Notorious (1946)
Cary Grant: Devlin
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Quotes
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Paul Prescott : [about Alicia] I don't like this, I don't like her coming here.
Walter Beardsley : She's had me worried for some time. A woman of that sort.
Devlin : What sort is that, Mr. Beardsley?
Walter Beardsley : Oh, I don't think any of us have any illusions about her character. Have we, Devlin?
Devlin : Not at all, not in the slightest. Miss Huberman is first, last, and always not a lady. She may be risking her life, but when it comes to being a lady, she doesn't hold a candle to your wife, sitting in Washington, playing bridge with three other ladies of great honor and virtue.
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Devlin : [after being caught kissing Alicia at the party] I knew her before you, loved her before you, only I'm not as lucky as you...
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Alicia Huberman : This is a very strange love affair.
Devlin : Why?
Alicia Huberman : Maybe the fact that you don't love me.
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Alicia Huberman : Say it again, it keeps me awake.
Devlin : I love you.
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Alicia Huberman : Don't ever leave me.
Devlin : You'll never get rid of me again.
Alicia Huberman : Never tried to.
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Devlin : [bitterly, to Alicia] Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.
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Alicia Huberman : Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me you have a wife and two adorable children... and this madness between us can't go on any longer.
Devlin : Bet you've heard that line often enough.
Alicia Huberman : [hurt] Right below the belt every time. That isn't fair, Dev.
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Devlin : A man doesn't tell a woman what to do. She tells herself.
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Devlin : Don't you need a coat?
Alicia Huberman : You'll do.
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Alicia Huberman : I'm terrified.
Devlin : Just pretend you're a janitor. Janitors are never terrified.
Alicia Huberman : I have a feeling they're very slow.
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Alicia Huberman : This fog gets me.
Devlin : That's your hair in your eyes.
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Alicia Huberman : Alex has the key to that.
Devlin : Then, get it from him.
Alicia Huberman : Get it? How?
Devlin : Don't you live near him?
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Alicia Huberman : What does the speedometer say?
Devlin : 65.
Alicia Huberman : I want to make it 80 and wipe that grin off your face.
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Alicia Huberman : Well, did you hear that? I'm practically on the wagon, that's quite a change.
Devlin : It's a phase.
Alicia Huberman : You don't think a woman can change?
Devlin : Sure, change is fun, for awhile.
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Alexander Sebastian : I'm not afraid to die.
Devlin : You've got your chance, here and now.
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Devlin : I couldn't see straight or think straight. I was a fat-headed guy, full of pain.
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Alicia Huberman : My car is outside.
Devlin : Naturally.
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Alicia Huberman : Here's something that belongs to you. I should have given it to you sooner.
Devlin : What is it?
Alicia Huberman : A scarf you lent me once in Miami.
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Devlin : You don't look so hot. Sick?
Alicia Huberman : [lies defiantly] No. Hangover.
Devlin : That's news. Back to bottle again, huh?
Alicia Huberman : It sort of... lightens my chores.
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Devlin : I can't help recalling some of your remarks about being a new woman. Daisies and buttercups, wasn't it?
Alicia Huberman : You idiot! What are you sore about, you knew very well what I was doing!
Devlin : Did I?
Alicia Huberman : You could have stopped me with one word, but no, you wouldn't. You threw me at him!
Devlin : I threw you at nobody.
Alicia Huberman : Didn't you tell me what I had?
Devlin : A man doesn't tell a woman what to do; she tells herself. You almost had me believing in that little hokey-pokey miracle of yours, that a woman like you could change her spots.
Alicia Huberman : Oh, you're rotten.
Devlin : That's why I didn't try to stop you. The answer had to come from you.
Alicia Huberman : I see. Some kind of love test.
Devlin : That's right.
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Alicia Huberman : Well, you never believed in me anyways. So what's the difference?
Devlin : It's lucky for both of us that I didn't. It wouldn't have been pretty if I'd believed in you. If I'd figured, she'll never be able to go through with it, she's been made over by love.
Alicia Huberman : If you only once had said that you loved me. Oh, Dev.
Devlin : Listen, you've chalked up another boyfriend, that's all. No harm done.
Alicia Huberman : I hate you.
Devlin : There's no occasion to, you're doing good work.
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Alicia Huberman : [driving while drunk] How am I doing?
Devlin : Not bad.
Alicia Huberman : Scared?
Devlin : No.
Alicia Huberman : No... no, you're not scared of anything, are you?
[the car nearly swerves off the road]
Devlin : [correcting himself] Not too much!
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Alicia Huberman : [in bed, hung-over] I'm no stool-pigeon, Mr. Devlin.
Devlin : My department authorized me to engage you to do some work for us. There's a job in Brazil...
Alicia Huberman : Oh, go away. The whole thing bores me.
Devlin : Some of the German gentry who are paying your father are working in Rio. Ever hear of the IG Farben Industries?
Alicia Huberman : I tell you, I'm not interested.
Devlin : Farben has men in South America, planted there before the war. They're cooperating with the Brazilian government to smoke them out. My chief thinks that the daughter of a, uh...
Alicia Huberman : A traitor?
Devlin : Well, he thinks you might be valuable in the work.
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Devlin : [referring to Sebastian] Well, he's here. The head of a large German business concern.
Alicia Huberman : His family always had money.
Devlin : He's part of the combine that built up the German war machine and hopes to keep on going.
Alicia Huberman : Something big?
Devlin : It has all the earmarks of being something big.
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[Alicia and Devlin meet on a bench in the city]
Devlin : What's new?
Alicia Huberman : Oh, nothing. What's new with you?
Devlin : Nothing.
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Alicia Huberman : I keep hearing someone coming.
Devlin : [nonchalantly] Oh that'll be nice...
[Devlin pours sand in the wine bottle]
Alicia Huberman : [worried] You think he'll come down with Joseph?
Devlin : [nonchalantly pouring metal into the wine bottle] Unfortunate...
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Alicia Huberman : My car is outside.
Devlin : Naturally.
Alicia Huberman : Want to go for a ride?
Devlin : Very much.
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Devlin : There's one more drink left apiece. Shame about the ice.
Alicia Huberman : What is?
Devlin : Gone.
Alicia Huberman : Who's gone?
Devlin : The ice.
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Devlin : Why do you like that song?
Alicia Huberman : Because it's a lot of hooey. There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.
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Alicia Huberman : I don't want to hear that.
Devlin : Relax, hard-boiled, and listen.
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Devlin : You've got to work on him and land him.
Alicia Huberman : Mata Hari. She makes love for the papers.
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Devlin : You enjoy making fun of me, don't you?
Alicia Huberman : No, Dev. I'm making fun of myself. I'm pretending I'm a nice, unspoiled child whose heart is full of daisies and buttercups.
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Alicia Huberman : Why don't you give that copper's brain of yours a rest? Every time you look at me, I can see it running over its slogans: "Once a crook, always a crook. Once a tramp, always a tramp." Go on. You can hold my hand. I won't blackmail you for it afterwards. Scared?
Devlin : I've always been scared of women, but I get over it.
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Devlin : Snap out of it. Here comes dreamboat.
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Devlin : She looked like the ragged end of nowhere.
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Alexander Sebastian : I'm taking her back to her room.
Alicia Huberman : No, Dev.
Devlin : I'll raise quite a rumpus, if you try.