Richard Sherman 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.
Played by Tom Ewell 
The Seven Year Itch (1955) · 18 quotes
The Seven Year Itch (1955) · 18 quotes
Tied for most-quoted character in The Seven Year Itch (1955): in 9 of its 18 quotes
Most scenes with: The Girl (3), Dr. Brubaker (2)
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.
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Do you have any kids?
Richard Sherman No. None. No kids. Well, just one. Little one. Hardly counts.
Richard Sherman It'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.
...
Richard Sherman 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.
[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?
Richard Sherman You know why, because now I'm going to kiss you, very quick and very hard.
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]
Richard Sherman You must fight it, Elaine. Remember, l belong to another!
Elaine
Richard!
Richard Sherman [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!
Richard Sherman Tell me doctor, are you very expensive?
Very!
Richard Sherman I'm sure you occasionally make exceptions.
Never!
Richard Sherman 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.
When something itches my dear sir, the natural tendency is to scratch.
Richard Sherman Last night I scratched.
Tom MacKensie
What blonde in the kitchen?
Richard Sherman Wouldn't you like to know! Maybe it's Marilyn Monroe!