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Terry McKay: Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories... we've already missed the spring!
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Nickie Ferrante: I'll just take my ego for a walk.
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Nickie Ferrante: Tell me. Did you write the song "I'll Never Smile Again"?
Terry McKay: [laughs] No. But I'm thinking of writing one called "Moon Over La Gabriella." Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball?
[Shakes her head]
Terry McKay: .
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Nickie Ferrante: But you have such an honest face.
Terry McKay: I have?
Nickie Ferrante: I can trust you can't I?
Terry McKay: Yes, I suppose so.
Nickie Ferrante: Good, come with me.
Terry McKay: Yes, but the Captain has an honest face too! Why can't you tell him your troubles?
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Interviewer: I'm sure you had some wonderful experiences in Europe.
Nickie Ferrante: Yes.
Interviewer: Would you care to expand on that statement?
Nickie Ferrante: No.
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Terry McKay: And all I could say was, "hello".
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Terry McKay: Oh, it's nobody's fault but my own! I was looking up... it was the nearest thing to heaven! You were there...
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Nickie: There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.
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Terry McKay: The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.
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Robert Q. Lewis - Announcer: Now then, one thing - watch the camera. When the red light is on, you're on.
Nickie Ferrante: Yeah? Well, it's on.
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Terry McKay: What makes life so difficult?
Nickie Ferrante: People?
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Terry McKay: We were talking about the place where I was born...
Nickie Ferrante: I can hardly wait for you to grow up.
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Terry McKay: I'm getting married and I want you to be the first to congratulate me.
NYC Cab Driver: Marriage is something to rush to?
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Kenneth Bradley: I really hope you've found happiness, and if you're ever in need of anything, like someone to love you, don't hesitate to call me.
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Grandmother Janou: [talking about Nickie] Everything comes too easily to him. He's always attracted by the art he isn't practising, the place he hasn't been, the girl he hasn't met.
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Nickie Ferrante: [opening his cigarette case] You don't happened to have match?
Terry McKay: You could light it from that inscription, couldn't you?
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Terry McKay: I'm not prudish or anything but my mother warned me not enter a man's room first in any month ending in R.
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[last lines]
Nickie Ferrante: Why didn't you tell me? If it had to happen to one of us, why did it have to be you?
Terry McKay: If you can paint, I can walk... Anything can happen, don't you think?
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Robert Q. Lewis - Announcer: Say, here's good news for you bachelors. Competition for pretty girls will definitely be easier now that Nickie Ferrante, the "big dame hunter", is going out of circulation. Yes, it will be wedding bells for him at long last. Mr. Ferrante is sailing today from Europe, and Miss Lois Clark will be waiting for him at the gangplank in New York. Lois and her lovely 600 million bucks, what a deal. Not only all that lettuce but a beautiful tomato too. Wow.
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Terry McKay: Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories...
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Terry McKay: [to Nickie Ferrante] You go think in your room and I'll think in mine... as we miss each other.
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Terry McKay: My father drank beer. In the morning.
Nickie Ferrante: He was a beer drinker?
Terry McKay: Later in the day, he drank anything.
An Affair to Remember Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Leo McCarey
Language: English,French,Italian Release date: July 19, 1957