BUtterfield 8 (1960)

Laurence Harvey: Weston Amsbury Liggett

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Quotes 

• Gloria Wandrous : You act like a man who's expecting his wife back in town.

  Weston Liggett : How did you know? Today?

  Gloria Wandrous : I always knew. Someday.

  Weston Liggett : Here I was, trying to find a way to - look, Gloria, I have to spend at least tonight with her.

  Gloria Wandrous : A good night's sleep will be the best thing for you.

• Weston Liggett : I've been kind of busy.

  Man : Yeah, I heard. I heard. That's the kind of busy-ness I wouldn't mind having - again!

  Weston Liggett : What are you talking about?

  Man : Oh, come on, Liggett. Come on, huh?

  [puts his arm around him] 

  Man : Gloria, huh? Sure! Oh, she's - she's frantic! Isn't she like a rocket right off the Earth? Who should know better than yours truly? Oh-ooh, mother, help me. I'd have left home for that! Ah, she's got a traveling itch; she's like a flea. Hop, hop, hop - from one dog to another. She bites you and she's gone. She picks you up and she drops you. Well, welcome to the fraternity! We meet once a year at Yankee Stadium.

• Weston Liggett : Bing, you know three of the most overrated things in this world? Home loving, home cooking and security.

  Bingham Smith : That should be engraved over the doorway of The Stork Club.

  Weston Liggett : No. It should be over the doorway of my apartment.

• Emily Liggett : I was asked if you'd consider being elected to the board of governors.

  Weston Liggett : Why me? Nobody on that board is under 60. Isn't that where aging, useless executives go to die?

• Weston Liggett : When are you coming back to town?

  Bingham Smith : Soon as I can. Why? You getting lonesome?

  Weston Liggett : Sometimes. The question was more one of curiosity than passion.

• Weston Liggett : As Vice President in charge of nonsense, I have to keep a $6 million customer happy, don't I?

• Emily Liggett : Why do you say such cruel things about yourself?

  Weston Liggett : To beat everybody, including you, to the punch.

• Weston Liggett : [on the phone to Gloria]  Wow! I haven't heard words like that since I was in Marine boot camp. But you're way out of line, honey. Okay, no "honey". But, I tore your dress last night and felt I owed you a new one. After all, only a fool would offer pennies for a Renoir.

• Weston Liggett : *Now* I get it. You pick the man. He doesn't pick you.

  Gloria Wandrous : Finally! Why I'm not teaching logic at Columbia, I'll never know.

  Weston Liggett : One moment. Postgraduate course. You also drop the man when you want to?

  Gloria Wandrous : And without a parachute.

• Weston Liggett : Gloria, now look, you have a price. We all have - and I can go pretty high. So hold out for all you can get. You may hit it pretty big. On the other hand, if you try for too much, you may end up with nothing.

• Weston Liggett : What do you want?

  Gloria Wandrous : Just what I'm getting.

  Weston Liggett : Oh, now, come on, doll face.

  Gloria Wandrous : You must go to some very bad plays.

• Weston Liggett : You're all alike, aren't you? Play tough.

  Gloria Wandrous : I'm not "like" anyone. I'm me.

• Weston Liggett : Gloria, you're wonderful.

  Gloria Wandrous : "Wild" is the word.

  Weston Liggett : First genuine wildness I've come across in a woman.

  Gloria Wandrous : Have you stopped to think that perhaps you bring out the wildness in me?

  Weston Liggett : With you, who has time to think?

• Gloria Wandrous : Why don't we go on a long trip to faraway places - exploring?

  Weston Liggett : Exploring what?

  Gloria Wandrous : What else? Each other.

• Gloria Wandrous : [Liggett leans in for a kiss]  Drink up before you're too busy to reach for it.

  Weston Liggett : And then it's: go - go - go.

  Gloria Wandrous : Slowly, friend. I have work to do.

  Weston Liggett : Namely?

  Gloria Wandrous : I have three elegant bistros where I'm obliged to be photographed in this dress. Besides, you'll enjoy seeing my good side - first.

• Weston Liggett : [to Gloria]  Happy was in vaudeville once. I'll tell you about it later.

  Happy : In vaudeville? I *was* vaudeville. You should see my scrapbooks!

• Weston Liggett : He was an inventor. Can you think of anything more useless in a small town like this?

  Gloria Wandrous : Not if he invented a way to get out.

• Weston Liggett : [reveals a modest sail boat]  She's a real rust bucket. But she's mine.

  Gloria Wandrous : A yacht! You didn't tell me.

  Weston Liggett : Well, it doesn't have any Van Goghs in it; but, I do have two original copies of Playboy magazine somewhere.

  Gloria Wandrous : Let's go aboard and "sail away for a year and a day to the land of the bong trees".

  Weston Liggett : The Owl and the Cat. Come aboard, mate, and sign on! But I warn you, the crew hasn't touched land or seen a woman for three months.

  Gloria Wandrous : Crazy.

• Gloria Wandrous : Where are you bound for, Captain?

  Weston Liggett : Out of frustration - bound for ecstasy.

  Gloria Wandrous : I've heard a lot about ecstasy.

  Weston Liggett : It's everything they say - and more.

  Gloria Wandrous : If you'd kindly show me to my quarters, Captain, you can lift anchor anytime.

• Gloria Wandrous : Liggett, thank you for not calling me "honey" and "babe" and "doll face" anymore.

  Weston Liggett : I couldn't. I don't think of you like that anymore.

• Weston Liggett : Tom, you know a girl called Gloria Wandrous? Dark-haired, about this high...

  Tom, the Bartender : You don't have to describe Gloria to me, Mr. Liggett. I'd know her with my eyes closed, down in the bottom of a coal mine, during the eclipse of the sun.

• Weston Liggett : Now, listen, BUtterfield 8, I've called her hundreds of times. I'm her closest friend. You've got to tell me where she is.

• Gloria Wandrous : You can't have everything in life. Be grateful for the few things you do get, no matter where they come from.

  Weston Liggett : The pornographic philosopher! Now, you just sit there like a good tramp should - until I get out of your sight.

• Weston Liggett : I'm not like one of those ordinary Joes you take for a sleigh ride.

• Emily Liggett : I've seen you drink many times, but never in the morning like this.

  Weston Liggett : Don't worry, Emily. It's not alcoholism. It's just a kind of medicine.

• Weston Liggett : Thank you, BUtterfield 8. Thanks.