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Keir Dullea, John Forsythe, and Lana Turner in Madame X (1966)

Lana Turner: Holly Parker Anderson

Madame X

Lana Turner credited as playing...

Holly Parker Anderson

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  • Dan Sullivan: I'll buy you some new clothes, fix that hair a believable color. You'll be respectable.
  • Holly Parker: The road between me and respectability is strewn with broken bottles.
  • Dan Sullivan: Respectable enough for my purposes.
  • Holly Parker: I don't share your life. I exist in a cubbyhole of it.
  • Phil Benton: In our neck of the woods, it's the facade that counts. It covers our corrosion.
  • Holly Parker: Well, that's hardly unique to Fairfield County.
  • Phil Benton: It was spawned here. This is the breeding ground of the shallow set.
  • Holly Parker: If you want Washington, why are you going to North Africa?
  • Phil Benton: You have to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
  • Holly Parker: Why, thank you, kind sir. You make me feel like a woman again.
  • Phil Benton: Darling, no one could possibly miss the fact you're a woman.
  • Holly Parker: Now there's really a subtle compliment.
  • Phil Benton: We are the greatest couple in the world.
  • Holly Parker: If not the most modest.
  • Holly Parker: I've been so lost lately. I needed to see you, to be close to you again. I guess I needed to feel needed.
  • Clayton 'Clay' Anderson: Don't you ever doubt that you're needed.
  • Clayton 'Clay' Anderson: I want to kiss you, but you seem so far away.
  • Holly Parker: It's been - such a long time.
  • Phil Benton: Don't tell me you're afraid of your husband?
  • Holly Parker: I'm in love with my husband.
  • Phil Benton: Are you sure?
  • Phil Benton: To life! It's only a bore when you take it seriously.
  • Holly Parker: Well, I'll drink to that!
  • Holly Parker: Why, you contemptible, rotten...
  • Phil Benton: Contemptible, rotten what? Never end on a dangling insult.
  • Holly Parker: Please. Please, I'll get on my knees to you. I'll do anything you ask.
  • Dan Sullivan: What you need is a hair of the dog. Come on, I've got a bottle.
  • Holly Parker: Friend, you are a friend.
  • Dan Sullivan: You're Suzy Somebody, ain't you?
  • Holly Parker: You bet your brass I'm Suzy Somebody.
  • Holly Parker: You take a lot for granted.
  • Dan Sullivan: I just don't take no for an answer.
  • Holly Parker: I, my friend, am very drunk. With any luck at all, very soon, I'm gonna be a lot drunker.
  • Holly Parker: I don't have much to leave my son. Only a lie that his mother was clean and good.
  • Holly Parker: He fished me out of the sewers of Mexico. He bought me dirt cheap. A couple of aspirin, a few bottles of whiskey.
  • Dan Sullivan: Keep drinking, honey. I like you better drunk than sober.
  • Holly Parker: I like the world better drunk than sober. I can forget that it's filled with vermin.
  • Holly Parker: All right, I'll go a few rounds with you. But I warn you, if you're thinking of playing against me, think again.
  • Dan Sullivan: What makes you so suspicious?
  • Holly Parker: Experience, friend.

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