Friends (1971)
Sean Bury: Paul Harrison
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Quotes
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Paul Harrison : Oh, I forgot, you are only fourteen.
Michelle Latour : Fourteen and a 'alf-f-f!
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Michelle Latour : [Paul is driving Michelle in car. He is underage] Where do you get them?
Paul Harrison : What?
Michelle Latour : The cars!
Paul Harrison : I steal them.
Michelle Latour : Stop it, Paul. Let's go back! You'll get into trouble.
Paul Harrison : I'm always in trouble; I'm thinking of taking it up professionally.
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Paul Harrison : [after having sex the night before] Michelle...
Michelle Latour : [Michelle is fishing in the pond near their cottage while Paul is smoking a pipe] Sh-h-h.
Paul Harrison : Michelle, last night...
Michelle Latour : Sh-h-h.
Paul Harrison : What if you find you're going to have a baby?
Michelle Latour : I am going to have a baby.
Paul Harrison : What?
Michelle Latour : Sh-h-h. Of course I am.
Paul Harrison : But you can't be sure? I mean it doesn't always happen... not every time.
Michelle Latour : Well, it 'appened this time.
Paul Harrison : But how do you know?
Michelle Latour : I know, that's all...
Michelle Latour : [Michelle asks Paul inquisitively] You don't mind, do you?
Paul Harrison : I don't know. Well, do you?
Michelle Latour : It's the most wonderful thing that has ever 'appened to me.
Paul Harrison : Is it?
Michelle Latour : Of course it is. You... and me and a baby. What could be better than that? Can you think of anything better?
Paul Harrison : No, I can't. You're right! It's wonderful. It's ours!
Michelle Latour : I always wanted a real baby.
Paul Harrison : ...a real baby.
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Michelle Latour : [Michelle is in labor] 'elp me, 'elp me, I can't do it!
Paul Harrison : I'm going for help! I'm going to fetch help!
Michelle Latour : It's coming down! Paul, where are you? Vite! Where are you going?
Paul Harrison : No where. Are you alright?
Michelle Latour : Of course I am.
Michelle Latour : [Michelle looks straight at Paul who is beside her] You're at the wrong end...
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[the final farewell - the Police are awaiting Paul's arrival to pick him up at his work place]
Paul Harrison : Bye-bye Sylvie.
Michelle Latour : Bye-bye.
Paul Harrison : See you tonight.
Michelle Latour : Say goodbye to Daddy.
Michelle Latour : [Michelle turns her attention from Sylvie to Paul] Bye-bye, you seelly bahstard.
Song lyrics : [Elton John begins to sing as Michelle waves with her tiny fingers at Paul. Paul does cartwheels as he heads to work...] Out there there's not a sound to be heard, / And the seasons seem to sleep upon their words, / As the waters freeze up with the summer's end. / Oh, it's funny how young lovers start as friends. / Yes, it's funny how young lovers start as friends.
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Lady in Bookstore : And what did you get for yourself? A nice adventure story?
Lady in Bookstore : [Paul shows her the book he's buying, titled, "A Baby is Born"] OH! But at your age?
Paul Harrison : If you must know, it is for my sister.
Lady in Bookstore : [looking relieved] Oh, how old is your sister?
Paul Harrison : Seven.
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Michelle Latour : Tell me about your father.
Paul Harrison : I don't want to talk about him.
Michelle Latour : Why not?
Paul Harrison : Oh, he's such a silly bastard.
Michelle Latour : What does that mean: "seelly bahstard"?
Paul Harrison : Just a fool.
Michelle Latour : A fool!
Paul Harrison : Un idiot. Let's sit.
Michelle Latour : "Seelly bahstard." Is that right?
Paul Harrison : Near enough.
Michelle Latour : I want to learn good Engleesh. You will teach me some more?
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Paul Harrison : [Paul recites a poem by Richard Le Gallienne as the couple walks through the woods] I meant to do my work today, / but a brown bird sang in the apple tree...
Michelle Latour : I know that one, too!
Paul Harrison : / And a butterfly flitted across the field...
Michelle Latour : / And all the leaves were calling me.
Paul Harrison : / And the buttercups nodded their smiling heads, / Greeting the bees who came to call, / And I asked the lizard the time of day, / As he sunned himself on a moss-grown wall. / And the wind went sighing over the land, / Tossing the grasses to and fro, / And a rainbow held out its shining hand - / So what could I do but laugh and go?
Michelle Latour : [Paul and Michelle sitting down in a field of flowers] My mother died when I was born. / I lived with my father on our own, / And we had a cottage where we'd go, / And he died too. / Now I am alone.
Michelle Latour : [pause] That's a poem, too. I made it up, but it's true. Now it's your turn.
Paul Harrison : My mother's run way. / My father has a lot of money. That's all.
Paul Harrison : [Paul picks a yellow flower and gives it to Michelle] Poor Michelle.
Michelle Latour : Poor Paul... rich Paul... poor little rich boy!
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Paul Harrison : [Paul and Michelle finish filling the bathtub for Michelle's bath] Enough?
Michelle Latour : Yes, Son.
Paul Harrison : [Michelle undresses to her bra and panties] Alright, you can get in now. Go on, get in.
Michelle Latour : Go and put some wood in the stove please.
[Paul leaves or so it seems while Michelle blows out the lamp on the mantle and takes off the rest of her clothes - Paul has been watching her undress all along - Michelle is blushing and embarrassed and shakes her head]
Michelle Latour : Seelly bahstard.
Paul Harrison : Nice and hot?
Michelle Latour : Yes, Son.
Paul Harrison : [Paul has brought in a giant scrub brush] Right. Now, it's my turn.
Michelle Latour : [Paul starts scrubbing Michelle's back very energetically] Paul! Stop Paul, your 'urting me! Stop, please.
Paul Harrison : Alright.
[Paul begins to soap Michelle's back with his hands - It brings out feelings in Michelle that she can't quite fathom - Paul is experiencing something, too]
Paul Harrison : That better?
Michelle Latour : That's enough...
[Paul is holding the scrub brush in his hand and starts blowing lots of bubbles over Michelle in the bathtub - innocence is restored... the scene ends in a very charmingly sweet way]
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Michelle Latour : [Michelle is having her baby] Come on baby...
[Michelle pushes hard]
Michelle Latour : Come on, you seelly bahstard.
[she pushes again]
Michelle Latour : Being bloody difficult.
Paul Harrison : I can see him. I can see his head. He's coming. I've got him. He's out! He's enormous.
Michelle Latour : Paul, is he a boy?
Paul Harrison : I don't know.
Michelle Latour : Well, look!
Paul Harrison : He's a girl!
Michelle Latour : I always wanted a girl.
Paul Harrison : So did I...
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Michelle Latour : [Michelle sees her baby for the first time] Why is she crying?
Paul Harrison : I don't know. She's just lying there.
Michelle Latour : Please show her to me. Is she beautiful?
Paul Harrison : I don't know.
[Paul gives the baby to Michelle]
Paul Harrison : Is she pretty?
Paul Harrison : [Michelle is smiling ear to ear] She's beautiful... She's so beautiful.
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Paul Harrison : [Paul and Michelle in bed conversing with one another] I've been thinking... we have to find a hospital where you're not known.
Michelle Latour : 'ospital?
Paul Harrison : To have the baby...
Michelle Latour : I'm not going to 'ospital.
Paul Harrison : But you can't have it here.
Michelle Latour : Why not?
Paul Harrison : The Doctor would find out about us!
Michelle Latour : Paul... You don't need a doctor to have a baby.
Paul Harrison : What?
Michelle Latour : Sometime a midwife come, but if not, well... you just 'ave it.
Paul Harrison : But you can't have a baby just like that, without anyone to help you... can you?
Michelle Latour : I think so. Anyway, you'll be 'ere... so you can 'elp me.
Paul Harrison : Me-e-e!
Michelle Latour : Why not!
Paul Harrison : I don't know anything about having babies!
Michelle Latour : You'll 'ave to find out then, won't you?
Paul Harrison : Michelle, something might go wrong.
Michelle Latour : Nothing will go wrong.
Paul Harrison : But it might... you said your Mother died when you were born.
Michelle Latour : That was différent! She was quite old. She was 28!
Paul Harrison : Oh...
Michelle Latour : [Paul kisses Michelle] And you can't do that anymore.
Paul Harrison : I wasn't going to!
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Michelle Latour : [Paul and Michelle have finished filling a steel bathtub with buckets of hot water from the fireplace - Paul is wearing nothing but his undershorts] Alright, you can get in now. Get in.
Paul Harrison : [Paul wants Michelle to leave the room] Would you go and fetch me the soap?
[Michelle goes, Paul undresses, backs into the bathtub. Michelle returns with a scrub brush and a bar of soap to bathe him]
Paul Harrison : I can do that.
Michelle Latour : No you can't.
Paul Harrison : [Michelle scrubs Paul's back vigorously] Hey, steady on.
Michelle Latour : You've got to be clean!
Paul Harrison : I'll be raw!
[Michelle accidentally drops the soap into the tub. Looking upward towards the ceiling with a visage of determination, Michelle industriously starts to hunt for the soap]
Paul Harrison : I'll find it!
[starts scrubbing Paul's chest]
Paul Harrison : I can do the rest. Will you go and fetch me a towel, please?
Michelle Latour : [Michelle gets up and starts to leave the room] B-a-b-y!
Paul Harrison : Then it will be your turn.
Michelle Latour : [Michelle has a look of shock on her face] What!
Paul Harrison : I'm good at scrubbing, too, you know.
[Paul smiles at Michelle; Michelle manages to smile back at him]