The Americanization of Emily (1964)

Liz Fraser: Sheila

Quotes 

• Emily Barham : Sheila, do you think I'm a prig?

  Sheila : Oh lord, yes, love. You've been shattering us all with your virtue ever since you joined this motor pool.

  Emily Barham : I've been that awful?

  Sheila : Bloody virgin goddess herself.

  Emily Barham : The fact is I'm anything but. I'm grotesquely sentimental. I fall in love at the drop of a hat. That's why I gave up hospital driving.

• Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison : I need a girl, Sheila. A bright, bridge-playing girl. Very crusty, elegant. British diction calculated to bring out the upstart in any American. Who can handle herself at a dinner table and play bridge like an assassin. Whatever happened to Alice Luddens?

  Sheila : Well, she's married off herself to a lieutenant in the paratroops. You can't be too choosey, I suppose, if you're a widow with two kids.

• Emily Barham : But it all ends in someone's bed, doesn't it? I mean, that's the point, isn't it?

  Sheila : Well, look who's talking, after that lurid confession that you've just made.

  Emily Barham : Sorry. I am a prig at that.

• Emily Barham : I don't want to feel tender towards anyone. Especially soldiers. I've lost a husband, a father and a brother in the war. When my husband died, I almost went insane. I take these things badly. I fall in love too easily, and I shatter too easily. I don't want any more doomed men.

  Sheila : Oh, do come tonight, hon. These men aren't doomed. They'll never see any of the shooting, that's for sure. We'll have a few laughs.