Night of the Eagle (1962)

Peter Wyngarde: Norman Taylor

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Quotes 

• Norman Taylor : I do NOT believe.

• Norman Taylor : Mr. Jennings? No paper.

  Fred Jennings : No paper. Try pressing a button, maybe one'll appear.

  Norman Taylor : I might press the button that removes you from the class.

• Norman Taylor : So, each day science, founded on years of research and truth merges with feats, which put our old fashioned magicians to shame. Aladdin rubbed the lamp and the genie appeared. Today we can press a button, and the whole of mankind is obliterated.

• Lindsay Carr : [Speaking of an upcoming, open promotion]  You don't really deserve it, you know.

  Norman Taylor : Oh?

  Lindsay Carr : You've got too much already - a beautiful wife, this lovely house and that cottage by the sea. Your excellent thesis, and your ability to interest the students, now what's the answer to it all, eh? You sold your soul to the devil?

• Tansy Taylor : I'm sure you're convinced I'm quite insane.

  Norman Taylor : I'm not convinced about anything. If we were to investigate all the strange rituals performed by women based on their so-called intuition, half the female population would be in asylums. I don't know what to think!

• Norman Taylor : [picks up phone]  Hello. Hello?

  Caller : [Heavy breathing] 

  Norman Taylor : Hey, who's there?

  Caller : Don't you know who this is? Haven't you been waiting?

  Norman Taylor : Who is this?

  Caller : It's been such torture waiting for this moment, knowing that soon, soon I'd hear your voice again. And I'd hear you whisper. 'I love you.'

  Norman Taylor : What!

  Caller : Come to me and take me in your arms. Oh, Norman, Norman I need you!

  Caller : Norman, don't you know who this is?

  Norman Taylor : No, I do not!

  Caller : After all you've done to me. After you've undressed me with your eyes a hundred...

  [Norman hangs up] 

• Norman Taylor : [Teaching to a class]  'I do NOT believe'. I do not believe. So, to recap: four words necessary to destroy the forces of the supernatural, witchcraft, superstition, psychic, etc, etc. And these, quote, are a morbid desire to escape from reality, unqoute, and can only exist in an atmosphere of belief. Belief is vital. Deprived of that acceptance, it reveals itself as another futile attempt to control one's environment and the forces of nature.