Goodbye Again (1961)

Anthony Perkins: Philip Van der Besh

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• Philip Van der Besh : I met someone this morning.

  Alice : I know, the most beautiful girl in the world.

  Philip Van der Besh : No, a woman! Warm, charming, gay - and yet sad. There was a deep sadness in her eyes.

• Philip Van der Besh : It takes two. It's not enough - to love. One must - be loved.

• Philip Van der Besh : I've known lots of girls, but, it just doesn't last. Its my fault, I guess, but some how they're all so young.

  Paula Tessier : What's wrong with that?

  Philip Van der Besh : Oh, I don't know. It must be me. Still, now, take this last girl, she was pretty and exactly the way older people imagine the young to be.

  Paula Tessier : How do older people imagine the young to be?

  Philip Van der Besh : Oh, you know, they - they try to look wickedly decadent, they drive their little cars at top speed clinching their teeth, they like cigarettes, they moan, they open their eyes in the morning, and she kept telling me that love was no more than the touching of two skins.

  Paula Tessier : And?

  Philip Van der Besh : Well, I think love is more than that.

• Philip Van der Besh : Have you ever seen a murder trial. Ah, its wonderful. Its so different in each country and always so exciting in its own way. In America its like a football game! Why did you lie? I didn't. I didn't. We know you had the gun in your hand. I object! Overruled. Answer the question. I didn't. I didn't. You're lying, O'Toole. You threatened to kill him. I didn't. I didn't. You stood on the corner of Howard and Mason. I object! Sustained. Your Honor! Sustained.

  [French poodle barks] 

  Philip Van der Besh : Now, in France, it's different. The French have a logic and a sophistry and a true sense of drama. J'accuse! Sorry. I accuse. In the name of the dead, I accuse you of aborting your duty as a human being. I accuse you of letting love go by. Of neglecting your duty to be happy. Of living on evasion and subterfuge and resignation. You should be sentenced to death. You will be sentence to solitude.

  Paula Tessier : A horrible sentence.

  Philip Van der Besh : The worst. The worst and the most frightening. To be alone and without love. Isn't it?

• Paula Tessier : You are a child. You must have been terribly spoiled when you were young.

  Philip Van der Besh : Oh, yes. Mother gave me everything. Much easier than saying no.

  Paula Tessier : What about your father?

  Philip Van der Besh : Oh, we ditched him when I was seven. And from then on we traveled. Just Mother and I. Home is where the heart is.

  Paula Tessier : And travel broadens the mind.

  Philip Van der Besh : Oh, you're so very right. I have an amazing fund of useless information that serves me very well at dinner parties. I have thousands of acquaintances without the burden of friendship. I've been in and out of 27 schools and I can say "I love you' in 13 different languages.

  Paula Tessier : Not bad at all. Well...

  Philip Van der Besh : "Jeg elsker deg" - that's my favorite. It's "I love you" in Norwegian.

  Paula Tessier : Did you learn that from a Norwegian girl?

  Philip Van der Besh : Yes. "Jeg elsker deg" - its the extra syllable that gives it the emotion. Jeg elsker deg?

  Paula Tessier : Well, here I am. Goodbye.

• Philip Van der Besh : Well, tell me.

  Night Club Singer : Tell you what?

  Philip Van der Besh : About love.

  Night Club Singer : Oh, it's kind of hard to explain.

  Philip Van der Besh : It's nothing. It's just a word in a song.

  Night Club Singer : It's in a million songs. You said it just right. It's the most used word in the world and it doesn't mean a thing. It's just a word in a song. Well, here's to little old love.

  Philip Van der Besh : Here's to little old love. Are you going to sing me another?

  Night Club Singer : Well...

  [singing] 

  Night Club Singer : Love is just a word, It doens't mean a thing, It's a fancy way of saying, Two people want to swing, Love is just a word, And when the fun begins, A word we use to cover a multitude of sin...

• Philip Van der Besh : I hate the breaking up of things. Partings and goodbyes.

  Paula Tessier : Well, then, you must never fall in love.

  Philip Van der Besh : Is that true?

  Paula Tessier : I hope not.

• Philip Van der Besh : You talk about love as if you knew all about love.

  Night Club Singer : I do. You gonna buy me a drink?