Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

Kris Kristofferson: David

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• David : [Tommy's milking a cow]  Hey, Tommy, watch the fingernails.

  Tommy : Well, Christ, she's got tits the size of cucumbers. What do you expect?

  Alice : Ahem. I don't know where he gets that language, I really don't.

  Tommy : Think real hard, it'll come to you, lady.

• David : So who's stoppin' ya?... Pack yer bags; I'll take you to Monterey... I don't give a damn about that ranch.

• David : Your brother taught you to kiss?

  Alice : I don't mean he demonstrated. He told me that the worst thing that can happen is if a boy feels like he's put his lips in a bowl of wet oatmeal.

  David : At least he said "lips."

  Alice : So the most important thing to remember before you kiss is to wipe your mouth real good and keep your lips together so he doesn't kiss your teeth. So, we went to see "The Postman Always Rings Twice." And there was this big close-up of - what's her name? Lana Turner and John Garfield, right? And they're just coming together. Big dramatic moment. At last, they're going to kiss. The music's playing. It's very dramatic. And just as they come together, they both open their mouths. And I thought, "My God, don't they know how to kiss? What's wrong with them?" And I turned and looked at my brother to see what he was going to say. He just sat there. He didn't move, he was just looking at screen. He didn't say anything for three weeks. And then all of a sudden one day, he says: "Well, Al, I've been thinking."

  David : Al?

  Alice : Yes, he always called me Al. "l think maybe you're supposed to part your lips a little bit when you kiss."

  David : God bless him.

• Alice : We decided we wanted to go into show business from the movies.

  David : Why did you leave?

  Alice : I got married and Donald wanted to live in his hometown. I wanted to go on singing. He said, "No wife of mine is going to sing in a saloon." I said, "Yes, master." I kind of liked that.

  David : You liked it?

  Alice : It was like, you know, my idea of a man: strong and dominating.

  [laughs] 

• David : [singing]  That means he's lost the will to live, I'm so lonesome I could cry...

• David : How good are you?

  Alice : Well, I'm as good as I am. That's how good I am.