Rock Hudson: Tiger

Pretty Maids All in a Row

Tiger

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: [Deciding to go ahead with the scheduled football game] We play on Friday. Once you start retreating, life will drag you down.

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: There's nothing - physical, then. That's good.
Ponce: Perhaps there's one physical I should have mentioned. I have kind of a problem with, eh, you know, erections.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Is the problem - constant, Ponce, or, does it vary?
Ponce: Oh, it's pretty constant.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Well, I mean, does anything - seem to help?
Ponce: Well, yes sir. They don't seem to happen as often if I take cold showers. When I'm with a girl, the only thing that helps is to do multiplication problems in my head, but, that kind of interferes with conversations.

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Love life problems, huh?
Ponce: What love life? I'm 17 years old and I haven't even as so much touched a girl's breast yet.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Well, maybe you haven't found the right girl.

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: An animal body needs animal exercise. I'm going to teach to feel, man. To live!

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: It's organic apples, brewer's yeast, honey, and a raw egg. Helps keep the ol' juices flowing.

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: I think Jill - fooled a lot of people. Not particularly intelligent. IQ 103. She seemed more intelligent because she adapted so well to high school level activities.
Surcher: Quite beautiful, though.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Yes, extraordinary figure, excellent dancer, baton twirler.

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: In a typical high school, it would be difficult to invent a system more destructive of a child's natural creativity. Only in the most backward penal institutions does one discover equally oppressive rules of silence, restriction and movement, constant examination of behavior. A world in which one must learn to work, eat, exercise, and, sometimes - even defecate by the clock.

Surcher: I understand that you've - turned down a oouple of offers to teach at universities.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Because I believe that this is - as they say - "where it's at."

Miss Smith: Oh, you want me to be his friend.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: You could start by inviting him to your apartment. Tell him you want to go over some assignment with him.
Miss Smith: It sounded at first that you wanted me to sleep with him. Isn't that silly?
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: It's uproarious! I wonder what you would have said?
Miss Smith: Well, now, if we started doing that with our students, who knows where it would lead.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Well, we'd certainly get to know them better. But, I wonder if it's ever justified - say in the case of an exceptional student.
Miss Smith: But, some teachers might do it for pleasure.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Yes, I suppose they could be some whistling while we work.

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: It must be, eh, very difficult to be a single, female teacher.
Surcher: Well, yes, I - I think at times we could even - it's almost painful.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Which makes me wonder, if you can handle something I had in mind.
Surcher: Oh, yes! I mean, I - I'll certainly try to handle anything you might throw at me - as it were.

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: As you can see from these profiles he had enormous potential. Somehow he's acquired a hang-up about - sex. And I doubt if a girl his age could help him. Now, I was wondering, Betty, if you would?
Miss Smith: Eh, help him?
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Oh, I understand your hesitation. This could cut into your afternoons or evenings when you and I would meet and - compare notes on Ponce's progress.
Miss Smith: Well, um, yes, I guess, we would have to do that, wouldn't we.

Miss Smith: Now, let's see, as I understand it, you, eh, you want me to help him.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: His problem is - sexual immaturity.
Miss Smith: Oh. Yes, eh, well that's, eh, that's certainly is a problem.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: And the solution is: a mature woman.

Miss Smith: He just - eh - bloomed, as it were.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Well, something stimulated the boy. What was it?
Miss Smith: I don' t know.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Well, now, your next meeting, you must watch him carefully. Note the exact moment he's aroused.

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Sex is much more than just - touch.
Miss Smith: It certainly is.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Not that there isn't an art to touch.
[walks behind Miss Smith, places his had under her blouse, reaches around, grabs her breast]
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: I mean, this can be - quite pleasant.
Miss Smith: Yes, it could be.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: You are now responding to me intellectually, analytically.
Miss Smith: I am?
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Now, notice the difference when emotion replaces analysis. Now, let's try the same thing with affection. Are you ready?
Miss Smith: Yes.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Lock the door.

Miss Smith: Tiger, I broke up with my boyfriend 13 months ago.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: It's so easy to escape that kind of discomfort. I'm surprised you don't know the method. You don't, do you?
Miss Smith: Method? No.
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Well, let me demonstrate.
[places his had under Miss Smith's blouse and grabs her breast]
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Now, it's terribly important that you not think of affection. Are you at all familiar with this experiment?
Miss Smith: No, no. I can't say that...
Miss Smith: Well, it's a reverse on basic Masters and Johnson. The whole trick is to maintain an observer's point of view.
Miss Smith: Oh...
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Now, since you're treating these sensations as an interesting, physical phenomenon, you'll notice it's impossible for me to excite you.

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: With that body of yours it was certainly difficult to remain analytical.

Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: Look, Jim, all you have to try to do is make sense out of the written word. What's the author trying to say? Look.
[reading]
Michael 'Tiger' McDrew: "Why would you have me tie myself down for the first woman who comes along. Give up the world for her and never - look at anyone else. You see. What a fine thing that would be to me: tricked into fidelity, to bury yourself into one passion forever, and to be blind from your youth on to all the other - beauties - who might catch your eye. "
Surcher: [watching in the background] What's he reading?
Sheryl: Molière's "Don Juan". We're doing it for Thanksgiving.