Out of Africa (1985)
Robert Redford: Denys
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Quotes
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Karen Blixen : When you go away... you don't always go on safari, do you? Just want to be away.
Denys : It's not meant to hurt you.
Karen Blixen : It does.
Denys : I'm with you because I choose to be with you. I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. Don't ask me to do that. I don't want to find out one day that I'm at the end of someone else's life.
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Baron Bror Blixen : You could have asked, Denys.
Denys : I did. She said yes.
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Denys : This tribe, we think we can tame them but we won't. They die in prison.
Karen Blixen : Why?
Denys : They live now. They have no concept of the future; that one day they will be let out. They think it's permanent and so they die.
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Denys : [to Karen, whose horse has run away, leaving her at the mercy of an approaching lion] I wouldn't run. If you do, she'll think you're something good to eat.
Karen Blixen : [staring at lion] Have you - Do you have a gun?
Denys : She won't like the smell of you.
Karen Blixen : Shoot - shoot it.
Denys : She's had breakfast.
Karen Blixen : Please shoot her.
Denys : Well, let's give her a moment.
Karen Blixen : [as lion comes closer] Oh my God, shoot her!
[Lion approaches Karen then wanders off into brush]
Karen Blixen : Just how much closer did you expect to let her come?
Denys : A bit. It wanted to see if you'd run. That's how they decide. A lot like people that way.
Karen Blixen : She almost had me for lunch!
Denys : Well, it wasn't her fault, Baroness. She's a lion.
Karen Blixen : Well, it wasn't mine.
Denys : Doesn't that outfit come with a rifle?
Karen Blixen : Ye-ah, uh.
[looks around]
Karen Blixen : On my saddle.
Denys : Better keep it with you. Your horse isn't much of a shot.
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Denys : I won't be closer to you and I won't love you *more* because of a piece of paper.
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Karen Blixen : What's wrong with marriage anyway?
Denys : Have you ever seen one you admire?
Karen Blixen : Yes, I have, many. Belfield's, for one.
Denys : He sent her home for the rains in 1910. Didn't tell her they were over until 1913.
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Denys : I like animals. Nothing they do is half-hearted. Everything they do is for the first time: they hunt, they eat, they mate...
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[after placing a gramophone in a field near wild baboons]
Denys : Think of it: never a man-made sound... and then Mozart!
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Karen Blixen : Oh! Get away from there! Shoo! Shoo!
Denys : Shoo?
Karen Blixen : Oh! That's all my crystal, my Limoges.
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Denys : There's country there you ought to see... it won't last long now.
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Karen Blixen : [Denys lands his two-seater aircraft, and Karen runs to greet him] Where did you get it?
Denys : Mombasa. Get in!
Karen Blixen : [as they take off] When did you learn to fly?
Denys : Yesterday!
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Denys : I'll mate for life. One day at a time.
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Denys : They didn't know it was Limoges.