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Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, and Susannah York in The Silent Partner (1978)

Quotes

The Silent Partner

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  • Harry Reikle: I hope you didn't go to any trouble on my account. I'm not gonna break the door down. I'm just gonna give you a little time - to try to be reasonable. If you decide you're not gonna be reasonable, then, one night, when you come home, you'll find me on the inside, waiting for you. And that'll be the night you'll wish you'd never been born.
  • Miles Cullen: I feel as though I know you very well.
  • Harry Reikle: Then you know I'm ready to kill you.
  • Julie Carver: I don't understand you, Miles.
  • [long pause]
  • Julie Carver: And I'm not sure I want to.
  • Miles Cullen: Sometimes it's better if you just like someone, nothing more than that.
  • Elaine: Like someone and have... a little something in common.
  • Miles Cullen: Like money?
  • Harry Reikle: [threatening Miles Cullen] Give me the money, fucker.
  • Miles Cullen: I'd go away somewhere. Far away. I suppose I'd use the money to buy myself another chance. It's just a daydream.
  • Julie Carver: A nice daydream.
  • Harry Reikle: You're doing it to her like you did it to me.
  • Julie Carver: Notice anything new? Mistletoe.
  • Miles Cullen: Oh. Cute.
  • Julie Carver: Everyone else has had a turn.
  • [Miles gives Julie a peck on the cheek]
  • Julie Carver: Don't let your emotions run away with you.
  • Fogelman: Oh, say, a couple of your people came in for lunch a few minutes ago. There's a blonde with them. Tits out to here.
  • Miles Cullen: Louise. She's new.
  • Miles Cullen: It's not my place to criticize.
  • Julie Carver: Ah. You're criticizing?
  • Miles Cullen: Sorry.
  • Julie Carver: Are you criticizing me for what I'm doing - or for whom I'm doing it with?
  • Miles Cullen: I was just wondering.
  • Julie Carver: I wonder why you wonder.
  • Julie Carver: Look, if I waited until I was sure before I did something, I'd end up not doing anything.
  • Mrs. Packard: [while dancing with Miles] Charles underestimates you. Are you the type people usually underestimate?
  • Julie Carver: Miles, where's your imagination? Surely there's something you want.
  • Miles Cullen: There is.
  • Julie Carver: What?
  • Miles Cullen: An ocellated puffer.
  • Julie Carver: Does it get to you in the same way? You feel excited? Me too. I wouldn't have missed it.
  • Louise: I know what I'd do. Everything. I think everybody should try everything at least once.
  • Berg: Everything?
  • Berg: Did you mean what you said before about trying everything once?
  • Louise: Well, I'm kind of drunk, but, if I said it, I guess I must have meant it.
  • Miles Cullen: Are you in love with him?
  • Julie Carver: Yes. No. I don't know. One - one hopes. Otherwise, it's all so pointless.
  • Elaine: What are you thinking?
  • Miles Cullen: How much I would like to make love with you.
  • Elaine: Really?
  • Harry Reikle: We worked it together, didn't we? I mean, we - we ran the same risks, didn't we? We're, uh, we're partners.
  • Julie Carver: Eating, sleeping. drinking, working at the bank. My life is just slipping away. If I don't grab every moment...
  • Miles Cullen: Who is Freddie?
  • Elaine: Nobody knows very much about Freddie.
  • Miles Cullen: Who are the people with Freddie?
  • Elaine: Friends of Freddie's.
  • Elaine: You fucked us both, didn't you?
  • Miles Cullen: Yes.
  • Elaine: You let us think we were getting away with it, and, all the time, you were fucking us.
  • Miles Cullen: Yes.
  • Elaine: First him. And then me.
  • Miles Cullen: Yes!
  • Elaine: I love it.
  • Harry Reikle: He's good at it. Isn't he?
  • Elaine: Not like you. Nobody's like you.
  • Julie Carver: I don't know. I don't know anything. I really don't.
  • Berg: I'd like to help her get into her box, eh?
  • Elaine: Something wrong?
  • Harry Reikle: I don't know. Is there supposed to be something wrong?
  • Elaine: I don't know.
  • Harry Reikle: You don't know? I feel - there's something you haven't told me.
  • Elaine: Like what?
  • Harry Reikle: I don't know.
  • Elaine: I don't know where the money is.
  • Charles Packard: We are a *very* friendly bank...
  • Miles Cullen: I want you to know one thing. If I ever see you again, I'll kill you.
  • Harry Reikle: Oh, hey. Hey, pal, you know, that's no way to talk. You know that. We're partners! You know that. First the robbery, now the murder. We're partners. And we always have been.
  • Elaine: I'm finished with you. I've had it!
  • Harry Reikle: Finished with me? But I'm not finished with you!
  • Harry Reikle: You're still one up on this little game of yours.
  • Miles Cullen: It's not a game anymore!
  • Harry Reikle: You're damn right it isn't and it never was.
  • Harry Reikle: That bastard. I should've killed that prick a long time ago!
  • Harry Reikle: You know, don't you? You know where the money is and you won't tell me, you bitch! You won't fuck me! You won't tell me!
  • [last lines]
  • Miles Cullen: That means - from now on?
  • Julie Carver: Oh, yes, from now on.
  • Julie Carver: What's wrong?
  • Miles Cullen: Wrong? Why would anything be wrong?
  • Charles Packard: Looking a little ragged today, aren't we, Cullen? You know, lately, Cullen, I've been wondering about your attitude, your attitude toward banking, your attitude toward your coworkers. I don't think I need to remind you of the tremendous responsibility we have. There is nothing more important than banking - and our attitude must reflect that attitude.

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