Detour (1945)
Ann Savage: Vera
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Quotes
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Vera : Shut up, yer makin' noises like a husband.
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Vera : I'm gonna see that you sell this car so you don't get caught.
Al Roberts : Thanks. Of course, your interest wouldn't be financial, would it? You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits?
Vera : Well, now that you insist, how can I refuse? 100% will do.
Al Roberts : Fine. I'm relieved. I thought for a moment you were gonna take it all.
Vera : I don't wanna be a hog.
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Vera : Say, who do you think you're talking to - a hick? Listen mister, I been around, and I know a wrong guy when I see one. What'd you do, kiss him with a wrench?
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Al Roberts : Oh, sure, Phoenix. You look just like a Phoenix girl.
Vera : Are the girls in Phoenix that bad?
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Al Roberts : How far you goin'?
Vera : How far YOU goin'?
Al Roberts : [as narrator] That took me by surprise, and I turned around to look at her. She was facing straight ahead, so I couldn't see her eyes. She was young - not more than 24. Man, she looked like she had been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world! Yet in spite of that, I got the impression of beauty, not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you, or the beauty you dream about with your wife, but a natural beauty, a beauty that's almost homely, because it's so real. And suddenly she turned to face me...
Vera : How far did ya say you were goin'?
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Vera : We're outta liquor, Roberts!
Al Roberts : Yeah!
Vera : Too bad! I wanted to get tight tonight!
Al Roberts : Well, I think you succeeded!
Vera : Am I tight?
Al Roberts : As a prima donna's corset!
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Vera : If you act wise, well, mister, you'll pop into jail so fast it'll give you the bends!
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Vera : You know how to work it?
Al Roberts : I invented it.
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Vera : I'd hate to see a fellow as young as you wind up sniffin' that perfume Arizona hands out free to murderers!
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Vera : Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you find it's the ninth inning.
Al Roberts : You read that somewhere...
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Vera : I'm tired of this game. Let's have some blackjack.
Al Roberts : Play solitaire!
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Vera : Do I rate a whistle?
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Vera : Boy oh boy! Sure feels good to be clean again!
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Vera : You're no gentleman, see?