Adam's Rib (1949)

Kip Lurie : Well, good luck tomorrow, Amanda. I'm on your side, I guess you know that. You've got me so convinced, I may even go out and become a woman. Goodnight.

[leaves]

Adam Bonner : And he wouldn't have far to go, either.

Amanda Bonner : Shh!

Adam Bonner : What's a matter?

Kip Lurie : [steps back into the kitchen and whispers] He can hear you.

Adam Bonner : [takes a bite out of his fake gun] Licorice. If there's anything I'm a sucker for, it's licorice.

Beryl Caighn : She tried to shoot me.

Adam Bonner : How do you know that?

Beryl Caighn : Because she did it.

Adam Bonner : No matter what you think you think, you think the same as I think.

Amanda Bonner : What I said was true: there's no difference between the sexes. Men, women, the same.

Adam Bonner : They are, huh?

Amanda Bonner : Well, maybe there is a difference, but it's a little difference.

Adam Bonner : Well, you know as the French say...

Amanda Bonner : What do they say?

Adam Bonner : Vive la Difference!

Amanda Bonner : Which means?

Adam Bonner : Which means hooray for that little difference.

Beryl Caighn : And then I heard a noise.

Adam Bonner : What kind of noise?

Beryl Caighn : Like a sound.

Adam Bonner : [Adam spanks Amanda's bottom and she gets off the massage table and glares at him] What's the matter? Don't you want your rubdown? What? What are ya, sore about a little slap?

Amanda Bonner : No.

Adam Bonner : Well, what then?

Amanda Bonner : [outraged] You meant that, didn't you? You *really* meant that.

Adam Bonner : Why, no, I...

Amanda Bonner : Yes, you did. I can tell. I know your type. I know a *slap* from a *slug*.

Adam Bonner : Well, OK, OK... .

Amanda Bonner : I'm not so sure it is. I'm not so sure I care to--expose myself to typical instinctive masculine brutality.

Adam Bonner : Oh, come now.

Amanda Bonner : And it felt not only as though you meant it, but as though you felt you had a *right* to. I can tell.

Adam Bonner : What've you got back there? Radar equipment?

Amanda Bonner : [addressing the court] For years, women have been ridiculed, pampered, chucked under the chin. I ask you, on behalf of us all, be fair to the fair sex.

Adam Bonner : We'll be here a year.

Kip Lurie : Did I hear someone say "sing it again"?

Adam Bonner : No!

Adam Bonner : What do you want around here, anyway?

Kip Lurie : As if you didn't already know.

[looks at Amanda]

Adam Bonner : Is that what they taught you at Yale Law School?

Adam Bonner : Pinkie?

Amanda Bonner : What, Pinky?

Amanda Bonner : This sort of thing burns my goat.

Adam Bonner : Your what?

Amanda Bonner : My goat! My goat!

Amanda Bonner : All I'm saying is, why let this deplorable system seep into our courts of law where women are supposed to be equal?

Adam Bonner : Mostly, I think, females get advantages.

Amanda Bonner : We don't want advantages, and we don't want prejudices.

Adam Bonner : Oh, don't get excited, honey, and don't--oh, you're giving me the Bryn Mawr accent.

Amanda Bonner : Now, look, all I'm trying to say is that there are lots of things that a man can do and in society's eyes, it's all hunky-dory. A woman does the same thing--the same, mind you--and she's an outcast.

Adam Bonner : Finished?

Amanda Bonner : No. Now I'm not blaming you personally, Adam, because this is so.

Adam Bonner : Oh, well, that's awfully large of you.

Adam Bonner : Why did you marry her?

Warren Francis Attinger : How should I know? Who knows? Why'd you marry yours? Does anybody know?

Amanda Bonner : Why? Why? What's so funny?

Adam Bonner : Nothin'. You just sound cute when you get causey.

Adam Bonner : I am going to cut you into 12 little pieces and feed you to the jury, so get prepared for it.

Amanda Bonner : [turns off the light, takes off her robe] Goodnight, Pinky.

[kiss]

Adam Bonner : Aww, goodnight.

Amanda Bonner : Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Adam Bonner : Give you a real rubdown later if you'll give me one.

Amanda Bonner : Yeah, Adam!

Amanda Bonner : Pinky.

Adam Bonner : Calling me?

Amanda Bonner : What's that?

Adam Bonner : Just the best hat in the world - for the best head.

Adam Bonner : Where do you wanna go tonight?

Amanda Bonner : No place. I wanna stay home tonight.

Adam Bonner : What?

Amanda Bonner : Would you mind?

Adam Bonner : What?

Amanda Bonner : Please?

Adam Bonner : Well, I don't know.

Amanda Bonner : Cook up something ourselves. Something exotic! How would you care for some of that?

Adam Bonner : Oh, I would.

Amanda Bonner : Of what?

Adam Bonner : What you said.

Amanda Bonner : You feel Pinky, cranky? You feel cranky, Pinky?

Adam Bonner : Hmm?

Amanda Bonner : You feel cranky, Pinky?

Kip Lurie : Hello, you well-known thing, you.

Adam Bonner : How are you?

Kip Lurie : You just ask that because you can't think of anything else to say. You don't care whether I live or die.

Adam Bonner : You're having the wrong kind of fun down in that courtroom. You're shaking the law by the tail and I don't like it!

Amanda Bonner : You're aging fast, that's all.

Adam Bonner : You can say that again.

Amanda Bonner : All right, I will. You're aging fast, that's all.

Adam Bonner : Oh, and you're helping.

Adam Bonner : Oh, don't be diriculous, ridiculous.

Adam Bonner : I've done it all the way I said I would. Sickness, health, richer poorer, better or worse. This is too worse. This is basic. I'm old-fashioned. I like two sexes. Yeah, and another thing, all of a sudden, I don't like being married to what is known as a new woman. I want a wife, not a competitor. Competitor! Competitor! If you wanna be a big he-woman, go and be it, but not with me.

Court Stenographer : Pinkie?

Adam Bonner : Yes.

Court Stenographer : What's that? A name?

Adam Bonner : Yes.

Court Stenographer : Whose?

Adam Bonner : The Counsel for the defense.

Court Stenographer : Oh. Is that a Y or an I-E?

Amanda Bonner : Y for him, I-E for me.

Adam Bonner : I think the arguments advanced by the Counsel for the defense were sound. Mere sound.

Amanda Bonner : I have a thing or two to say too!

Adam Bonner : Oh, no, no.

Amanda Bonner : Or three!