This Could Be the Night (1957)

Jean Simmons: Anne Leeds

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• Anne Leeds : I thought I was too much like your sister to take out.

  Stowe Devlin : Well, the content is similar, but the form is different.

• Tony Armotti : That's your opinion, baby.

  Anne Leeds : [angry]  My name is Anne Leeds. You can call me Anne, Miss Leeds or "hey you", anything but baby!

• Anne Leeds : Hussein, I think your name is beautiful.

  Hussein Mohammed : In Mecca maybe but not in Brooklyn!

• Anne Leeds : You live like a Casanova with a string of women running up and down the stairs, but when somebody tries to talk to you truthfully you react like an outraged prude. Let me tell you something, you're the museum piece, not me.

• Tony Armotti : Please, not the haughty princess bit. Not when my head is splittin' open.

  Anne Leeds : Oh, would you like me to get you an aspirin?

  Tony Armotti : No, no, no. You can't help me bake a cake either, or pass algebra or get over a heartburn

• Bruce Cameron : Aw, Anne, what are you planning to be when you grow up, an old maid?

  Anne Leeds : Somebody told you.

• Anne Leeds : I vote, the Board of Education lets me teach, and when it comes to knowing my way around, I'll match myself against any dame in the place!

• Tony Armotti : I spotted you the minute you opened your mouth.

  Anne Leeds : I may have some sort of New England accent, if that's what you mean, but I can't help it any more than you can help your New York accent.

  Tony Armotti : What New York accent?

• Anne Leeds : I like you, don't I?

  Patsy St. Clair : Sure, but you're kind of an oddball.

• Anne Leeds : Oh, you must hate doing this so conventionally. What a pity you can't hit me like you did that man in the alley.

  Tony Armotti : Don't kid yourself, honey. If I caught you dipping your fingers in the till, I'd clip you, too. But him I didn't fire because he's good at his job, which you're not. Is that nice and clear?

  Anne Leeds : Perfectly. If you're a thief or a liar, you belong at the Tonic. Otherwise, you don't.

  Tony Armotti : Yeah, you tell 'em, sister. Get a soapbox and tell 'em.

• Tony Armotti : There are two waiters and at least four musicians at the club who I know for a fact hate my guts. Let 'em. I don't care.

  Anne Leeds : Maybe I'm not as insensitive as you are. I do care.

• Anne Leeds : But I left Massachusetts because I wanted to meet new people and make new friends. Live a litte.

  Tony Armotti : Not in my club.

• Tony Armotti : Do you know anything about the guy?

  Anne Leeds : I know he's one of your best friends.

  Tony Armotti : Well, if you had any sense, that should be enough.

• Anne Leeds : What's happening?

  Waxie London : It don't pay to be honest, that's what's happening.

• Rocco : You must have a pretty good education, huh?

  Anne Leeds : Well, I graduated from Smith last year.

  Rocco : Never heard of it. What kind of a team they got?

  Anne Leeds : Oh, it's a woman's college. A very good one.

• Rocco : What can you do?

  Anne Leeds : Can you tell me what you need, Mr. Rocco.

  Rocco : Anything I say I need, you'll say you got, that's human nature. Besides, I asked you first.

• Anne Leeds : Paula Lee was scratched at the post and horse called, Puddy Tat, made 7.50, and you made something called a round robin.

• Anne Leeds : His attitude was - a little unfortunate.

  Rocco : Made a pass, huh? Well, it figures, a writer sittin' around on this can all day, thinkin'. What else has he got to do? Well, it won't happen here. We got a house rule, me and my partner, no monkeying with the help.

• Rocco : Ivy, the matter we were discussin', let's forget about it, huh? Seein' as how we didn't make a bet.

  [to Anne] 

  Rocco : Oh, we were arguing as to who pitched for the Yankees last year.

  Ivy Corlane : Oh, that wasn't it, Roc. Did anyone make first base, that was the question.

  Anne Leeds : But, somebody always makes first base

• Anne Leeds : I never met so many amazing characters in one place in all my life.

• Tony Armotti : Baby. Baby, you're green all over, aren't you?

  Anne Leeds : I don't think so. My experience maybe limited; but, you don't have to learn things by experiencing them. There are such things as books, you know. You don't have to be a chicken to make an omelet.

• Stowe Devlin : Massachusetts?

  Anne Leeds : Newton.

  Stowe Devlin : Dedham.

  Anne Leeds : Really?

  Stowe Devlin : Radcliff?

  Anne Leeds : Smith. Harvard?

  Stowe Devlin : Sorry, Amherst.

  Anne Leeds : I'm perfectly satisfied. Oh, it is ever good to meet somebody like you in this place.

  Stowe Devlin : Really, why?

  Anne Leeds : Well, I just started working here and honestly it's like being in a foreign country! You don't know what a relief it is to run into somebody who speaks my language. Now, could I ask you a few questions about the place?

  Stowe Devlin : Mmm, I don't think so. No. If you're in a foreign country, you ought to learn the language from the natives, not another tourist.

• Hussein Mohammed : You shouldn't let Tony upset you. He's just trying to watch out for you, that's all.

  Anne Leeds : Well, why me? Why not Ivy, Crystal or Patsy?

  Hussein Mohammed : Because, you're the only - well, you're the only greenhorn we've got around.

• Tony Armotti : Okay. What's the beef?

  Anne Leeds : Oh, there's no beef.

• Tony Armotti : I think I'm gonna need a drink.

  Anne Leeds : I could use one myself. I hate to disappoint you; but, it won't be my first.

• Anne Leeds : Oh, really. You seem to think I'm a museum piece to be pressed between the pages of a book or pickled in alcohol!

• Anne Leeds : Tell him that I came up here on my own.

  Tony Armotti : Believe me, it'd be better to tell him I lured you up here with gum drops.