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The Spiral Staircase (1975)

Christopher Plummer: Dr. Sherman

The Spiral Staircase

Christopher Plummer credited as playing...

Dr. Sherman

Quotes7

  • Blanche: Do you know that we have four hundred and eighty-five applications for next year's course already?
  • Dr. Sherman: You know, I swear if I propose to you, you'd file it under "applications".
  • Blanche: [pulling a book from the shelf and clearing her throat before she starts to read aloud] On page eighteen, chapter three, rule four: "Many a good secretary has married her boss. No good boss has ever married his secretary." Quote, unquote.
  • Dr. Sherman: [pointing to the now closed book in her hands] I wrote that before you came in.
  • Blanche: Why don't we go have a drink to that.
  • Blanche: I thought we were testing management skills, Professor Sherman.
  • Dr. Sherman: Well, blackmail is a management skill.
  • Blanche: Fifty men, every three weeks, and they are all so boring. You know, I get asked the same two questions, five times a day, every day. Number one: Miss Blanche, how am I doin' on this course? And number two: Eh, would you like to slip up to my room after dinner?
  • Dr. Sherman: And, eh, what do you tell them?
  • Blanche: I tell them that they are here to have their potential as executives measured and that questions like that do not get asked by the President of General Motors.
  • Dr. Sherman: There's a distinction between being dumb and being stupid. Except, in the vernacular.
  • Dr. Sherman: Sibling rivalry has an honorable history, you know. Cain was *awful* mean to Able.
  • Dr. Sherman: Blanche, have you decided where you're going to take your vacation?
  • Oates: She's going to an island off Trinidad. It's called Tobago. We will be there for eight weeks.
  • [sings]
  • Oates: Sun and sand, A sarong and you...
  • Dr. Sherman: Little mouthless Helen.

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