Come September (1961)

Rock Hudson: Robert L. Talbot

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• Lisa Helena Fellini : How could I be that stupid? You're wealthy, good-looking, intelligent, charming! I should have known better than to get mixed up with someone like that.

  Robert L. Talbot : You're not making any sense.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : I don't have to make sense. I'm Italian!

• Sandy : It must have been a terrible war.

  Robert L. Talbot : They usually are.

  Sandy : Yes well I'd like to talk to you about it sometime.

  Robert L. Talbot : About what?

  Sandy : The war.

  Robert L. Talbot : The *war*?

  Sandy : I have a feeling I can help.

  Robert L. Talbot : I doubt it. It's over.

• Robert L. Talbot : We never spoke of marriage! We were Happy!

• Robert L. Talbot : Lisa, I'm asking you in a nice way. Now stop being an idiot! Get off that blasted bus and marry me.

• Robert L. Talbot : You know, man is the only animal clever enough to build the Empire State Building, and *stupid* enough to jump off it!

• Robert L. Talbot : I can go to *jail* for what can happen to those girls!

  Lisa Helena Fellini : What can happen to them? They are four boys and six girls. That adds up to ten, and there's safety in numbers.

  Robert L. Talbot : Now there's more to mathematics than adding. Those boys look *quite capable* of dividing and multiplying!

• Robert L. Talbot : Lisa, believe me, no love affair can survive if the either part starts to *think*!

• Robert L. Talbot : I want that villa put up for *sale*! And if you can't *sell* it, *burn* it! I've *had* it with this country!

  Maurice Clavell : Sir, this is not time to be burning your villas behind you. She loves you. She wants to marry you!

  Robert L. Talbot : Yeah, she has a funny way of showing it!

  Maurice Clavell : Italian women are emotional. Sh- sh... she been hurt. She wants time to think.

  Robert L. Talbot : Well, I wanna go back to America... where people get married *without* thinking!

• Robert L. Talbot : You wouldn't think a cork this small could lay out a woman that big.

• Lisa Helena Fellini : They are normal, healthy boys and normal, healthy girls, no?

  Robert L. Talbot : That can lead to a normal, unhealthy situation, yes.

• Robert L. Talbot : The bedroom is like a wedding gown; it's bad luck to let the fella see you in it before you marry him.

• Lisa Helena Fellini : Robert! How could you do this? Hm?

  Robert L. Talbot : I was only following their golden rule: do unto others before they do it to you!

• Robert L. Talbot : Somebody has to look after those girls.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : I think that they're parents' responsibility.

  Robert L. Talbot : You know the trouble with the American parent? They have a new gimmick. Keep your kids off the streets, send them to Europe.

• Lisa Helena Fellini : Robert?

  Robert L. Talbot : Mhm?

  Lisa Helena Fellini : When you get to the terrace, would you do me a favour?

  Robert L. Talbot : Sure.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : Jump off.

• Robert L. Talbot : It's gone!

  Lisa Helena Fellini : What?

  Robert L. Talbot : There's a body missing. It's the one body I don't wanna have missing.

• Robert L. Talbot : [looking at his villa]  I said, isn't that a new color?

  Maurice Clavell : [chuckles]  Houses are like women; The older they get, the more paint they need.

• Robert L. Talbot : [speaking to Lisa]  Teenagers are like the H bomb. When they go off, it's much better to observe them from a distance.

• Lisa Helena Fellini : Really, Robert, they're very nice American boys.

  Robert L. Talbot : So was the Dalton gang.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : You know the boys are very hurt; they think you don't like them.

  Robert L. Talbot : The boys are right.

• Lisa Helena Fellini : Robert! You have a moral streak.

  Robert L. Talbot : You know me better than that.

• Lisa Helena Fellini : Ah! That's another thing. If you loved me, you'd have learned my language! But no, I had to do it. The weeks I spent studying... Learning to speak this... fluid English.

  Robert L. Talbot : Not "fluid." Fluent!

  Lisa Helena Fellini : Big shot! Knows all the words!

• Robert L. Talbot : Thank you, you've reaffirmed my lack of confidence in my fellow man.

• Maurice Clavell : A martini for breakfast?

  Robert L. Talbot : It's great for the morning after, especially if there hasn't been a night before.

• Robert L. Talbot : I just wanna get out of here. If there's a plane, train, or a bus, or a jackass leaving this city, get me on it!

• Robert L. Talbot : Mr Clavell!

  Maurice Clavell : Sir?

  Robert L. Talbot : You are to go with them and you are not to let those girls out of your sight.

  Maurice Clavell : Sir, I can't ride a motor scooter.

  Robert L. Talbot : Then learn.

  Maurice Clavell : I have no sense of balance. I was the only child that ever had to be strapped to his tricycle.

• Robert L. Talbot : We never even talked about the future!

  Lisa Helena Fellini : Women don't want talk, they go by intuition. And I've learned one thing: A woman's intuition is a man's best friend!

• Robert L. Talbot : I'm like this goose; I know when I've laid an egg.

• Lisa Helena Fellini : Please. Oh, please listen to me.

  Robert L. Talbot : There is nothing I'd rather do than listen to you. I couldn't even wait till September. I rearranged my entire schedule to be here early - just to be with you.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : Did you?

  Robert L. Talbot : Mm-hmm. Did you miss me?

  Lisa Helena Fellini : Yes.

  Robert L. Talbot : Well, tell me.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : I missed you.

  Robert L. Talbot : Oh, Lisa. Lisa. My sweet, sweet Lisa.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : Yes, Roberto.

  Robert L. Talbot : Now, listen carefully...

• Robert L. Talbot : What's the big joke?

  Lisa Helena Fellini : He said, how could he tell her? She was taking a bath, and they're not that friendly.

• Robert L. Talbot : How would you feel if you found out Brutus was your majordomo, Lucrezia Borgia your cook, and Benedict Arnold your upstairs maid?

• Robert L. Talbot : I know those boys. I know what's on their mind.

• Lisa Helena Fellini : Everybody looked suspicious, and Sandy knew about us. I couldn't leave. It would've been too obvious.

  Robert L. Talbot : Sandy seems to know about everything. Now I know what she's doing in Europe. Her neighbors decided to chip in and send her.

• Robert L. Talbot : You are to go with them and you are not to let those girls out of your sight.

  Maurice Clavell : Sir, I can't ride a motor scooter.

  Robert L. Talbot : Then learn.

  Maurice Clavell : I have no sense of balance. I was the only child that ever had to be strapped to his tricycle.

• Lisa Helena Fellini : You know, this is a side of you I've never seen before.

  Robert L. Talbot : What is?

  Lisa Helena Fellini : This protective attitude toward women.

  Robert L. Talbot : Women? They're only 18. Children! No older than my niece.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : So?

• Sandy : Uh, Tony was just examining my bone structure.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : He's studying to be a doctor.

  Sandy : Oh, yes.

  Robert L. Talbot : Where does he plan to intern? At the Folies Bergère? I don't want to interfere with medical progress, but we're ready to leave. After you, *Doctor*.

• Robert L. Talbot : It's respect. That's what a girl wants from a boy. If the girl gives in too easy, the boy'll never take her seriously.

• Robert L. Talbot : It's something I told some impressionable young girls. To protect their morals.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : What about my morals?

  Robert L. Talbot : What's that got to do with it? We're adults.

• Robert L. Talbot : That's been the beauty of our relationship. No thinking. No pressure. No questions asked.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : It's time someone started asking questions.

• Robert L. Talbot : Lisa, don't you walk out that door.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : Oh, what would I lose? The privilege of seeing you every September? Well, I'm tired of being "girl of the month."

• Robert L. Talbot : Lisa, come back here.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : I said don't touch me!

  Robert L. Talbot : If you'd wait a while, everybody will be gone. We can talk this over like adults.

  Lisa Helena Fellini : I don't want to talk like an adult. That's how I got into all this trouble.

• Robert L. Talbot : I knew those girls would get me in trouble!

• Robert L. Talbot : Well, if it isn't the prowling physician!

  Tony : I don't blame you, sir. After the way I acted with Sandy last night, I'm no credit to the medical profession.

  Robert L. Talbot : Hardly.

• Maurice Clavell : Before I leave, can I get you some breakfast?

  Robert L. Talbot : No. Yes, get me an olive.

  Maurice Clavell : A martini for breakfast?

  Robert L. Talbot : It's great for the morning after - especially if there hasn't been a night before.

• Robert L. Talbot : Let me tell you something about Italian women. They're not to be trusted. They're deceitful. They're - they're emotionally unstable.

  Warren : Doesn't that apply to all women?

  Robert L. Talbot : Well, of course it does! That's where they've got us. We have nothing else to replace 'em with.

• Robert L. Talbot : [referring to his Rolls Royce]  A $20,000 car isn't supposed to get a flat!

• Robert L. Talbot : You're a thief! And a liar! Completely untrustworthy!

  Maurice Clavell : A thief and a liar, yes. But not untrustworthy. I really don't think this is the time to talk the matter out. Not while your mind is bristling with negative thoughts of me.

  Robert L. Talbot : I haven't even BEGUN to bristle!