As Long as They're Happy (1955)
Jack Buchanan: John Bentley
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Quotes
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Gwen Bentley : It's not infatuation. I'm in love with him.
John Bentley : Don't be ridiculous. He's nearly as old as I am. You're only sixteen.
Gwen Bentley : Juliet was only fourteen when she fell in love with Romeo.
John Bentley : They were foreigners!
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Pearl Delaney : I'm an actress.
John Bentley : Legitimate?
Pearl Delaney : [in a huff] I didn't come here to be insulted!
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Bobby Denver : Better put these in water
John Bentley : My Calsilarium Optiflora!
Bobby Denver : Nevermind about your health. It's your garden, I'm worrying about. It's in terrible condition.
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John Bentley : My tragedy has been robbed of dignity.
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John Bentley : Oh, I see. All my fault. The father's always to blame. Give the children money, you spoil them. Give them no money, you handicap them. Expect much from them, you set too high a standard. Expect nothing and you give them an inferiority complex. There is no answer!
Stella Bentley : Of course there is, dear. As long as they're happy.
John Bentley : Nonsense. Any monkey with a bomb tied to its tail could be happy - until it goes off.
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John Bentley : Gwendolyn, if you don't go to your room this instant. I shall put you across my knee and give you the soundest thrashing you've ever had in your life!
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John Bentley : Why is she dressed like a morbid fisherman?
Stella Bentley : Because Peter, her husband, is an existentialist, dear.
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Pat Bentley : I might have known. You don't like Peter! You don't appreciate his hidden talents.
John Bentley : I'm a stock broker, not a geiger counter.
Pat Bentley : You couldn't appreciate him any more than you could appreciate a symphony by Picasso or a painting by Puccini or anything that has anything to do with your money-grabbing old stock exchange!
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John Bentley : Linda, go away. I'm about to commit murder.
Linda : Miss Gwen's just committed suicide.
John Bentley : What?
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Peter Pember : Where's my woman?
John Bentley : You're what?
Peter Pember : My little one. My loved one. My Rose of Sharon. My wife.
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John Bentley : Why aren't you in jail?
Peter Pember : I escaped.
John Bentley : I always said the French Police were inefficient.
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Corinne Bentley : Poor Daddy. I suppose as a family we are a bit of a headache.
John Bentley : That's all right, darling. As long as you're happy.
Corinne Bentley : No, Pop! As long as *we're* happy!
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Pat Bentley : Underneath he's very sweet.
John Bentley : Underneath what, dear? All that fungus?
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Pat Bentley : You know, he's very disturbing. When he's with me, he drives me crazy. When he's not with me, he drives me even crazier.
John Bentley : He just drives me crazy - period.
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Barnaby Brady : Curious pathological phenomenon, these crooners. Cardboard lovers for disappointed wives.
John Bentley : My wife is not disappointed.
Barnaby Brady : How do you know?
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John Bentley : [to Stella] I suppose I ought to feel flattered that you came home the other day with your hat on!
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John Bentley : Hit is Holis!
[singing]
John Bentley : If your sweetheart, Sends a letter, Of your's back, It's no secret, You'll feel better, If you cry, When your waking, From a bad dream, Don't you sometimes, Think its real, But, it's only, False emotions, That you you feel...
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John Bentley : Pearl, I am not going to immortalize you for posterity.
Pearl Delaney : You leave my posterity out of this!
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Dr. Hermann Schneider : How would your wife react if one day you bring home a girl friend?
John Bentley : What are you suggesting?
Dr. Hermann Schneider : That you change your way of living. It is a reaction to your own respectability that has made your family fall for this bohemian crooner. So, stop being respectable.
John Bentley : What?
Dr. Hermann Schneider : From now on, you will live in such a way that will make the Folies Bergère seem like a kindergarten.
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John Bentley : Didn't Schneider explain anything to you? Our relationship, my dear, is no more than that of a managing director and his private secretary.
Pearl Delaney : Oh, sir!
[moves in for a cuddle and a kiss]
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John Bentley : [singing] If your heartache seems to hang around too long, And your blues keep gettin' bluer with each song, Remember sunshine can be found behind a cloudy sky, So let your hair down and go on and cry...
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John Bentley : Schneider, do you know any strange women?
Dr. Hermann Schneider : Of course.
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John Bentley : Ah, good evening, Stella.
Stella Bentley : Who is this brazen hussy?
John Bentley : She's not brazen, dear. She's blonde. You must get yourself some glasses.
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John Bentley : Stella, I'm grateful to you.
Stella Bentley : Grateful?
John Bentley : Oh, yes. You were perfectly right. Up to now, I've lead a dull, drab, monotonous life. But, now I've had a little fling. And once more, I'm going on having little flings. I find I like little flings.
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Stella Bentley : When I looked in the mirror this morning, I thought I looked tired and ugly. I said, I thought I looked tired and ugly.
John Bentley : I'm not arguing dear.
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John Bentley : [singing] I don't know whether to cry or to laugh over you...
