Our Man in Havana (1959)

Alec Guinness: Jim Wormold

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• Jim Wormold : Everything's legal in Havana.

• Jim Wormold : Do you remember the day when she set fire to Thomas Earl Parkman Jr. and they had to push him in the fountain to put him out?

  Dr. Hasselbacher : She was only 13 then.

  Jim Wormold : She grew up so quickly. Sometimes I wish she'd set fire to someone again.

  Dr. Hasselbacher : She will.

  Jim Wormold : And I don't mean in that way.

• Jim Wormold : Forgive me, I couldn't help overhearing what you said. Perhaps we could have a word privately.

  Ambassador : Haven't I met you somewhere before? The Embassy?

  Jim Wormold : Good heavens, no. I never go there.

  Ambassador : I afraid you'll have to if you want to see me in private. I happen to be the Ambassador.

• Jim Wormold : We should all be clowns, Milly.

• Jim Wormold : Do you know what they say about Captain Segura?

  Milly Wormold : I know, he beats his prisoners, but he never touches me.

• Jim Wormold : [guessing the job Hawthorne is talking about]  It sounds like the Secret Service.

  Hawthorne : So the novelists call it.

• Beatrice Severn : Who are you showing off to?

  Jim Wormold : You.

• Jim Wormold : I keep them under my pillow. At night, I mean.

• Jim Wormold : You think I should invent and take their money?

  Dr. Hasselbacher : They have no money except what they take in taxes from men like you and me. As long as you invent, you do no harm. And they don't deserve the truth.

  Jim Wormold : They?

  Dr. Hasselbacher : Kingdoms, republics, principalities, powers...!