The New Interns (1964)

Michael Callan: Dr. Alec Considine

Quotes 

• Dr. Alec Considine : You know ever since you told me you wanted to get married, why, uh, I've been doing a lot of thinking about us, and I've come to the conclusion that of all the girls I know, I like you best of all.

  Nurse Laura Rogers : [Dryly]  Oh, thank you.

  Dr. Alec Considine : But marriage, uh uh, not now. No. Yeah, maybe that's immature, but all I want right now is for you and me to have fun. The rest might come later but I'm making no promises and I'm giving no commitments. I'm sorry but that's the way it is and if you find it's too much to take you just have to hold out your carrots for some other rabbit.

  Nurse Laura Rogers : That's the most amazing speech You've ever made. You fascinate me. You're so honest and anybody who is mature enough to admit he's immature deserves to have anything he wants. Honey, you've got a deal.

• Dr. Alec Considine : [Talking to a psychiatrist]  She wants to get married and I'm not ready for that now or in the foreseeable future. The way I feel right this minute, I know damned well three months after we married, I'd be off chasing again. That's the kind of guy I am. I'm tuned into lots of girls. Variety, that's what I need. I'm not ready to settle down with one yet. At this point in my life, marriage seems a hell of a complicated commitment to make just to ease my physical tensions. Of course! I'm barking up the wrong tree! She's a wonderful girl and someday she might be ideal for me but right now we 'd just destroy each other.

• Dr. Alec Considine : Honey, it was a bet. Besides, nothing happened!

  Nurse Laura Rogers : Because I interrupted you.

  Dr. Alec Considine : Are you calling me a liar?

  Nurse Laura Rogers : Let's not argue.

  Dr. Alec Considine : Alright, honey. Can I make a suggestion? A truce for the duration of the party?

  Nurse Laura Rogers : I'll give it to you straight. We are not at war. I don't fight with children. You are emotionally immature and sexually athletic.

  Dr. Alec Considine : What?

  Nurse Laura Rogers : And it's too bad you're not grown up because you are an attractive animal. But for this girl, that is simply not enough. E-N-U-F.