Romance on the High Seas (1948)

Oscar Levant: Oscar Farrar

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Quotes 

• Georgia Garrett : You don't know what it's like to want someone and not be able to do anything about it.

  Oscar Farrar : Don't I? Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to bury myself in my work.

  [plays piano] 

  Georgia Garrett : Is that your Brooklyn Rhapsody?

  Oscar Farrar : Who said anything about Brooklyn? It's now called the Caribbean Rhapsody. I'm very adaptable.

  Georgia Garrett : Have you finished it yet?

  Oscar Farrar : I don't want to finish it. People will like it. They'll make a big fuss over me, I'll have no time for myself, I'll be the toast of the town, and then what happens to that sweet boy you and I both love?

  Georgia Garrett : Aren't you being modest? I have confidence in you, Oscar.

  Oscar Farrar : Everybody has confidence in me. That's my trouble. In high school I was voted the boy most likely to succeed. In college they said I had a brilliant future.

  [pause] 

  Oscar Farrar : I wonder whatever became of me.

• Plinio : I'm spending a fortune to redecorate this place so I can reopen in time for Carnival. To get my investment back I need an attraction, a real attraction. I need someone with a name!

  Oscar Farrar : Whaddya think my mother gave me, a number?

• Georgia Garrett : Oscar! How did you get on this boat?

  Oscar Farrar : I lied about my age.

• Oscar Farrar : Incidentally, I picked up your last two paychecks. It was barely enough to pay for my plane ticket down here. Didn't even leave me enough to buy you a present! I feel like a cad.

  Georgia Garrett : You crook. You can go to jail for that.

  Oscar Farrar : Marry me and you won't have to testify against me.

• Oscar Farrar : I always wanted to marry a gal who could tune a piano on the side. Once and for all, will you marry me? Answer yes or no.

  Georgia Garrett : No!

  Oscar Farrar : We'll continue this discussion later.

• Georgia Garrett : Oscar! Aren't you going to kiss me?

  Oscar Farrar : I don't know how. Will you show me?

  [she kisses his cheek] 

  Oscar Farrar : You don't know how either!

• Oscar Farrar : Listen, I didn't come all this way and spend all your money to pretend I didn't know you.

• Oscar Farrar : I know you're phony and I don't hate ya.

• Georgia Garrett : I'm in love.

  Oscar Farrar : With me?

  Georgia Garrett : No, not with you.

  Oscar Farrar : Short romance.

• Oscar Farrar : I have all the seductive powers of a sedative. You chooch.

• Peter Virgil : Who was it, said you can't live with them or without them?

  Oscar Farrar : Probably the same guy who said more truth than poetry and I wouldn't care to meet either of them.

  Peter Virgil : The cause of all human suffering, you know.

  Oscar Farrar : To think that we gave up a perfectly good rib.

  Peter Virgil : And not that they appreciate it.

• Oscar Farrar : Do you get the feeling you're growing away from me?

  Georgia Garrett : You're a peach.

• Peter Virgil : Is yours a blonde too?

  Oscar Farrar : This season. I've loved her as a brunette, a brownette and a redhead. A little peroxide will never come between us.

  Peter Virgil : Speaking about figures, curves...

  Oscar Farrar : Curves?

  Peter Virgil : When you put your arm around her waist, you gotta go into second.

  Oscar Farrar : What color are her eyes?

  Peter Virgil : Well, I never could tell. Every time I look into them I get dizzy.

  Oscar Farrar : My experience, exactly.

  Peter Virgil : Hey, we could be talking about the same girl.

• Oscar Farrar : Take it from me, that girl has all sorts of talent.

• Georgia Garrett : Oscar, What are we gonna do now? He's sure to find out.

  Oscar Farrar : First put on some decent clothes. I'll start packing.

  Uncle Lazlo Lazlo : [starts unbuttoning Georgia's housecoat]  That's right. I - I will help you, darling. Come, come.

  Georgia Garrett : Mr. Lazlo!

  Uncle Lazlo Lazlo : I take off my glasses. Come, come.

• Oscar Farrar : My goodness, it's getting so that a man isn't safe around here at Carnival time.

• Georgia Garrett : I have confidence in you Oscar.

  Oscar Farrar : Everybody has confidence in me. That's my trouble. In high school, I was voted the boy most likely to succeed. In college, they said I had a brilliant future. I wonder what ever became of me.

• Oscar Farrar : Why don't you marry me so I can quit this job?

• Oscar Farrar : Marry me and get yourself a dependent. I'm deductible.

• Oscar Farrar : Why, once you go away, you cut down my list of friends a hundred percent.

• Oscar Farrar : [as their plane is about to land in Rio de Janeiro]  Did you ask for tickets to New York?

  Peter Virgil : I certainly did. In my best Spanish, too.

  Oscar Farrar : But the official language of Trinidad is English.

  Peter Virgil : Oh! Do you suppose that had anything to do with it?

• Oscar Farrar : Nobody would ever suspect you love music.

• Oscar Farrar : I know when I'm not wanted. It happens to me constantly.