Penny Hart Quotes in The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)

Penny Hart: I love you, Max.

Max Devlin: How could you possibly love ME? I'm not lovable. I'm not even nice. I'm irresponsible. Unreliable. You've said so yourself a million times. Look, even if we try, I'll still probably leave you without any warning. I'm a rotten person.

Penny Hart: The only trouble with you, Max, is that you have no self-image.

Max Devlin: You noticed?

Max Devlin: [Max turns away from Penny and faces the mirror] Oh, my God.

[He sees his reflection]

Max Devlin: I don't believe it.

Penny Hart: What is it, Max? What's wrong?

Max Devlin: It's ME! I don't believe it. It's me in the mirror. I... I don't believe it.

[He moves closer and closer to the mirror. Penny follows]

Max Devlin: I won. I WON. I WON!

Penny Hart: Won what?

Max Devlin: I beat that lousy, rotten, slimy, no-good, son-of-a...

Penny Hart: Beat who? Beat who?

Max Devlin: [He turns to face Penny and hold her shoulders] Barney! I beat Barney! He had my soul!

Penny Hart: Are you all right, Max?

Max Devlin: All right?

[He kisses Penny on the cheek]

Max Devlin: I've never been more all right in my life!

[He turns back to the mirror]

Max Devlin: Hello! That's the most amazing sight I've ever seen!

Penny Hart: You're talking crazy, Max?

Max Devlin: [He runs to the couch and starts walking on it while talking to Penny] No, no, I know it's crazy. I know, I know, I know it sounds crazy! I know that, but it's so basic. It's just so simple. It's like it's good and bad and-and Heaven and Hell and God and the Devil! Penny, look, all my life, I made wrong choices. I made wrong choices!

[He gets off the couch and walks over to Penny]

Max Devlin: But this time, I made the right choice and the Devil lost my soul! He LOST me!

Penny Hart: I'm gonna call the doctor.

Toby Hart: [the phone is ringing and Toby goes into the house to answer it] Hello?

Max Devlin: Hello, Toby? This is your Uncle Max.

Toby Hart: [His voice is heard over the phone] Oh, hi!

Max Devlin: Can I talk to your mother, please?

Toby Hart: Uh? Just a sec, all right?

[He goes outside while holding the phone and talks to his mother, who's sitting at a table with a few kids]

Toby Hart: It's for you, Mom. It's Uncle Max.

Penny Hart: Uncle Max. I don't believe it. Tell him that I'm uh...

[She then says quietly]

Penny Hart: Tell him that I'm not here.

Toby Hart: [He goes back on the phone with Max] She says to say she's not here.

Max Devlin: Huh? Well, then, you tell her it's somebody else. I have to talk to her.

Toby Hart: [Toby gets off the phone to talk to his mother, Penny] He says to say he's someone else.

Penny Hart: Excuse me, you guys.

[She gets up from the table and walks over to Toby, who hands over the phone. She goes inside the house with Toby following. During the phone conversation, she sees Toby trying to leave and she stops him]

Penny Hart: Hello. Uncle Max? Uh, I don't know who you are or what you want, but I want you to leave me and my son alone, please?

Max Devlin: [Between four and five seconds, Max's voice is heard over the phone. Then, the camera's right on him and zooms in] Mrs. Hart, don't hang up on me, please, until you hear me out, okay? You may think this sounds insane, but I've fallen deeply in love...

[She hangs up]

Penny Hart: [She speaks to Toby] You know what you are? You are the only 11-year-old procurer in the business.

Toby Hart: What's a...

Penny Hart: Forget it.

[She goes back outside with Toby following]

Max Devlin: So between managing the Nordlinger boy and Stella, I'm perpetually on the run, as you can imagine.

Penny Hart: I don't have to imagine. I can tell by looking at you. Don't you ever look in the mirror when you shave?

[She's alluding to the fact that there are paper-covered cuts all over his face]

Max Devlin: Not if I can help it.

Max Devlin: Believe me, Penny. My life isn't my own. And on top of everything else, there's my real estate responsibilities, which are considerable. Some landlords will allow a place to go to Hell in a trash can, but not me. Constant repairs, constant maintenance, constant outlays of time and money.

Penny Hart: I'll bet.

Max Devlin: And then there's the little old ladies who insists on keeping their pets and the young, married couples who insists on keeping their kids. Not that I've got anything against kids, but some landlords feel it's rough enough taking care of a place these days without them. Thumping and bumping around. And playing handball on your walls at all hours and putting their mangy, little hands on your fresh paint. Plus, the whining and the wailing all night! And at the crack of dawn in the morning, before you've had your coffee, they'll ring your bell with the most insipid, stupid questions that you never have an answer to! It can drive you nuts!

Penny Hart: Is that how you really feel about kids?

Max Devlin: Well... sometimes.

Penny Hart: Me too, sometimes.