Tea and Sympathy (1956)
John Kerr: Tom Robinson Lee
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Quotes
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Tom Lee : I'm always falling in love with the wrong people.
Laura Reynolds : Who isn't?
Tom Lee : You too?
Laura Reynolds : Well, it wouldn't be any fun if we didn't. Of course, nothing ever comes of it, but there are bittersweet memories, and they can be pleasant.
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Tom Lee : She was just out of college. Tall, blond, honey-colored hair, and she wore a polo coat and drove a convertible.
Laura Reynolds : Oh, sounds very fetching.
Tom Lee : Yeah, ever since then, I've been a sucker for girls in polo coats.
Laura Reynolds : I think I have one.
Tom Lee : Yes, I know.
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Tom Lee : All I remember about my mother is she was always telling me to go outside and bounce a ball.
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Tom Lee : My dad's going to hit the roof when he hears I'm playing a girl.
Laura Reynolds : I think you're a good sport not to mind.
Tom Lee : He's always after me to join up clubs and things and the dramatic club would only take me if I'd play this part.
Laura Reynolds : Well, it's a good part: Lady Teazle in "The School for Scandal."
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Tom Lee : [singing] The joys of love are but a moment long, The grief of love endures forever more...
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Tom Lee : You must have gotten lots of flowers when you were acting in the theater.
Laura Reynolds : Oh, now and then. Nothing spectacular. Anyway, I was never any great shakes at it.
Tom Lee : Oh, I can't believe that.
Laura Reynolds : Oh, then you take my word for it.
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Tom Lee : I used to have a garden when I was a kid. Of course, my dad wasn't so keen on the idea.
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Tom Lee : Thanks for the tea.
Laura Reynolds : Oh, you're welcome.
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Laura Reynolds : Come on, put your arms around me.
Tom Lee : We'd better put it off. We look kind of silly, both of us in skirts.
Laura Reynolds : All right then. You take it off.
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Tom Lee : I keep telling you guys, I don't want a bunch of Peeping Toms mussing up my room all the time. Hey, Al, do we have to have these Peeping Toms hanging out of my window every afternoon?
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Laura Reynolds : Can't I persuade you to stay? We were getting on so well.
Tom Lee : Thanks.
Laura Reynolds : In another moment I'd have told you all the deep, dark secrets of my life.
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Laura Reynolds : He was kind and gentle and lonely. We knew it wouldn't last. We sensed it. But he always said, "Why must the test of everything be it's durability?"
Tom Lee : I'm sorry he was killed.
Laura Reynolds : I'm sorry he was killed the *way* he was killed. In trying to prove he was a man, he died a boy.
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Ellie Martin : Wanna dance?
Tom Lee : I don't dance.
Ellie Martin : Well, I'm gonna teach you. It will sort of get us in the same county, huh?
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Ellie Martin : Aren't we the original hot and cold boy?
Tom Lee : I'm sorry.
Ellie Martin : Now listen, quit being so sorry or I'm gonna be sorry, too. Come on.
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Tom Lee : You've heard everything, I suppose.
Laura Reynolds : Yes.
Tom Lee : Everything?
Laura Reynolds : Everything.