Midge Oh, Johnnie, Johnnie. Please try. Try, Johnnie. You're not lost. Mother's here...John-O, you don't even know I'm here, do you?
Played by Barbara Bel Geddes 
Vertigo (1958) · 30 quotes
Vertigo (1958) · 30 quotes
5th most-quoted character in Vertigo (1958): in 4 of its 30 quotes
Most scenes with: Detective John 'Scottie" Ferguson (3)
Scenes with Midge
4 scenes Midge 
It's because of this fear of heights I have, this acrophobia. I wake up at night seeing that man fall from the roof and I try to reach out to him, it's just...
Midge It wasn't your fault.
I know. That's what everybody tells me.
Midge Johnny, the doctors explained to you.
I know. I know. I have acrophobia which gives me vertigo and I get dizzy. Boy, what a moment to find out I had it!
Midge Well, you've got it and there's no losing it. And there's no one to blame, so why quit?
You mean and sit behind a desk, chair-bound...
Midge ...where you belong.
What about my acrophobia? What about... Now, suppose, suppose I'm sitting in this chair behind a desk, here's the desk, and a pencil falls from the desk down to the floor, and I reach down to pick up the pencil - BINGO - my acrophobia's back.
Midge [Laughing.]
Oh, Johnny-O.
I'm a man of independent means as the saying goes. Fairly independent.
Midge Hmm, mmm. Well, why don't you go away for a while?
You mean to forget? Oh now, Midge, don't be so motherly. I'm not gonna crack up.
Midge Is she pretty?
Carlotta?
Midge No, not Carlotta. Elster's wife.
Yes, I guess you'd consider that she would...
Midge I think I'll go and take a look at that portrait.
