Indiscreet (1958)

Phyllis Calvert: Mrs. Margaret Munson

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• Mrs. Margaret Munson : We're all overwrought now. We're not thinking clearly.

  Anna Kalman : Well, I am thinking clearly!

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : No, you're not. You have the feeling that you're a wronged woman.

  Anna Kalman : I am a wronged woman!

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Well, you know what I mean.

  Anna Kalman : Well, You know what I mean. I'm the wrongedest woman you ever saw and Im going to pay him back with interest - two or three thousand per cent of interest.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : Now, do we have to go to this silly old dinner? The speaker will bore us and they won't miss us.

  Alfred Munson : Well, they'd miss him, my dear - he's the speaker.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : This happens to me all the time!

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : Come along with us. Come on, you'll feel much better in a girdle.

• Anna Kalman : I am over 21.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Are you doing the right thing?

  Anna Kalman : I don't know. I have no choice. I did have in the beginning; but, not now.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : I don't know what you expect from a man. You know there's a limit to how entertaining they can be.

  Anna Kalman : Well, they ought to be able to talk a little, simple sentences.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : You told me that he was good-looking and that he danced beautifully. That's all a woman's entitled to. You can always read a good book.

  Anna Kalman : Dear little sister, go wash your mind with soap.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : Now, what's wrong with you? You planned to be away for the whole winter and here you are, back again after 10 days.

  Anna Kalman : I didn't find it interesting.

  Anna Kalman : Is it possible that the trouble isn't with Majorca?

  Anna Kalman : Possible.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : What happened to the colonel That you wrote to me about in your letter? The one who looked like a Greek statue.

  Anna Kalman : He talked like a Greek statue. I don't think he knew more than a dozen words. Scotch and soda and one or two more.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : You were impressed with him when you first met him.

  Anna Kalman : I hadn't heard the dozen words.

• Anna Kalman : This is a side of you I've never seen before. A sort of maternal white slaver.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : I'm not sympathetic. You've plenty of beaus. You're beautiful, talented, and famous. You're an actress who's the envy of everyone who knows you.

  Anna Kalman : But then they don't know me.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : Alfred, it might be better if I stayed behind with Anna. She's acting so gay.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : Oh, she needs coaxing. You coax her.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : [after being introduced to Philip Adams]  Who in heaven's name is that?

  Alfred Munson : Stop breathing so hard.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Oh, I didn't know it showed. Who is he? What is he? And speak slowly.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : All these years married and never once. And now I have a confession to make. At dinner, I thought he was pressing his knee against mine. It turned out to be a table leg. I was disappointed.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : Well, what about this Mr. Adams?

  Alfred Munson : What do you want to know?

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Everything. And I mean, everything.

  Alfred Munson : Well, I don't think he's romantically attached - which is what you're hinting.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : I'm not hinting, I'm *asking*.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : Stop playing games. Don't tell me you don't like this one. Why, he talks, and everything!

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : I'm just curious to know what you did with your day apart from rehearsing.

  Anna Kalman : Well, if you're interested, I get up in the morning and I brush my teeth, And then I have breakfast. Then, I read the morning paper.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : What about Mr. Philip Adams?

  Anna Kalman : What about him?

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Mr. Adams was here last weekend, And he's taken a permanent suite one floor below you.

  Anna Kalman : How do you know?

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Alfred.

  Anna Kalman : You mean, Philip told Alfred he was here?

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Not Philip. Scotland Yard.

  Anna Kalman : Scotland Yard?

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Scotland Yard doesn't allow new members of NATO to wander around without knowing where they go.

  Anna Kalman : Oh, for heaven sakes. Anything else they know?

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Everything else they know. You can take my word for it.

  Anna Kalman : Well, the country's come to a fine state: Peeping Toms. Spying.

• Alfred Munson : Did Philip ask you to come to New York?

  Anna Kalman : Oh, Philip? Oh, no, he'd never. He'd be too concerned about my reputation. He's the most considerate, unselfish, honorable man that ever lived.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Oh, I'm burning candles for him.

• Alfred Munson : You know, when you come to think of it, it's all very strange. It was perfectly all right when he was married, when you'd think that it wouldn't be. And now that we know that he's single, when it should be all right, if you know what I mean, well, it isn't. Do you follow me?

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : No, I don't follow you.

• Alfred Munson : Oh, you haven't got a gun, have you?

  Anna Kalman : Shooting is too good for him.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : That's how I like to hear you talk. No violence.

• Alfred Munson : Did you see all that signaling in the elevator?

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Wigwagging over our heads.

• Alfred Munson : [phone rings]  Philip. He wants to know if we're out and if the coast is clear.

  Mrs. Margaret Munson : Well, we're not and it isn't and its not going to be.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : Anna, I want to talk to you. I've known you ever since you were born and there's one thing about your character I don't admire: you go to extremes.

• Mrs. Margaret Munson : Why should we be embarrassed? He's the one sneaking up here.