Boys' Night Out (1962)

Kim Novak: Cathy

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• Cathy : When it comes to sex, men can't help lying and women can't keep from telling the truth. I don't know which is worse.

• Cathy : Fred, what's the matter?

  Fred Williams : The matter? It's one thing for a girl to be - to go wrong. A guy'd have to be pretty narrow-minded not to overlook a thing like that. But to make me a miserable guinea pig? To use a guy for, for an experiment? To be a dirty, contemptible... *sociologist*! That's about as low as you can get!

• Dr. Prokosch : It won't work. You're a student. A sociologist. Not a courtesan.

  Cathy : Don't you think I can be attractive enough?

  Dr. Prokosch : That's not the problem! The opposite. Can you look like yes and act like no? Can you entice and lure them, then postpone, evade, delay? It needs a special kind of experience and skill. This - a nice girl - hasn't learned.

  Cathy : No? This is what a nice girl has learned best.

• Cathy : I have here a list of 20 basic questions.

  Marge Drayton : Okay. Fire away.

  Cathy : Some of them may prove a bit embarrassing.

  Marge Drayton : Well, we'll see who blushes first.

• Boss' Girl Friend : But darling, a girl can't make a success on instincts alone. To understand a man takes a lifetime of study.

  Cathy : Isn't it amazing how much post graduate work goes on in this town?

• Fred Williams : I thought you meant my ad. George's ad. He put one in too.

  Cathy : Where is it? Show me.

  Fred Williams : It's not in today's paper.

  Cathy : Yesterday's?

  Fred Williams : Tomorrow's.

  Cathy : And you thought I answered it today?

• George Drayton : Now we got to put that genius to work on one more little job.

  Doug Jackson : Right!

  George Drayton : Our companion!

  Fred Williams : Oh, come on fellas. Now, listen, let's not go into the details right now, huh?

  George Drayton : Just a small detail, Fred. One warm, delectable, luscious, juicy blonde.

  Cathy : [walks in from another room]  Hello, boys. I'm Cathy. When would you like me to begin?

• Fred Williams : You're not waiting around to see them?

  Cathy : Well, it isn't everyday a girl gets a chance to meet men who know how to share. I mean *really* share.

• Cathy : Do you always stare at people like that?

• Cathy : [on the phone]  Oh, yes, Dr. Prokosch, it's just exactly what I need. Mmm-hmm. Four men. And I can use all four. It's a goldmine, doctor. And it fell right into my lap. Jealous? Oh, well, really, doctor. That's not my problem.

• Cathy : To them, I'm just a - a status symbol - like a sports car.

• Cathy : Here is a whole semester's work. Two hundred questionnaires on the adolescent sexual fantasies of the adult suburban male. And they're all useless.

  Dr. Prokosch : Useless? Well, how can you write a thesis without facts?

  Cathy : Facts? This doctor is fiction. When it comes to sex, men don't even tell themselves the truth. And you expect them to tell me? Two hundred of the greatest lovers in the world. And they all live in Scarsdale.

• George Drayton : Champagne, my dear. Is it in order?

  Cathy : Champagne is always in order.

• Dr. Prokosch : It's too dangerous.

  Cathy : No, it isn't. It really isn't. I've met these men. In a half hour, I learned their whole life histories. Well, they're wide-eyed kids who dream of being locked in a candy store - and eating their way out.

  Dr. Prokosch : Scientifically speaking, a love nest is not a candy bar. With men like this...

  Cathy : It's the modern pipe dream, doctor. Every book, every magazine, every ad, every movie they see - it's like - well, they forget that sex is just one small aspect of life.

  Dr. Prokosch : 2.6 per cent.

  Cathy : The whole thing is a fantasy. They don't really want this adventure. They've been sold that they're supposed to want it.

• Cathy : I'm in the mood to take orders.

• Cathy : As you know, it's a scientific survey dealing with - very intimate matters.

  Joanne McIllenny : Yes, I've read some of them. Wow!

  Cathy : I know. You don't mind if I ask you some highly personal questions?

  Joanne McIllenny : Well, it isn't everyday a girl gets a chance to talk about - science!

• Cathy : It was like telling a girl she's not worth bothering with.

  Fred Williams : I tried bothering with you!

• Cathy : Good afternoon, Mrs. Jackson. I'm doing a sociological survey on the sexual patterns of the suburban male.

  Toni Jackson : You mean something like the Kinsey Report?

  Cathy : Well, a little. I wonder if you'd object to answering a few questions?

  Toni Jackson : Is that all the paper you've got?

• Cathy : Doug, give that to me this instance. I need it!

  Doug Jackson : Why? So you can bleed us all white?