Maggie DuBois Quotes in The Great Race (1965)

Maggie DuBois: And because I consider myself sexually free and morally emancipated, I am still a responsible, discriminating woman who does not intend to jump into bed with the first wavy-haired, muscle-bound, egocentric male who thinks he can seduce me by agreeing with some of the things I believe in.

Leslie: I only wanted to kiss you!

Maggie DuBois: Why?

Leslie: Because I love you, that's why!

Maggie DuBois: Ha!

Leslie: You don't believe me, huh?

Maggie DuBois: I do not!

[Leslie stops the car, inches from the finish line]

Maggie DuBois: What are you doing?

Leslie: Proving that I love you.

Maggie DuBois: But you'll lose the race!

Leslie: Can you think of a better way to prove it?

Professor Fate: What is the word for "friends"?

Maggie DuBois: Professor...

Professor Fate: Shut up!

Max: I don't know the language.

Professor Fate: Well, get the dictionary!

Max: Dictionary. Right.

[Max flips through the pages]

Max: I got it, I got it.

Professor Fate: What is it, what is it?

Max: [frowns] I can't pronounce it.

[Fate grabs the dictionary]

Professor Fate: Very simple. Dru... Druz...

Maggie DuBois: Druzya.

Professor Fate: Druzya...

[Fate and Max stare at Maggie]

Maggie DuBois: I speak, read, and write French... Russian... and Arabic.

Maggie DuBois: You lost.

Leslie: Only the race.

[they kiss]

Maggie DuBois: I want to thank you again for this opportunity, Mr. Goodbody.

Henry Goodbody: I had very little choice after your conversation with my wife.

Hester Goodbody: Henry, if you can't be more gracious, shut up!

Maggie DuBois: You mean amazing because I'm a woman.

[Leslie encounters Maggie stranded in the desert]

Leslie: I'm offering you a lift.

[Maggie ignores him]

Leslie: Or would you prefer an engraved invitation?

Maggie DuBois: I might consider an apology.

Leslie: An apology? For what? It's twenty miles back to Borracho, you'd never make it.

Maggie DuBois: Well, that's your fault.

Leslie: MY fault?

Maggie DuBois: Max, you little rat! I'll get you for this!

Leslie: I was once on an anthropological expedition to study the Kwakiutl Indians. In the winter, one Kwakiutl Indian in a blanket froze, but two Kwakiutl Indians in the same blanket...

Maggie DuBois: Yes...?

Leslie: ...Were warmer.