Modesty Blaise (1966)
Terence Stamp: Willie Garvin
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Quotes
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Willie Garvin : Here. We now have been through some scrapes together, have we? Funny how we always survived, isn't it?
Modesty Blaise : [licking on a large ice cream cone] Survived... each other?
Willie Garvin : Well, we shared the fights.
Modesty Blaise : But never shared the nights.
Willie Garvin : Perhaps we should've.
Modesty Blaise : We could've.
Willie Garvin : [he starts singing] At Covent Garden, il Trovatore, we were shot at in the stalls.
Modesty Blaise : [she starts singing] They all believed it was in the story.
Willie Garvin : And we took nine curtain calls.
Modesty Blaise : Perhaps eight would have been enough.
Willie Garvin : We've shared the thrills.
Modesty Blaise : We've even shared the kills.
Willie Garvin : But such a perfect pair, should surely share a bedroom.
Modesty Blaise : You know, it's cheaper, too.
Willie Garvin : It ain't. The other Summer, in Arizona, I was sentenced to the chair.
Modesty Blaise : But they didn't realize I knew the owner of the power station there.
Willie Garvin , Modesty Blaise : We've bombed and mined, but never intertwined.
Willie Garvin : We were crazy, you know.
Modesty Blaise : I was lazy.
Willie Garvin : I know.
Willie Garvin , Modesty Blaise : Yes, we should've, and we could've. Perhaps we can...
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Modesty Blaise : Where are you taking me?
Gabriel : You are on board the Andronicus bound from Bizerte to Dubrovnik with a cargo of fruits and nuts.
Willie Garvin : He's a fruit merchant, see?
Modesty Blaise : He's a nut.
Gabriel : That's enough of that.
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Willie Garvin : [about Mrs. Fothergill] Who's the bird with the beady eyes?
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Willie Garvin : I figure it this way, princess: Gabriel's got it figured; so, I figure, all's we got to do is - stay close to Gabriel.
Modesty Blaise : Leave the figuring to me, Willie. You might hurt yourself.
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Sir Gerald Tarrant : How the devil did you get a passport, Garvin?
Willie Garvin : Just because I'm working class?
Sir Gerald Tarrant : Lower class, you mean, surely.
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Nicole : You're so cruel.
Willie Garvin : Cruel? I haven't touched you yet.
Nicole : No.
[Garvin touches her]
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Willie Garvin : Home to bed? Why not?
Modesty Blaise : Why not?
Willie Garvin : Why not?
Modesty Blaise : Why not?
Willie Garvin : Why not?
Modesty Blaise : Why not?
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Modesty Blaise , Willie Garvin : [singing] Yes, we should do, And we could do, Now, we can!