Ship of Fools (1965)

Charles Korvin: Kapitän Thiele

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• Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : When I had my heart attack, there was a dream I had. You can talk about death - I've seen it many times as a doctor - but you never know what it's like until it happens to you... I dreamt I had already died. I dreamt I was in a box with sweat broke out all over my body. I wanted to cry out 'I can't be dead, I haven't lived!'.

  Capt. Thiele : Who has?

• Capt. Thiele : I'm glad to get out of Veracruz. The whole damn country is ready to explode. Well, did you get a look at them? Anything interesting? Anything interesting at all?

  Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : There is a dwarf. That high.

  [holds his hand level with his hip] 

  Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : A couple of young American painters. And a Jewish salesman - with an infectious sense of humor.

  Capt. Thiele : Women, Willie. Women!

  Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Well, a rather attractive middle-aged American woman, but I'm afraid she's too far from the cradle for you.

  Capt. Thiele : Those are the kind that can sometimes appreciate what they are getting.

• Capt. Thiele : She wants her precious needle. She doesn't want you.

• Capt. Thiele : What would you have liked to have been, Willy?

  Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : A good doctor.

  Capt. Thiele : Don't you think you are?

  Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Fair to middlin'.

• Capt. Thiele : What should I tell them this time?

  Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Tell them anything you like. Tell them I had to fix the toilets.