The Country Girl (1954)

Bing Crosby: Frank Elgin

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Quotes 

• Bernie Dodd : Does your wife really want you to play this part?

  Frank Elgin : Yeah, she's all for it.

  Bernie Dodd : I was just wondering. The day I met her, she seemed a little difficult about terms and rather domineering, I thought.

  Frank Elgin : She wasn't always like that.

  Bernie Dodd : Oh I know, I know. They all start out as Juliets and wind up as Lady Macbeths.

• Frank Elgin : I faced a crisis up there in Boston, and I got away with it. Just about anybody can face a crisis. It's that everyday living that's rough. I'm not sure I can lick it, but I think I got a chance.

• Frank Elgin : Instead of selling a patent of medicine or something like that, I was selling a philosophy. You know, a sort of a sunshine salesman.

• Bernie Dodd : What is this? I come up here with the best intentions in the world and suddenly I find I'm victimizing you.

  Frank Elgin : Can I get a word in?

  Bernie Dodd : What did I bring you? A basket of snakes?

• Bernie Dodd : Frank? Having trouble at home?

  Frank Elgin : No, nothing like that. What's the matter? Don't you believe me?

  Bernie Dodd : Everyone has trouble at home. The only ones who deny it are those that have too much of it.

• Frank Elgin : If the show doesn't pan out, I certainly don't want to come in to New York in a turkey.

• Frank Elgin : Give me the dicky! Come on!

• Frank Elgin : Isn't Mommy a doll?

• Frank Elgin : Do you like me?

  Bartender : Doc, you're one of the most likeable guys I've ever seen.

• Jackie : All right, all right, simmer down. It's my turn to holler.

  [singing] 

  Jackie : Love and learn, Love and learn, It's a breeze, Then a burn, You retreat, Then return, You may have climbed the tree of knowledge, But when you love you really learn, Love and learn, Learn a lot, It's the be-and-end all, Then its not, It's a dream, It's a plot, It's something out of seventh heaven, Or something misbegot, Each morning when I count my blessings, They tally up to none, I've arrived at this

  Frank Elgin : The state of bliss is somewhat overdone

  Jackie : Well, go Daddy, go.

  Frank Elgin : Live and learn, weep and sing, Till the final day of reckoning

  Jackie : What about this guy?

  Frank Elgin : But when arms start to cling, With the thrills kisses bring, What you have learned is, Is you haven't learned a thing

  Jackie : Take me home, Dad...

• Jackie : Hey, aren't you Frank Elgin?

  Frank Elgin : I used to be. Not a word or I'll tell them you're Harpo Marx.

• Frank Elgin : This is something I've got to work out for myself, with you or without you. Whether the show is a hit or a flop is beside the point. I've got to find myself, whether it's in one room or five.

• Frank Elgin : There's only one thing more obvious than two people looking longingly at each other - and that's two people avoiding it.

• Frank Elgin : I gave you ten of the roughest years anybody ever spent outside of a concentration camp. It could be more of the same.

  [starts to leave, turns around] 

  Frank Elgin : That was quite a little speech, wasn't it? I guess I'm still giving a performance. This time there's a slight difference. At least I know it's a performance.