The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

Elizabeth Taylor: Helen Ellswirth

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• Helen Ellswirth : Do you mind if Paul takes me home?

  Charles Wills : Paul who?

  Helen Ellswirth : Paul anybody. Party like this, must be at least 6 or 7 Pauls

• Helen Ellswirth : Don't ever phone if you can possibly come yourself. Don't ever leave if you can stay.

• Charles Wills : You're a girl after my own heart.

  Helen Ellswirth : Make no mistake, I'm after it.

• Helen Ellswirth : Suppose time runs out on us.

  Charles Wills : You're just having a bad day, darling. Tomorrow will...

  Helen Ellswirth : I've been having a bad day for a year now. Maybe I'm growing up

  Charles Wills : It's too late to grow up.

• Helen Ellswirth : I'm sick to death of death. I want to enjoy things and have fun and live every day like it's the last day. Wouldn't that be nice, a lifetime full of last days?

• Paul Lane : Of course I love you.

  Helen Ellswirth : Love is never of course. Is it?

• Charles Wills : What kind of wife are you, dancing with other men?

  Helen Ellswirth : The average kind. Neglected.

• Helen Ellswirth : What did you put into that kiss?

  Charles Wills : Well, why don't you come here and find out.

• Helen Ellswirth : We're not rich either. We just live that way. Daddy says it the same thing, only it's much cheaper.

• Charles Wills : [after Helen's given birth]  Hiya, fatso.

  Helen Ellswirth : Fatso is right. Look at me! Bulging out of my own clothes.

  Charles Wills : I happen to be insane about each every bulge.

• Helen Ellswirth : [looking in the mirror, after giving birth to Vicki]  I'll never, never be a size 10 again.

  Charles Wills : Vicki will be exactly like you. Then I'll be surrounded by beautiful women.

  Helen Ellswirth : That compliment and a martini would just about square you for putting me in jail for nine months.

• Charles Wills : Well, where are you going?

  Helen Ellswirth : To do something important - buy a new hat.

• Charles Wills : For the first time in my life, I wish I had lots of money. Oh, money!

  Helen Ellswirth : Daddy says, it isn't what you have, it's what you owe.

• Charles Wills : What'd I do?

  Helen Ellswirth : That, I'd be very interested to know.

• Helen Ellswirth : [Charlie kisses Helen's forehead]  Do that again.

  Charles Wills : Thought you were asleep?

  Helen Ellswirth : Only my eyes.

• Helen Ellswirth : His eleventh commandment: having fun. Especially now. He says that after a war everybody should always be gay and have fun.

• Helen Ellswirth : Now that the war in Europe is over, what are you going to do?

  Charles Wills : Try to stay out of the war in the Pacific.

  Helen Ellswirth : That's very sensible.

• Helen Ellswirth : Is it really over? The war? Because I want to buy you silk shirts and silk socks and silk shorts. Oh, darling!

• Charles Wills : 'll take you home.

  Helen Ellswirth : Did you read Thomas Wolfe, "You Can't Go Home Again"?

• James Ellswirth : [to Charlie who brought a box of food]  You didn't have to this, my boy.

  Helen Ellswirth : Oh, yes he did. He's trying to make time with me.

• Charles Wills : We could have gotten killed!

  Helen Ellswirth : It's a wonderful way to make a living, isn't it?

• Helen Ellswirth : Charlie, will you still worship me when you're famous?

• Helen Ellswirth : You old fraud! Why didn't you tell us?

  James Ellswirth : I am not old.

• Helen Ellswirth : Why do I always end up saying yes when I really mean no?

• Helen Ellswirth : I'm only trying to help.

  Charles Wills : Help what?

  Helen Ellswirth : You, me, us. I don't know.

• Helen Ellswirth : How do like him? Don't you think he makes me look years drunker?

• Helen Ellswirth : Now you listen. I'm under the same strains and stresses you are. I live in Paris, too. And I'm bored, too.

• Charles Wills : Wouldn't that be reasonable?

  Helen Ellswirth : You'll find a reason to make it reasonable.

• Helen Ellswirth : Charlie, I'd like to go home.

  Charles Wills : Home?