The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Moira Shearer: Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover")
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Quotes
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Charles Coutray : You are coming up to my studio.
Paula Woodward : Tonight?
Charles Coutray : At once.
Paula Woodward : [after a long pensive pause] I don't think I possibly can.
Charles Coutray : [Annoyed and impatient] I don't know who you are, but let me tell you, you flatter yourself.
Paula Woodward : Oh, no, I don't.
Charles Coutray : Oh, yes, you do! You're afraid for your virtue, which is in no danger!
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Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : And you call yourself a dancer?
Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I don't.
Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Well, I do!
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Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : You think I'm an absolute brute.
Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I haven't been shouted at once, since I stopped dancing. You brought it all back. Its like the drafts in the corridors, the messy dressing rooms, and the smells, the sweat, and the liniment. Oh, and breaking your back and being cursed at because you can't break it any more and, then, breaking it a bit more - and learning that's what matters.
Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : That's when we're really alive. When we're making something. When we are something, bigger than ourselves. It comes so rarely those moments and if you turn your back on them, they're lost. And you're lost.
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Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I was looking over the usual string of girls, and one of them, she may have been an absolute imbecile as far as I know, but she danced, really, like a flame. Then she messed it up, and the moment was gone.
Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Oh!
Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : It was you! Now, don't attempt to deny it. I've got eyes in my head. It was you!
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Aunt Lydia (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Tonight, it's all for you.
Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : All for me.
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Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I'll wait for you. Already I'm waiting for you.
Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : You don't have to wait for someone who's with you always.
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Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I used to think of you as *so* terrifying.
Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : You terrified me for a moment.
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Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I suppose you can't dance on a full stomach? Well, I can't watch on an empty one. A tiny drink?
Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : I don't need even a tiny drink.
Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Well, maybe you'll have something afterwards.
Paula Woodward (segment "The Jealous Lover") : Oh, afterwards, I'll be a pig.
Charles Coutray (segment "The Jealous Lover") : The slimmest pig that ever - what to pigs do?
