Boys' Night Out (1962)

Oscar Homolka: Dr. Prokosch

Quotes 

• 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.

• Dr. Prokosch : [when remarking that Cathy sees the four men on different nights doing research for her master's thesis, with Fred being the Thursday night man, whom Cathy is falling in love with and thus remembering the best]  Wednesday was there Wednesday, Thursday was there last Sunday, yet you remember last Sunday's Thursday better than yesterday's Wednesday. Interesting, no?

• 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.

• 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.