River of No Return (1954)
Marilyn Monroe: Kay Weston
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Quotes
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Kay Weston : This country is crawling with Indians, and you're going fishing.
Matt Calder : There are lots of ways to die. Starving to death isn't my favorite.
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Kay Weston : One thing about this, the longer you last the less you care.
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Mark Calder : How do you know when you fall in love?
Kay Weston : I dunno. Can't eat or sleep.
Mark Calder : Like an ache in the stomach?
Kay Weston : Same thing - only in the heart.
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Kay Weston : [Harry pulls out a pistol] What's that for?
Harry Weston : In case he's hard of hearing.
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Kay Weston : If something's easy to get, people don't care about it. They don't value it. If it's hard to get, well, then you've got something.
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Kay Weston : I suppose you never made a mistake. You're too perfect. You never made any.
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Matt Calder : Now, what's all this? What kind of an act is this?
Kay Weston : I'm a performer. Didn't you know? Songs and dances.
Matt Calder : I think I know you pretty well.
Kay Weston : I think I know you, too.
Matt Calder : Hm? What am I like?
Kay Weston : Really not so bad. Not so tough and grim as you seem. I think you do a little acting yourself.
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Kay Weston : You oughta take a dip in the falls yourself. Might wash some of the starch out of you or rust.
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Kay Weston : [singing] I lost my love on the river, And for ever my heart will yearn, Gone, gone for ever, Down the River of No Return...
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Kay Weston : [singing] There is a river, Called the River of No Return, Sometimes it's peaceful, And sometimes wild and free, Love is a traveler, On the River of No Return, Swept on for ever, To be lost in the stormy sea ..
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Kay Weston : [singing] I got the fever, Oooooo the fever, But not for gold in the ground, I want the title, To something vital, That I can throw my fences around...
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Kay Weston : [singing] Down in the meadow, Corn stalks are high, Pumpkins are ripe and ready for pie.
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Mark Calder : I said you were beautiful, and he said beauty was skin-deep.
Kay Weston : Who did?
Mark Calder : Matt, my dad. He said it was an old saying.
Kay Weston : It's an old saying by an old crow!
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Kay Weston : You said no one could go down the river. You said it'd be suicide if he tried it.
Matt Calder : He's not trying. I am. There's a difference.
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Kay Weston : [singing] Down in the meadow, Snow softly gleams, Earth goes to sleep, And smiles in her dreams.
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Kay Weston : I'll tell you how he didn't treat me. He didn't treat me like a tramp. He treated me like a woman. So he made a mistake. If you had lived like he has all of his life, on crumbs and bones, maybe you'd do a crazy thing if you had a chance to make a fortune. Maybe you'd do a foolish thing yourself.
Matt Calder : I wouldn't leave a kid to die - or a woman, even if she was a tramp.
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Mark Calder : How was the water?
Kay Weston : Freezing, but I'm becoming hardened. I guess it's from seeing life in the raw and running around with strong, silent types like you guys.
Matt Calder : Yeah.
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Kay Weston : I'm sorry I opened my big mouth in front of the boy. You hurt me and I wanted to hurt you back.
Matt Calder : Well, that's the way it works.
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Kay Weston : You don't have to hate me just because you hate him.
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Kay Weston : We're never gonna get there, are we?
Matt Calder : Like you said, who gets anywhere?