Spellbound (1945)
Gregory Peck: John Ballantyne
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Quotes
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John Ballantyne : That Freud stuff's a bunch of hooey.
Dr. Alex Brulov : Oh, you are a fine one to talk! You have a guilt complex and amnesia and you don't know if you are coming or going from somewhere, but Freud is hooey! *This* you know! Hmph! Wiseguy.
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Constance Petersen : I think the greatest harm done the human race has been done by the poets.
Anthony Edwardes : Oh, poets are dull boys, most of them, but not especially fiendish.
Constance Petersen : They keep filling people's heads with delusions about love... writing about it as if it were a symphony orchestra or a flight of angels.
Anthony Edwardes : Which is isn't, eh?
Constance Petersen : Of course not. People fall in love, as they put it, because they respond to a certain hair coloring or vocal tones or mannerisms that remind them of their parents.
Anthony Edwardes : Or... or... sometimes for no reason at all.
Constance Petersen : That's not the point. The point is that people read about love as one thing and experience it as another. Well, they expect kisses to be like lyrical poems and embraces to be like Shakespearean dramas.
Anthony Edwardes : And when they find out differently, then they get sick and have to be analyzed, eh?
Constance Petersen : Yes, very often.
Anthony Edwardes : Professor, you're suffering from "mogo on the gogo."
Constance Petersen : I beg your pardon!
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[last lines]
Dr. Alex Brulov : And remember what I say: any husband of Constance is a husband of mine, so to speak.
John Ballantyne : [laughing] Alright! Goodbye. Good luck!
Dr. Alex Brulov : Goodbye!
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John Ballantyne : For what it's worth, I can't remember ever having kissed another woman before.
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John Ballantyne : I'm haunted, but I can't see by what!
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John Ballantyne : Now, this honeymoon is complicated enough without your dragging medical ethics into it.
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Constance Petersen : All analysts have to be psychoanalyzed by other analysts before they start practicing.
John Ballantyne : Ahhh, that's to make sure that they're not too crazy.
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John Ballantyne : If there's anything I hate, it's a smug woman.
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Anthony Edwardes : I know why you came in.
Dr. Constance Petersen : [entranced] ... Why?
Anthony Edwardes : Because something has happened to us.
Dr. Constance Petersen : But it doesn't happen like that - in a day.
Anthony Edwardes : It happens in a moment sometimes... I felt it this afternoon... It's like lightning striking... It strikes rarely.
Anthony Edwardes : [He walks towards her; they kiss]
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John Ballantyne : Do you want ham or liverwurst?
Constance Petersen : Liverwurst!