Humoresque (1946)
Joan Crawford: Helen Wright
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Quotes
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Sid Jeffers : I envy people who drink. At least they know what to blame everything on.
Helen Wright : If it's so simple, why don't you drink?
Sid Jeffers : I have no character.
Paul Boray : Don't brag.
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Helen Wright : Oh, here we go again. Only a man who doesn't drink thinks black coffee sobers you up.
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Helen Wright : I spend my life doing penance for things I never should have done in the first place.
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Helen Wright : Leave me alone. Go on back to your music. I'm tired of playing second fiddle to the ghost of Beethoven.
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Helen Wright : Me? There's nothing very strange about me. I was married twice before - once at sixteen, once at twenty-one. One was a crybaby and the other was a caveman. Between the two of them I said goodbye to girlhood.
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Helen Wright : Did you think you could go away for weeks, almost months, never call nor write and come back to find me hanging in a clothes closet like a suit that you might put on some day a year from now?
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Helen Wright : Don't you like martinis?
Paul Boray : Not particularly.
Helen Wright : They're an acquired taste, like Ravel.
Paul Boray : I never had much time for acquired tastes, except for Ravel.
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Helen Wright : Bad manners, Mr. Boray, the infallible sign of talent.
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Helen Wright : I'd like to slap your face.
Paul Boray : Why don't you try it?
Helen Wright : [smashes her glass against the wall]
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Paul Boray : Evidently, you don't think too much of me.
Helen Wright : I love you. So, I don't care what I think of you.
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Helen Wright : [drinking alone, toasting herself] Here's to love.
[hesitates]
Helen Wright : And here's to the time when we were little girls, and no one asked us to marry.