a Broadway musical.

  Linus Larrabee : [distractedly]  Okay.

  Mack : That means that the performers will periodically dance about and burst into song.

• Sabrina : I thought it was all a lie.

  Linus Larrabee : It was. It was a lie... but then it was a dream.

• Linus Larrabee : Listen, I work in the real world with real responsibilities.

  Sabrina : I know you work in the real world and you're very good at it. But that's work. Where do you live, Linus?

• Maude Larrabee : I feel terrible.

  Linus Larrabee : Take a pill.

  Maude Larrabee : Watch it. I'm still your mother.

  Linus Larrabee : And you taught me everything I know.

  Maude Larrabee : I didn't teach you this.

• Sabrina : [after David has invited her to his mother's party, despite not recognising her]  Do you really want me to come?

  David Larrabee : Very much, if you'll tell me who you are.

  Linus Larrabee : Hello, Sabrina.

  Sabrina : Hello, Linus.

  David Larrabee : Sabrina?

  Linus Larrabee : Have a good time in Paris?

  Sabrina : Yes, thank you.

  David Larrabee : Sabrina?

  Linus Larrabee : You look all grown up.

  David Larrabee : Sabrina?

  Linus Larrabee : Why does he keep saying that?

• Linus Larrabee : Here? Lousy. So far, I'm more affected than she is. I damn near cried twice.

• Linus Larrabee : Frank, listen, David can't stand pain so I want you to give him a combination of morphine and - I don't...

  Frank, David's doctor (via telephone) : [inaudible] 

  Linus Larrabee : Okay, not morphine, but something strong, and mixed with a sleeping tablet like Halcion.

  Frank, David's doctor (via telephone) : [inaudible] 

  Linus Larrabee : They haven't proved that, Frank.

  Frank, David's doctor (via telephone) : [inaudible] 

  Linus Larrabee : Uh, we have no idea. Maude thinks they were left on the chair by some guest.

  Frank, David's doctor (via telephone) : [inaudible] 

  Linus Larrabee : He's not gonna sue his own mother.

  Frank, David's doctor (via telephone) : [inaudible] 

  Linus Larrabee : [indignant]  Well, he's not me!

• Linus Larrabee : Well I just don't feel like buying any more networks this year. There's never anything good on.

• Sabrina : You probably don't believe in marriage.

  Linus Larrabee : Yes, I do. That's why I never got married. David, however, believes in the tooth fairy.

  Sabrina : That's why I like him.

  Linus Larrabee : Well, I like him too. As a matter of fact, I love him. I just don't know what to do with him.

• Linus Larrabee : I think you know I love you. And you promised if there was anything you could ever do...

• Airline attendant : First time on the concorde, Mr. Larrabee?

  Linus Larrabee : Yes.

  Airline attendant : But not your first time in Paris?

  Linus Larrabee : It is my first everything.

• Sabrina : Didn't you once say everything is business?

  Linus Larrabee : No, but it sounds like me.

• [Fairchild stares balefully at Linus in the rear-view window after Linus has decided to go to France to reunite with Sabrina] 

  Linus Larrabee : Go ahead, say it.

  Fairchild : [haltingly]  You don't... deserve her.

  Linus Larrabee : I don't. I know that. But I need her - and I don't need anything.

  Fairchild : [tries to manuever through traffic, but fails]  Time to run for it.

  Linus Larrabee : I just want to make her happy.

  Fairchild : 13 Rue des Beaux Arts.

• Sabrina : I never thought of you as a dancer.

  Linus Larrabee : I'm crazy about it. They call me Bojangles at the office.

• David Larrabee : So this is all just a coincidence?

  Linus Larrabee : It's an opportunity. What am I supposed to do? Disqualify myself from a billion dollar merger because I might have family connections?

  [pulls a gun with silencer attached out of his desk and shoots a flat panel TV] 

  David Larrabee : [frightened]  What are you doing? It was just a question.

  Linus Larrabee : [walking over to the TV]  Look at this thing. Not a scratch on it.

  David Larrabee : Is this some new way of changing the subject?

• Linus Larrabee : [on the phone]  Mack, I'm going to stay here for the next few days. Cancel whatever I've got and reschedule. Have the plane stand by at 9:00am tomorrow, and fix up the cottage.

  [pause] 

  Linus Larrabee : I don't know, flowers, candles, singers. Call David's secretary, that's all she ever does.

  [pause] 

  Linus Larrabee : Well wake her, I'm up, you're up.

  [pause] 

  Linus Larrabee : You weren't? Well, call her anyway.

  [hangs up] 

• Linus Larrabee : David, sit down.

  David Larrabee : I can't talk right now, I have to be somewhere.

  Linus Larrabee : Just sit down!

  David Larrabee : [David sits and there is the sound of glass crunching]  Owwwaaahhh!

  Maude Larrabee : What?

  David Larrabee : I sat on the glasses!

  Linus Larrabee : Mother, go get Dr. Callaway. He's at the bar.

  Maude Larrabee : Who put glasses on the chair?

  David Larrabee : Can we talk about this later? I'm bleeding!

  Maude Larrabee : Darling, don't worry, just elevate... something.

• Linus Larrabee : What's the problem, Patrick?

  Patrick Tyson : No problem from our point of view. I feel like... what's that word when a lot of guys are after you?

  Linus Larrabee : Whore?

  Patrick Tyson : Hmm... I was thinking more... debutante.

• David Larrabee : She's a real woman, not a, you know.

  Linus Larrabee : Transvestite?

  David Larrabee : She's not a bimbo.

• David Larrabee : [bursting into Linus's office]  I need to talk to you.

  Linus Larrabee : I'm in a meeting.

  David Larrabee : When was the last time I came here?

  Linus Larrabee : You're right.

• [Sabrina enters Linus's office hesitantly] 

  Linus Larrabee : I was beginning to worry.

  Sabrina : Why?

  Linus Larrabee : That's a favorite question of yours. Didn't you want to come?

  Sabrina : Uh, uh... I asked you first.

  Linus Larrabee : I asked you second.

  Sabrina : Uh... I've been, uh, I've been wandering around Manhattan all afternoon. Uh, it's, it's something to do with maybe... n-n-never seeing you again, but that's, uh, ridiculous because we don't, uh, we don't have to, uh, well, except by accident, and uh, how can that be a problem? Uh... uh...

  [voice shaking] 

  Sabrina : Uh... if two people...

  [giving up] 

  Sabrina : I asked you first.

  Linus Larrabee : Well, then what you said, whatever it is, makes what I was gonna say obsolete, I think.

  Sabrina : [disappointed]  Obsolete?

  Linus Larrabee : Irrelevent.

• David Larrabee : [talking about their mother's birthday]  I got her a, uh, little Picasso. I'm having it wrapped in town.

  Linus Larrabee : [vexed]  What did that cost me?

  David Larrabee : [unconcernedly]  I don't know.

• Linus Larrabee : [David is indisposed so Linus meets up with Sabrina instead and romances her]  Oh, I almost forgot.

  [he kisses her] 

  Linus Larrabee : The rest of the message from David.

  Linus Larrabee : [Sabrina slaps him]  Thanks, I needed that.

  Sabrina : What am I doing? I never should have... I'm...

  Linus Larrabee : No, it's...

  Sabrina : No, I mean - you have my handprint on your face.

  Linus Larrabee : I think it would be better if you pick up your messages in person. You'll see David tomorrow.

  [he leaves] 

• Linus Larrabee : Mack, you know that old brick building at the Vinyard?

  Mack : Yes.

  Linus Larrabee : You ever heard me referred to as the world's only living heart donor?

  Mack : *Mack bursts out laughing*

  Linus Larrabee : Have the Rons find out if there's any tax advantage to donating that building to the town.

  Mack : And if there isn't?

  Linus Larrabee : Then forget it.