Gaslight (1944)

Charles Boyer: Gregory Anton

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• Gregory Anton : I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to me.

  Brian Cameron : I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to her.

• Gregory Anton : You see how it is, Elizabeth.

  Elizabeth : I see *just* how it is, sir.

• Nancy Oliver : Gonna work on your tunes again tonight, sir? You're always working, aren't you?

  Gregory Anton : Yes. What are you doing with your evening out?

  Nancy Oliver : Oh, I'm going to a music hall...

  [starts to sing 'Up in a balloon'] 

  Gregory Anton : I've never been to an English music hall.

  Nancy Oliver : Oh, you don't know what you've missed, sir...

  Gregory Anton : And whom are you going to the music hall with?

  Nancy Oliver : A gentleman friend, sir.

  Gregory Anton : Oh, now you know, Nancy, don't you, that gentlemen friends are sometimes inclined to take liberties with young ladies.

  Nancy Oliver : Oh no, sir, not with me. I can take care of myself - when I want to.

  Gregory Anton : You know, Nancy, it strikes me that you're not at all the kind of girl that your mistress should have for a housemaid.

  Nancy Oliver : [flirtatiously]  No, sir? She's not the only one in the house - is she?

• Gregory Anton : I don't ask you to understand me. Between us all the time were those jewels, like a fire - a fire in my brain that separated us - those jewels which I wanted all my life. I don't know why... Goodbye, Paula.

• Gregory Anton : Jewels are wonderful things. They have a life of their own.

• Gregory Anton : For the last time, what do you want of me?

  Brian Cameron : The jewels - and justice. How does it feel, Bauer, to have planned and killed and tortured for something and then to know it's been for nothing?

  Gregory Anton : For nothing?

• [last lines] 

  Gregory Anton : You're not angry with me?

  Paula Alquist Anton : Angry? If you hadn't come, I should have sent for you.

  [long kiss and embrace] 

  Miss Thwaites : Well!

• Gregory Anton : That complexion of yours, that's something that's not quite true, either. Oh, you do it very cleverly, I grant you. In fact, I was wondering whether you might not care to pass some of your secrets on to your mistress and help her get rid of her pallor.

• Gregory Anton : Don't you think this is charming? It's from the new operetta at the Gaiety. I wish I could write tunes like Strauss.

• Gregory Anton : You'd better explain your business, sir.

  Brian Cameron : Well, as a mere figment, as a mere ghost existing in your wife's mind, I could hardly be said to have any business.

• Paula Alquist Anton : That house comes into my dreams sometimes - a house of horror. It's strange. I haven't dreamed of it since I've known you. I haven't been afraid since I've known you.

  Gregory Anton : Afraid?

  Paula Alquist Anton : Yes. For years I've been afraid of something nameless ever since she died. You've cast out fear for me.

• Gregory Anton : I hope you're not a flighty girl.

• Gregory Anton : Ring for the maid.

  Paula Alquist Anton : I can put it on myself.

  Gregory Anton : We've had this subject out before. Please, pull the bell cord.

  Paula Alquist Anton : It seems so unnecessary.

  Gregory Anton : What do you suppose the servants are for? Answer me. What do you suppose the servants are for?

  Paula Alquist Anton : To do things. To serve us, I suppose.

  Gregory Anton : Exactly.

• Paula Alquist Anton : Please don't leave me here all by myself now. I get so frightened when I am here alone and you go out night after night.

  Gregory Anton : Frightened? You never told me that before.

  Paula Alquist Anton : I'm telling you now! I'm frightened of the house! I hear noises and footsteps. I imagine things, that there are people over the house. I'm frightened of myself, too.

• Nancy Oliver : She's a tartar, ain't she?

  Gregory Anton : What do you mean by that?

  Nancy Oliver : Oh, you know, strict-like. I'm not gonna sleep in the same room with her.

• Gregory Anton : I'll have it mended. You better not wear it until I have. You might lose it. You know, you are inclined to lose things.

  Paula Alquist Anton : I am? I didn't realize that.

• Paula Alquist Anton : Suddenly, I am beginning not to trust my memory at all.

  Gregory Anton : I tell you, you're just tired, that's all. It doesn't mean anything.

• Gregory Anton : Are you becoming suspicious as well as absent-minded, Paula?

• Gregory Anton : It hurts me when you're ill and fanciful.

• Gregory Anton : You must get over this ridiculous fear of the servants.

• Nancy Oliver : She seems to be getting worse, doesn't she, sir?

  Gregory Anton : You will please not refer to your mistress as "she."

• Gregory Anton : If I could only get inside that brain of yours and understand what makes you do these crazy, twisted things.