Laura (1944)

Gene Tierney: Laura Hunt

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• Shelby Carpenter : I knew there was something on my mind. Ah yes, will you dine with me tomorrow night?

  Laura Hunt : Yes.

  Shelby Carpenter : No, it's not that - it's the next night. And what about three weeks from tonight? And all the nights in between?

  Laura Hunt : Shelby, you talk as if I had no other engagements!

  Shelby Carpenter : And two months from now? And the month after that?

  Laura Hunt : What about next year?

  Shelby Carpenter : Oh, that's all settled. What about breakfast?

  Laura Hunt : What about dancing?

  Shelby Carpenter : What about lunch? Beautiful lunches, day after day after day?

• Ann Treadwell : Are you as interested in McPherson as he is in you?

  Laura Hunt : But Ann, I only met him last night.

  Ann Treadwell : That's more than long enough sometimes. Anyway, he's better for you than Shelby. Anybody is. Shelby's better for me.

  Laura Hunt : Why?

  Ann Treadwell : 'Cause I can afford him and understand him. He's no good, but he's what I want. I'm not a nice person, Laura. Neither is he. He knows I know he's just what he is. He also knows that I don't care. We belong together because we're both weak and can't seem to help it. That's why I know he's capable of murder. He's like me.

  [Laura turns to look at her, shocked] 

  Ann Treadwell : No, dear, I didn't. But I thought of it.

• Laura Hunt : [Explaining why she broke a promise]  You forced me to give you my word. I never have been and I never will be bound by anything I don't do of my own free will.

• Laura Hunt : It was a terrible shock, poor darling.

  Mark McPherson : Don't tell me you're in love with him too?

  Shelby Carpenter : Look here fella, you're not to talk that way to Miss Hunt.

  Mark McPherson : Shut up.

• Laura Hunt : No man is ever going to hurt me again. No one. Not even you.

• Laura Hunt : But you write about people with such real understanding and sentiment. That's what makes your column so good.

  Waldo Lydecker : Sentiment comes easily at 50 cents a word.

• Laura Hunt : By stooping so low you only degrade yourself.

• Mark McPherson : Haven't you seen the papers? Where have you been?

  Laura Hunt : Up in the country. I don't get a newspaper.

  Mark McPherson : Haven't you got a radio?

  Laura Hunt : It was broken.

• Waldo Lydecker : You seem to be completely disregarding something more important than your career.

  Laura Hunt : What?

  Waldo Lydecker : My lunch.

• Shelby Carpenter : I approve of that hat.

  Laura Hunt : You do?

  Laura Hunt : Mm-hmm. And the girl in it too.