It Should Happen to You (1954)
Jack Lemmon: Pete Sheppard
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Quotes
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Pete Sheppard : Say, if you care to give me your address, I could drop you a postcard and fix it up for you to see this picture when it gets done.
Gladys Glover : I'd give my right arm to see myself in the movies.
Pete Sheppard : You don't have to give me your right arm. Just give me your right address.
Gladys Glover : 262 West 61st Street, Room 9.
Pete Sheppard : Well, so long Gladys.
Gladys Glover : [Extends her hand but instead of him shaking it, Pete kisses it impulsively. She looks taken aback]
Pete Sheppard : I saw a fella do that in a French movie last week. I've been meaning to try it ever since.
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Pete Sheppard : Well, goodbye and bad luck, Mr. Adams.
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Sour Man in Central Park : Look, girlie. I don't mind a pick up once in a while, only I like to do the pickin' see?
Gladys Glover : Lister, mister. How would you like to watch some of your language?
Sour Man in Central Park : Who are you?
Gladys Glover : Nobody, that's who.
Sour Man in Central Park : So why are you trying to make a big stink?
Gladys Glover : Who, me?
Sour Man in Central Park : Sure you, not who.
[to the others in the park listening]
Sour Man in Central Park : Comes in walkin' in barefooted. Sits down on the top of me...
Gladys Glover : [Incredulous] Top of?
Sour Man in Central Park : Starts throwing around peanuts around. Gets all them dusty birds over. Top it off, she tries to pick me up... if I ain't got enough troubles now.
Gladys Glover : Listen, mister, how would you like a good smack in your face?
Sour Man in Central Park : Why don't you try it?
Gladys Glover : Because it's too hot's why!
Sour Man in Central Park : What a Park!
[He leaves]
Gladys Glover : [to Pete Sheppard] How do you like that?
Pete Sheppard : [Who has been filming the encounter] Not bad. A real interesting shot.
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[after meeting Gladys in central Park]
Pete Sheppard : Good luck to you, Gladys. I sure hope you make a name for yourself, if that's what you want. If that's what you really want, you'll get it.
Gladys Glover : How?
Pete Sheppard : I don't know. Just a theory of mine: that not only 'where there's a will, there's a way'... but, 'where's there's a way, there's a will'. See?
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Gladys Glover : Listen, Peter, I'm over twenty-one.
Pete Sheppard : From the neck down, yeah.
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Pete Sheppard : Give me a double.
Bartender : A double what?
Pete Sheppard : A double anything. What do *I* care?
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Pete Sheppard : Hey, look, Gladys, any other kind of date, you want to break it, okay, but this has been set up for a week. And when I go to the trouble of callin' my mother and she goes to the trouble of fixin' a whole dinner and, well, my father - he probably even went and shaved.
Gladys Glover : Well, maybe tomorrow night?
Pete Sheppard : Dinner'll be cold by then.
Gladys Glover : Gee, I feel just terrible.
Pete Sheppard : You *should*!
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Pete Sheppard : [yelling, at Gladys] I don't know what you're talkin' about - and neither do you!
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Pete Sheppard : What's your line?
Gladys Glover : Well, since this morning, about 11:30, nothing. I got canned on account of three-quarters of an inch - around the hips.
Pete Sheppard : [looks down] Well, think of that.
Gladys Glover : I had this good job modeling girdles. Do you know what they are?
Pete Sheppard : To be sure.
Gladys Glover : So, this designer and the boss got into a whole hassle on account of a couple of wrinkles. Back and forth, back and forth. Finally, I was in in the middle. So, the designer says, the girdle's the right size, I'm the wrong size. So, the boss got excited and says, "I'll bet you $50." So, Mr. Ostrander took the bet. He's a designer. They get out a tape measure. Just my luck. This morning. Three-quarters of an inch too much!
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Pete Sheppard : It's my business: documentaries.
Gladys Glover : What's that?
Pete Sheppard : Well, I make movies only they're about real things: people. places, and things. This one I'm working on now is about Central Park.
Gladys Glover : Well, I'm glad you think I'm a real thing.
Pete Sheppard : Decidedly.
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Pete Sheppard : What sort of a fruitcake are you anyway?
Gladys Glover : No sort of.
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Pete Sheppard : I smoked a pack and a half of cigarettes trying to figure it out.
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Pete Sheppard : What most people, real people, want - is privacy. That's about the best thing anybody can have.
Gladys Glover : Not me.
Pete Sheppard : What is this craze to get so well known?
Gladys Glover : What craze?
Pete Sheppard : Well, you think everybody is so anxious to be above the crowd?
Gladys Glover : Yes.
Pete Sheppard : But, what's the point of it? In the first place, everybody can't be above the crowd, can they?
Gladys Glover : No. But, everybody can try, if they want to.
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Pete Sheppard : Best coffee I ever had in my whole mouth.
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Gladys Glover , Pete Sheppard : [singing] We, might have been meant for each other...
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Pete Sheppard : You want my opinion?
Gladys Glover : No.
Pete Sheppard : All right, my opinion is this: it's better that your name stand for something on one block; than it stands for nothing or something bad all over the entire world!
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Pete Sheppard : Look, Gladys, please don't get mixed up in anything more. You want to turn into a freak? Now, how do you think that anything...
Brod Clinton : Of course, there's that other program, "The People Speak". They're always looking for goofballs.
Pete Sheppard : Now, hear that, you're a goofball.
Brod Clinton : No, look, that's just - that's just a figure of speech, son. Look, I happen to know this fella that runs this program. Let me sound him. See what happens. Okay, honey?
Gladys Glover : Go ahead, sound.
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Pete Sheppard : I personally have reached a point where I sort of, more or less, like my looks. But, then, of course, I've been around them for quite a long while.
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Pete Sheppard : It is just hopeless for me to try and compete with a man who drives a foreign car - and wears a silk suit and, no doubt, real gold cufflinks.
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Pete Sheppard : [Walking around inspecting Evan's foreign vehicle] Imported.
Evan Adams III : [In the driver's seat] That's right.
Pete Sheppard : Hm. Great little car.
Evan Adams III : I like it.
Pete Sheppard : I like it too.
Evan Adams III : [to Evan's irritation, Pete continues to inspect the car] Need something?
Pete Sheppard : What's car like this worth?
Evan Adams III : About $5,000. Why? You want to buy it?
Pete Sheppard : Yes, I do. The only thing I don't happen to have $5,000 on me just njow. And I don't get paid 'til Friday.
Evan Adams III : That's too bad.
Pete Sheppard : [Digging in his pocket] You wouldn't take eleven dollars and what... thirty cents. I suppose that'd do it, eh?
Evan Adams III : No.
Pete Sheppard : I didn't think it would.
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Pete Sheppard : There's a lot of things... sensitive things... we could talk about and do and try for but Ican't seem to get you down to Earth.
Gladys Glover : What's so wonderful about Earth?