Middle of the Night (1959)

Kim Novak: Betty Preisser

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Quotes 

• Jerry Kingsley : Do you feel better?

  Betty Preisser : Why, Mr. Kingsley, I feel much better.

  Jerry Kingsley : You made a decision. Suddenly there's not such big, black clouds in the sky. There's an old European saying: I'm an old man, and I've had many troubles. And most of them never happened. And you're a young kid and you're very pretty. So, go wash your face, put on some lipstick, call up a friend, drink a beer with him.

• Jerry Kingsley : [at 01:48:40]  Get away from me.

  Betty Preisser : [01:48:43]  I love you, Jerry. I need you. I don't know what to do without you.

  Jerry Kingsley : [at 01:48:45]  That's a lousy kind of love.

  Betty Preisser : [at 01:48:47]  Well, it's the only kind of love I know. I'd be a good wife to you, Jerry. I promise you that.

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• Walter Lockman : Hey, when are you going out with me? I'll show you a good time. I thought you understood when you were hired, you had to go out with the bosses.

  [squeezes Betty] 

  Betty Preisser : Would you cut it out, please. I don't feel very well.

  Walter Lockman : Now that you got your divorce from your husband, how about it?

  [squeezes Betty again] 

  Betty Preisser : Please, cut it out.

  Jerry Kingsley : Walter, leave the girls alone!

  Walter Lockman : Oh, what did I do? Huh?

  Betty Preisser : I'm sorry Mr. Lockman.

• Betty Preisser : It's not like your Mr. Lockman. You're not just a *wolf*. You're a serious man.

• Betty Preisser : I think this should be our last date. We've been out four times now and I've enjoyed myself, I honestly have. But, I just - well, you're a very nice man. Everyone in the office thinks you're wonderful. You know that. I don't think there's a person up there who wouldn't do anything in the world for you. Well, I just feel that the situation's impossible. I mean, you being my boss and everything.

• Betty Preisser : Everybody else that we knew were getting married. So, we got married. I guess we just got tired of necking in the back of the car. We used to eat in restaurants all the time. When we'd come home, we'd watch television. Around 11 o'clock we would both march into the bedroom like it was a gas chamber. I used to wonder if everyone was like this.

• Betty Preisser : I was a wild kid. You know, I used to go out every night and neck in Central Park with any boy who'd ask me. Everyone thought I was gonna turn out to be a real bad type.

• Betty Preisser : If you weren't such a decent man, you'd probably make out a lot better with me. I mean, if you were just on the make, I would probably be saying to myself, "Well, I'm pretty lonely and he's a gentleman." The way I've been feeling lately, who cares anyway.

• Betty Preisser : Boy, I like having a fuss made over me. And I don't mind saying I'm a little tight too. You know me, one whiff, you got to look for me on the ceiling.

• Betty Preisser : Don't you tell me how beautiful I am, And don't tell me how much you desire me because I'm sick of being desirable. I'd like to think that I had something more to give a man than this!

• Jerry Kingsley : It's a lousy kind of love.

  Betty Preisser : It's the only kind of love I know.