Deborah Kerr credited as playing...
Florence Anderson
- Eddie Anderson: I want you to sell that house. And sell that place in the desert. Sell the cars, the paintings, that Bulgarian statue in the garden. Sell the books, the records, deep freezer, everything! Look, I'm the head of the house, that's an order: sell it!
- Florence Anderson: Yes, but Eddie, be sensible. Where would we *go*?
- Eddie Anderson: What do we really need? We'll get a small apartment here, and start from scratch.
- Florence Anderson: Eddie, you've worked hard all your life. You deserve a comfortable living.
- Eddie Anderson: [Blurts out laughing] I wasn't *comfortable*! I kept trying to kill myself!
- Florence Anderson: Remember how he used to be? Well, ever since he broke up with her, he - well, I told you. He's lost all interest in it. Not only with me, but as far as I can tell, with anyone. Well, "It's better than if he were off with some - tramp," I tell myself. "More to marriage than sex," I tell myself. By the way, I have your check.
- Florence Anderson: If he can get along without it, I can.
- Dr. Leibman: And it's highly unlikely that he'll ever leave you, is that it? Because he'll never find anyone who'll put up with what you had to.
- Florence Anderson: That's the way I am. I waited that bitch out and I'm going to wait this out!
- Dr. Leibman: I'm raising the question, is this what's best for you?
- Florence Anderson: That's the way I am!
- Dr. Leibman: You're really convinced there was nothing more to that relationship?
- Florence Anderson: A sex thing! Pure and simple. She was the office tramp. That happens. I understand that. Now, I must admit, there are nights when I feel ready to go through the roof.
- Florence Anderson: Then it was just a sex thing.
- Eddie Anderson: Yeah, that's all it was. Just a sex thing.
- Florence Anderson: Eddie, remember the time you took a leave from the office - went east to research your profile on Chet Collier?
- Eddie Anderson: That son of a bitch.
- Florence Anderson: I always suspected that you...
- Eddie Anderson: You suspected right. I took her east with me. My research girl.
- Florence Anderson: Oh, God. I wish just once, just once, you'd said to me: "Let's go. Come with me and be my research girl." How did she talk you into that? I don't want to know. Good night. That bitch!
- Florence Anderson: I'll just hold you. Oh, Eddie, I know it's going to be good again. Like it was in the beginning. I have faith in that. Yes. You sleep. Sleep, baby. Sleep. Sleep.
- Eddie Anderson: I think a lot of you, Florence, you know that.
- Florence Anderson: I know you do, baby.
- Eddie Anderson: We'll do the best we can.
- Florence Anderson: Oh, we'll do better than that.
- Florence Anderson: Brought him some cigars.
- Gloria Anderson: Cigars? What he needs is a good swift kick in the ass.
- Eddie Anderson: Florence, aren't you a long ways from home?
- Florence Anderson: If you insist on putting a match to all I've built for more than 20 years, I'm damn well gonna be here too.
- Florence Anderson: The night after you left, I was at a party. And I went home with another man. And when he touched me - I went dry.
- Florence Anderson: Eddie, can I ask you again? Is all this - about her?
- Eddie Anderson: Not really, no.
- Florence Anderson: I'm prettier than she is.
- Eddie Anderson: Yes. You are.
- Florence Anderson: What is it about?
- Eddie Anderson: My self-respect.
- Florence Anderson: That's all?
- Eddie Anderson: That's all.
- Florence Anderson: What are you going to do?
- Eddie Anderson: Just be.
- Florence Anderson: Well, what will you be?
- Eddie Anderson: Nothing. Be.
- Florence Anderson: But be what? Be nothing?
- Eddie Anderson: Yes.
- Florence Anderson: Well,, you're a talented man, you can...
- Eddie Anderson: Yes. Nothing. Just be myself. Sounds silly.
- Florence Anderson: No, no, not at all.
- Eddie Anderson: You know, walk places. You know. Sit down, think. Maybe.
- Florence Anderson: Like Tolstoy?
- Eddie Anderson: No, like me.
- Eddie Anderson: I wanna do one small, good thing - before I die. One thing I really respect.
- Florence Anderson: Yes, of course.
- Eddie Anderson: That's what I want. That's all. One small, decent...
- Florence Anderson: Such as wallowing in that tramp.