Ship of Fools (1965)
Simone Signoret: La Condesa
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Quotes
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La Condesa : I'm sure you never have any problems sleeping.
Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : No, never.
La Condesa : Tell me your secret.
Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : A clear conscience, of course.
La Condesa : [sarcastically] That's a neat trick: having a clear conscience when you work as a doctor on a ship which has six hundred people living on an open deck.
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Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : What are you laughing at?
La Condesa : My house has been burned, they have taken everything I had - now I am being taken to prison to an island I know nothing about, and you are giving me a Sunday School sermon.
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La Condesa : To think, isn't it wonderful: two strangers on a ship - we will never meet again. We can talk - we can talk like friends, or even lovers... we can talk like two people who meet on the other side of the grave.
Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Keep talking.
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Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : [looks enchanted] You're so strange. Sometimes you're so bitter, then you're soft and warm like a child.
La Condesa : [smiles plainly] I'm just a woman
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La Condesa : [to Dr. Schumann] My darling... my love... for once let's kiss in broad daylight.
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Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : What are you laughing at?
La Condesa : My house has been burned. They've taken everything I had. Now, I'm being taken to prison to an island I know nothing about. And you're giving me a Sunday school sermon.
Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : You can put your robe back on, now.
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La Condesa : You gonna help me?
Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Your Doctor may have helped you to often.
La Condesa : I'm very helpless at this moment.
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Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : How old are you?
La Condesa : Old enough, as you can see. Much too old.
Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Forty-five?
La Condesa : Not *that* old.
Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : How old are you?
La Condesa : Forty-two.
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Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Take off your robe.
La Condesa : You're sure you're the ship's doctor?
Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Oh, I am the ship's doctor.
[La Condesa removes her robe]
Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : Lean forward please. What is it?
La Condesa : Your hands are cold.
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La Condesa : What about your childhood? Did nothing gay ever happen to you, at all?
Dr. Wilhelm Schumann : No. I was the perfect dupe. I believed anything anybody told me. I was full of the highest hopes and the most unbelievable innocents. However, it's true, at the age of 12, I did have an experience with the housekeeper. It left an indelible impression on me, shocked my mother to no end, and cost the poor girl her job.
La Condesa : Well, There is hope for you, after all.
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La Condesa : Did you ever have all the worst possible things that can happen to you, happen? Well, it gives you the most irresponsible feeling. Nothing more can happen.
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La Condesa : What are you trying to tell me? Are you trying to tell me I'm an addict?