The Girl Most Likely (1957)

Cliff Robertson: Pete

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• Dodie : Every day I read about girls marrying rich fellas. Every day.

  Pete : You've got one chance in a million.

  Dodie : Well, of course, the odds are against any two people meeting each other. There are two billion people in the world and if a girl meets any fella it's an accident.

• Dodie : [Referring to her boyfriend Buzz]  He's even considering marrying me.

  Pete : Maybe you ought to marry me instread.

  Dodie : You shouldn't say things like that.

  Pete : Why not?

  Dodie : We hardly even know each other.

  Pete : Sometimes people know each other better in one night than they do... in two weeks.

• Pete : Honey, I'm sorry about the whole thing. That's all I can say. Why don't we go out anyway? I"ll tell you what, I'll show you the greatest time you ever had on two bucks and a dime.

• Dodie : It's as though I were to say to you, "don't be ambitious, don't plan for tomorrow, don't keep looking ahead."

  Pete : I don't.

  Dodie : You don't?

  Pete : Nope. A fella starts worrying about tomorrow, he misses too much livin' today.

  Dodie : Well, I think you're very peculiar.

  Pete : Maybe.

• Pete : I don't believe in every man for himself. It gets lonesome.

• Pete : Sometimes, even though you don't want to, maybe you have to, so, you might as well want to.

  Dodie : Well, if you don't want to and you don't have to, then you just don't'; because, you don't want to.