Tippi Hedren credited as playing...
Marnie Edgar Rutland
- Marnie Edgar: You don't love me. I'm just something you've caught! You think I'm some sort of animal you've trapped!
- Mark Rutland: That's right--you are. And I've caught something really wild this time, haven't I? I've tracked you and caught you, and by God, I'm going to keep you.
- Mark Rutland: What you do need, I suspect, is a psychiatrist.
- Marnie Edgar: Oh, men! You say "no thanks" to one of them and BINGO! You're a candidate for the funny farm.
- Marnie Edgar: The only way you can help me is to leave me alone! Can't you understand? Isn't it plain enough? I cannot bear to be handled!
- Mark Rutland: By anybody? Or just me?
- Marnie Edgar: You. Men!
- Mark Rutland: Really? You didn't seem to mind at my office that day, or at the stables. And all this last week i've handled you. Kissed you many times. Why didn't you break out in a cold sweat and back into a corner then?
- Marnie Edgar: I thought I could stand it if I had to.
- Mark Rutland: Well why didn't you jump over the side?
- Marnie Edgar: The idea was to kill myself, not feed the damn fish.
- Lil Mainwaring: How do you take your tea, Miss Taylor?
- Marnie Edgar: Usually with a cup of hot water and a tea bag.
- Mark Rutland: Before I was drafted into Rutland's, Ms. Taylor, I had notions of being a zoologist. I still try to keep up with my field.
- Marnie Edgar: Zoos?
- Mark Rutland: Instinctual behavior.
- Marnie Edgar: Oh. Does zoology include people, Mr. Rutland?
- Mark Rutland: Well, in a way. It includes all the animal ancestors from whom man derived his instincts.
- Marnie Edgar: A lady's instinct too?
- Mark Rutland: Well, that paper deals with the instincts of predators. What you might call the criminal class of the animal world. Lady animals figure very largely as predators.
- Mark Rutland: Did you have a tough childhood, Mrs Taylor?
- Marnie Edgar: Not particularly.
- Mark Rutland: I think you did. I think you've had a hard, tough climb. But you're a smart girl, aren't you? The careful grammar, the quiet good manners. Where did you learn them?
- Marnie Edgar: From my betters.
- Bernice Edgar: Oh, Marnie. You shouldn't spend all your money on me like you do.
- Marnie Edgar: But that's what money's for: to spend. Like the Bible says, "Money answereth all things."
- Marnie Edgar: We don't need men, Mama. We can do very well for ourselves. You and me.
- Bernice Edgar: A decent woman don't have need for any man. Look at you, Marnie. I told Miss Cotton, look at my girl Marnie. She's too smart to go gettin' herself mixed up with men--none of 'em!
- Marnie Edgar: I'm not a bit nervous, Mark.
- Mark Rutland: You have no reason to be. You're unquestionably the best-looking woman here. The best-dressed. The most intelligent. And you're with me.
- Marnie Edgar: I don't need to read that muck to know that women are stupid and feeble and men are filthy pigs!
- Marnie Edgar: I'd like to go back to sleep now.
- Mark Rutland: Why? Your sleep seems even less agreeable than your waking hours.
- Marnie Edgar: Why can't you just leave me alone?
- Mark Rutland: Because I think you're sick, ol' dear.
- Marnie Edgar: I'm sick? Well, take a look at yourself, ol' dear. You're so hot to play Mental Health Week, what about you? Talk about dream worlds! You've got a pathological fix on a woman, who's not only an admitted criminal but who screams if you come near her! So what about your dreams, Daddy dear?
- Mark Rutland: Sex:
- Marnie Edgar: Masculine, Feminine. Adam and Eve. Jack and Jill. I'll slap your filthy face if you come near me again, Jack!
- Marnie Edgar: Oh... it's you. Where's my mother?
- Jessica 'Jessie' Cotton: She's making a pecan pie. For me.
- Marnie Edgar: That figures.
- Marnie Edgar: If you don't want to go to bed, please get out.
- Mark Rutland: But I do want to go to bed, Marnie. I very much want to go to bed.
- Marnie Edgar: No!