This Is My Love (1954)

Dan Duryea: Murray Myer

Quotes 

• Vida Dove : [she has just quietened down the kids]  Honestly, Murray, they're your children. It does seem to me that you could...

  Murray Myer : Could what?

  Vida Dove : [sitting back down at her typewriter]  Oh, never mind.

  Murray Myer : [reaching for a page]  Did they interrupt deathless lines?

  Vida Dove : Leave that alone.

  Murray Myer : Okay. I will wait with the rest of mankind. When are you going to leave your world of make-believe?

  Vida Dove : Murray, are you in pain?

  Murray Myer : Not right now, no.

  Vida Dove : Then there's no excuse for you being so mean.

  Murray Myer : Mean? Am I being mean or just realistic?

  Vida Dove : What you call realism is only sadism, Murray. You're so insecure.

  Murray Myer : Sure, I'm insecure. Who isn't?

  Vida Dove : I am not.

  Murray Myer : No? You're thirty years old and afraid to get married. That's pretty secure isn't it?

  Vida Dove : I'm not afraid to get married, Murray.

  Murray Myer : Then why don't you quit stringing Eddie along? What kind of a life is it for the guy, picking you up three times a week at the Circle Inn... ..and bringing you straight home?

  Vida Dove : My marriage is my own business, Murray.

  Murray Myer : You are afraid. And I'll tell you why; you think about being alone in an apartment with Eddie, that moment when the living room lights go out and there's only one room to go to. You - the princess - being just a wife. And you can't face it, Vida.

  Vida Dove : I don't know why you have such a fantastic idea of me, Murray. I really don't know why.

  Murray Myer : I'll tell you why; because I went around with you before I married Evelyn. You were a prude then and you're still a prude. You're a born old maid. A man doesn't want an old maid. He wants a woman.

  Murray Myer : [she disdains from responding]  Well, I gave you a good chance to hit back, why don't you use it?

  Vida Dove : Stop it, Murray!

  Murray Myer : You won't say it? Alright then, I'll say say it: and a woman wants a man, and I'm only half a man and Evelyn's a full-blooded woman. Isn't that what you're thinking? Say it for heaven's sake! Say it!