Jacqueline Bisset credited as playing...
Liz Hamilton
- Liz Hamilton: I have a quote: I find this mid-century obsession with young flesh obscene! It's like eating green cantaloupes!
- Douglas 'Doug' Blake: All the times we've been back here, I've never seen you in the kitchen.
- Liz Hamilton: I don't go in the kitchen the roaches talk about me.
- Merry Noel Blake: I'm having tables all along here, just spilling over with whatever grows this time of year. The problem with December is there are no strawberries. How am I going to create a big red area in the middle?
- Liz Hamilton: Stab one of the guests.
- Liz Hamilton: Merry, do me a favor.
- Merry Noel Blake: What?
- Liz Hamilton: Kiss me.
- Merry Noel Blake: After all these years are you trying to tell me there's something strange about you?
- Liz Hamilton: [shakes her head no] It's New Year's Eve. I want the press of human flesh - and you're the only flesh around. Kiss me.
- Merry Noel Blake: You have the morals of a yellah dog!
- Liz Hamilton: I have great respect for the morals of yellow dogs.
- Merry Noel Blake: One came in the yard we'd kick it out!
- Liz Hamilton: They're refreshingly loyal.
- Merry Noel Blake: They'd hump a snake if it stood still!
- Liz Hamilton: I haven't tried a snake.
- Merry Noel Blake: A miracle!
- Liz Hamilton: Now I'm a slut?
- Merry Noel Blake: You said it.
- Liz Hamilton: What are you saying, Merry?
- Merry Noel Blake: How many men have you had?
- Liz Hamilton: Is that the test?
- Merry Noel Blake: How many?
- Liz Hamilton: How many before you're a slut?
- Merry Noel Blake: Three.
- Liz Hamilton: Kick me out of the yard.
- Merry Noel Blake: You have been lying!
- Liz Hamilton: I would only be lying if I let you believe it was merely scotch or gin that are making me do what I'm about to do.
- Merry Noel Blake: What are you about to do?
- Liz Hamilton: Vomit!
- [Running out of the room]
- Merry Noel Blake: She liked my book.
- Liz Hamilton: I am sick and fucking tired of you trying to live your life through my skin!
- Merry Noel Blake: Hah! If I had your skin I'd take better care of it!
- Liz Hamilton: What are you going to do with it, get it published?
- Merry Noel Blake: I was going to ask you...
- Liz Hamilton: Go ahead, ask!
- Merry Noel Blake: I don't like your tone, Liz.
- Liz Hamilton: What is the matter with my tone? The New York review of books said I was a master of irony!
- Merry Noel Blake: Oh, drink your gin and go to sleep!
- Liz Hamilton: You want me to show the book to Jules Levi.
- Merry Noel Blake: Well, I want you to do whatever you think is right...
- Liz Hamilton: Jules Levi is the wrong man for you, Merry. Too much expensive tailoring. He's like an apple the butler polishes every day.
- Merry Noel Blake: He's the most impressive publisher in New York.
- Liz Hamilton: Let's say he's impressed.
- Merry Noel Blake: Liz, would you show the book to Jules Levi, and tell him it may not be some translation from the Russian and I haven't escaped from behind the iron curtain, but I do know what it feels like...
- Liz Hamilton: ...to have feelings! You know what it feels like to have feelings! Well, that is worth money in the pocket! But not Jules Levi's pockets! He doesn't have any pockets! Too much expensive tailoring.
- Merry Noel Blake: You, darling Aunt Liz. After whom my daughter has chosen to craft her formative years. You no doubt find it amusing her little affair with a car thief.
- Liz Hamilton: He stole a car?
- Merry Noel Blake: He's addicted to the practice.
- Merry Noel Blake: Hmmm... maybe he can get me a Mercedes...
- Liz Hamilton: I'm sure Debby would roar over that cynical humor.
- Merry Noel Blake: I don't want you to tell me any lies, Liz.
- Liz Hamilton: Don't worry. I have to get sleep before I can tell a believable lie.
- Merry Noel Blake: Liz, honey, I'm so proud of the way you turned yourself out.
- Liz Hamilton: I sound like a table leg.
- Merry Noel Blake: I mean, what do I do? I just sit here and sew like my grandmother and kiss my husband goodbye on his way to work.
- Liz Hamilton: And have tea with Rock Hudson.
- Merry Noel Blake: Oh, you know, they are just folks here. They all got problems. Same as you and me.
- Douglas 'Doug' Blake: What about the Frenchman? Are you still into him?
- Liz Hamilton: Into him? You talk, hippie talk?
- Douglas 'Doug' Blake: That's California talk. I think.
- Liz Hamilton: They ought to warn you before they let you fall I love - I mean, for the first time. You can pick the God awfullest one. And you don't recover. Not from the first. Never.
- Liz Hamilton: He says when I start writing again, I'll start loving. What he said was fucking again. Excuse me, Doug, the man's a Freudian.
- Douglas 'Doug' Blake: Maybe its the other way around? When you start loving again, you'll start writing.
- Liz Hamilton: I suggested that.
- Douglas 'Doug' Blake: What'd he say?
- Liz Hamilton: He said not writing was my problem.
- Liz Hamilton: That nice fellow maybe just a neighbor to you; but, he shows up in a lot of ladies' dreams.
- Liz Hamilton: What is wrong with learning to balance balls on your nose for eight months in the afternoon? Maybe I should learn to balance balls on my nose. Balls! I should!
- Liz Hamilton: I really don't understand why the interview.
- Chris Adams: Why?
- Liz Hamilton: Yeah. Why me? Why the 'Stone"? Why me for the 'Stone"?