Shadows (1958)

Lelia Goldoni: Lelia

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• Lelia : I thought being with you would be so important - would mean so much. That afterwards two people would be as close as it's possible to get. But, instead, we're just two strangers.

• Tony : Really, if I'd known this was the first time for you, I wouldn't have touched you.

  Lelia : I didn't know it could be so awful.

• Tony : Who do you belong to, Lelia?

  Lelia : I belong to me.

• Lelia : I don't want to sit around here and be insulted by these creeps. Let's go.

• David : Why don't you do something? Learn something. There are a thousands of things to do in New York City.

  Ben : Like what?

  David : Why don't you do something different. You want to meet new people? You want to come to a literary party I'm having tonight?

  Lelia : Don't invite them, Dave. They won't even wear a tie!

• Lelia : David's writing a new novel all about you, Ben.

  Ben : Better not be any of that Beat Generation jazz like the last one.

• Davey : Maybe I could drop by one afternoon. We could take in a movie or something.

  Lelia : I don't like the movies.

• Davey : Do you always go around embarrassing people in front of strangers? I mean, laughing at them in front of your family. Keep them waiting for hours just to show them how masculine you are.

  Lelia : Darling, I'm not masculine.

  Davey : Well, it would seem that way to me.

• David : Lelia, I'm not trying to hurt your feelings. But, if you're going to write a story, you have to do it professionally.

  Lelia : David, I don't want to be a writer. I didn't want to do this. You convinced me to do it. And now all you can do is criticize.

  David : I just want you to be honest.

• Lelia : How do you want me to behave?

  Davey : Look, just dance - and be as lovely as you look.

  Lelia : Look, David, I am what I am. And nobody tells me what to do.