The Arrangement (1969)
Kirk Douglas: Eddie Anderson
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Quotes
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Eddie Anderson : I want you to sell that house. And sell that place in the desert. Sell the cars, the paintings, that Bulgarian statue in the garden. Sell the books, the records, deep freezer, everything! Look, I'm the head of the house, that's an order: sell it!
Florence Anderson : Yes, but Eddie, be sensible. Where would we *go*?
Eddie Anderson : What do we really need? We'll get a small apartment here, and start from scratch.
Florence Anderson : Eddie, you've worked hard all your life. You deserve a comfortable living.
Eddie Anderson : [Blurts out laughing] I wasn't *comfortable*! I kept trying to kill myself!
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Gwen : I'm hired by Mr. Finnegan...
Eddie Anderson : I know why you're hired by Mr. Finnegan.
Gwen : He doesn't pay me for that.
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Eddie Anderson : Good luck.
Charles : Mr. Anderson. I don't believe in luck. I believe in patience.
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Gwen : OK, yes, I know, I'm nothing, I never was, but you! You could have been...
Eddie Anderson : What? What?!
Gwen : ...What you could have been. ...What happened to you, Eddie? Must kill you to think what you might have been.
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Florence Anderson : Then it was just a sex thing.
Eddie Anderson : Yeah, that's all it was. Just a sex thing.
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Chet Collier : What are you, Syrian?
Eddie Anderson : No.
Chet Collier : Well, you're some kind of wog.
Eddie Anderson : I'm a Greek.
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Florence Anderson : Eddie, remember the time you took a leave from the office - went east to research your profile on Chet Collier?
Eddie Anderson : That son of a bitch.
Florence Anderson : I always suspected that you...
Eddie Anderson : You suspected right. I took her east with me. My research girl.
Florence Anderson : Oh, God. I wish just once, just once, you'd said to me: "Let's go. Come with me and be my research girl." How did she talk you into that? I don't want to know. Good night. That bitch!
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Eddie Anderson : I'm gonna tell you the truth. The - the physical part, that wasn't it really. Somehow, by insulting me - got me mad - she made me look at myself in a way I hadn't done for years. That's why I held onto it the way I did.
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Eddie Anderson : Bullshit. You know what we're gonna put on the tip of everybody's tongue. Mustn't say the dirty word here, but it's not the "clean" one.
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Arthur Houghton : It's been my experience that when women, particularly women who feel this way...
Eddie Anderson : I kept 200.
Arthur Houghton : That money, its transfer, has a soothing effect.
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Eddie Anderson : I think a lot of you, Florence, you know that.
Florence Anderson : I know you do, baby.
Eddie Anderson : We'll do the best we can.
Florence Anderson : Oh, we'll do better than that.
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Eddie Anderson : Can a 44-year-old man who doesn't like himself go back and start again? That's the plot of our true romance, my faithful reader.
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Sam Arness : How much money you made this year?
Eddie Anderson : Oh, I paid taxes on about 80 thou. Eighty thou.
Sam Arness : [laughs] "Oh, I pay taxes on 80 thou. " Oh, but how much you make? Right? Smart. Smart. Don't tell me. Your money, your business. I know you got plenty.
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Eddie Anderson : I'm here now, everything's going to be copacetic.
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Eddie Anderson : Florence, aren't you a long ways from home?
Florence Anderson : If you insist on putting a match to all I've built for more than 20 years, I'm damn well gonna be here too.
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Gwen : I called up Jack Schnee.
Eddie Anderson : The poster man?
Gwen : That's right. You got it.
Eddie Anderson : What was his attraction?
Gwen : I remembered you didn't like him. That was his attraction and that's the way I went.
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Eddie Anderson : I worked my way through college. You did everything you could to stop me. If it wasn't for Mother...
Sam Arness : Where do you think she got money? From my pockets! Send good-for-nothing, hopeless-case son Shakespeare-and-so-forth college. But then you found out what life is and you make big shot success because you got merchant blood here, here, here.
Eddie Anderson : Don't give me that merchant-blood shit! You're selfish. Mean.
Sam Arness : You have my blood, my brains.
Eddie Anderson : I have my blood, my brains!
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Eddie Anderson : Now, what is it, your mother's fault, your father's fault? What's that, Freud? You are you, kid.
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Eddie Anderson : You know the most impressive part of you right now? That cigar.
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Charles : Mr. Anderson? Mr. Anderson.
Eddie Anderson : Don't worry, Charles, I'm going away.
Charles : Where?
Eddie Anderson : Into myself.
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Florence Anderson : Eddie, can I ask you again? Is all this - about her?
Eddie Anderson : Not really, no.
Florence Anderson : I'm prettier than she is.
Eddie Anderson : Yes. You are.
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Eddie Anderson : You had power, then. Remember what it felt like? Power. Ram it in. Power.
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Arthur Houghton : Edward, you look terrible. What are you doing to yourself? This is not you. Something has taken possession of you, Edward. Come on now, snap out of it. What? I can't hear you.
Eddie Anderson : This is me.
Arthur Houghton : Applesauce!
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Florence Anderson : What is it about?
Eddie Anderson : My self-respect.
Florence Anderson : That's all?
Eddie Anderson : That's all.
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Dr. Leibman : Well, I'm going back on the six o'clock plane.
Eddie Anderson : Well, I got a date with a manicurist downstairs. I can fix it up for you too. Well, she's a little hairy, here and there, but...
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Eddie Anderson : You had the perfect arrangement. Fat job, beautiful house, understanding wife. All the side nooky you could handle. You had it all. You did.
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Florence Anderson : What are you going to do?
Eddie Anderson : Just be.
Florence Anderson : Well, what will you be?
Eddie Anderson : Nothing. Be.
Florence Anderson : But be what? Be nothing?
Eddie Anderson : Yes.
Florence Anderson : Well,, you're a talented man, you can...
Eddie Anderson : Yes. Nothing. Just be myself. Sounds silly.
Florence Anderson : No, no, not at all.
Eddie Anderson : You know, walk places. You know. Sit down, think. Maybe.
Florence Anderson : Like Tolstoy?
Eddie Anderson : No, like me.
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Eddie Anderson : Well, if it isn't my old playmate. Well, if it isn't my old playmate. I smell money. I smell money! Whenever I see a psychoanalyst and a lawyer, I always smell money; but this time, I smell it all around me.
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Eddie Anderson : I need a quick consultation. Can we have a quick consultation, doctor? Oh, are you in love with my wife too? Well, she is attractive and you're so cute.
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Eddie Anderson : I wanna do one small, good thing - before I die. One thing I really respect.
Florence Anderson : Yes, of course.
Eddie Anderson : That's what I want. That's all. One small, decent...
Florence Anderson : Such as wallowing in that tramp.
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Eddie Anderson : He looked - not my father, just a frightened man - who wants the same things I want, another chance. Another chance.