The Truth About Spring (1965)
Hayley Mills: Spring Tyler
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Quotes
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William Ashton : Where do you usually sail, Mr Tyler?
Tommy Tyler : Close to the wind.
Spring Tyler : Too close, if you ask me.
Tommy Tyler : Nobody asked you.
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Spring Tyler : Seems to me you're always doing things without thinking, Ashton - wearing pajamas... kissing...
William Ashton : Hasn't anybody ever kissed you?
Spring Tyler : You did. Nobody else would dare.
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Spring Tyler : I don't know who you are or where you come from, but if that's all you have to say, then shove off!
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Spring Tyler : I'm warning you, Tommy! You just better not start treating me like a girl!
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Tommy Tyler : If you did what you were supposed to, I wouldn't have to keep telling you, now would I?
Spring Tyler : Sure you would... just to keep in practice.
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Spring Tyler : Once you get a hold on something you never let go. It's enough to drive a body wild.
Tommy Tyler : Well it wouldn't be any long drive for the likes of you.
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William Ashton : What do I do with these rags?
Spring Tyler : Those aren't rags. They're my clothes.
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William Ashton : Sleeping in pajamas is something people do without even thinking about it. That's all there is to it. People sleep in pajamas.
Spring Tyler : I don't.
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William Ashton : Isn't anybody going to tell me what's going on?
Spring Tyler : Not now. You'll find out soon enough.
William Ashton : That's what I'm afraid of.
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Sellers : Where's Tommy?
Spring Tyler : He caught the smallpox... and died.
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Tommy Tyler : Buried me at sea, did you?
Spring Tyler : You don't have to look like that, it was a decent funeral.
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[referring to the copy of Les Miserables Ashton is reading]
William Ashton : You've read it?
Spring Tyler : Uh-huh, a long time ago. Why do you seem so surprised? I'm not ignorant!
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Spring Tyler : Tommy taught me how to read and write... and how to add and subtract, too. Never did teach me how to multiply and divide. He said that would come naturally.
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Spring Tyler : I didn't care much for learning arithmetic, but Tommy made me. He said education is one of the penalties that go with civilization.
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Spring Tyler : I ain't much thought about it.
Tommy Tyler : *Haven't*, not *ain't*.
Spring Tyler : It means the same thing.
Tommy Tyler : A shoe means the same thing as a boot, but a boot's what you're gonna get in a minute.
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Spring Tyler : You don't catch me painting myself up, do you? Wearing all kinds of hooks and straps and pumping perfume all over me enough to make a pig sick of the smell.
William Ashton : That's not all there is to being a girl.
Spring Tyler : Well it's enough to turn *me* against it.
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Spring Tyler : I'm me, Ashton. That's all I ever intend to be.
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Tommy Tyler : Think you can get along with Ashton without me for a while?
Spring Tyler : I'll work at it.
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William Ashton : You still angry with me?
Spring Tyler : Nope. I get over things fast; especially people and other diseases.
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William Ashton : You don't think much of people, do you?
Spring Tyler : I don't know many of them. But if the ones I don't know are like the ones I know, then I don't want to know the ones I don't know.
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William Ashton : I doubt he's having a very good time over there.
Spring Tyler : You don't know him. When he's having the worst time, that's when he's having the best.
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Spring Tyler : What are you thinking so hard about?
William Ashton : You really want to know?
Spring Tyler : You tell me what it is, and I'll tell you if I want to know.
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William Ashton : Will you do me a big favor Spring?
Spring Tyler : What?
William Ashton : Stop calling me Ashton.
Spring Tyler : What am I supposed to call you?
William Ashton : Everybody else calls me Bill.
Spring Tyler : Alright, I'll call you William.
William Ashton : [chagrined] Thank you. Goodnight Spring.
Spring Tyler : Goodnight Ashton.
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Tommy Tyler : I want to talk to Ashton.
Spring Tyler : Are you going to shoot him?
Tommy Tyler : Should I?
Spring Tyler : He didn't do anything but keep me warm.
Tommy Tyler : That's what God made fire for.
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Spring Tyler : When you kissed me before... well, I really didn't mind it all that much. So... before you go, will you do it again?
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Spring Tyler : Did you mean it when you said I'm not the worst looking thing you ever saw?
William Ashton : I think you're beautiful.
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Tommy Tyler : You've become pretty fond of Ashton, haven't you?
Spring Tyler : [nods]
Tommy Tyler : Do you love him?
Spring Tyler : [nods]
Tommy Tyler : If he asks you to go with him and marry him... would you?
Spring Tyler : You think he will, Tommy?
Tommy Tyler : Yep. Yep, I think he will.
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Spring Tyler : You wouldn't hate me then if I left you and married Ashton?
Tommy Tyler : I wouldn't take it kindly if you deprived me of grandchildren!
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Spring Tyler : When you get home, I guess you'll start right in sending people off to prison?
William Ashton : I'm not that kind of lawyer.
Spring Tyler : I didn't know there was but one kind. You mean there are good ones, too?