Top Secret! (1984)

Lucy Gutteridge: Hillary Flammond

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• Hillary Flammond : I know a little German. He's sitting over there.

• Nick Rivers : Listen to me, Hillary. I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist, only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island, who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground.

  Hillary Flammond : I know. It all sounds like some bad movie.

  [Long pause. Both very slowly turn to the camera] 

• Hillary Flammond : My uncle was born in America.

  Nick Rivers : Oh, really?

  Hillary Flammond : But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency.

• Nick Rivers : Hillary. That's an unusual name.

  Hillary Flammond : It's a German name. It means 'she whose bosoms defy gravity'.

  Nick Rivers : I'm pleased to meet you. My name's Nick.

  Hillary Flammond : Nick? What does that mean?

  Nick Rivers : Oh, nothing. My dad thought of it while he was shaving.

• Hillary Flammond : For as long as a single man is forced to cower under the iron fist of oppression, as long as a child cries out in the night, or an actor can be elected president, we must continue the struggle.

• Hillary Flammond : Things change, people change, hairstyles change...

  Nick Rivers : Hillary, I want you to be with me.

  Hillary Flammond : Interest rates fluctuate. Who knows?

• Hillary Flammond : Who do you favor in the Virginia Slims tournament?

  Blindman : In women's tennis, I always root against the heterosexual.

• Nick Rivers : Are you in some kind of trouble with the police?

  Hillary Flammond : Some things are much better left unsaid.

  Nick Rivers : Like what?

  Hillary Flammond : Well, you know... sometimes when you blow your nose into a tissue and you put it in your purse, then a little while later you have to reach in there for your lipstick or something, and your hand gushes into it, and it goes all over...

  Nick Rivers : Okay, okay, you're right, you're right. Some things are better left unsaid.

• Hillary Flammond : [hugging her friends before getting on plane]  Good-bye Chocolate Mousse, I'll never forget you. Good-bye Du Quois, take care of yourself. Good-bye Deja Vu, I'll always remember you. And I'll miss you most of all, Scarecrow.

• Hillary Flammond : Come on. We've got to get out of here.

  Nick Rivers : Don't you think we ought to wait for the police?

  Hillary Flammond : That was the police!

• Hillary Flammond : Only a year ago, I was teaching a course in black history at the University of Blaupunkt.

• Hillary Flammond : [in German]  What do you recommend?

  Waiter : [in German]  I recommend the pork bellies marinated in diced pig entrails or the roast swine knuckles poached with flaming hog balls.

  Nick Rivers : Anything's fine.

• [last lines] 

  Hillary Flammond : And I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.

• Hillary Flammond : You can talk about freedom all you want; but still, you don't know what it's like to have to fight for it.

• Hillary Flammond : That's okay. Don't feel bad. It happens to lots of men the first time. Just relax. I'll pour you a drink. We can always try again in a couple of hours...