A Matter of Choice (1963)

Malcolm Gerard: Mike

Quotes 

• Tony : [watching a beatnik gyrate on the dance floor]  Look at those two.

  Mike : I suppose she gets a kick out of just looking at him. Like spiders.

  Tony : Spiders?

  Mike : Yes, you know, courtship dance.

  Tony : Shouldn't think he has anything left after that lot.

  Mike : Perhaps she'll eat him.

• Mike : [after waitress finishes sketch]  There we are.

  French Waitress : That's right?

  Mike : Very good. Now you see, the house is you, the path is your career, the sun is your father, the pond is your mother, the tree is ambition, the bush is a friend and the cat is sex! I can see that sex plays a very important part in your life.

  French Waitress : I think it plays a very important part in your life.

• Mike : An Oedipus complex. You see how you've drawn the sun -- your father -- right by the house, which is you. And look where you put the cat!

  Betty : And what does that mean?

  Mike : [winging it]  Well, that means you're sexy.

  Betty : Well, that's nice to know. But why? How did you work it out?

  Mike : Instinct. Well, you see, you put the cat right up against the tree. That's your libido.

  Betty : Libido? What on earth's libido?

  Mike : [frustrated]  Didn't they teach you anything at university? Don't you know anything about psychoanalysis?

  Betty : We haven't got to Freud yet.

  Mike : Oh well, you ask your professor what libido is .