Adam's Rib (1949)
Spencer Tracy: Adam Bonner
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Quotes
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Kip Lurie : Well, good luck tomorrow, Amanda. I'm on your side, I guess you know that. You've got me so convinced, I may even go out and become a woman. Goodnight.
[leaves]
Adam Bonner : And he wouldn't have far to go, either.
Amanda Bonner : Shh!
Adam Bonner : What's a matter?
Kip Lurie : [steps back into the kitchen and whispers] He can hear you.
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Adam Bonner : [takes a bite out of his fake gun] Licorice. If there's anything I'm a sucker for, it's licorice.
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Beryl Caighn : She tried to shoot me.
Adam Bonner : How do you know that?
Beryl Caighn : Because she did it.
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Adam Bonner : No matter what you think you think, you think the same as I think.
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Amanda Bonner : What I said was true: there's no difference between the sexes. Men, women, the same.
Adam Bonner : They are, huh?
Amanda Bonner : Well, maybe there is a difference, but it's a little difference.
Adam Bonner : Well, you know as the French say...
Amanda Bonner : What do they say?
Adam Bonner : Vive la Difference!
Amanda Bonner : Which means?
Adam Bonner : Which means hooray for that little difference.
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Beryl Caighn : And then I heard a noise.
Adam Bonner : What kind of noise?
Beryl Caighn : Like a sound.
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Adam Bonner : [Adam spanks Amanda's bottom and she gets off the massage table and glares at him] What's the matter? Don't you want your rubdown? What? What are ya, sore about a little slap?
Amanda Bonner : No.
Adam Bonner : Well, what then?
Amanda Bonner : [outraged] You meant that, didn't you? You *really* meant that.
Adam Bonner : Why, no, I...
Amanda Bonner : Yes, you did. I can tell. I know your type. I know a *slap* from a *slug*.
Adam Bonner : Well, OK, OK... .
Amanda Bonner : I'm not so sure it is. I'm not so sure I care to--expose myself to typical instinctive masculine brutality.
Adam Bonner : Oh, come now.
Amanda Bonner : And it felt not only as though you meant it, but as though you felt you had a *right* to. I can tell.
Adam Bonner : What've you got back there? Radar equipment?
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Amanda Bonner : [addressing the court] For years, women have been ridiculed, pampered, chucked under the chin. I ask you, on behalf of us all, be fair to the fair sex.
Adam Bonner : We'll be here a year.
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Kip Lurie : Did I hear someone say "sing it again"?
Adam Bonner : No!
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Adam Bonner : What do you want around here, anyway?
Kip Lurie : As if you didn't already know.
[looks at Amanda]
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Adam Bonner : Is that what they taught you at Yale Law School?
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Adam Bonner : Pinkie?
Amanda Bonner : What, Pinky?
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Amanda Bonner : This sort of thing burns my goat.
Adam Bonner : Your what?
Amanda Bonner : My goat! My goat!
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Amanda Bonner : All I'm saying is, why let this deplorable system seep into our courts of law where women are supposed to be equal?
Adam Bonner : Mostly, I think, females get advantages.
Amanda Bonner : We don't want advantages, and we don't want prejudices.
Adam Bonner : Oh, don't get excited, honey, and don't--oh, you're giving me the Bryn Mawr accent.
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Amanda Bonner : Now, look, all I'm trying to say is that there are lots of things that a man can do and in society's eyes, it's all hunky-dory. A woman does the same thing--the same, mind you--and she's an outcast.
Adam Bonner : Finished?
Amanda Bonner : No. Now I'm not blaming you personally, Adam, because this is so.
Adam Bonner : Oh, well, that's awfully large of you.
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Adam Bonner : Why did you marry her?
Warren Francis Attinger : How should I know? Who knows? Why'd you marry yours? Does anybody know?
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Amanda Bonner : Why? Why? What's so funny?
Adam Bonner : Nothin'. You just sound cute when you get causey.
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Adam Bonner : I am going to cut you into 12 little pieces and feed you to the jury, so get prepared for it.
Amanda Bonner : [turns off the light, takes off her robe] Goodnight, Pinky.
[kiss]
Adam Bonner : Aww, goodnight.
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Amanda Bonner : Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Adam Bonner : Give you a real rubdown later if you'll give me one.
Amanda Bonner : Yeah, Adam!
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Amanda Bonner : Pinky.
Adam Bonner : Calling me?
Amanda Bonner : What's that?
Adam Bonner : Just the best hat in the world - for the best head.
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Adam Bonner : Where do you wanna go tonight?
Amanda Bonner : No place. I wanna stay home tonight.
Adam Bonner : What?
Amanda Bonner : Would you mind?
Adam Bonner : What?
Amanda Bonner : Please?
Adam Bonner : Well, I don't know.
Amanda Bonner : Cook up something ourselves. Something exotic! How would you care for some of that?
Adam Bonner : Oh, I would.
Amanda Bonner : Of what?
Adam Bonner : What you said.
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Amanda Bonner : You feel Pinky, cranky? You feel cranky, Pinky?
Adam Bonner : Hmm?
Amanda Bonner : You feel cranky, Pinky?
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Kip Lurie : Hello, you well-known thing, you.
Adam Bonner : How are you?
Kip Lurie : You just ask that because you can't think of anything else to say. You don't care whether I live or die.
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Adam Bonner : You're having the wrong kind of fun down in that courtroom. You're shaking the law by the tail and I don't like it!
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Amanda Bonner : You're aging fast, that's all.
Adam Bonner : You can say that again.
Amanda Bonner : All right, I will. You're aging fast, that's all.
Adam Bonner : Oh, and you're helping.
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Adam Bonner : Oh, don't be diriculous, ridiculous.
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Adam Bonner : I've done it all the way I said I would. Sickness, health, richer poorer, better or worse. This is too worse. This is basic. I'm old-fashioned. I like two sexes. Yeah, and another thing, all of a sudden, I don't like being married to what is known as a new woman. I want a wife, not a competitor. Competitor! Competitor! If you wanna be a big he-woman, go and be it, but not with me.
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Court Stenographer : Pinkie?
Adam Bonner : Yes.
Court Stenographer : What's that? A name?
Adam Bonner : Yes.
Court Stenographer : Whose?
Adam Bonner : The Counsel for the defense.
Court Stenographer : Oh. Is that a Y or an I-E?
Amanda Bonner : Y for him, I-E for me.
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Adam Bonner : I think the arguments advanced by the Counsel for the defense were sound. Mere sound.
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Amanda Bonner : I have a thing or two to say too!
Adam Bonner : Oh, no, no.
Amanda Bonner : Or three!
Adam Bonner : Don't try me now, Pinkie.
Amanda Bonner : Don't you Pinkie me!
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Adam Bonner : I'm right and you're wrong.
Amanda Bonner : Worthless, corrupt, mean, rotten, dirty, contemptible, little, petty, gruesome, contemptible...
Adam Bonner : You said all that before.
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Amanda Bonner : Those were real, those tears.
Adam Bonner : Of course, they were. But I can turn 'em on anytime I want to. Us boys can do it, too, you know. It's just that we just never think to.
Amanda Bonner : Bunk!
Adam Bonner : Bunk, huh? Keep your eye on the eye.
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Amanda Bonner : I'm *real* proud of you.
Adam Bonner : I'd rather have you say that than anything.
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Jules Frikke : Juel Delwyn, $280. You should note all these on your stubs. Saves time.
Adam Bonner : That was mine. Not deductible.
Jules Frikke : What is it? Maybe it is.
Adam Bonner : Just some underwear.
Jules Frikke : Underwear? 280 dollars' worth?
Adam Bonner : It wasn't my underwear.
Jules Frikke : Very well.
Amanda Bonner : Thank you.
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Adam Bonner : Hey, do you know you were pretty cute in there today, my little?
Amanda Bonner : You weren't so bad yourself, chum.