Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

Amy Adams: Delysia

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• Delysia : [during an air-raid drill]  Guinevere, I'm scared!

  Guinevere Pettigrew : It's just a drill, I'm sure it's just a drill.

  Delysia : But it won't always be, will it? We're going to war, aren't we?

  Guinevere Pettigrew : Yes we are. And that is why you must not waste a second of this precious life. Listen to me. Once I too had ambitions. Not your grand ones, simple ambitions. Marriage, children and a house of our own. He died, in the mud in France. A good, solid man. You would call him dull, no doubt, but he smiled whenever he saw me and we could've built a life on that. Your heart knows the truth, Delysia. Trust it.

• Michael : Ice pick?

  Delysia : It's in the drawer. Somewhere! Ice in the Fridgedair?

  Michael : I want the pick for murder, not ice.

• Delysia : Men are so untrusting. I can't think why.

• Guinevere Pettigrew : I'm afraid I walked in on your guest in his state of nature. I fear that I have outraged his sense of propriety.

  Delysia : Oh no, Phil doesn't have one of those.

  Guinevere Pettigrew : He's a much bigger boy than I had anticipated.

  Delysia : [giggles]  Oh you noticed that too.

• Delysia : However did you get in?

  Michael : One picks up a few tricks in prison, you know, breaking and entering being one of them.

• Michael : Pure and simple, I want you to marry me, and it's a one word conversation Delysia.

  Guinevere Pettigrew : Don't you think, that on such a momentous occasion, a little time should be allowed?

  Michael : Oh, stalling tactic. Is it because I'm not rich enough for her?

  Guinevere Pettigrew : Certainly not.

  Michael : Well, it's true. I'm wearing most of my worldly possessions. I could never afford this kind of blackmail.

  [gestures around Nick's flat] 

  Delysia : Oh, and who pays you for playing the piano, huh? Are you telling me you give Nick his money back after every show?

  Michael : No, and every damned shilling I take hurts me to the bone, which is why it's got to change Delysia. Money or love, that's the question I'm asking. Here's the deal: I'll play for you today, Delysia, and for the rest of your life if you'll marry me. Never again if you don't.

• Delysia : Do you know what my name is, Guinevere?

  Guinevere Pettigrew : I was under the impression it was Delysia Lafosse.

  Delysia : Sarah Grubb. One of the Pittsburg Grubbs. My father is a steelworker. No one else in the world knows that apart from Michael. And he doesn't judge me.

  Guinevere Pettigrew : No, he wouldn't.

  Delysia : But you do.

  Guinevere Pettigrew : Me? I certainly do not.

  Delysia : Oh, you think you don't, but you do. For all the fancy apartments and fashion shows, do you know how close I am to having nothing? Every day I wake up and I think, if I make the wrong move, I could be out on that street with no clothes, no food, no job, and no friends. Just plain old Sarah Grubb again. Do you know what that's like?

  Guinevere Pettigrew : Yes, I do.

  Delysia : You do?

  Guinevere Pettigrew : In that, at least, we are alike.

• Guinevere Pettigrew : "Four's a Crowd"'s a wonderful movie. Who were you?

  Delysia Lafosse : The crowd.

• Delysia : Is the offer still open?

  Nick : Get up!

  [Michael stands and nick knocks him back down with a punch to the nose] 

  Delysia : Well, is it a yes or is it a no?

  Michael : What?

  Delysia : Well will you doggone marry me or will you doggone not?

  [he grins in delight, scrambles up, socks Nick square in the jaw, and pulls Delysia to her feet] 

  Michael : Yes. God help me, yes!

  [they kiss fervently] 

• Delysia : Are you alright?

  Guinevere Pettigrew : I have never sworn before in my life! Not even in my mind!

  Delysia : I didn't hear you swear.

  Guinevere Pettigrew : Yes I did! I said damned and hell, and I meant them.

  Delysia : Oh, that's not swearing. They came out of the sinful category an age ago!

• [at a lingerie fashion show] 

  Guinevere Pettigrew : She's naked!

  Delysia Lefosse : Hardly! She's got so much whale boning on her that I'm looking for a tale and flippers.

• Delysia : There is something so sensual about fur next to the skin, don't you think?

• Delysia : Phil's a theatre producer! Well, his father is. Phil's got his first show on at the Ambassador, and I've got the lead. Well, I'm pretty sure I have *now*

  [holds up lingerie and giggles] 

• Edythe : Well I didn't answer the telephone because I *couldn't* answer the telephone!

  Delysia : Why not?

  Edythe : I was in the bathroom.

  Delysia : Having a bath?

  Edythe : No, I just - didn't answer the telephone. And now Joe says the engagement's off! Just because of one stupid little misunderstanding!