Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsEmmysToronto Int'l Film FestivalHispanic Heritage MonthIMDb Stars to WatchSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayMost popular celebsCelebrity news
    Help centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Back
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro
Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron, and Farley Granger in The Story of Three Loves (1953)

James Mason: Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover")

The Story of Three Loves

James Mason credited as playing...

Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover")

Photos4

View Poster
View Poster
View Poster
View Poster

Quotes15

  • Charles Coutray: You are coming up to my studio.
  • Paula Woodward: Tonight?
  • Charles Coutray: At once.
  • Paula Woodward: [after a long pensive pause] I don't think I possibly can.
  • Charles Coutray: [Annoyed and impatient] I don't know who you are, but let me tell you, you flatter yourself.
  • Paula Woodward: Oh, no, I don't.
  • Charles Coutray: Oh, yes, you do! You're afraid for your virtue, which is in no danger!
  • Charles Coutray: [to Paula] If there's one thing I hate, it's a jealous lover.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): At least you're flesh and blood. I thought you might be an illusion.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): Have you been happy since you've given it up? Have you found life worth living since you've given it up?
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): And you call yourself a dancer?
  • Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover"): I don't.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): Well, I do!
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): Oh, you poor lost child. I'll take you where you want to go. I don't know that it's right for you.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): You think I'm an absolute brute.
  • Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover"): I haven't been shouted at once, since I stopped dancing. You brought it all back. Its like the drafts in the corridors, the messy dressing rooms, and the smells, the sweat, and the liniment. Oh, and breaking your back and being cursed at because you can't break it any more and, then, breaking it a bit more - and learning that's what matters.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): That's when we're really alive. When we're making something. When we are something, bigger than ourselves. It comes so rarely those moments and if you turn your back on them, they're lost. And you're lost.
  • Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover"): Lost.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): I was looking over the usual string of girls, and one of them, she may have been an absolute imbecile as far as I know, but she danced, really, like a flame. Then she messed it up, and the moment was gone.
  • Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover"): Oh!
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): It was you! Now, don't attempt to deny it. I've got eyes in my head. It was you!
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): I'll wait for you. Already I'm waiting for you.
  • Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover"): You don't have to wait for someone who's with you always.
  • Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover"): I used to think of you as *so* terrifying.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): You terrified me for a moment.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): I suppose you can't dance on a full stomach? Well, I can't watch on an empty one. A tiny drink?
  • Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover"): I don't need even a tiny drink.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): Well, maybe you'll have something afterwards.
  • Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover"): Oh, afterwards, I'll be a pig.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): The slimmest pig that ever - what to pigs do?
  • Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover"): Eat.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): Don't stop. You can't stop now. Go on, please! Please. Please.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): If you catch your flame, how do you keep it alive? You feed it.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): You're a dancer and you're dancing itself. You're music. You're a poem. You're - you're a joy.
  • Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover"): That's right! I, yeah. I, yeah. Good. Hold it. Good. Good!

More from this title

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb App
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb App
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb App
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.