Johnny Belinda (1948)

Lew Ayres: Dr. Robert Richardson

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• Dr. Robert Richardson : There's only one shame - failing a human being that needs you.

• Dr. Robert Richardson : Your Lordship, I insist this girl obeyed an impulse older than the laws of man: the instinct of a mother to protect her child.

• Dr. Robert Richardson : Hello, Aggie. You got back all right?

  Aggie McDonald : Wouldn't be here if I hadn't, would I?

  Dr. Robert Richardson : Is your sister better?

  Aggie McDonald : Yes.

  Dr. Robert Richardson : Did she have a good doctor?

  Aggie McDonald : Don't have any. Doesn't believe in them.

  Dr. Robert Richardson : Well, that's the right attitude as long as one can afford it.

• Dr. Robert Richardson : Mac, they're saying in the village that I'm Johnny's father. It's believable. When they don't know the answer, they make up one. I've been around this place a lot - at all hours. I've been thinking about this for a long time. I've even thought of your leaving here. But that wouldn't prove anything, giving up something you've worked for all your life. I know of only one solution: for me to marry Belinda. That would *really* give them something to talk about. And pretty soon the gossip would die down, for good.

  Black MacDonald : You're bein' generous, but it won't do. You see, she kind of feels things, and people, with her insights. You don't love her. You only feel a kind of pity for her. You'd hurt her worse than if you hated her.

  Dr. Robert Richardson : You make me feel pretty cheap. For a while there I guess I was thinking I was... quite a guy.

  Black MacDonald : You're one of the best I've run across. Sometimes you can be *too* good - harm others while doin' it.

• Dr. Robert Richardson : I have to get cash somewhere, and you and some of the others are the only ones who can afford it.