Hanover Street (1979)

Harrison Ford: David Halloran

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• David Halloran : I love you enough to let you go, which is more than I've ever felt about anyone in my life.

• Margaret Sellinger : Are you alright? Are you hurt?

  David Halloran : I was lost for awhile, but, I think I'm back now.

• Paul Sellinger : C'est vrai. Je suis Anglais. Vraiment! Do you think you could give me a hand here? She's going to kill me, she thinks I'm German.

  David Halloran : I wonder why she thinks you're German? Eh, Betty Grable. Hershey bars. Yankee Stadium. Hello, Joe.

• David Halloran : Think of me when you drink tea.

• David Halloran : I just wish your eyes weren't that color.

• 2nd Lt. Jerry Cimino : Hey they're shooting at us. How come every time we fly over they shoot guns at us?

  David Halloran : Because we drop bombs on them.

  2nd Lt. Jerry Cimino : They have no sense of humor. Can't you guys take a joke?

• David Halloran : You people actually drink this stuff?

  Margaret Sellinger : No we just like to put it in our cups and stare at it.

  David Halloran : Tastes too much like, boiled water.

  Margaret Sellinger : It is boiled water.

  David Halloran : I knew there was a reason.

• David Halloran : You've got to go to him, and I've got to turn and walk away.

• David Halloran : You missed your bus.

  Margaret Sellinger : I don't own a bus.

  David Halloran : I'll buy you one.

  Margaret Sellinger : Oh, how nice. A rich Yank. No thank you.

  David Halloran : Well, if you don't want a bus, would you like a cup of coffee?

  Margaret Sellinger : I don't drink coffee. I drink tea.

• Margaret Sellinger : Where are you from?

  David Halloran : Chicago.

  Margaret Sellinger : Chicago - where all the gangsters come from isn't it?

  David Halloran : Not all of them. Some of them come from Detroit and New York. Chicago just happens to grow the best ones.

  Margaret Sellinger : You a gangster?

  David Halloran : Twelve arrests. No convictions.

• David Halloran : Nobody's supposed to look like that in a uniform.

  Margaret Sellinger : How am I supposed to look?

  David Halloran : Like a short man.

  Margaret Sellinger : You're boiled water's getting cold.

  David Halloran : Then, let's order some more. Please.

• David Halloran : What about you?

  Margaret Sellinger : What about, what about me?

  David Halloran : Who are you? What are you?

  Margaret Sellinger : I'm a short man.

• Margaret Sellinger : I don't know what I'm doing here.

  David Halloran : Yes, you do.

  Margaret Sellinger : Yes, I do.

• David Halloran : You don't seem like the farm type to me.

  Margaret Sellinger : I can milk a cow.

  David Halloran : Her ladyship can milk a cow?

  Margaret Sellinger : She can.

  David Halloran : With her very own hands?

  Margaret Sellinger : No, with her feet.

• Paul Sellinger : How far do you think we've gone?

  David Halloran : How am I supposed to know? You're the god damn spy, not me. Don't you guys have a magic manual or something that teaches you all that stuff?

  Paul Sellinger : Oh, yes. Yes, we do.

  David Halloran : Well, did you ever read it?

  Paul Sellinger : I helped write it.

  David Halloran : What did it say about measuring distances?

  Paul Sellinger : I forget.

  David Halloran : This is where we get our asses shot off.

• Margaret Sellinger : Do things have to work out this way?

  David Halloran : Things work out the way they're supposed to.

• Paul Sellinger : I get the wet coat again.

  David Halloran : No, pal. This time you get the girl.

• David Halloran : Mind if I ask you something?

  Paul Sellinger : No, not at all.

  David Halloran : Why did you decide to go instead of that guy Wells?

  Paul Sellinger : Oh, that's... that's rather complicated. I don't know how to answer that.

  David Halloran : Try.

  Paul Sellinger : Well, all my life, no matter what I did, I've always been the same thing: pleasant. I'm - I'm pleasant! I was a teacher, that's a pleasant profession. I'm rather pleasant-looking, if I do say so myself. If anyone were asked to describe me, they'd say I was... pleasant! Oh, I never minded it that much before, except now... it's beginning to hurt. More than I ever thought anything could hurt.

  David Halloran : I don't know what you mean.

  Paul Sellinger : Well, take a look at yourself.

  David Halloran : I can't, I'm driving.

  Paul Sellinger : No, I'm serious, take a good look at yourself and you'll see a hero.

  David Halloran : That's a lot of crap. I'm not a hero and I don't wanna be one.

  Paul Sellinger : Even if you don't want to be one, you are. You can't help it. You're the one who is ice-skating on the lake when the little boy falls into the freezing water and you save him. I'm the one who gives you my coat to wrap him in. And when it's all over, you're on the front page of all the newspapers, saying it was really nothing. And I have a wet coat.