The Honey Pot (1967)

Cliff Robertson: William McFly

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• William McFly : An actor's gratitude is, at best, a mirage.

• William McFly : And there's a hot rumor you've got money problems.

  Merle McGill : There's a hot rumor Sophia Loren's a boy.

• William McFly : What are you trying to prove with all of this?

  Cecil Fox : Why must everything prove something?

  William McFly : Well, there must be something more to it than just fun and games.

  Cecil Fox : Well, you must admit its quite a game - and I promise you the fun's only just starting.

  William McFly : Strange, almost displaced kind of fun. Out of another time, another world.

  Cecil Fox : There's been no other time, really, no other world. We've simply forgotten the pleasure of living in them.

  William McFly : In the 17th Century, for instance, let's say Elizabethan London, when torturing lunatics and animals, bear-baiting was great fun.

  Cecil Fox : Well, for the witless and undemanding, not unlike today's television. The Elizabethan elite, however, for their more exclusive entertainment, baited each other: people-baiting.

• William McFly : What will you drink, ladies?

  Mrs. Sheridan : Root beer.

  William McFly : Well, I'm afraid we haven't any...

  Mrs. Sheridan : [cutting him off]  Of course not! Billions of dollars exporting the American way of life, and most of the world still never heard of root beer!

• William McFly : For the English speaking actor, Rome is the elephant's graveyard, when you can't make it or wait it out any longer in New York, Hollywood, or London.

• William McFly : I'm a sometime actor who between engagements does odd jobs. Now, how odd is this job you've got - and what is it?

• Merle McGill : I might need your help here. Anything you can do for me, I'd certainly appreciate.

  William McFly : I'll be sure to keep it in mind, Miss McGill.

  Merle McGill : Make it Merle.

  William McFly : Or even Myrtle?

• William McFly : Granted three greedy women believe you're dying. Granted they've swallowed your bait. At what point do you yell April fools?

  Cecil Fox : At the moment I have no particular finish in mind. Do you?

  William McFly : It's your script, Mr. Fox.

• William McFly : For some strange coincidence, both ladies seem to have time on their minds.

  Cecil Fox : So have you and I. So has everyone. It's the one obsession common to all mankind. In the beginning, there was time. Now, after mankind is over or we blow ourselves up or just end, there'll still be time. Have respect for it, McFly.

• William McFly : Never say what you feel.

• William McFly : What's she doing in Baden-Baden?

  Cecil Fox : Taking the baths, I presume. Or, giving them. One never can tell.

• William McFly : I've never known a woman so much like an open city.

  Sarah Watkins : I don't trust you.

  William McFly : Then don't tell me you don't. Never say what you feel - especially to men about men.

• Sarah Watkins : In the last seven months, with Mrs. Sheridan, I've traveled to 31 cities, all beautiful, 31 hotel rooms, 31 hotel restaurants, and I have this to tell them apart. A charm for every city we visited from Paris to Marrakesh.

  William McFly : [inspects the bracelet]  What does the little key open? The Bastille or a miniature chastity belt?

• Mrs. Sheridan : I'm doin' what I think is right!

  William McFly : And even if it's wrong? Being a common law wife does not entail a right to commit murder, Mrs. Sheridan.

• William McFly : Did your lavish wooing of the nurse Watkins leave you penniless, silly romantic boy?

• Cecil Fox : In his fantasies, that oaf must imagine himself to be the illegitimate son of Charlie Chan and Jerry Mason.

  William McFly : Perry Mason.

  Cecil Fox : Really? Are you sure?