Laura (1944)
Vincent Price: Shelby Carpenter
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Quotes
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Shelby Carpenter : I can afford a blemish on my character, but not on my clothes.
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Shelby Carpenter : I don't know a lot about anything, but I know a little about practically everything.
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Shelby Carpenter : I knew there was something on my mind. Ah yes, will you dine with me tomorrow night?
Laura Hunt : Yes.
Shelby Carpenter : No, it's not that - it's the next night. And what about three weeks from tonight? And all the nights in between?
Laura Hunt : Shelby, you talk as if I had no other engagements!
Shelby Carpenter : And two months from now? And the month after that?
Laura Hunt : What about next year?
Shelby Carpenter : Oh, that's all settled. What about breakfast?
Laura Hunt : What about dancing?
Shelby Carpenter : What about lunch? Beautiful lunches, day after day after day?
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Shelby Carpenter : I forgot to tell you, I also read palms, I swallow swords, I mend my own socks, I never eat garlic or onions, what more could you want of a man?
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Mark MacPherson : On Saturday when our men went to the hotel to tell you that Laura Hunt was dead you seemed sincerely shocked.
Shelby Carpenter : I was. I hadn't expected that mistake.
Mark MacPherson : But you had your alibi ready no matter who was dead.
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Shelby Carpenter : For the last time, Louise, will you marry me?
Louise, Ann's Cook : No, but I cooked some chicken liver for you.
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Waldo Lydecker : Good evening.
Shelby Carpenter : Hello, darling, I didn't expect to see you tonight.
Waldo Lydecker : There you are, my dear. In a moment of supreme disaster, he's trite.
Shelby Carpenter : You've been reading too many melodramas, Waldo.
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Mark McPherson : Why did you say they played Brahms's First and Beethoven's Ninth at the concert Friday night? They changed the program at the last minute and played nothing but Sibelius.
Shelby Carpenter : I suppose I should have told you in the first place. You see, I'd been working on that advertising campaign with Laura. Well, we'd been working so hard, I just couldn't keep my eyes open. I didn't hear a note at the concert. I fell asleep.
Waldo Lydecker : Next he'll produce photographic evidence of his dreams.
Shelby Carpenter : I know it sounds suspicious, but I'm resigned to that by now. I'm a natural-born suspect just because I'm not the conventional type.
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Laura Hunt : It was a terrible shock, poor darling.
Mark McPherson : Don't tell me you're in love with him too?
Shelby Carpenter : Look here fella, you're not to talk that way to Miss Hunt.
Mark McPherson : Shut up.
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Waldo Lydecker : [Music starts playing] Would you mind turning that off?
Mark McPherson : Why? Don't you like it?
Shelby Carpenter : It was one of Laura's favorites. Not exactly classical, but sweet.
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Shelby Carpenter : Well, I rather thought you'd want to ask me some questions.
Mark McPherson : Oh, yes. What did they play at the concert Friday night?
Shelby Carpenter : Oh, Brahms's First and Beethoven's Ninth.
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Shelby Carpenter : I approve of that hat.
Laura Hunt : You do?
Laura Hunt : Mm-hmm. And the girl in it too.