Robert Redford credited as playing...
Denys
- Karen Blixen: When you go away... you don't always go on safari, do you? Just want to be away.
- Denys: It's not meant to hurt you.
- Karen Blixen: It does.
- Denys: I'm with you because I choose to be with you. I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. Don't ask me to do that. I don't want to find out one day that I'm at the end of someone else's life. I'm willing to pay for mine. To be lonely sometimes. To die alone, if I have to. I think that's fair.
- Karen Blixen: Not quite. You want me to pay for it as well.
- Denys: No, you have a choice, and you're not willing to do the same for me.
- Baron Bror Blixen: [while Denys is living with Karen and while they eat breakfast on her veranda, Karen's estranged husband drives up to borrow money from her. He passes by Dennis before he leaves] You could have asked, Denys.
- Denys: I did.
- [pauses]
- Denys: She said yes.
- Denys: [to Karen, whose horse has run away, leaving her at the mercy of an approaching lion] I wouldn't run. If you do, she'll think you're something good to eat.
- Karen Blixen: [staring at lion] Have you - Do you have a gun?
- Denys: She won't like the smell of you.
- Karen Blixen: Shoot - shoot it.
- Denys: She's had breakfast.
- Karen Blixen: Please shoot her.
- Denys: Well, let's give her a moment.
- Karen Blixen: [as lion comes closer] Oh my God, shoot her!
- [Lion approaches Karen then wanders off into brush]
- Karen Blixen: Just how much closer did you expect to let her come?
- Denys: A bit. It wanted to see if you'd run. That's how they decide. A lot like people that way.
- Karen Blixen: She almost had me for lunch!
- Denys: Well, it wasn't her fault, Baroness. She's a lion.
- Karen Blixen: Well, it wasn't mine.
- Denys: Doesn't that outfit come with a rifle?
- Karen Blixen: Ye-ah, uh.
- [looks around]
- Karen Blixen: On my saddle.
- Denys: Better keep it with you. Your horse isn't much of a shot.
- Karen Blixen: What's wrong with marriage anyway?
- Denys: Have you ever seen one you admire?
- Karen Blixen: Yes, I have, many. Belfield's, for one.
- Denys: He sent her home for the rains in 1910. Didn't tell her they were over until 1913.
- Karen Blixen: [Denys lands his two-seater aircraft, and Karen runs to greet him] Where did you get it?
- Denys: Mombasa. Get in!
- Karen Blixen: [as they take off] When did you learn to fly?
- Denys: Yesterday!
- [after placing a gramophone in a field near wild baboons]
- Denys: Think of it: never a man-made sound... and then Mozart!
- Denys: I like animals. Nothing they do is half-hearted. Everything they do is for the first time: they hunt, they eat, they mate...
- Karen Blixen: Oh! Get away from there! Shoo! Shoo!
- Denys: Shoo?
- Karen Blixen: Oh! That's all my crystal, my Limoges.
- Denys: Do you sing?
- Karen Blixen: Never.
- Denys: Can you tell a story?
- Karen Blixen: I happen to be very good at stories.
- Denys: I believe that.
- Karen Blixen: Did you intend to tell Berkeley what a fool I was?
- Denys: She had a lion a bit interested.
- Karen Blixen: A bit? A bit. But not enough to bite.
- Denys: When you traveled before, in your mind, did you carry so much luggage?
- Karen Blixen: A mental traveller hasn't the need to eat or sleep - *or* entertain.
- Denys: You're right.
- Karen Blixen: Anyway, aren't you pleased that I brought my crystal and china?
- Denys: And your stories, yes.
- Denys: Did you know that in all of literature, there's no poem celebrating the foot. There's lips, eyes, hands, face, hair, breasts, legs, arms, even the knees. But not one verse for the poor foot. Why do you think that is?