From Here to Eternity (1953)

Donna Reed: Alma - aka Lorene

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• Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : I love the army.

  Alma : But it sure doesn't love you.

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : A man loves a thing, that don't mean it's gotta love him back.

  Alma : Yeah, but a person can stand just so much.

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : You love a thing, you've got to be grateful.

• Alma : Sit down and - and get comfortable. I'll make you a martini and see what's to cook for dinner.

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : Hey, this is like being married, ain't it?

  Alma : It's better.

• Alma : Prew, it's true we love each other now, we need each other, but back in the States it might be different.

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : That ain't the real reason.

  Alma : You're right, it's not.

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : What is the real reason?

  Alma : I - I won't marry you because I don't want to be the wife of a soldier.

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : Well, that... would be about the best I could ever do for you.

  Alma : Because nobody's going to stop me from my plan. Nobody, nothing. Because I want to be proper!

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : Proper.

  Alma : Yes, proper! In another year I'll have enough money saved. Then I'm going to go back to my home town in Oregon, and I'm going to build a house for my mother and myself, and join the country club and take up golf. Then I'll meet the proper man with the proper position, to make a proper wife, and can run a proper home and raise proper children. And I'll be HAPPY because when you're PROPER you're SAFE!

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : You've got guts, honey. I hope you can pull that off.

  Alma : I do mean it when I say I need you. 'Cause I'm lonely. You think I'm lying, don't you?

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

• Alma : [Maggio offers her a drink]  No, thanks, I don't drink.

  [Maggio gives her a look] 

  Alma : I think it's a weakness.

  Angelo Maggio : I grant ya that.

  Alma : [to Prewitt]  You don't like weakness do you?

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : No, I don't like weakness... but I like to drink!

• Alma : What do you think Mrs. Kipfer hires us for? She pays us to be nice to all the boys. You're all alike. Is it so important?

  Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt : It is important. We may seem all alike. We ain't all alike.

• Alma : I don't like it, but I don't mind it.

• Angelo Maggio : Maybe I'll go to Mexico and become a cowboy. You want to go with me?

  Alma : You keep on drinking, you'll be as much use as a melted candle.

  Angelo Maggio : You're absolutely right. Bartender, whiskey! Large whiskey.

• Alma : Mrs. Kipfer picked "Lorene" out of a perfume ad. She thought it sounded French.