Valley of the Dolls (1967)

Paul Burke: Lyon Burke

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• Lyon Burke : Do you realize, Miss Wells, that you are the most beautiful girl that ever left lipstick in my office?

  Anne Welles : You like women, don't you?

  Lyon Burke : I like career girls. We're compatible.

  Anne Welles : There's a rumor they don't make very good wives.

  Lyon Burke : Well, I'm not looking for a wife.

  Anne Welles : You're fortunate you know yourself. I don't know who I am, or what I want.

• Lyon Burke : Offstage I hate her; but, onstage, I'm madly in love with her.

• Lyon Burke : They're going to replace you with a younger girl.

  Neely O'Hara : Younger? Lyon, I'm 26!

  Lyon Burke : You look 36.

• Henry Bellamy : I don't want to hear another word about quitting.

  Lyon Burke : The going get's rough, they all talk about retirement.

  Helen Lawson : Not me. I've had it rough before. I'm a barracuda.

• Lyon Burke : Tell me, why are you dismissing us so soon?

  Anne Welles : Because I think show business is cruel.

  Lyon Burke : Well, you're quite right. Oh, have a seat.

  Anne Welles : People do despicable things.

  Lyon Burke : Yes, the certainly do.

• Lyon Burke : Miss Welles, a raw recruit always dives for the nearest foxhole at the first burst of enemy fire. But, eh, don't let that happen to you. Don't you throw in the towel, just yet. This is a rather cruel business. But, it's also a great business and a rewarding business. For every Helen Lawson, there's always a Helen Hayes or a Mary Martin. Now, you think about that.

• Anne Welles : Are you wooing me, Mr. Burke?

  Lyon Burke : If you wish to be wooed.

• Anne Welles : I used to pretend - you going bald and fat.

  Lyon Burke : I used to picture you with a sink full of dishes and a baby tugging at your skirt.

• Neely O'Hara : What do you want me to do?

  Lyon Burke : I want you to go to a sanitarium - and dry out.

  Neely O'Hara : A sanitarium?

  Lyon Burke : I'm sorry, it's the only solution.

• Neely O'Hara : What am I going to do?

  Lyon Burke : Anne and I want you to go to a sanitarium, in Los Angeles.

  Neely O'Hara : A nuthouse.

  Anne Welles : No. Its the same place that Tony is in.

  Neely O'Hara : Anne, I'm not nutty. I am just hooked on dolls!

• Lyon Burke : Boy, the old star sickness begins to appear. No more gratitude, just power!

• Anne Welles : You were thinking of marriage?

  Lyon Burke : Well, you know how I feel about that.

  Anne Welles : When you fall in love, you belong to someone else.

  Lyon Burke : We've gone through this before.

  Anne Welles : Well, how do you think I feel sneaking out of your apartment at four o'clock in the morning?

  Lyon Burke : But you don't have to sneak.

• Lyon Burke : Look at that face. It's all puffy. Your eyes are bloodshot.

  Neely O'Hara : Thank you very much.