Ship of Fools (1965)

George Segal: David Scott

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• Bill Tenny : Hey, did I tell you what happened to me down in Veracruz? When I was comin' through immigration? Well, I'm standin' in line, you see. I see this clerk down there, and I holler out, "Hey, Pancho, get over here." Just bein' friendly like. Now, back home, we call a taxi driver "Mac" or a pullman porter "George". Well, this little nigger - now, you know these coast Mexicans got mostly nigger blood in them, I'm told - but he just looks up and stares at me. The next thing I know, everybody's goin' ahead of me in this line. Then, I realize, that this little nigger resented it.

  David : I think I'll turn in.

  Glocken : Me, too.

• David : What's the matter?

  Jenny Brown : Twenty-six days in separate beds. It's probably a very good thing. We'll get to know each other. We'll find out whether we have anything going for us besides sex.

• Bill Tenny : What's the matter? Don't you make any money paintin'?

  David : No.

  Bill Tenny : Oh, now wait a minute. Come on, wait a minute. You mean to tell me that you work at somethin' that you can't make a livin' off, so you got to take a job to make enough money to go on workin' at the work you can't live on?

  Glocken : But that is the heroic life. That is the way men who trust themselves can afford to live.

• David : Look, I need all the help I can get. I need someone who can believe in a man who hasn't proven himself yet. Someone to be there. To be for me.

  Glocken : Couldn't Fräulein Brown be that?

  David : Fräulein Brown is a modern woman. Their needs are a lot more complicated than our mother's were.

• Jenny Brown : I can't be what you want me to be. And I know what you need. You need someone just to be there, just to deny herself for you. Oh, David, I wish I could be like that, but I can't. I just can't!

  David : Jenny, I know you can.

  Jenny Brown : Well, it means leaving me with nothing. You know, nothing.

  David : Jenny, do you know what I need? I need something very simple. I need a woman. But that's so difficult for you, isn't it? You're so full of competition. Do you know how empty it is, how frustrating it is, to reach out for something, and then you find it isn't there?

• David : You say my work is the most important thing in my life. It is! But that's the way I am. I can't help it. And whoever she is, my wife is just going to have to put up with that. She's going have to live a life for *me*.