Forever, Darling (1956)

Lucille Ball: Susan Vega

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• Susan Vega : Oh, go smoke a test tube!

• Lorenzo Xavier Vega : It's a beautiful world, Susan. And someday they'll be no hunger and no struggle. Men will have time to understand each other. This thing is going to come, all right. The question is how soon? For twenty years or must it be a thousand? Never was danger in the world as great as it is today; but, never was paradise so near.

  Susan Vega : You know something, Larry? You ought to be President of the United States!

• Millie Opdyke : You can't get along with just Amy!

  Susan Vega : We get along all right with just Amy!

• Susan Vega : Separate bedrooms - it does, sort of, a lonesome way to sleep. Don't you find it hard to fall asleep when you're alone?

  Millie Opdyke : Certainly not! You get to like it.

  Susan Vega : Oh, I don't know. And my feet! What about my feet? You know, when they get cold, I kinda like to...

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : Yeah, well, eh...

• Susan Vega : Why do you look like James Mason?

  The Guardian Angel : Do I look like James Mason?

  Susan Vega : I should say you do!

  The Guardian Angel : [admiring himself in a mirror]  So I look like James Mason, do I?

• Susan Vega : Look, I know you don't like Henry Opdyke.

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : He's a load of hay.

  Susan Vega : And I wish you would remember that Millie is my cousin and my closest friend.

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : She's a load of hay, too.

  Susan Vega : She is not!

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : She's a breed of cat that's dyin' and deserves to die.

  Susan Vega : That's a terrible thing to say. Millie is devoted to me. She's a fine woman.

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : And I'm Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

• Lorenzo Xavier Vega : [Yosemite]  I think it'll do you good.

  Susan Vega : Sure, it'll do me great!

• Susan Vega : When you decided to leave at six o'clock, did you know it came so early in the morning?

• Susan Vega : Maybe we're to early? Do you think the mosquitos will be up yet?

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : They'll be up. Don't worry.

  Susan Vega : I hope so. It seems a shame to wake 'em up just to kill 'em.

• Susan Vega : Oh, pooh!

• Lorenzo Xavier Vega : Oh yes, the secret crushes on movie stars. Millie's married to a load of hay; so, she takes it out on Robert Taylor.

  Susan Vega : Gregory Peck!

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : All right, Gregory Peck, then!

• Susan Vega : Maybe I annoy you. But, let me tell you something, you annoy me too! You spilling ashes all over the place. If I didn't trail around after you, picking up lighted cigarettes, you'd burn holes in every piece of furniture in the house!

• Susan Vega : And this thing!

  [Picks up Larry's squeezebox] 

  Susan Vega : Aw-he, Aw-he, Aw-he, Ah-he! It drives me crazy! You'll never learn to play it properly. It's a perfectly ridiculous hobby.

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : I don't agree! Albert Einstein played the fiddle!

  Susan Vega : Well, you're no Einstein!

• Susan Vega : I saw, Larry, I saw something. It wasn't there; but, there it was. I mean it wasn't; but, it was.

• Dr. Edward R. Winter : Why are you so sure he's an angel?

  Susan Vega : Because, I saw him that way. I did! Because I prefer not to think of him as a man! I refuse to go about saying that there's an extremely handsome man following me. Why, if I ever heard a woman say that, I'd know what I'd think of her! You see, I know he's not there. I know its just something in my mind. But, if my mind insist that there's a very attractive man running after me; why, well, it's just comic!

• Dr. Edward R. Winter : When did this hallucination occur for the first time?

  Susan Vega : Last night.

  Dr. Edward R. Winter : Where?

  Susan Vega : Well, it, he started on the roof and then he came on into my bedroom.

  [Dr. Winter smiles] 

  Susan Vega : Oh, nothing happened. He just - walked through.

  Dr. Edward R. Winter : Nothing?

• Susan Vega : Was there ever any insanity in our family?

  Charles Y. Bewell : Oh, no. Not more than in most. Your Great Aunt Agatha was a suffragette and your Uncle Louie was a trifle on the jolly side.

• Susan Vega : Why do you look like James Mason?

  The Guardian Angel : I look the way you want me to look.

  Susan Vega : Oh. You mean, if you were Millie's angel you'd look like Gregory Peck?

  The Guardian Angel : That's the idea. And if I were Larry's angel, I should look like Ava Gardner.

  Susan Vega : You would not! Larry's not like other men!

  The Guardian Angel : Isn't he?

• Lorenzo Xavier Vega : I had the darnedest dream last night.

  Susan Vega : Did you? That's very interesting.

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : I dreamed, sitting at the foot of my bed was Ava Gardner and she was wearing a kind of a beautiful manteiga...

• Charles Y. Bewell : What's this you were saying about Ava Gardner?

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : Oh, I dreamed about her last night.

  Charles Y. Bewell : Hmmm. Nice going, boy.

  The Guardian Angel : [talking privately to Susan]  Well, I can't help it if he dreams about her. Do you remember the time you dreamed that you and I were caught in an elevator alone, between floors, and you...

  Susan Vega : Quiet!

• James Mason : [as the leading man in the movie]  Are you my woman? Are you? Are you? Answer me. Are you my woman?

  Susan Vega : [fantasizing that she s the leading lady in the movie]  Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

• The Guardian Angel : Cut is out! Snap out of it, baby!

  Susan Vega : What did you call me?

  The Guardian Angel : Baby.

  Susan Vega : That's very sweet of you, Angel.

• Susan Vega : All right, why did she love him?

  The Guardian Angel : Because, the man with the face of a mountain goat - had the heart of an Abraham Lincoln.

• Susan Vega : I know what you're going to say, "The husband and wife are one and the husband is the one." Look, that's a very old fashioned idea. Why should the wife always go the husband's way?

  The Guardian Angel : [laughs]  Not always! But, in your case, there's no other way to go.

• Susan Vega : Gee, it's awfully dark in here.

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : Yes, dear.

  Susan Vega : This is some of the darkest dark I've ever seen.

• Susan Vega : Us galley slaves don't row very well unless we're whipped!

• Susan Vega : If you're going to bawl me out, bawl me out in English!

• Susan Vega : Well, that's the thanks I get for coming along to help you!

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : Help me? I would have gotten more help from a drunken kangaroo!

• Lorenzo Xavier Vega : That's the kind of remark I expect from a person who has the IQ of a moron!

  Susan Vega : Moron?

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : Yeah!

  Susan Vega : Well, that did it! That's the last straw. I'm going home.

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : Good!

  Susan Vega : You Latin Louie Pasteur, you!

• Susan Vega : I'm not completely a dope, you know.

• Susan Vega : I'll oil my zipper!

• Lorenzo Xavier Vega : [final lines]  You dun't?

  Susan Vega : No, I dun't.

• Lorenzo Xavier Vega : Look, Susan, mosquitoes only sleep a couple of hours a night anyway...

  Susan Vega : You know, that explains why those mosquitoes are so cranky.

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : What does?

  Susan Vega : If I only had two hours' sleep, I'd go around biting people, too.

• Susan Vega : [a hoot owl is making loud hooting noises outside their camping tent]  Larry, why don't you go out and chase him away?

  Lorenzo Xavier Vega : Maybe it's his mating call? I hate to disturb young love.