The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Anne Baxter: Lucy Morgan

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• Lucy : What are you studying at school?

  George : College.

  Lucy : College.

  George : Oh, lots of useless guff.

  Lucy : Why don't you study some useful guff?

  George : What do you mean, useful?

  Lucy : Something you'd use later in your business or profession.

  George : I don't intend to go into any business or profession.

  Lucy : No?

  George : No.

  Lucy : Why not?

  George : Well, just look at them. That's a fine career for a man, isn't it? Lawyers, bankers, politicians. What do they ever get out of life, I'd like to know. What do they know about real things? What do they ever get?

  Lucy : What do you want to be?

  George : [fatuously]  A yachtsman!

  [Lucy reacts with astonishment.] 

• George : How'd all these ducks get to know you so quick?

  Lucy : Oh, I've been here a week.

  George : Seems to me you've been pretty busy.

• George : [disparagingly]  Horseless carriages. Auto-mobiles. People aren't going to spend their lives lying on their backs on the road letting grease drip in their face. No, I think you're father better forget about 'em.

  Lucy : Papa will be so grateful if he could get your advice.

  George : I don't know that I've done anything to be insulted for.

  Lucy : You know, I don't mind you being such a lofty person, at all. I think its ever so interesting. But, Papa's a great man.

• Lucy : Who's that?

  George : Oh, I didn't catch his name when my mother presented him to me. You mean the queer-looking duck?

  Lucy : The who?

  George : The queer-looking duck.

• George : How is that for a bit of freshness?

  Lucy : What was?

  George : That queer-looking duck waving his hand at me like that.

  Lucy : He meant me!

  George : Oh, he did? Everybody seems to mean you.

• Lucy : How lovely your mother is.

  George : I think she is.

  Lucy : She's the gracefullest woman. She dances like a girl of 16.

  George : Most girls of 16 are pretty bad dancers. Anyhow, I wouldn't dance with one of 'em unless I had to.

• Lucy : Don't you remember? We'd had a quarrel, and we didn't speak to each other all the way home from a long, long drive. And since we couldn't play together like good children, of course, it was plain we oughtn't to play at all.

  George : Play?

  Lucy : What I mean is, we'd come to the point where it was time to quit playing. Well, what we were playing.

  George : At being lovers you mean, don't you?

  Lucy : Something like that. It was absurd.