Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Marlene Dietrich: Christine
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Quotes
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Leonard Vole : What are you looking for?
Christine Vole : My accordion.
Leonard Vole : [stepping on it] I think I've found it.
Christine Vole : Step on it again. It's still breathing.
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Christine Vole : Damn you. Damn you. Damn you! Damn you!
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Christine Vole : He is not my husband. Leonard and I went through a form of marriage in Hamburg, but, I had a husband living at the time somewhere in East Germany in the Russian zone.
Sir Wilfrid : Did you tell Leonard?
Christine Vole : I did not! It would have been stupid to tell him. He would not have married me and I would have been left behind to starve in the rubble.
Brogan-Moore : But, he did marry you and brought you safely to this country. Don't you think you should be very grateful to him?
Christine Vole : One can get very tired of gratitude.
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Cockney Woman : I'll give ya somethin' to dream about, Mister. Wanna kiss me, ducky?
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Sir Wilfrid : [to Brogan-Moore] Oh, pardon, Mrs. Vole, handle her gently especially when you break the news of the arrest. Bear in mind, she's a foreigner. So be prepared for hysterics and even a fainting spell. Better have smelling salts ready, a box of tissues and a nip of brandy.
Christine Vole : [Enters Mrs. Vole] I do not think that will be necessary. I never faint because I'm not sure that I will fall gracefully and I never use smelling salts because they puff up the eyes. I'm Christine Vole.
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Christine Vole : You think Mrs. French looked upon Leonard as a son? Or a nephew?
Brogan-Moore : I do. An entirely natural and understandable relationship.
Christine Vole : What hypocrites you are in this country.
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Christine Vole : [shortly after Christine is attacked by soldiers] You better get out of here. You've been trouble enough.
Leonard Vole : Actually, it's your own fault. That costume in the picture outside gave the boys ideas, and then those trousers of yours let them down hard.
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Christine Vole : It isn't even my letter paper! I write my letters on small, blue paper with my initials on it?
Sir Wilfrid : Like these?
[pulling out a sheaf of letters on blue paper]
Christine Vole : Damn you! Damn you! Let me go! Let me get out of here!
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Christine Vole : You are burning my nose.
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Sir Wilfrid : Your husband loves you very much, does he not?
Christine Vole : Leonard? He worships the ground I walk on.
Sir Wilfrid : And you?
Christine Vole : You want to know too much. Auf wiedersehen, gentlemen.
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Christine Vole : [while applying lipstick] What a wicked woman I am, and how brilliantly you expose me!
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Christine Vole : Mr Mayhew described you as the champion of the hopeless cause. Is it perhaps that this cause is too hopeless?
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Leonard Vole : How are you fixed for sugar?
Christine Vole : I could use some.
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Cockney Woman : I want to go to the toilet.