Room at the Top (1958)
Laurence Harvey: Joe Lampton
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Quotes
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Joe Lampton : I'll tell you something, Alice. I like you, I don't mean sex, I mean "like you". I like to talk to you. I just - like you.
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Joe Lampton : I hate you to put your clothes on.
Alice Aisgill : It's very sweet of you honey, but I'm too old to walk about in my girdle.
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Joe Lampton : Alice, you're beautiful. I'd like a picture of you like that.
Alice Aisgill : There is a picture of me in the nude - somewhere.
Joe Lampton : You're joking.
Alice Aisgill : No, there really is. I was in the university at that time. And I met an artist at a party. He wanted a model. I don't suppose it was even a good painting.
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Joe Lampton : Why? Why did have to do it? There are a millions of women, a lot poorer than you in the world, who'd rather die than expose themselves for a few lousy rotten shillings. Damn you to hell, I feel like, like to beat you black and blue.
Alice Aisgill : What's it got to do with you? It was long before I met you. I must remember your beasty little provincial mind doesn't like nudity.
Joe Lampton : You stupid bitch, it isn't that at all! Don't you see that it's the idea of other people looking at you nakedness that I hate, it's indecent, don't you see?
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Mavis : And what do you really sell?
Joe Lampton : I told you, I specialize in ladies underwear.
Mavis : Ha, ha, ha! Oh, you're a devil.
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Charles Soames : It's not for you lad.
Joe Lampton : But I can look, can't I?
Charles Soames : Not with that you can. There's a law against undressing women in street.
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Charles Soames : Look Joe, there's the Top. That's where the money is. Lots of lovely houses up there, you know Joe.
Joe Lampton : I'll have one of those. I'm going to have the lot.
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Joe Lampton : By the way, what do you do for entertainment around here?
Charles Soames : Well, there are flicks of course.
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Teddy Merrick : Didn't you think she was a absolutely super, Joe?
Joe Lampton : Oh, absolutely super.
Teddy Merrick : I thought they were all absolutely super.
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Joe Lampton : It just so happens that I like her.
Charles Soames : You lust after her, you mean.
Joe Lampton : No. No-no. It's not that at all. Well, it's - partly that but not just that.
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Joe Lampton : Time I filled you in on the Lampton report on love. I 've got a full proof method for grading women. Partly money, partly background, partly J. Lampton's instinct. Now take Susan Brown.
Charles Soames : Are you offering her to me?
Joe Lampton : No, seriously, Susan is grade one on every account.
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Joe Lampton : Will you come and have a coffee with me?
Alice Aisgill : No. But you may buy me a drink.
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Joe Lampton : Susan, you're not only pretty, you're beautiful.
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Susan Brown : Tonight then.
Joe Lampton : Oh, tonight will do like no other night has ever done.
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Joe Lampton : You know, you're the sort of girl I like to take out.
Susan Brown : Why?
Joe Lampton : Well, there's you're shape and you're size and the sheen in your hair, a sort of light in your eyes. Oh but, the most important, because, I think you're a dear-keeper.
Susan Brown : A what?
Joe Lampton : A dear-keeper.
Susan Brown : What a lovely word! What does it mean?
Joe Lampton : My mother used to call me that every time I used to ask her for something that cost more than she could afford.
Susan Brown : I'd like to meet your mother, she sounds fun.
Joe Lampton : She's dead.
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Alice Aisgill : I'd like to go to Sparrow Hill.
Joe Lampton : It's cold up there.
Alice Aisgill : That's what I want. Somewhere cold and clean. With no people, no dirty people.
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Susan Brown : Joe, why didn't you write?
Joe Lampton : You didn't write either. Only postcards.
Susan Brown : I was waiting for you to write. A girl can't write first. She can't if she has any pride.
