Apartment for Peggy (1948)

Jeanne Crain: Peggy Taylor

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Quotes 

• Prof. Henry Barnes : Why not suicide?

  Peggy Taylor : Because it wouldn't change anything.

  Prof. Henry Barnes : The gentleman would be dead! I consider that a drastic change.

  Peggy Taylor : What makes Mr. Hypothetical think he's living now?

  Prof. Henry Barnes : I just said he was living!

  Peggy Taylor : I mean really living. If he's just doing nothing but sitting around moping, thinking up reasons why he should kill himself, he's not alive, he's dead already. Just as dead as a dodo. Now, if he's dead, suicide's not going to change anything. It's just going to give him more of the same thing he's got. Suicide only puts an end to living and vice versa. Mm-mm, the only way that he can change that kind of deadly existence is to start living with a capital "L" and that's just what Mr. Hypothetical ought to do.

• Peggy Taylor : Do you know that in a recent survey 64% of all used car salesmen said they wished they gone into some other field.

  Jason Taylor : You made that up! You're always making up statistics. Why?

  Peggy Taylor : Of course I made it up. Somebody's always making up statistics, it might as well be me. You'd be surprised how many arguments I win with my statistics. If I get in a spot, I just say, 36% or 400 million. Nobody ever bothers to check up. They just say, 'My, I never realized it was that much'. And when I walk away they think I'm very smart.

• Peggy Taylor : OK, give me a half dollar and I'll show you how Pop won more arguments than any guy in town.

  Jason Taylor : Well, what do you want a half...

  Peggy Taylor : Give me a half dollar!

  [he gives it to her] 

  Peggy Taylor : OK, close your left eye.

  [she holds the coin up to his right eye] 

  Peggy Taylor : What do you see?

  Jason Taylor : My half dollar.

  Peggy Taylor : Mm-hmm.

  [she walks a few steps away] 

  Peggy Taylor : Now what do you see?

  Jason Taylor : The same half dollar.

  Peggy Taylor : What else? What else?

  Jason Taylor : Well I see you and the professor and the books over there...

  Peggy Taylor : That's just what I mean. Never hold money so close you never see anything else. If you do you're a cooked goose.