Rope (1948)

Farley Granger: Phillip

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• Phillip : Rupert only publishes books *he* likes... usually philosophy.

  Janet : Oh. Small print, big words, no sales.

  Brandon : Rupert's extremely radical. Do you know that he selects his books on the assumption that people not only can read but actually can think?

• Phillip : I never strangled a chicken in my life!

• Brandon : I've always thought that it was out of character for David to drink anything as corrupt as whiskey.

  Phillip : Out of character for him to be murdered, too.

• Brandon : Determined to get drunk, aren't you?

  Phillip : I am drunk.

  Brandon : And just as childish as you were before when you called me a liar.

  Phillip : You had no business telling that story.

  Brandon : Why did you lie anyway?

  Phillip : I had to! Have you ever bothered for just one minute to understand how someone else might feel?

  Brandon : I'm not sentimental if that's what you...

  Phillip : No, that's not what I mean; but it doesn't matter. Nothing matters... except that Mr. Brandon liked the party. Mr. Brandon gave the party. Mr. Brandon had a delightful evening. Well, I had a rotten evening!

  Brandon : Keep drinking, and you'll have a worse morning.

  Phillip : At least if I have a hangover, it'll be all mine!

• Phillip : Cat and mouse! Cat and mouse!

  Brandon : Phillip!

  Phillip : Which is the cat and which is the mouse?

• Brandon : But why should I want to come back?

  Phillip : Yes, why?

  Brandon : For the pleasure of our company, or another drink?

  Rupert Cadell : That's a very good idea. May I have one for the road?

• Brandon : We agreed there was only one crime either of us could commit. The crime of making a mistake. Being weak is a mistake.

  Phillip : Because it's being human?

  Brandon : Because it's being ordinary.

• Phillip : He's dead and we've killed him; but, he's still here.

• Brandon : You're not frightened anymore, are you, Phillip?

  Phillip : No.

  Brandon : Not even of me?

  Phillip : No.

  Brandon : That's good.

  Phillip : You just astound me, as always.

  Brandon : That's even better.

• Phillip : You made me do it and I hate you. I hate both of us!

• [last lines] 

  Phillip : They're coming.

• Phillip : You don't think the party's a mistake?

  Brandon : No, it's the finishing touch to our work. It's more. It's the signature of the artists. Not having it would be like, uh...

  Phillip : Painting the picture and not hanging it?

  Brandon : That's not a good choice of words.

  Phillip : It may end up too choice, thanks to the party.

• Phillip : How did it feel... during it?

  Brandon : I don't remember feeling very much of anything... until his body went limp and I knew it was over. I felt tremendously exhilarated. How did you feel?

• Phillip : You frighten me. You always have, from that very first day in prep school. Part of your charm, I suppose.

• Kenneth : How's the new job?

  Phillip : What are you doing?

  Janet : Writing that same dreary column on how to keep the body beautiful.

  Phillip : For whom this time?

  Janet : Oh, an untidy little magazine known as 'Allure'.

• Rupert Cadell : What is going on here?

  Phillip : A party.

  Rupert Cadell : Yes, but a rather peculiar party. What's it all about, Phillip?

  Phillip : What's what all about? Stop playing Crime and Punishment, Rupert.

• Phillip : Prying? Snooping? Or just plain pumping?