Act of Love (1953)

Dany Robin: Lise Gudayec, Madame Teller

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Quotes 

• Robert Teller : A strange family.

  Lise Gudayec : France is full of strange families.

  Robert Teller : So is America.

• Robert Teller : Don't tell me you ate bananas out of banana trees when the Krauts were here.

  Lise Gudayec : That's a lie. We fought them! We fought them!

  Robert Teller : Where? Up in Pigalle?

  [Lise slaps Bob. Bob slaps her back] 

  Robert Teller : Listen lady, we didn't come here for the scenery. An awful lot of good boys got themselves hurt here. It wouldn't do you any harm to remember that!

• Robert Teller : You hate me, don't you?

  Lise Gudayec : No. I hate myself.

• Pedro Guitterez S.A.P.A. : Do you take shorthand, mademoiselle?

  Lise Gudayec : No.

  Pedro Guitterez S.A.P.A. : Do you type?

  Lise Gudayec : No.

  Pedro Guitterez S.A.P.A. : Well, what can you do?

  Lise Gudayec : I don't know. Perhaps, answer the telephone. Anything.

  Pedro Guitterez S.A.P.A. : Anything? Well, that's interesting. And what is the anything you are willing to do? You see, there are few jobs and many girls. They come here all day and each is anxious. Well, I guess one should take the most anxious and the most independent. No? We are not that independent are we, mademoiselle?

  Lise Gudayec : No.

  Pedro Guitterez S.A.P.A. : Well, good day, mademoiselle. I said, good day!

• Lise Gudayec : What difference does it make? You are not a lawyer and I am not a ballerina.

• Robert Teller : I don't know, I suddenly feel so good!

  Lise Gudayec : You're drunk.

  Robert Teller : I'm not drunk! I just feel good. Do you mind? I don't know, maybe, maybe its because I'm in a room with four walls and a door. Look! Its wonderful. You can open it. You can close it. You can even lock it. And besides, you didn't run away. I thought you might. But, you didn't. I always thought when I'd find me in a room with four walls and a door you could close, I'd go up my girl and kiss her.

  [Kiss] 

• Robert Teller : Tell me more about...

  Lise Gudayec : About what?

  Robert Teller : About you and the iron balcony and the Mediterranean.

  Lise Gudayec : Oh, your train will be here any minute, now.

  Robert Teller : Come on. Tell me.

  Lise Gudayec : Well, the last night I was promised that I could go out. But, my mother changed her mind. I couldn't sleep and I went out on the balcony. Then, suddenly, I saw two people walking on the dock. A boy and a girl. All alone. Just below my window, they stopped. They didn't say anything to each other and they didn't kiss. The girl looked up into the boy's face, as though they had a secret together. And suddenly, I felt, that's what it is. And I thought, when I grow up, I must come back here. When I fall in love, I must come back here. When I - I was sixteen years old. A sixteen year old girl is constantly thinking she's making an enormous discovery.

• Robert Teller : Look, when its all over, you know what we're going to do? We're going to travel, all over. You know what? We'll go to that town you went to when you were a girl. What was the name of it? What was it? Ville?

  Lise Gudayec : Villefranche.

  Robert Teller : Yes, that's it! Villefranche in the Mediterranean. And we'll rent that room. Because, you were happy there one summer when you were sixteen years old. Would I be happy there too?