An Affair to Remember (1957)

Cary Grant: Nickie Ferrante

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• Terry McKay : Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. We've already missed the Spring.

  Nickie Ferrante : Yes. This is probably my last chance.

  Terry McKay : Mine too.

• Terry McKay : What makes life so difficult?

  Nickie Ferrante : People?

• Terry McKay : You name the place and I'll obey.

  [curtsy] 

  Nickie Ferrante : I don't know. I can't think. How about the top of the Empire State Building?

  Terry McKay : Oh, yes! That's perfect. It's the nearest thing to heaven we have in New York.

  Nickie Ferrante : 102nd floor. And don't forget to take the elevator.

• [last lines] 

  Terry McKay : Oh darling. Don't - don't worry darling. If - if you can paint, I can walk. Anything can happen, don't you think?

  Nickie Ferrante : Yes, darling. Yes, yes, yes.

• Nickie Ferrante : I'll just take my ego for a walk.

• Nickie Ferrante : I thought everything was fine until I saw you last night. Then I knew there must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.

• Nickie Ferrante : But you have such an honest face.

  Terry McKay : I have?

  Nickie Ferrante : I can trust you can't I?

  Terry McKay : Yes, I suppose so.

  Nickie Ferrante : Good, come with me.

  Terry McKay : Yes, but the Captain has an honest face too! Why can't you tell him your troubles?

• Interviewer : I'm sure you had some wonderful experiences in Europe.

  Nickie Ferrante : Yes.

  Interviewer : Would you care to expand on that statement?

  Nickie Ferrante : No.

• Robert Q. Lewis - Announcer : Now then, one thing - watch the camera. When the red light is on, you're on.

  Nickie Ferrante : Yeah? Well, it's on.

• Terry McKay : My father drank beer. In the morning.

  Nickie Ferrante : He was a beer drinker?

  Terry McKay : Later in the day, he drank anything.

• Nickie Ferrante : [opening his cigarette case]  You don't happened to have match?

  Terry McKay : You could light it from that inscription, couldn't you?

• Nickie Ferrante : Tell me. Did you write the song "I'll Never Smile Again"?

  Terry McKay : [laughs]  No. But I'm thinking of writing one called "Moon Over La Gabriella." Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?

  [Shakes her head] 

  Terry McKay : .

• Terry McKay : We were talking about the place where I was born...

  Nickie Ferrante : I can hardly wait for you to grow up.

• Gabriella : [on the phone]  You beast.

  Nickie Ferrante : Hello, Gabriella.

  Gabriella : .Hello, Gabriella? Don't you talk to me.

  Nickie Ferrante : Don't talk to you - well, then why did you call me?

• Nickie Ferrante : Oh, you know, this couldn't be nicer. You saved my life. I was bored to death. I hadn't seen one attractive woman on this ship since we left. Now, isn't that terrible? I was alarmed. I said to myself, "Don't beautiful women travel any more?" And then I saw you. And I was saved. I hope.

  Terry McKay : Tell me. Have you been getting results with a line like that? Or would I be surprised?

  Nickie Ferrante : If you were surprised, I'd be surprised.

• Nickie Ferrante : I'm in trouble - serious trouble.

  Terry McKay : Well, I could've told you. Playing around yachts - the poor thing.

• Nickie Ferrante : I must talk with someone.

  Terry McKay : Well, I'm not very good at that sort of thing. I talk a lot. I've tried to break myself of the habit.

• Ned Hathaway : I was wondering if you'd care to join my wife, my sister, and me in a game of bridge.

  Nickie Ferrante : Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Hathaway, but I cheat. It's an addiction.

• Nickie Ferrante : I beg your pardon, I, I think you have my cigarette case.

  Terry McKay : I might as well confess. I am a jewel thief.

• Terry McKay : Does your fiancée know the lady of the yacht...

  Terry McKay , Nickie Ferrante : Gabriella?

  Nickie Ferrante : Well, certainly. She's her best friend.

  Terry McKay : Chummy little group.

• Terry McKay : And when you were little, what did your nurse read to you at bedtime?

  Nickie Ferrante : Well, let me see.

  Terry McKay : The memoirs of Casanova?

  Nickie Ferrante : Every night. And then we'd turn out the light.

  Terry McKay : "We"?

  Nickie Ferrante : I was only so big.

  Terry McKay : You must have had a happy childhood.

• Terry McKay : And women...

  Nickie Ferrante : Oh, women.

  Terry McKay : You've known quite a few, haven't you?

  Nickie Ferrante : Oh, I don't know.

  Terry McKay : Or, perhaps "few" is the wrong word.

  Nickie Ferrante : Well, let's say it's not precise.

• Nickie Ferrante : I idealize them. Every woman I meet, I put up there. Of course, the longer I know her, and the better I know her...

  Terry McKay : Yes. It's hard to keep them up there, isn't it?

  Nickie Ferrante : Yes, isn't it.

  Terry McKay : Pretty soon, the pedestal wobbles and then - topples.

• Terry McKay : I grew up - quickly. Then, I went to New York and I got a job singing in a nightclub from ten to three in the morning. And the manager used to chase me round the office until four, and then - I went home.

  Nickie Ferrante : Did he ever...

  Terry McKay : Oh, no, no.

• Nickie Ferrante : We've created a problem.

  Terry McKay : Yes, I know, so let's not complicate it any more. Being a woman, I'm more cautious and I can think more clearly when you're not around. So you go think in your room, and I'll think in mine.

• Terry McKay : Don't tell me you're the famous - oh, I have read so much about you in "Life" and "Look" and...

  Nickie Ferrante : Possibly "Good Housekeeping"?

• Terry McKay : He had to go to Texas on a big merger.

  Nickie Ferrante : Ah, yes.

  Terry McKay : He thought it'd be a good idea if I took a little trip while he consummated this big deal, because I have no head for business. It's beyond me how the more money a corporation loses, the more it makes, because of the carry-overs with the write-offs.

  Nickie Ferrante : Oh, yes. Yes.

  Terry McKay : The big secret seems to be to merge a sick corporation with a big, fat healthy one, and then everybody gets well.

  Nickie Ferrante : Silly, isn't it?

  Terry McKay : He doesn't think I'm dumb, but he doesn't think I'm very bright - about things like that.

  Nickie Ferrante : Well, it isn't necessary, is it?

  Terry McKay : Thank you.

• Nickie Ferrante : This ship is going much too fast. We ought to take advantage of every moment. Don't you think that life should be gay and bright and bubbly, like champagne?

  Terry McKay : I like pink champagne.

  Nickie Ferrante : Yes, that's the kind I mean. Pink champagne. Now, is there any reason why from now on this trip shouldn't be pink champagne?

• Boy - Age 5 : Everybody on the ship's talkin' about ya.

  Nickie Ferrante : No kidding. What are they saying?

  Boy - Age 5 : I don't know, on account every time they start talkin' about you, they make me leave the room. I don't get it.

• Terry McKay : Well, that sort of brings us up to date. Now my life is an open book.

  Nickie Ferrante : Now, that's only one page.

• Nickie Ferrante : You've been crying?

  Terry McKay : Beauty does that to me.

• Terry McKay : Let's get some air.

  Nickie Ferrante : Come on. I'll show you the rudder.

  Terry McKay : Where is it?

  Nickie Ferrante : Aft.

• Terry McKay : We're heading into a rough sea, Nickie.

  Nickie Ferrante : I know. We changed our course today.

• Terry McKay : [singing]  Can't you think of something spiteful? Something mean that you could do

  Nickie Ferrante : Must you be so darn delightful?

  Terry McKay , Nickie Ferrante : You make it easy to be true...

• Terry McKay , Nickie Ferrante : [singing]  Day by day I'm growing fonder, Of those tender things you do...

• Nickie Ferrante : It's now or never.

  Terry McKay : Never is a frightening word.

• Nickie Ferrante : We'd be fools to let happiness pass us by.

• Terry McKay : You can't go on like that. It isn't right for you. I wish I could say you were wrong.

  Nickie Ferrante : I was, once.

• Nickie Ferrante : Then what did you say to yourself?

  Terry McKay : Oh, then I said "Oh, go on home and get tight."

  Nickie Ferrante : But you didn't do that.

  Terry McKay : Didn't I?

  Nickie Ferrante : No. Well, maybe just a little one, every hour, for about a month.

• Nickie Ferrante : Courbet said she wanted it so badly and - so I told him to give it to her. You know, it's the Christmas season and all that. And you know me, holly in my heart.