Born Yesterday (1993)

Melanie Griffith: Billie Dawn

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• Billie : But I've been thinking a lot lately about something my dad used to say: "Without knowledge, you're less than everybody." And I don't want to be less. I mean, I don't want to be better than anybody neither and I don't want to go above myself. I just want- I want to not be less.

  Paul : Well, I'm afraid it's too late for that... cause you're already more than most people.

• Paul : You were great tonight. Didn't you think you were great?

  Billie : Oh, yeah. We really tricked them, didn't we?

  Paul : What's the matter?

  Billie : Well, if you saw a great ventriloquist, who would you compliment, the dummy?

  Paul : You're not a dummy.

• Billie : You know what your problem is, Harry? You're not just rude, you're

  [pulls out a pocket dictionary and looks up a word] 

  Billie : "flagrant" about it!

• Paul : Maybe we haven't gotten to our time yet.

  Billie : No, we did. And you just dropped the ball.