John Loves Mary (1949)
Patricia Neal: Mary McKinley
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Quotes
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Gen. Biddle : Uh, your name, sergeant?
Mary McKinley : John Lawrence.
Gen. Biddle : Serial number?
John Lawrence : 3-9-...
Mary McKinley : [Jumps in] 3-9-1-5-0-7-8-2.
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Mary McKinley : I like generals.
Gen. Biddle : Thank you.
Mary McKinley : Next to sergeants.
Gen. Biddle : I wish I was a sergeant.
Mary McKinley : Why, general!
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Mary McKinley : Your darling? I, I couldn't marry anyone so noble and patriotic. I, I'd be too impressed.
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Mary McKinley : Darling, you don't have to tell me anything you did overseas - I mean, with girls.
John Lawrence : All right, dear.
Mary McKinley : All right, what?
John Lawrence : All right, I won't tell you.
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Mary McKinley : Your duty? Who do you think you are, Nathan Hale?
John Lawrence : Well, I have to live with myself.
Mary McKinley : Well, live with yourself. You're not gonna live with me.
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Mary McKinley : [With her head on John's chest] Four years is a long time. You were lonely. You didn't have anybody to talk to.
John Lawrence : I wasn't lonely. There were four million fellas with me.
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Mary McKinley : Don't you want to dance?
John Lawrence : Well, if it's all right with your father.
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Mary McKinley : Dr. Zueger said the reason we're supposed to be reserved is to show you the difference between us and the foreign girls who throw themselves at you.
John Lawrence : Dr. Zueger is a German spy.
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Mary McKinley : How did John sound to you on the telephone?
Fred Taylor : What do you mean?
Mary McKinley : Well, I thought his voice was deeper than when he left.
Fred Taylor : Oh, well, that could be. He was a sergeant.
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Mary McKinley : Are you happy now?
John Lawrence : I don't know. What're you gonna ask me?
Mary McKinley : What would you like to do, especially?
John Lawrence : [They're hugging on the sofa] We're on the right track.
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Fred Taylor : That's right, your father's a congressman, isn't he?
Mary McKinley : He's a senator.
Fred Taylor : Well, that's uh, uh, yeah, well I know the difference - we had it in school.
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Mary McKinley : The Germans are back to their wives and sweethearts. The Italians are back. The Japanese are back. The only woman in whole world who's being kept apart from the man she loves is... is me.
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Oscar Dugan : What's he gonna do if he wants to eat snails?
Mary McKinley : Eat 'em.
Oscar Dugan : You know how absence makes the heart grow.
Mary McKinley : Not always. Four years apart is an awful long time for people in love.
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Mary McKinley : I carried you 200 yards.
Gen. Biddle : It wasn't 200 - it was nearer 75
Mary McKinley : It was at least 200.
Gen. Biddle : And carrying me behind the lines was a nice way to get out of the shooting - don't forget that.
Mary McKinley : Oh, that's a fine thing to say, John.
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Gen. Biddle : You saved my life. Now you've ruined it. We're even.
Mary McKinley : Don't say that, John.
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Mary McKinley : Remember everything we went through together? When you were wounded, I carried you in my arms like a baby. One of us was crying, and it wasn't you.
Gen. Biddle : You should have let me stay there.
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Gen. Biddle : I don't owe you a thing, not a thing.
Mary McKinley : I'm naming my baby after you - gonna call him John Harold Taylor.
Gen. Biddle : He hasn't got a chance.