Athena (1954)
Edmund Purdom: Adam Calhorn Shaw
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Quotes
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : You earned $300,000? Now, let's start from the beginning, just what did you do to earn all this money?
Johnny Nyle : I sing in television, radio, records, night clubs.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : You get all that money singing?
Johnny Nyle : I guess you wouldn't call it singing. I'm a - a crooner.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : There ought to be a law against that.
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : What's the phone number?
Johnny Nyle : Oh, they don't believe in telephones.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Telephones are not a matter of faith!
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Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : You mind taking off your shirt?
Adam Calhorn Shaw : I most certainly do.
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Photographer : Please smile for the next one, Mr. Shaw.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : I was smiling.
Photographer : Okay, but make it a big one for the next one. Show your teeth.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : I'm not selling toothpaste, I'm running for Congress.
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : This is a matter of principle with me. There is no fiduciary feeling in trade anymore. No tradition, no standards. We've become a nation of fools, faddists, and fakes.
Mr. Tremaine : Well, it sounds very snappy, but what makes you think the public will understand it? You take my advice, Adam, practice smiling.
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Mr. Tremaine : What's the matter with you, don't you want to get elected?
Adam Calhorn Shaw : I most certainly do, Mr. Tremaine.My family has had a long and distinguished record in public life. My grandfather was governor of Massachusetts, Father was a senator. But they did not get there by back-slapping and kissing babies.
Mr. Tremaine : And they had an advantage that you don't have, they didn't look as young as you do.
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Beth Hallson : One mustn't gulp Martinis.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : That one was purely medicinal.
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The Sisters: Athena : Oh my, I'm sorry, but we can't ever mulch together.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Well, if we can't, we can't.
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The Sisters: Athena : Oh, this is an interesting house. It's a decayed kind of architecture and thoroughly impractical. If you'll just tear out that whole side and put in a window, you'll bring the outside in.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : When I had this house built I told the architect to keep the outside out.
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : You speak Japanese?
The Sisters: Athena : I can say, "I love you, let us be friends." I can say it in fifty-four different languages, and I'm working on African dialects.
Beth Hallson : I'm sure that's going to come in very handy.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Well, according to Grandpa, we should learn to like everybody in the world.
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : Now, look here Beth, if you're thinking what I think you're thinking, you're dead wrong. And she just came here...
Beth Hallson : If you say "mulch" again, I'll scream. I come here at eight o'clock in the morning and find you having breakfast with a very attractive young lady. And all I want to know is, how long has this "mulching" been going on?
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Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : We believe in the direct approach. Maybe that's why so people think we're nutty as fruit cakes. What's your opinion?
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Frankly, Mr. Mulvain, I'm on the side of the majority.
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Good for you! No mealy mouth hypocrisy, you speak the truth.
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The Sisters: Minerva : How do you like our dance?
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Quite nice.
The Sisters: Minerva : Not too fussy?
Adam Calhorn Shaw : I know very little about it. But, I do know that if you don't put on more clothes, you'll either get pneumonia or get arrested or both.
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : Don't worry, I'll - I'll settle this matter once and for all.
Beth Hallson : When you're decisive, Adam, you're very attractive.
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : I have made other plans.
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Plan 'til you're blue in the face, the stars say different, boy.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : And stop calling me "boy"! I'm a full grown, mature man.
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Well now, that's open to discussion.
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Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Let's have a rollickin' song, Honey. Something with a lot of zoom, zoom, zoom in it. I don't sing very well, but I great on the zoom, zoom, zoom.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : I can hardly wait.
The Sisters: Athena , The Sisters: Minerva , The Sisters: Niobe , The Sisters: Aphrodite , The Sisters: Calliope , The Sisters: Medea , The Sisters: Ceres , Johnny Nyle : [singing] Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Ah-ah-ah-ah
The Sisters: Athena : Life is fun if you harmonize
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain , The Sisters: Athena , The Sisters: Minerva , The Sisters: Niobe , The Sisters: Aphrodite , The Sisters: Calliope , The Sisters: Medea , The Sisters: Ceres , Johnny Nyle : Full of sun if you harmonize, Re Do Ti Do, It's my credo...
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Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Look out, boy, your face is getting flushed. That comes from eating too much meat. If people would only eat sensible foods like nuts and berries, they'd behave more like plants and flowers than like animals.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : I admit that people behave like animals, but I doubt that it's a matter of diet. The plain truth is people *are* animals!
Grandpa Ulysses Mulvain : Watch out, boy. You're gonna explode like a firecracker.
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : Athena, people don't fall in love because of the stars.
The Sisters: Athena : Then why do they fall in love?
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Mutual interests, long acquaintances. Well, it just happens.
The Sisters: Athena : Then it might be the stars, mighten it?
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Mr. Tremaine : I'd like to know what this girl has that Beth hasn't.
Adam Calhorn Shaw : Six sisters.
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Adam Calhorn Shaw : Go to bed or something. I mean it, beat it!