Vivien Leigh: Karen Stone
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Quotes
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Karen Stone : You see... I don't leave my diamonds in the soap dish... and when the time comes when nobody desires me... for myself... I'd rather not be... desired... at all.
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Meg : Isn't it odd how women of our age, suddenly start looking for beauty in our male partners? But, I suppose after you've been married to that elderly invalid for 20 years...
Karen Stone : I loved Tom Stone.
Meg : Oh, did you? Everyone thought you married him to avoid...
Karen Stone : What?
Meg : Love. I think you depended on him. But, that's different. Anyway, now he's dead, what have you got to fall back on, except for his filthy millions?
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Barbara Bingham : It's such a thrill to meet you, even though I never saw you on the stage. Isn't that terrible?
Karen Stone : Why not at all. I'm afraid I've never seen you on the screen.
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Campbell Kennedy : Did you see Meg before she left?
Karen Stone : Meg? Where'd she go?
Julia McIlheny : Oh, some place in the Middle East. She says its a big trouble spot.
Karen Stone : I thought everywhere in the Middle East was a big trouble spot.
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Karen Stone : Your friend, the Contessa, is nothing but a female pimper with a stable of handsome boys she sells to the highest bidder. I won't deal in that ugly traffic. And so she passes you on to someone who will!
Paolo di Leo : I had no idea your mind was such a cess pool.
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Karen Stone : Paolo, why have you done nothing but...
Paolo di Leo : Please, I have a terrible headache.
Karen Stone : And you can't stay tonight? That's it, isn't it! But, not because of any headache. It's because you made a date with that cheap little...
Paolo di Leo : Cheap is not a word, I think, that you should use.
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Karen Stone : You see, Contessa, Americans aren't as romantic as their motion pictures.
Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales : What a pity.
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Meg : Do you want to talk about it?
Karen Stone : There's really nothing to say; except, I should have learned my lesson the first time I tried to play Shakespeare.
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Paolo di Leo : I think its bad to be alone, so much.
Karen Stone : I know.
Paolo di Leo : It makes you sad.
Karen Stone : It makes you drift.
Paolo di Leo : Drift?
Karen Stone : Yes, drift.
Paolo di Leo : Like a flower on a river.
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Karen Stone : When I told you I was drifting, did you understand?
Paolo di Leo : Not why it made you sad. I too am drifting, Signora. The whole world, everybody, the stars, everything is drifting. Is it so bad to drift? Is it so unhappy?
Karen Stone : Yes, when you have no where to go.
Paolo di Leo : Your hand's a fist. Open it. Give it to me.
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Meg : Oh, Karen, there isn't anybody who ever knew you and who ever loved you...
Karen Stone : Who are these people who love me? I want names.
Meg : I can give you thousands. You represented...
Karen Stone : Various parts. Parts in the theater. Never, ever, myself.
