Knife in the Water (1962)

Leon Niemczyk: Andrzej

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• Andrzej : You don't whistle on board.

  Young Boy : Why not?

  Andrzej : It's not done. Sailors get mast-headed for that... Not hikers, though.

• [first lines] 

  Andrzej : [sees the boy for the first time]  Hitching at this hour.

• Andrzej : When I was an apprentice helmsman, we had a bosun - Krystyna, what was his name? The guy with the willow. He'd say: see that willow? It was an oak. If the bosun says it's a willow, it's a willow. "To the willow, quick march!"

  Young Boy : Shit. Excuse me. So much water in there.

  Andrzej : We'd sit on that willow maybe an hour at a time.

  Young Boy : On that oak.

  Andrzej : Willow, for us. And he made us go "cuckoo".

  Young Boy : Made you do what?

  Andrzej : Make a cuckoo sound. Like the bird.

  Young Boy : And you cuckooed.

  Andrzej : He wasn't all that smart but he turned us into men.

• Andrzej : Better get back to that line.

  Young Man : Who are you ordering around?

  Andrzej : If two men are on board, one's the skipper.

  Young Man : Or the drill sergeant.

• Young Man : You left the windshield wipers?

  Andrzej : They won't get stolen around here.

  Young Man : No?

• Andrzej : You're a bum, but you're okay.

• Young Man : What are you? A gynecologist?

  Andrzej : I write.

• Andrzej : It takes brains, not brawn.

• Andrzej : You could cut yourself.

  Young Man : Did you ever cut yourself?

  Andrzej : Take care, you never know.

• Andrzej : Make for that buoy.

• Andrzej : What d'you think you look like?

  Krystyna : Like your wife.

  Andrzej : Without me you'd be a whore!

• Young Man : I want it back.

  Andrzej : Come and get it.

  Young Man : Give me back my knife.