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On the Beach (1959)

Anthony Perkins: Lt. Peter Holmes

On the Beach

Anthony Perkins credited as playing...

Lt. Peter Holmes

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Quotes12

  • Peter: Now, this is a special kind of - - sleeping pill. I had a devil of a time getting 'em. But, I wanted you to have them on hand and to make sure you knew how to use 'em. - - What happens with the radiation is that you get - you get ill - and you start feeling sick and then you are sick and you go on being sick. You can't keep anything down. You may feel better for awhile; but, but it always comes back. You get weaker.
  • Mary: And this cures it.
  • Peter: Darling, you know nothing cures it. This ends it.
  • Peter: You remember when we first met? It was on the beach. I thought you were everything I'd always wanted.
  • Mary: I thought you were so underfed.
  • Mary: It's all over now, isn't it?
  • Peter: Yes, it's all over.
  • Mary: [as she is bent over wearing a bathing suit, Peter snaps a towel on Mary's behind] Peter, how could you!
  • Peter: Oh, I don't know, really, I just held the towel like this and...
  • Mary: Very funny.
  • Peter: You're starting to get your figure back, arent' ya... You know, after Jennifer and all. Little here. A little there.
  • Mary: We would have to get someone for him, wouldn't we? What about Moira?
  • Peter: Well, why not, if she's sober this weekend.
  • Mary: Julian said she's given it up.
  • Peter: Oh, no, darling, you didn't listen. Julian said she'd given up gin - for brandy. She says she can drink more brandy.
  • Peter: Have you ever been to San Francisco?
  • Julian Osborne: Yes, I have. A week on the way down. I met a lovely girl. Longest, loveliest legs I've ever seen. Full of martinis - both of them. The legs, I mean.
  • Mary: Now, it's all over, isn't it?
  • Peter: It's all over.
  • Peter: [Last lines] Darling.
  • Mary: God, God forgive us. Peter, I think I'll have that cup of tea, now.
  • Mary: You never wrestle with me any more.
  • Peter: Now, what does that mean?
  • Mary: I mean exactly what I say, you never wrestle with me any more.
  • Mary: Was he married, do you know?
  • Peter: Two kids.
  • Mary: And there gone.
  • Peter: Yes, they were in America.
  • Peter: Moira's not a bad notion, point of fact.
  • Adm. Bridie: It's a reasonably important appointment, as things go these days.
  • Adm. Bridie: That's getting to be quite a phrase, isn't it ? "these days."
  • Adm. Bridie: You find yourself using it?
  • Peter: You find yourself using it? Yes, sir. I'm afraid I do

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