Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

Daliah Lavi: Veronica

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Quotes 

• Jack Andrus : What's your name?

  Veronica : Veronica.

  Jack Andrus : Veronica what?

  Veronica : Veronica What's-the-difference.

• Jack Andrus : [looks approvingly at a bottle of wine]  "Vin Nobile."

  Veronica : From Siena. You like it?

  Jack Andrus : Very much. And I like you very much.

• Veronica : When you were a star... there in Hollywood... before Carlotta... did you have a lot of girls? Girls like me?

  Jack Andrus : Not as many as I should have. Certainly not as many as they said I had.

  Veronica : What were you like then?

  Jack Andrus : Lonely

  Veronica : So famous... and alone.

  Jack Andrus : Everybody's alone - actors more so.

  Veronica : Then why would anyone want to be an actor?

  Jack Andrus : That's a good question.

  [laughs] 

  Veronica : Why?

  Jack Andrus : To hide from the world.

• Veronica : Everybody likes to hide once in a while.

  Jack Andrus : Sure they do. Look at any movie theater. What's the audience doing there? Hiding in the dark, trading *their* problems for mine on the screen. Actors... what a job.

• Jack Andrus : You know, I used to get up at six o'clock in the morning, rush through my breakfast, jump in my car, race down to the studio, get into wardrobe, makeup, get up on that stage, and then at 9 o'clock in the morning, invent the telephone, win the West, sway juries, make love to the most beautiful women in the world, hour after hour after hour.

  [Veronica laughs] 

  Jack Andrus : I thought I had it made. Then, zoom... I was a star. Big business! Hide from the world. They were ramming it right up my gut. Lawyers, agents, managers, partners... all grabbing, carving up my whole life. One day I looked at them all and I asked myself, "Who are these guys? What are they doing here? What do they want from me?" Then the second question you ask is... who *you* really are. Well, are you the face on the billboard, smeared with lipstick kisses from shrieking high school kids? The face that barflies all want to take a poke at to see if you're as tough as the roles you play in the movies. Is that you? Or are you the face you see in the mirror? The face of the guy you've been hiding all your life. So, I started running, living in a crowd, balling it, lots of laughs, lots of kicks. Through it all, Carlotta. I kept running faster and faster. And suddenly... dead ahead of me... there was a wall...

  Veronica : Is there an answer? Does any actor find it?

  Jack Andrus : Some do. Eh, that I don't have to worry about any more. That's for the Davie Drews.

  Veronica : What will you do from now on?

  Jack Andrus : Finish this job for Kruger.

  Veronica : And then?

  Jack Andrus : Live the future one day at a time. See what happens.