Green Light (1937)
Cedric Hardwicke: Dean Harcourt
Quotes
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Dean Harcourt : I imagine we come here for the same purpose... to look off into eternity.
Dr. Newell Paige : I don't think I'm very much concerned with eternity. My job's with the present.
Dean Harcourt : The present troubles you?
Dr. Newell Paige : Yes, a little. One has ideals... Troublesome things, ideals. They get in the way of logic, fair thinking. Eternity?
[He shakes his head]
Dr. Newell Paige : After all, the patient feels just as much pain today even though tomorrow he thinks he may be sitting on the edge of a cloud, strumming a harp.
Dean Harcourt : And you're concerned with curing today's pain so the patient won't... uh... join the Heavenly Host.
Dr. Newell Paige : Right.
Dean Harcourt : Narurally as a physician you believe that...
Dr. Newell Paige : [Interrupting] How did you know I'm a physician?
Dean Harcourt : You just told me.
Dr. Newell Paige : [laughs to himself] Right.
Dean Harcourt : Tou know, you and I are in the same sort of business. If I concern myself more with eternity, it's because my job is with the soul, rather than with the body.
Dr. Newell Paige : Preacher?
Dean Harcourt : I much prefer to be known as a teacher.
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Dean Harcourt : I'm alive simply because I have a job to do. You take away my job, you take away my life.
Dr. Newell Paige : Yes, a man must have something to live for, musn't he?
Dean Harcourt : Or something to die for.
Dr. Newell Paige : [Smiles] I can't think of something to die for. However, maybe something will turn up.