Cole Porter Quotes in Night and Day (1946)
Cole Porter Quotes:
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Cole Porter: Thanks for all the flowers.
Monty Woolley: Yes, one can only send them to a man when he's flat on his back.
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Cole Porter: [to Linda Lee Porter] I've come to think of it that one of us must've followed one of us.
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Cole Porter: What is discretion but dishonesty dressed up in a little good breeding?
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Monty Woolley: Cole, he's only an actor but he still may be right. He's tried it 7 times already, the song's a problem.
Cole Porter: The song is not a problem, it's a challenge. Jack! Jack my boy, how can I help you? Ask me anything.
Jack: Write another song.
Cole Porter: Oh God, that cuts me right to the quick. I know it's God awful but it's the best I can do and we open in three days.
Jack: Where do you get your ideas?
Cole Porter: I get them all from a little Chinese man in Poughkeepsie.
Jack: Mr Porter, the song goes so high and so low it's impossible.
Cole Porter: It's not impossible. I wrote this with you in mind, I can sing it and I have a range of three notes.
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Cole Porter: I'm worried about you.
Linda Porter: You don't need to worry about me or your show. It's all taken care of. I'm in God's hands, the show's in yours. I do wish it were the other way around.
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Linda Porter: What's that?
Cole Porter: An idea for a song. I think this part would go well with I love you. What do you think?
Linda Porter: I think that would be beautiful.
Cole Porter: I do you know.
Linda Porter: You don't have to love me the way I love you Cole, just love me.
Cole Porter: It's so easy.
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Linda Porter: You knew so much about me when we met, don't you think I'd heard a thing or two about you?
Cole Porter: So you know that I... that I have other interests... interests some may see as unfair to you?
Linda Porter: You mean men?
Cole Porter: Yes, men.
Linda Porter: Let's just say you like them more than I do.
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Cole Porter: If I can survive this movie, I can survive anything.
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Cole Porter: An unmanned piano!
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Cole Porter: I'm making such a mess trying to say this, I'm glad I'm not trying to write it as a song.
Linda Porter: It would be a beautiful serenade.
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Cole Porter: Champagne? Or how do you want to play this? Comedy? Tragedy? Musical Comedy? Farce?
Linda Porter: Why don't we just... play?
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Cole Porter: [dressed as Caesar at a costume party] I'm being hailed.
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Cole Porter: I think we define "woman" differently. I don't define it as "punching bag", for example.
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Cole Porter: Miss Morrison. The line is "away we go" not "off we go", dear. You couldn't manage to make me hear you before and now that I can hear you, you've got it wrong.
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Linda Porter: I'm so sorry darling. I know how late I must be.
Cole Porter: Late? Linda you missed the whole thing.
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Cole Porter: You can sing this. The problem is you're not having any fun.
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Linda Porter: Thank you dearest.
Cole Porter: For what?
Linda Porter: For all of this. For our future. For being with me with Edward just now.
Cole Porter: That? That was just pest control. That's all.
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Linda Porter: Your song was absolutely delirious.
Cole Porter: Thank you. I'm never quite sure if they get the joke, especially when it's on them.
Linda Porter: You should learn to trust your audience.
Cole Porter: I trust it. I just wish I could expand it.
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Linda Porter: They love your song.
Cole Porter: Don't you?
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Cole Porter: We couldn't hear songs the same way anymore. The words sounded like code.
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Cole Porter: Monty! I didn't recognize you under all that hair!
Monty Woolley: We've all changed since school. At Yale the only grooms who interested you were in the stables.
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Cole Porter: I don't want to fight.
Linda Porter: I don't want to fight and I don't want to blame. But if things are going to be... different. I'd like to know.
Cole Porter: I'll tell you as soon as I know.
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Cole Porter: Good catch!
Linda Porter: I always thought so.
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Sara Murphy: Cole, I know this is your song but it doesn't sound like you.
Cole Porter: Linda thinks it does.
Sara Murphy: You should put it in the new show you're working on.
[Cole shakes his head]
Sara Murphy: Why not?
Cole Porter: Because it doesn't sound like me.
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Cole Porter: I have a little something for you. It's a whole new flower. A gentleman in Spain did it up for me. It's a hybrid of two varieties of rose thought to be completely incompatible yet look at it. It's perfect. The Linda Porter rose.
Linda Porter: Exquisite.
Cole Porter: Just a pale reflection of our life together.
Linda Porter: It wasn't all beautiful.
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Cole Porter: You were always my life-to-be.
Linda Porter: I remember that song.
Cole Porter: It was about you. They were all about you.
Linda Porter: Not all. But some I hope.
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Cole Porter: Two people who wanted too much from each other.
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Gabe: You loved her then?
Cole Porter: I said the words. I meant them.
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Linda Porter: I think a change would be good for us.
Cole Porter: Yes.
Linda Porter: Yes we'll go?
Cole Porter: Yes it would be a big change.
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Cole Porter: I really can't do this song justice. Wait til opening night, hear it sung properly.
Linda Porter: I think it sounds fine now, and I won't be there dear.
Cole Porter: Why not? Why wouldn't you be?
Linda Porter: You know the doctors honey, they're so boring.
Cole Porter: I wrote this for you. What's the point of doing it if you're not going to be there?
Linda Porter: That's why I want you to sing it for me now, all the way through.
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Linda Porter: Grace personified.
Cole Porter: Was that me? Because I really hadn't planned on sweeping you off your feet for quite a while.
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Linda Porter: We've become such fast friends. I was hoping you might. He'd be a good companion for you.
Cole Porter: Linda?
Linda Porter: I don't want you to be lonely.
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Cole Porter: You see how far I'd go to win you back?
Linda Porter: I think you've gone *too* far this time, but I ought to be used to it by now.
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Cole Porter: Non-stop fun.
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Cole Porter: You're playing with my life.
Gabe: It's my show.
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Cole Porter: Why does Linda come back to Cole?
Linda Porter: Because he's Cary Grant. And she misses the music as do I.
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Cole Porter: Did somebody die?
Gerald Murphy: I think it was us Cole.
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Cole Porter: And chorus, keep those consonants crisp. We don't want the audience to think you're saying "an annoying opening for an ugly show". They'll come to that conclusion on their own.
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Cole Porter: Linda, what were you thinking? You couldn't have lost it.
Linda Porter: I had hoped not.
Cole Porter: What do you mean?
Linda Porter: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Definitively nothing. Shall we go? I'd hate to compound the felony by making us late for the party, that would be something too hard to b-
[stands up and gasps]
Cole Porter: What's wrong?
Linda Porter: Nothing, it's just a little thing. Not like missing an opening night or a party, just a little thing that... stopped growing.
Cole Porter: Oh, my sweet girl. I'm so sorry.
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Cole Porter: Isn't that Linda Lee Thomas with Sara?
Gerald Murphy: I don't know.
Cole Porter: It is, just as they described, the most beautiful divorcée in Paris. My God, she's ravishing.
Gerald Murphy: Is this going to be another Cole Porter obsession without preliminaries?
Cole Porter: Obsessions don't have preliminaries.
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Cole Porter: I really can't do it justice. Wait until opening night, hear it sung properly.
Linda Porter: I think it sounds fine now. And I won't be there dear.
Cole Porter: What? Why wouldn't you be?
Linda Porter: You know the doctors.
Cole Porter: I wrote this for you. Why play it if you won't be there?
Linda Porter: That's why I want you to play it for me now. All the way through.
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Cole Porter: Mr Thomas, you have the most peculiar sense of timing.
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Linda Porter: You don't have to love me the way I love you Cole. Just love me.
Cole Porter: That's so easy.
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Linda Porter: You knew so much about me when we met Cole, don't you think I'd heard a thing or two about you?
Cole Porter: Then you know that I... that I can be... that I have outside interests the pursuit of which may seem unfair to you?
Linda Porter: You mean men?
Cole Porter: Yes, men.
Linda Porter: Let's just say you like them more than I do.
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Cole Porter: There are no little memories with you.
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Cole Porter: A few people may have been carried out of my shows but no-one's ever been carried in.
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Linda Porter: Ellin says lrving is having a great run in Hollywood. The Gershwins are there...
Cole Porter: You want me to leave at the top of my game?
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