Jack Lemmon credited as playing...
Pete Sheppard
- Pete Sheppard: Say, if you care to give me your address, I could drop you a postcard and fix it up for you to see this picture when it gets done.
- Gladys Glover: I'd give my right arm to see myself in the movies.
- Pete Sheppard: You don't have to give me your right arm. Just give me your right address.
- Gladys Glover: 262 West 61st Street, Room 9.
- Pete Sheppard: Well, so long Gladys.
- Gladys Glover: [Extends her hand but instead of him shaking it, Pete kisses it impulsively. She looks taken aback]
- Pete Sheppard: I saw a fella do that in a French movie last week. I've been meaning to try it ever since.
- Sour Man in Central Park: Look, girlie. I don't mind a pick up once in a while, only I like to do the pickin' see?
- Gladys Glover: Lister, mister. How would you like to watch some of your language?
- Sour Man in Central Park: Who are you?
- Gladys Glover: Nobody, that's who.
- Sour Man in Central Park: So why are you trying to make a big stink?
- Gladys Glover: Who, me?
- Sour Man in Central Park: Sure you, not who.
- [to the others in the park listening]
- Sour Man in Central Park: Comes in walkin' in barefooted. Sits down on the top of me...
- Gladys Glover: [Incredulous] Top of?
- Sour Man in Central Park: Starts throwing around peanuts around. Gets all them dusty birds over. Top it off, she tries to pick me up... if I ain't got enough troubles now.
- Gladys Glover: Listen, mister, how would you like a good smack in your face?
- Sour Man in Central Park: Why don't you try it?
- Gladys Glover: Because it's too hot's why!
- Sour Man in Central Park: What a Park!
- [He leaves]
- Gladys Glover: [to Pete Sheppard] How do you like that?
- Pete Sheppard: [Who has been filming the encounter] Not bad. A real interesting shot.
- [after meeting Gladys in central Park]
- Pete Sheppard: Good luck to you, Gladys. I sure hope you make a name for yourself, if that's what you want. If that's what you really want, you'll get it.
- Gladys Glover: How?
- Pete Sheppard: I don't know. Just a theory of mine: that not only 'where there's a will, there's a way'... but, 'where's there's a way, there's a will'. See?
- Pete Sheppard: Hey, look, Gladys, any other kind of date, you want to break it, okay, but this has been set up for a week. And when I go to the trouble of callin' my mother and she goes to the trouble of fixin' a whole dinner and, well, my father - he probably even went and shaved.
- Gladys Glover: Well, maybe tomorrow night?
- Pete Sheppard: Dinner'll be cold by then.
- Gladys Glover: Gee, I feel just terrible.
- Pete Sheppard: You *should*!
- Pete Sheppard: Give me a double.
- Bartender: A double what?
- Pete Sheppard: A double anything. What do *I* care?
- Pete Sheppard: What's your line?
- Gladys Glover: Well, since this morning, about 11:30, nothing. I got canned on account of three-quarters of an inch - around the hips.
- Pete Sheppard: [looks down] Well, think of that.
- Gladys Glover: I had this good job modeling girdles. Do you know what they are?
- Pete Sheppard: To be sure.
- Gladys Glover: So, this designer and the boss got into a whole hassle on account of a couple of wrinkles. Back and forth, back and forth. Finally, I was in in the middle. So, the designer says, the girdle's the right size, I'm the wrong size. So, the boss got excited and says, "I'll bet you $50." So, Mr. Ostrander took the bet. He's a designer. They get out a tape measure. Just my luck. This morning. Three-quarters of an inch too much!
- Pete Sheppard: It's my business: documentaries.
- Gladys Glover: What's that?
- Pete Sheppard: Well, I make movies only they're about real things: people. places, and things. This one I'm working on now is about Central Park.
- Gladys Glover: Well, I'm glad you think I'm a real thing.
- Pete Sheppard: Decidedly.
- Pete Sheppard: What most people, real people, want - is privacy. That's about the best thing anybody can have.
- Gladys Glover: Not me.
- Pete Sheppard: What is this craze to get so well known?
- Gladys Glover: What craze?
- Pete Sheppard: Well, you think everybody is so anxious to be above the crowd?
- Gladys Glover: Yes.
- Pete Sheppard: But, what's the point of it? In the first place, everybody can't be above the crowd, can they?
- Gladys Glover: No. But, everybody can try, if they want to.
- Pete Sheppard: You want my opinion?
- Gladys Glover: No.
- Pete Sheppard: All right, my opinion is this: it's better that your name stand for something on one block; than it stands for nothing or something bad all over the entire world!
- Pete Sheppard: Look, Gladys, please don't get mixed up in anything more. You want to turn into a freak? Now, how do you think that anything...
- Brod Clinton: Of course, there's that other program, "The People Speak". They're always looking for goofballs.
- Pete Sheppard: Now, hear that, you're a goofball.
- Brod Clinton: No, look, that's just - that's just a figure of speech, son. Look, I happen to know this fella that runs this program. Let me sound him. See what happens. Okay, honey?
- Gladys Glover: Go ahead, sound.
- Pete Sheppard: I personally have reached a point where I sort of, more or less, like my looks. But, then, of course, I've been around them for quite a long while.
- Pete Sheppard: It is just hopeless for me to try and compete with a man who drives a foreign car - and wears a silk suit and, no doubt, real gold cufflinks.
- Pete Sheppard: [Walking around inspecting Evan's foreign vehicle] Imported.
- Evan Adams III: [In the driver's seat] That's right.
- Pete Sheppard: Hm. Great little car.
- Evan Adams III: I like it.
- Pete Sheppard: I like it too.
- Evan Adams III: [to Evan's irritation, Pete continues to inspect the car] Need something?
- Pete Sheppard: What's car like this worth?
- Evan Adams III: About $5,000. Why? You want to buy it?
- Pete Sheppard: Yes, I do. The only thing I don't happen to have $5,000 on me just njow. And I don't get paid 'til Friday.
- Evan Adams III: That's too bad.
- Pete Sheppard: [Digging in his pocket] You wouldn't take eleven dollars and what... thirty cents. I suppose that'd do it, eh?
- Evan Adams III: No.
- Pete Sheppard: I didn't think it would.