Room at the Top (1958)

Simone Signoret: Alice Aisgill

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• Alice Aisgill : To think I ever let you touch me. Now listen, I own my own body and I'm not ashamed of it. And I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done.

• Joe Lampton : I hate you to put your clothes on.

  Alice Aisgill : It's very sweet of you honey, but I'm too old to walk about in my girdle.

• Joe Lampton : Alice, you're beautiful. I'd like a picture of you like that.

  Alice Aisgill : There is a picture of me in the nude - somewhere.

  Joe Lampton : You're joking.

  Alice Aisgill : No, there really is. I was in the university at that time. And I met an artist at a party. He wanted a model. I don't suppose it was even a good painting.

• Joe Lampton : Why? Why did have to do it? There are a millions of women, a lot poorer than you in the world, who'd rather die than expose themselves for a few lousy rotten shillings. Damn you to hell, I feel like, like to beat you black and blue.

  Alice Aisgill : What's it got to do with you? It was long before I met you. I must remember your beasty little provincial mind doesn't like nudity.

  Joe Lampton : You stupid bitch, it isn't that at all! Don't you see that it's the idea of other people looking at you nakedness that I hate, it's indecent, don't you see?

• Alice Aisgill : [to George, her husband]  I think you know everybody, don't you?

  George Aisgill : [looking at everyone seated next to Alice]  Yes, I think so.

  Alice Aisgill : [pointing in Joe's direction, he who is standing to the other side]  No, of course, this is Joe Lampton, my lover in the play.

  George Aisgill : [snidely]  The war hero. Well, I'm always glad to meet one of Alice's lovers.

• Alice Aisgill : That's a wonderful thought. Erotic vice among the working class.

• Joe Lampton : Will you come and have a coffee with me?

  Alice Aisgill : No. But you may buy me a drink.

• Alice Aisgill : You're very touchy, aren't you?

• Alice Aisgill : I'd like to go to Sparrow Hill.

  Joe Lampton : It's cold up there.

  Alice Aisgill : That's what I want. Somewhere cold and clean. With no people, no dirty people.

• Alice Aisgill : Poor Elspeth. She lends us her flat - and we pinch all her food.

• Alice Aisgill : That's what you like, isn't it? Leg show and lingerie. It's indecent for me to pose for an artist who sees me as an arrangement of lines and color; but, it's perfectly okay for you to kiss me all over and lay for an hour just looking at me! I suppose it gives you a thrill. A dirty little thrill. I suppose you see me as your own private dirty postcard. You can't imagine that a man could look at a naked woman without wanting to make love to her! Can you?

• Charles Soames : This is only the beginning.

  Alice Aisgill : Please walk away now, darling. Walk away, don't look back. Think of me.

• Alice Aisgill : Oh, to hell with you! You think our love is just like a - layer of dirt, that I can wash it off? I believe in our love. What else have I got? It's all I have to believe in.