The Misfits (1961)

Eli Wallach: Guido Delinni

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• Guido : Have you ever been outside Reno, Ms. Taber?

  Roslyn : Once I walked to the edge of town; doesn't look like there's much out there.

  Gay : Everything's there!

  Roslyn : Like what?

  Gay : The country!

  Roslyn : Well, what do you do with yourself?

  Gay : Just live.

  Roslyn : How does anyone "just live"?

  Gay : Well, you start by going to sleep. You get up when you feel like it. You scratch yourself. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is; throw stones at a can, whistle.

• Guido : She wasn't like any other woman. Stood by me 100%, uncomplaining as a tree.

  Roslyn : Maybe that's what killed her.

• Guido : You have the gift for life, Roslyn. The rest of us, we're just looking for a place to hide and watch it all go by.

• Roslyn : [to Guido, who is driving drunkenly at breakneck speed]  Please, Guido! Don't kill us!

  Guido : How do you get to know somebody, kid? I can't make a landing, and I... can't get up to God, either. Help me. I never said "help me" in my life. I don't know anybody. So how do I land, honey? Will you give me a little time? Say yes.

  [Sourly] 

  Guido : At least say, "Hello, Guido".

  Roslyn : [Nervously]  Yes, Guido. Hello, Guido.

  Guido : [a pause between the two]  Hello, Roslyn.

• Guido : [drunk]  We're all blind bombardiers, Roslyn. We kill people we never even saw. I bombed nine cities. I sure must have broken a lot of dishes, but I never saw them. You think of all the puppy dogs and mail carriers, eyeglasses, must've gone up. Boy, you know droppin' a bomb is like tellin' a lie.

• Guido : Listen, do you want me to stop this? I know how you feel, Roslyn. I never liked this part myself. Truthfully, the only part I enjoyed is the flying. You want me to stop it?

  Roslyn : You would?

  Guido : You're through with Gay now, right? Well, tell me. He doesn't know what you're all about. He'll never know. Tell me, Roslyn. I been waitin'. I'm goin' out of my mind with waitin'. Come back with me. Give me a week, two weeks. Let me show you what I am. Tell me, Roslyn. Give me a reason and I'll stop it. There'll be hell to pay, but give me a reason and I'll do it.

  Roslyn : A reason? You, a sensitive fellow. So sad for his wife. Crying about the bombs you dropped and the people you killed. You have to get something to be human? You never felt anything for anybody in your life. All you know is the sad words. You could blow up the world, and all you'd feel is sorry for yourself!

• Guido : She's crazy. They're all crazy. You try not to believe it because you need them. She's crazy. You struggle, you build, you try, you turn yourself inside out for 'em, but its never enough. So they put the spurs to you - I know, I got the marks. I know this racket, I just forgot what I knew for a while.

• Guido : What kind of dancin' you do?

  Roslyn : Oh, interpretive dancing. You know, nightclubs and that sort of thing.

  Perce : I was in a nightclub once. I was in a nightclub in Kansas City called: The Naked Truth. And they wasn't kiddin'!

• Roslyn : That star is so far away, that by the time the light from it reaches us here on Earth, it might not even be up there anymore.

  Perce : Boy, you sure know a lot, don't you, pilot?

  Guido : Astronomy is in all the library books, Perce. Nothin' to it but readin'.

  Roslyn : Still, it's wonderful to know things.

  Guido : Knowing things don't matter much. You got somethin' a lot more important.

  Roslyn : What?

  Guido : You care. Whatever happens to anybody, it happens to you. You're really hooked into the whole thing, Roslyn. It's a blessing.

  Roslyn : People say I'm just nervous.

• Gay : What's eatin' you?

  Guido : Just my life.

• Guido : Boy, am I in the right place?

  Roslyn : Have you seen the vegetable garden? It took Gay about a week just to get the soil turned over.

  Gay : Yeah, I moved the grass. Sprayed them flowers too. Oh, I got your windows unstuck. Fireplace don't smoke anymore.

  Guido : Roslyn, you must be a magician. The only thing this boy ever did for a woman was get out the ice cubes.

• Guido : I just met me a girl sweet enough to eat, Gay. Fine lookin' woman. Only trouble is, when I think of the useless talkin' you gotta do, I get discouraged.

• Guido : She's kinda hard to figure out, you know. One minute she looks kinda dumb, brand new like a kid. And the next minute - she sure moves though, don't she?

  Gay : Mmm. She's real prime.

• [first lines] 

  Isabelle Steers : Young man, do you have the time? I got six clocks in the house and none of them work.

  Guido : Twenty after nine.

  Isabelle Steers : After? It's twenty after, dear. Dahlin'. Five minutes.

  Roslyn : What about you?

  Isabelle Steers : I'm all set, I just tyin' my sling. The lawyer said nine thirty sharp, dahlin'.

  Roslyn : Okay.

• Guido : Listen, now, if you're not going back East right away, I'd be glad to take you out and show you the country. Beautiful country around here, you know.

  Roslyn : Well, I don't know were I'll be, but, okay. Thanks, again.

  Isabelle Steers : My name is Isabelle Steers.

  Guido : Isabelle. Well, okay, you come along too.

  Isabelle Steers : That's a sweet afterthought. You Reno men!

• Guido : Which one was that?

  Gay : Susan. Swell sport, that woman.