Fire Down Below (1957)

Rita Hayworth: Irena

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• Irena : Sometimes you wonder what God had in mind when He invented the male sex.

• Irena : Are you wanted by the police?

  Felix Bowers : Oh, I wouldn't go so far as to say that. Let's put it this way: if I *presented* myself to them, they would not *reject* me.

• Irena : What a country America is. All the luxuries. Even rebellion.

• Irena : I'm waiting for someone to touch me with kindness.

• Irena : I'm no good. I'm all worn out. I've been passed from hand to hand. I've had to submit to things that nice young American boys couldn't conceive of in their wildest nightmares. I've lived among the ruins. Armies have marched over me. Armies. I've been debased. I look in the mirror and I say, "What a lie." At first glance, a face looks like a face of a human being.

• Irena : What a wonderful thing it is to be an American. You believe you can forget everything.

• Irena : I'll tell you all that's necessary. I'm coming from nowhere, illegally, I'm on my way to nowhere, equally illegally. Are you satisfied?

• Irena : I do not make immigration officers very happy. An immigration officer presumes that a woman who looks like me should be kept. And they prefer citizens of other countries to do the keeping.

• Felix Bowers : You understand, Irena, that this is not the Queen Mary. There'll be no steward aboard to bring you your morning tea.

  Irena : I've put up with worse.

  Felix Bowers : You'll be alone on a not very large boat with three men with low, brutish manners.

• Irena : Will you do me a favor? Occupy yourself with your *own* business.

• Irena : You're stuck with me for a little while and I'm stuck with you. But, we don't have to make it any worse than it already is. Just tell me what you want me to do and I'll do it.

  Felix Bowers : Keep away from Tony, that's all. He's not for the likes of you.

  Irena : Why not?

  Felix Bowers : I've known women like you. You've had a little bad luck and you're beautiful enough to make everybody you touch pay for it.

  Irena : What makes you think he'd be interested?

  Felix Bowers : I saw that gay frolic on the beach today. The sirens should have gone off for Tony right then. Enemy approaching. Take cover.

  Irena : He's a big boy. He can take care of himself.

  Felix Bowers : Nobody can take care of himself; so, stay away from him. Stop probing him with those sad, pitiful, calculating, dark eyes. Keep those sweet poisonous hands off of him. You've got nothing for him.

• Irena : You hate me. Why?

• Irena : Who's there?

  Felix Bowers : It's me, Felix. That's Latin for happy.

• Tony : I apologize for Felix.

  Irena : Nobody has to apologize to me for anything.

  Tony : I apologize for the whole human race.

• Tony : I got something for ya.

  Irena : Thank you. Well, Tony...

  Tony : Well, open it up. Open it. A native blouse. I thought with your color hair it might - It's very gay.

  Irena : Very gay.

  Tony : Yeah, try it on. I wasn't too sure about the - measurements. Go ahead! Try it on. The lady in the shop says it's bound to have a startling affect on a redhead.

• Irena : Do they have anything in the shops here that's guaranteed to make a woman invisible?

  Tony : What a waste that would be. Come on, let's go out. We'll have a great dinner and dance. Celebrate.

  Irena : Celebrate what?

  Tony : Celebrate the fact that you're not invisible.

• Irena : Forget it. Forget me. I always get by somehow.

• Irena : Have you an unlimited supply of islands; because, you'll need them.

• Irena : I don't want to be left alone.

• Irena : What have women done to you?

  Felix Bowers : I don't regard women in the plural. I'm old-fashioned. I regard women one by one.