Arabesque (1966)
Sophia Loren: Yasmin Azir
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Quotes
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David Pollock : I'll meet you in Knightsbridge at the Kelly Hotel. I'm registered there under the name of O'Malley.
Yasmin Azir : [confused] 'O'Malley'?
David Pollock : Yeah, there's a discount if you're Irish.
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Yasmin Azir : [At the races, both dressed up posh] Well, if it isn't Mr. Dillingham.
David Pollock : By Jove, it's actually Lady Hetherington-Cartwright.
Yasmin Azir : Don't overdo it.
David Pollock : I didn't know you could.
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Yasmin Azir : Are you burning it?
David Pollock : That's how you detect invisible ink. Weren't you ever in the Boy Scouts?
Yasmin Azir : I flunked - the physical.
David Pollock : Should have tried my troop, we'd have waived it.
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Yasmin Azir : You've got to listen to me!
David Pollock : Boy, every time I try to listen to you someone either hits me over the head or tries to vaccinate me.
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David Pollock : Those stairs must lead somewhere.
Yasmin Azir : Are you sure?
David Pollock : If they don't, watch out for the last one!
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Webster : That cipher, *where is it*?
David Pollock : Ask me later alligator.
Webster : *Where is it*?
David Pollock : I left it at Beshraavi's. After all, it belongs to him.
Yussef Kasim : Wrong again teach. He snatched it. Belongs to this cat right here. Now where is it?
David Pollock : Miss Azir, after all we've been through together couldn't you find it in your heart to put in a small word on my behalf?
Yasmin Azir : He told me he had it in his pocket.
David Pollock : [shaking head] Tattle tale.
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Beshraavi : Before you came home, I received word that... Mr. Pollock had arrived safely in his rooms at Oxford.
Yasmin Azir : A hearty race, the Americans.
Beshraavi : I was also told that he was riding a bicycle... and singing a very strange song.
Yasmin Azir : A hearty and fun-loving race.
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Beshraavi : Extraordinary sensation. Perhaps it was the way he looked at you?
Yasmin Azir : Who?
Beshraavi : Pollock!
Yasmin Azir : Darling, if you start getting jealous over everyone who looks at me, it will do terrible things to your blood pressure. I don't think you have to worry about college professors.
Beshraavi : Why not?
Yasmin Azir : They're only interested in work.
Beshraavi : They're the most dangerous kind, my love. They're such expert peekers.
Yasmin Azir : Don't worry. If I were standing stark naked in front of Mr. Pollock, he'd probably yawn.
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Yasmin Azir : Yussef is not my boyfriend. I loathe him.
David Pollock : Of course you do. You just do what he tells you because he's holding your family hostage back in the old country.
Yasmin Azir : How did you know that?
David Pollock : Oh, come on. I've seen that movie.
Yasmin Azir : General Ali Ben Ali, the man he works for, threatened to kill my mother and sisters unless I cooperated with him.
David Pollock : And Beshraavi, who's he got, your Uncle Max from Newark?
Yasmin Azir : What do you mean?
David Pollock : Forget it. If you want to live with Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, that's your business.
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Yasmin Azir : This is like a recurring dream I used to have.
David Pollock : How did it end?
Yasmin Azir : Don't ask!
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David Pollock : This isn't your house. This is my house, and you weren't invited, so go away!
Yasmin Azir : I didn't even know if you were alive, but I came to warn you anyway.
David Pollock : Warn me about what?
Yasmin Azir : Nazim's men. They are on their way here to get the cipher back. You've got to get away.
David Pollock : Now slow down a minute. Aren't you the same Miss Azir who just stood there while your friends tried to kill me?
Yasmin Azir : Oh David! You don't think I enjoyed that?
David Pollock : Oh! Well! So long as you didn't enjoy it!
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Yasmin Azir : Webster sold out to Nazim.
David Pollock : It must be a popular indoor sport these days.
Yasmin Azir : You're not including me I hope!
David Pollock : Of course not. We're believing you today.
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Yasmin Azir : [At a construction site - after they've both lied about where they were going] David, you followed me, didn't you?
David Pollock : No, I didn't! You went to the embassy, and I came here to my hotel.
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Yasmin Azir : [Meeting Pollock for the first time] Hello.
David Pollock : Hello. Hello! Hello-hello-hello.
Yasmin Azir : What are you doing?
David Pollock : Oh, well, these English crosswords are devilish, don't you think?
Yasmin Azir : You're an American?
David Pollock : Yes sir, indeedy-do, Ma'am.
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Beshraavi : Those slippers are absolutely beautiful, my darling. Are you wearing them for my benefit?
Yasmin Azir : Of course, Nejim. Mr. Pollock does not have your exotic refinements. He prefers nighties.
David Pollock : She said it, I didn't.
Beshraavi : Mr. Pollock, some Bedouins are in the habit of saying to their guests, "All that I possess is yours"... I am not one of them.
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Beshraavi : What do you suppose happened to Mustafa? He hasn't come back yet.
Yasmin Azir : Dead, I'm afraid.
Beshraavi : And servants so hard to come by these days...
Yasmin Azir : I saw several possible replacements at the zoo.
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Yasmin Azir : The police think you killed Webster. Have you seen the papers?
David Pollock : I don't care what they say as long as they spell my name right.
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Yasmin Azir : Why don't you tell them where the cipher is?
David Pollock : Well, because I don't know where it is.
Yasmin Azir : You told me you had it.
David Pollock : You told me lots of things too. Looks like we're just a pair of pathological liars.
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Yasmin Azir : How come my recurring dream never ended this way?
David Pollock : I don't know? Mine always did. I guess I just travel in better dreams.
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Yasmin Azir : $30,000 in exchange for your old age is a terrible bargain!
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Yasmin Azir : [Addressing a uniformed Queen's Guardsman, under whose foot an important scrap of paper has lodged] Excuse me, soldier...
David Pollock : [correcting her] He's a Guardsman.
Yasmin Azir : Excuse me, Guardsman. I'm sorry to bother you. I know you're on duty, but... there is something under your foot that belongs to us.
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David Pollock : Look, everyone's got problems, including me, so I'd just as soon not get mixed up in yours.
Yasmin Azir : But you are mixed up in them, whether you like it or not.
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Yasmin Azir : The candy! You are brilliant!
David Pollock : The result of a clean mind and a healthy body.
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David Pollock : I don't met many people who are dressed like that, either.
Yasmin Azir : Do you like it? Would you do me up please? Can you - manage?
David Pollock : I always tremble when I'm happy. I take it that you're a house guest here?
Yasmin Azir : Why do you take that?
David Pollock : Well, one usually doesn't arrive for high tea dressed in a nightie.
Yasmin Azir : One also isn't a house guest in one's own house.
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David Pollock : Now, then, Miss Azir, I wonder if you'd tell me what this is all about.
Yasmin Azir : Call me Yasmin, at least while you're in my bathroom.
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Yasmin Azir : The message is much to important for anyone he doesn't want to know about it.
David Pollock : What about you? Lock, stock and barrel?
[Yasmin nods her head yes]
David Pollock : This is ridiculous. We're in England! A civilized country. Right in the middle of London. Over there's Regents Park. There's the zoo. Over in Buckingham Palace the Queen is probably playing Scrabble. He can't own anyone here.
Yasmin Azir : Everyone has his price.
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Beshraavi : People who lock doors generally have things to hide.
Yasmin Azir : Would you care to search me?
Beshraavi : Will I find your thoughts?
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Yasmin Azir : That really is extraordinary. Jealous? You?
Beshraavi : I'm jealous of thoughts, Yasmin. I'm jealous of everything I can't see or hear.
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Beshraavi : Your shower's still running.
Yasmin Azir : I'll turn it off.
Beshraavi : No. Take your shower.
Yasmin Azir : Maybe I won't tonight. I'm so sleepy.
Beshraavi : In that case, please do. I want you wide awake.
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Yasmin Azir : Professor, what did you do with the cipher?
David Pollock : Cipher, cipher, who's got the cipher? Number nine's got the cipher.
Webster : Nine? What's that mean?
David Pollock : That's for me to know and you to guess.
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Beshraavi : Your shower must have been quite - stimulating.
Yasmin Azir : It was.
Beshraavi : But, how do you suppose he happened to be in there, my pet?
Yasmin Azir : I neglected to ask him. All I know is he was there, waiting for me.
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Yasmin Azir : Oh, I am exhausted.
Beshraavi : Of course you are, my poor darling. Let me give you a massage.
Yasmin Azir : How can you continue being so good to me?
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Yasmin Azir : Oh, don't stop. It feels divine.
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Beshraavi : You must have been very convincing.
Yasmin Azir : It's a feminine talent.
Beshraavi : What a waste not to exploit it.
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Yasmin Azir : Then, you believe me?
David Pollock : In this wicked, cynical old world, you have to believe in something. So, it might as well be you.
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Yasmin Azir : You are brilliant!
David Pollock : The result of a clean mind and a healthy body.
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Yasmin Azir : Oh, no! He's found it.
David Pollock : Sink. Sank. Sunk.
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Yasmin Azir : It's not safe for you to be out on the streets! What if the police stop us?
David Pollock : The way you drive, why should they stop us?
Yasmin Azir : Alright, David, I'll look for a Phone Box.
David Pollock : I'll look! That way, maybe we can keep from hitting it.
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David Pollock : What is there about you that makes you so hard to believe?
Yasmin Azir : Perhaps its because I'm such a terrible liar; but, never with you, of course.
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Yasmin Azir : What do you see?
David Pollock : Gander. Goosey-Goosey.
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David Pollock : Do I have your solemn pledge that you'll never spy again?
Yasmin Azir : Only on you.
David Pollock : Oh, swell.