Sebastian (1968)

Susannah York: Rebecca Howard

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Quotes 

• Miss Elliott : [answering the phone]  Abbey nine seven double three...

  Rebecca Howard : Is there someone there called, Sebastian... oh... Sebastian someone?

  Miss Elliott : Mister Sebastian...

  Rebecca Howard : I met him in Oxford in the spring and he offered me a job

  Miss Elliott : Hold on

  Sebastian : [to Sebastian]  A girl who says you offered her a job... in the spring

  Sebastian : In the spring?

  Miss Elliott : At Oxford

  Sebastian : Ah! Licence number 66-0-F-Y-H

  [he picks up the handset] 

  Sebastian : Let me smother you in jewels and furs; let me whisk you to Monte in my Mercedes...

  Rebecca Howard : What?

  Sebastian : ...Let me teach you the meaning of desire

  Rebecca Howard : Sounds a bit old-fashioned to me

  Sebastian : Yeah, well it is rather an old-fashioned business

  Rebecca Howard : What do you do?

  Sebastian : [to Miss Elliott]  what do we do?

  Miss Elliott : [picks up handset]  This is Mister Sebastian's personal assistant. We are a more-or-less sane and respectable department of the Civil Service, appearances notwithstanding. Would you like me to arrange an interview?

  Rebecca Howard : Civil Service? Good God! No thank you very much

  Miss Elliott : [to Sebastian]  Well, you've lost her. Is she any good?

  Sebastian : Don't know. Can't tell.

  Miss Elliott : You've been doing rather a lot of this stuff recently

  Sebastian : A lot of what stuff?

  Miss Elliott : Gaily irresponsible stuff. This fart-arsing about. It's time you took a proper holiday

• [last lines] 

  Rebecca Howard : [half-joking]  You're going to make me so miserable!

• Rebecca Howard : What's Sebastian like?

  Elsa Shahn : He's a poor lost lamb like the rest of us.