Tea and Sympathy (1956)

Edward Andrews: Herb Lee

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• Herb Lee : I used to eat two of these a day. We all ate them. "Hickey in Heaven" we called them.

• Bill Reynolds : He is an off-horse, Herb.

  Herb Lee : He's going to have to learn to run with the other horses.

• Herb Lee : Why isn't he a regular fellow, Bill? He's had every chance to be since he was knee-high to a grasshopper. Boys camps, boarding schools. I've always seen to it that he was associated with regular guys. Why doesn't some of it rub off?

  Laura Reynolds : Mr. Lee. Mr. Lee, perhaps I'm not the one to say this, but I think he is a regular fellow, whatever that is.

  Herb Lee : You're being very generous to say that, Laura, but - well, it just doesn't jive with the facts.

• Herb Lee : He makes it so difficult for me. My associates ask me what he wants to be, and I have to tell them that - he hasn't made up his mind. Because I just won't tell them that he wants to be a - a folk singer.

• Herb Lee : I don't like my son being called, "Sister Boy".

• Herb Lee : I suppose it is hard for a woman to understand, but believe me, Laura, in years to come, it'll be just another amusing smoking-car story.