Norwood (1970)

Tisha Sterling: Marie

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• Marie : [after Norwood read the contents of the canned meat he is eating]  I wish you hadn't read that.

  Norwood Pratt : Why?

  Marie : Well, sometimes its better not to know things.

  Norwood Pratt : It's all meat. Meat's meat. Did you ever eat any gopher brains?

  Marie : I hope not.

  Norwood Pratt : They're about like calf brains. Not really half bad if you don't think about it. The only bad part is crackin' them little skulls open.

• Norwood Pratt : I'm Norwood Pratt - from Ralph, Texas. And down there, people ask people to come in.

  Marie : Well, I've heard of Ralph. But, I've never heard of Texas.

• Norwood Pratt : You never did tell me your name.

  Marie : Marie.

  Norwood Pratt : Marie what?

  Marie : I don't believe in last names.

• Norwood Pratt : What do you not believe in most?

  Marie : Well, if you really want to know: sex.

  Norwood Pratt : Sex? What do you got against that?

  Marie : Sex - its like a common cold. If I see one more nude love scene in a film with all that rooting and grunting around, I'm going to throw up.

  Norwood Pratt : Huh, maybe you better not go to any more of them movin' picture shows, huh.

  Marie : Sex - its like housework. It never stays done.

• Marie : My daddy sends me a check every month. I'm a philosophy major at NYU. I don't go to classes much; because, I don't believe in philosophy.

• Norwood Pratt : Sounds like you knew old Joe William pretty well.

  Marie : Not as well as he wanted me to.

• Marie : Hey, this bathtub's too small for both of us!

  Norwood Pratt : Your daddy knew what he was talkin' about. A comb would do that mop of your's some good. That's a pair of dirty little feet there too. And my daddy always said there's nothin' like a nice long bath to make woman real giddy.

• Marie : Hey, Norwood, does that thing of yours play under water?

  Norwood Pratt : No, ma'am. But, I do.

• Marie : Men! They're all alike. Born with ideas and they'll die with it.

  Norwood Pratt : Women are different, huh?

  Marie : Well, this one is.

  Norwood Pratt : The only thing different about you is - you won't let on your the same. You're scared.

• Marie : My father, he said a lot. He said, "Comb your hair, Marie." "Fix yourself up a little, Marie." For what?

  Norwood Pratt : To hook yourself somebody.

  Marie : So, who needs somebody?

  Norwood Pratt : I'd say you do.