Congo Maisie (1940)
John Carroll: Dr. Michael Shane
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Quotes
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Dr. Michael Shane : Little girls that listen at keyholes don't go to heaven.
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Captain Finch : Everything according to the regulations, Doc.
Dr. Michael Shane : Don't call me Doc!
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Captain Finch : Say, you know that blonde? I turned her out.
Dr. Michael Shane : Yeah, I'd like to hear her side of the story.
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Dr. Michael Shane : Give me a life boat and a couple of the boys and I'll go up river to the rubber company's landing.
Captain Finch : I can't let you take the boys, Mr. Shane. I need every hand I got.
Maisie Ravier : I've never been strong for rowing since an experience I had once on a lake in Central Park.
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Maisie Ravier : Am I very heavy?
Dr. Michael Shane : Heavy enough!
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Maisie Ravier : Eh-oh. Warmed up for awhile, there; but, now it looks like snow again. How would it be if I apologize for livin' once and for all...
Dr. Michael Shane : Shut up!
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Dr. Michael Shane : In six months, most women here look like an old saddle. You look just as you did the night you made your debut, at the dinner dance at the country club.
Kay McWade : How did you know about my coming out party?
Dr. Michael Shane : I know a lot about you. You're very romantic. When you were 15, you fell in love with - who was it? Sir Lancelot or - Nathan Hale?
Kay McWade : Well, as a matter of fact is was Dick Heldar in "The Light That Failed."
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Dr. Michael Shane : I had some very romantic ideas once myself. About medicine, among other things.
Kay McWade : Not any more?
Dr. Michael Shane : No any more. Reality licked me. How's reality treating you?
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Kay McWade : Do you mean you get lonely sometimes?
Dr. Michael Shane : Sure.
Kay McWade : I don't believe it.
Dr. Michael Shane : Compared to my place, this is Paris! I'm way up-country. I got my place cheap because no other white man would work it. Well, I'm working it and I'll keep on working it until I make a lot of money. There are plenty of times I think the money is costing me too much.
Kay McWade : Aren't there any other white people at all?
Dr. Michael Shane : No! About once a year, if I'm lucky, I get down to Kamala. This last trip it was 13 months until I've seen a white woman. It's been five years since I've seen a woman from home.
Maisie Ravier : [interrupts] Doesn't south Brooklyn count?
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Maisie Ravier : "So, so, wah wah, Dr. Shane." That's pigeon English for: Very, very bad.
Dr. Michael Shane : What's the matter? They cut the water off in your bathroom?
Maisie Ravier : I wouldn't know. I didn't look.
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Dr. Michael Shane : You don't like me, do you?
Maisie Ravier : No.
Dr. Michael Shane : Well, have a drink. Maybe that'll make you feel better about me. Maybe you can get to like me.
Maisie Ravier : Maybe I could. The first time I ate an oyster, I thought natured made a terrible mistake. But, I got to like oysters. So, who can tell.
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Dr. Michael Shane : What's the hurry? Sit down and be sociable.
Maisie Ravier : Well, this certainly is your night to howl.
Dr. Michael Shane : Well, we're stuck here for 10 days more. We may as well be friendly. Don't you ever play checkers, Maisie?
Maisie Ravier : Only for keeps.
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Maisie Ravier : What hit me?
Dr. Michael Shane : You passed out colder than a mackerel.
Maisie Ravier : Well, can you imagine?
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Dr. Michael Shane : Wait! I've got a lot to say to you.
Maisie Ravier : Look, I got to change my clothes. Honest, I'm cold!
Dr. Michael Shane : This is important!
Maisie Ravier : So is pneumonia. Come on, let me go.
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Dr. Michael Shane : I guess this is where I belong, all right. I just about fill the bill: part doctor, part faker, and the rest out-and-out son-of-a-gun.
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Dr. Michael Shane : She must have sensed it. You women seem to feel things like that in the air.
Maisie Ravier : Yeah? Well, see if you can feel this in the air?
[slaps Dr. Shane in the face]
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Dr. Michael Shane : Oh, you dizzy little fool. You don't know what you're talking about!
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Dr. Michael Shane : Little girls who listen at key holes don't go to heaven.
Maisie Ravier : I know, but sometimes you get a chance to help someone you like and I like that Mrs. McWade.
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Dr. Michael Shane : I spent five years serving humanity. Now I'm looking out for Michael Shane.
Dr. John McWade : I didn't know you could measure service to humanity five years and then no more.
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Dr. Michael Shane : I'm going to take that out, McWade. I know you don't like me, but my worst enemy will tell you that I'm handy with a knife.
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Maisie Ravier : What was that?
Dr. Michael Shane : A baboon drumming.
Maisie Ravier : Now, who'd give a baboon a drum, missionaries?
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Maisie Ravier : Hey, what happens to me? Can I come along?
Dr. Michael Shane : Suit yourself.
Maisie Ravier : Well, it's you or the crocodiles, and they got more teeth.
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Maisie Ravier : You better operate.
Dr. Michael Shane : I'm not practicing medicine.
Maisie Ravier : Have you stopped practicing being a man?