Period of Adjustment (1962)
Anthony Franciosa: Ralph Bates
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Quotes
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Ralph Baitz : The human heart could never pass the drunk test. Take a human heart out of a human body, put legs on it and tell it to walk a straight line, and it couldn't. The heart could never pass a drunk test.
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Ralph Baitz : Who remembers the last war? They're too busy on the next one.
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Dorothea Bates : Ralph?
Ralph Baitz : Yeah?
Dorothea Bates : Did you really think I was homely?
Ralph Baitz : Oh, no, no, Dotty, no honey. You were never *really* homely. You just had sort of a... off-beat face, that's all.
[They both chuckle]
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Ralph Baitz : I didn't marry you grittin' my teeth and shudderin', the way you make it sound. Honey, I liked you. I sincerely liked and respected you.
Dorothea Bates : I don't wanna be respected. That's the way men feel about homely women.
Ralph Baitz : But you're not homely. Not anymore.
Dorothea Bates : When you been a homely girl, you feel homely all your life. They can change your teeth or fix your nose, give you a whole new face- doesn't make any difference. You always know.
Ralph Baitz : Dotty, look, I've told you a hundred times. You've improved in appearance.
Dorothea Bates : But every time you see a beautiful girl... you feel cheated.
Ralph Baitz : Honey, anytime any married man sees a beautiful girl he feels cheated.