Peggy Ann Garner credited as playing...
Nancy Ordway
- Peter Denver: How old are you?
- Nancy Ordway: Nineteen. No, that's not true. I'm 20. I just hate to admit it. 'Cause in the 20s you ought to have accomplished something.
- Peter Denver: I know. Mozart had written an opera by the time he was 12.
- Nancy Ordway: Funny thing about New York. Sometimes you meet the hostess at a party like this, and sometimes you don't. I came to this one with another girl, but she's disappeared.
- Nancy Ordway: The editor said it was all right to write like Somerset Maugham and it was all right to write like Truman Capote, but not at the same time.
- Peter Denver: Why don't you do like everybody else and write like Hemingway?
- Nancy Ordway: I tried.
- Nancy Ordway: Would you mind saying just a word or two to me?
- Peter Denver: On what subject?
- Nancy Ordway: I don't think it really matters. It's just that my mother always told me that if a girl could be at a party for 30 minutes without getting a man to talk to her she might just as well go on home and shoot herself. I've already been here 25.
- Peter Denver: Well, in that case, I'll be very happy to save your life.
- Brian Mullen: To be perfectly honest with you, I'm Miss Carlotta Marin's husband.
- Nancy Ordway: Really?
- Brian Mullen: I have a name of my own, of course, but it seems stupid to use it when I can get so much more attention simply telling whose husband I am.
- Nancy Ordway: When you're in love, you're in love. When you stop being in love, you stop. You just can't start up again, like a stalled motorboat.
- Nancy Ordway: That's it. That's the goal to try for: death and grandeur.
- Peter Denver: Well, you're right, of course. Always shoot for the moon.
- Nancy Ordway: That was basically a stupid idea in that play: That a man could run around with another woman and then find out suddenly that he was really in love with his wife all the time. It just isn't possible with genuine people.
- Nancy Ordway: "The secret of love, is greater than the secret of death." That's the way I'd really like to write.