The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

Warren Stevens: Kirk Edwards

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• Kirk Edwards : You've never done an honest day's work in your life!

  Alberto Bravano : I *have* never done a day's work in my life - honest OR dishonest, but neither have you... To make 100 dollars into 110 dollars, this is work. To make 100 million into 110 million, this is inevitable.

• Kirk Edwards : Let that be a lesson to you, Myrna. It's never too late to develop character.

  Myrna : I've got time.

• Oscar Muldoon : Afraid you'll be lonely, far away in Hollywood? There's no reason why, after a time, we can't send for your mother. After all, a girl likes to have her mother with her. Right?

  Maria Vargas : I would not like to have my mother with me.

  Kirk Edwards : Why not?

  Maria Vargas : Because, I do not like my mother.

• Oscar Muldoon : If there's one thing I know about, it's Mr. John Q Public.

  [phone rings] 

  Oscar Muldoon : He wants clean people on the screen for his children to look at. Don't let the eggheads tell you he wants high-class acting and fine stories and fancy dialogue.

  [phone rings] 

  Kirk Edwards : Oscar, the phone.

  Oscar Muldoon : He wants to forget his troubles for awhile and look at clean people. He wants to escape! He don't wanna see drunks, hop heads, sex maniacs

  [phone rings] 

  Oscar Muldoon : divorcees, communists, murderers. And no children of murderers! He's got enough of that at home.

• Kirk Edwards : I'm sure you don't mean that. Every mother should be loved.

  Maria Vargas : If they deserve it.

  Oscar Muldoon : We can work all that out later, too