When something itches my dear sir, the natural tendency is to scratch.
Last night I scratched.
Richard Sherman
Tom Ewell · 9 quotes
The Girl
Marilyn Monroe · 9 quotes
Dr. Brubaker
Oskar Homolka · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: The Girl & Richard Sherman (3), Richard Sherman & Dr. Brubaker (2)
The Seven Year Itch quotes
Page 1 of 2It's just my imagination. Some people have flat feet. Some people have dandruff. I have this appalling imagination.
I think it's just elegant to have an imagination. I just have no imagination at all. I have lots of other things, but I have no imagination...Come on now, relax. You're just making this all up.
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Let's face it. No pretty girl in her right mind wants me. She wants Gregory Peck.
Is that so?...How do you know what a pretty girl wants?...You and your imagination. You think every girl's a dope. You think a girl goes to a party, and there's some guy - a great big lunk in a fancy striped vest, strutting around like a tiger, giving you that 'I'm so handsome, you can't resist me' look, and from this, she's supposed to fall flat on her face. Well, she doesn't fall on her face. But there's another guy in the room, way over in the corner. Maybe he's kind of nervous and shy, perspiring a little. First, you look past him, but then you sort of sense, he's gentle and kind and worried, and he'll be tender with you, nice and sweet. That's what's really exciting! If I were your wife, I'd be very jealous of you. I'd be very very jealous. [she kisses him] I think you're just elegant.
Tell me doctor, are you very expensive?
Very!
I'm sure you occasionally make exceptions.
Never!
Well I mean, once in a while, a case must come along that really interests you.
At $50 an hour, all my cases interest me.
[in his fantasy]
Rachmaninoff... It isn't fair... Every time I hear it, I go to pieces... It shakes me, it quakes me. It makes me feel goose-pimply all over. I don't know where I am or who I am or what I'm doing. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't ever stop! Why did you stop?
You know why, because now I'm going to kiss you, very quick and very hard.
Do you have any kids?
No. None. No kids. Well, just one. Little one. Hardly counts.
Tom MacKensie
What blonde in the kitchen?
Wouldn't you like to know! Maybe it's Marilyn Monroe!
Waitress
Nudism is such a worthy cause. We must bring the message to the people. We must teach them to unmask their poor suffocating bodies and let them breathe again. Clothes are the enemy. Without clothes, there'd be no sickness, there'd be no war. I ask you, sir, can you imagine two great armies on the battlefield, no uniforms, completely nude? No way of telling friend from foe. All brothers, together.
Elaine
[in Richard's fantasy, à la Jean Simmons and Donald Houston in The Blue Lagoon, Elaine and Richard are on the beach at midday, kissing and embracing]
What is this strange animal thing you have? It bothers me. It's bothered me since the first time l saw you. And it'll bother me always, from here to eternity. [also referencing From Here to Eternity, which featured a similar scene to that of The Blue Lagoon, with Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr]
You must fight it, Elaine. Remember, l belong to another!
Elaine
Richard!
[running off into the surf]
This can never be. l have a devoted, trusting wife at home and a freckle-faced little space cadet.
Elaine
Richard!
Miss Morris, I'm perfectly capable of fixing my own breakfast. As a matter of fact, I had a peanut butter sandwich and two whiskey sours.
My 3:00 patient jumped out of the window in the middle of his session. I have been running fifteen minutes ahead of schedule ever since.
Oh, do you feel the breeze from the subway. Isn't it delicious?
Oooooooohhhh! This feels just elegant!
So he lured me down to his apartment. He made me sit on his piano bench. Then he made me play Chopsticks. Then suddenly he turned at me. His eyes bulging. He was frothing at the mouth. Just like The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
This thing about women and me. I walk into a room. They sense it instantly. I arouse something in them. I bother them. It's a kind of animal thing I've got. Really quite extraordinary.