The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
Miriam Hopkins: Temple Drake
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Quotes
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Temple Drake : Why do you keep the baby in the wood box?
Ruby Lemar : So the rats don't get it.
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Temple Drake : Oh, come on, honey. Be nice, now.
Toddy Gowan : Nice? That's what you always say. It ain't fair! Fire a man all up and - poof - put him out.
Temple Drake : Do I do that? Sure 'nuff?
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Temple Drake : Do I? Sure 'nuff. Just me? Men are so funny. I said no. Of course, I like you - dreadfully. Well, I'm not a wrestler! You! No. Hey, you're too rough! Let go! Good night.
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Temple Drake : Darling, won't you unhook me?
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Temple Drake : [kissing in the car, comes up for air] That's enough! Let's go in.
Toddy Gowan : No. Not till you promise.
Temple Drake : You're drunk.
Toddy Gowan : Sure I am. But, it isn't the gin.
[pulls Temple close]
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Toddy Gowan : How's about it, sugar?
Temple Drake : Oh, Toddy! Take me somewhere. Anywhere! I want to get away from here.
Toddy Gowan : Say, what you need is a drink.
Temple Drake : Yes. A drink! Lots of drinks!
Toddy Gowan : Yeah, Drake!
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Temple Drake : You can't be arrested for dreaming.
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Temple Drake : It's like there were two me's. One of 'em says: Yes. Yes. Quick. Don't let me get away.
Stephen Benbow : And the other?
Temple Drake : I won't tell you. But, what it wants or does or what'll happen to it, I don't know myself! All I know is I hate it!
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Trigger : He's stuck on you ain't he? You can tell that. You came through for me. You stood up for me against one of your own kind. Honest, I never thought you'd do it! Sometimes I thought you kinda looked down on me and hated me too - when we wasn't together. Honest, babe, that's how I had you figured. I had you wrong. Say, when you kissed me, in front of him and him stuck on ya - that subpoena don't mean a thing. We'll go to the big town until this case moves off. Lights. Music. Plenty of rocks on your pretty hands and - hey, what are you puttin' your hat on for?
Temple Drake : I'm leaving.
Trigger : You're what? I don't get you. You mean you're leavin' me? Hey, it was a rip, huh? You put on an act for me so I wouldn't croak the boyfriend - is that it?
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Trigger : Kissin' me and double-crossin' me and I fell for it. I got gabby and spilled my brains and you givin' me the laugh all the time.
Temple Drake : No I wasn't.
Trigger : And now you're going to put the finger on me.
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Temple Drake : I'm not going back. I'm never going back. Nobody'll ever see me again. I'll just - disappear.
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Stephen Benbow : Your family, the Drakes, have lived here for generations?
Temple Drake : Yes.
Temple Drake : How long?
Stephen Benbow : Since before the war.
Stephen Benbow : The Civil War?
Temple Drake : Yes.
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Stephen Benbow : Honey, will you be honest with me, just once?
Temple Drake : Of course.
Stephen Benbow : Really? Man to man?
Temple Drake : Yes, Steve.
Stephen Benbow : Marry me.
Temple Drake : No.
Stephen Benbow : Why not?
Temple Drake : Why do you have to ask that?
Stephen Benbow : I want to know.
Temple Drake : Perhaps I like you too much.
Stephen Benbow : And love me too little?
Temple Drake : It isn't you Steve, it's me.
Stephen Benbow : What do you mean?
Temple Drake : Why, I'm no good.
Stephen Benbow : Don't be silly.
Temple Drake : Why, I'm not. Let's not talk about it anymore.
Stephen Benbow : But Temple!
Temple Drake : I can't explain. It's just me, it's something inside me.
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Court Clerk : Put your right hand on the Bible please. Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Temple Drake : So help me God.
Stephen Benbow : Your name?
Temple Drake : Temple Drake!