Modesty Blaise (1966)

Terence Stamp: Willie Garvin

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Quotes 

• Willie Garvin : Here. We now have been through some scrapes together, have we? Funny how we always survived, isn't it?

  Modesty Blaise : [licking on a large ice cream cone]  Survived... each other?

  Willie Garvin : Well, we shared the fights.

  Modesty Blaise : But never shared the nights.

  Willie Garvin : Perhaps we should've.

  Modesty Blaise : We could've.

  Willie Garvin : [he starts singing]  At Covent Garden, il Trovatore, we were shot at in the stalls.

  Modesty Blaise : [she starts singing]  They all believed it was in the story.

  Willie Garvin : And we took nine curtain calls.

  Modesty Blaise : Perhaps eight would have been enough.

  Willie Garvin : We've shared the thrills.

  Modesty Blaise : We've even shared the kills.

  Willie Garvin : But such a perfect pair, should surely share a bedroom.

  Modesty Blaise : You know, it's cheaper, too.

  Willie Garvin : It ain't. The other Summer, in Arizona, I was sentenced to the chair.

  Modesty Blaise : But they didn't realize I knew the owner of the power station there.

  Willie Garvin , Modesty Blaise : We've bombed and mined, but never intertwined.

  Willie Garvin : We were crazy, you know.

  Modesty Blaise : I was lazy.

  Willie Garvin : I know.

  Willie Garvin , Modesty Blaise : Yes, we should've, and we could've. Perhaps we can...

• Modesty Blaise : Where are you taking me?

  Gabriel : You are on board the Andronicus bound from Bizerte to Dubrovnik with a cargo of fruits and nuts.

  Willie Garvin : He's a fruit merchant, see?

  Modesty Blaise : He's a nut.

  Gabriel : That's enough of that.

• Willie Garvin : [about Mrs. Fothergill]  Who's the bird with the beady eyes?

• Willie Garvin : I figure it this way, princess: Gabriel's got it figured; so, I figure, all's we got to do is - stay close to Gabriel.

  Modesty Blaise : Leave the figuring to me, Willie. You might hurt yourself.

• Sir Gerald Tarrant : How the devil did you get a passport, Garvin?

  Willie Garvin : Just because I'm working class?

  Sir Gerald Tarrant : Lower class, you mean, surely.

• Nicole : You're so cruel.

  Willie Garvin : Cruel? I haven't touched you yet.

  Nicole : No.

  [Garvin touches her] 

• Willie Garvin : Home to bed? Why not?

  Modesty Blaise : Why not?

  Willie Garvin : Why not?

  Modesty Blaise : Why not?

  Willie Garvin : Why not?

  Modesty Blaise : Why not?

• Modesty Blaise , Willie Garvin : [singing]  Yes, we should do, And we could do, Now, we can!