Quotes

Everything Happens at Night

Hilda: So, you're an American!
Ken Morgan: Yes.
Hilda: Are you a millionaire?
Ken Morgan: Well, a few of us aren't.
Hilda: Is it true that in America they have buildings as high as this mountain?
Ken Morgan: Oh, higher.
Hilda: Why do they build them so high?
Ken Morgan: I beg pardon?
Hilda: Why...do they build 'em...so high?
Ken Morgan: Oh! Well, that's so the people that build them and can't seem to rent them have a nice place to jump off.

Louise: [to the hotel clerk] Which one is Mr. Thompson. Is that the one who...
Geoffrey Thompson: Six feet, two inches tall. Twenty-eight years of age and has blue eyes. Plays the piano with one finger. Is part owner of an Irish sweepstake ticket. Doesn't like whipped cream, paper napkins, or people who kick the back of your seat in picture theaters. Is very bashful. Doesn't like brunettes. And is just as curious about you as you are about him.
Louise: Hello.
Geoffrey Thompson: How do you do?

Louise: Tell me about America. Is it really as wonderful as they say?
Ken Morgan: Wonderful? Why, it's terrific! That's the greatest country in the world! Would you love America. And would America love you! Not, of course, if there's a scarcity of blondes or anything like that. But, you're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life. You're so alive, so full of grace, rhythm, music.

Ken Morgan: We hear them in the streets of New York everyday. Indians and gangsters fighting all the time.

Ken Morgan: Don't believe a word I tell you; but, you fascinate me.
Louise: Go on.
Ken Morgan: A girl like you ought to be set to music. You're a symphony for the eyes.

Geoffrey Thompson: It's big and dull. Dull and very big. Skyscrapers everywhere and hamburgers and hot dogs and chewing gum and mass production and everywhere you go you see Americans. Americans everywhere. Must you go to America?
Louise: The farther away from brown shirts, purple shirts, pink shirts, green shirts - the happier father will be.
Geoffrey Thompson: Yes, why you would just as safe in England.
Ken Morgan: Yes, well, you forget we have the Statue of Liberty. America: sanctuary of democracy. A haven for Europe's greatest minds: Toscanini, Einstein, Thomas Mann - and Dr. Hugo Norden.

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By what name was Everything Happens at Night (1939) officially released in Canada in English?