“But you keep helping me. After all, you're not Robby.” – Altaira, Forbidden Planet ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from Forbidden Planet 1956

Altaira

[Lt. Farman offers the brilliant but innocent Altaira some sugar for her coffee]

But you keep helping me. After all, you're not Robby.

Lt. Farman

[chuckles]

I wouldn't mind being like Robby in certain ways. Uh, that's only in certain ways, of course.

Altaira

I can see that was probably very clever, but I don't seem to understand it.

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