Lt. Rooney: “Who are you? What’s your name?Mortimer Brewster: “Well, usually I’m Mortimer Brewster, but I’m not quite myself today.””, Lt. Rooney asked who he was and what his name was.Mortimer replied that he, Ticket Seller: “Something wrong with your eyes?”Roger Thornhill: “Yes, they’re sensitive to questions.”, The ticket seller asked whether there was something wrong with his eyes.Roger replied that they were sensitive to questions., “Don’t let women scare you. They are not poison.”, He advised him not to let women scare him and added that they were not poison., Osgood: “You must be quite a girl.”Daphne: “Wanna bet?”, Osgood remarked that she must be quite a girl. Daphne challenged him, asking if he wanted to bet.., Yvonne: “Where were you last night?”Rick: “That’s so long ago, I don’t remember. Yvonne: “Will I see you tonight?”.”Rick: “I never make plans that far ahead.”, Yvonne asked Rick where he had been the previous night.Rick replied that it was so long ago that he didn’t rememberRick answered that he never made plans that far ahead. She then asked whether she would see him that night., “American millionaires must be all quite mad. Perhaps it’s something they put in the ink when they print the money.”, She said that American millionaires must be quite mad and suggested that perhaps it was something they put in the ink when they printed the money., “I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.”, She said that she couldn’t think about it at that moment and that if she did, she would go crazy. She added that she would think about it the following day., “Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”, She said that whoever the person was, she had always depended on the kindness of strangers., “Change your dreams, not the world.”, He told her to change her dreams rather than the world., “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”, He that if they wanted things to stay as they were, things would have to change., “We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should love each other outside of time… detached.”, He said that they had to get beyond passions, like a great work of art in miraculous harmony, and that they should love each other outside of time, detached., “When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.”, He said that when they had talked, he had talked about himself and the other person had talked about herself, when they should have talked about each other., “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”, She said that he was more herself than she was, and that whatever their souls were made of, his and hers were the same., Anne Goupil: “Am I going mad or is it the world?”Pierre Goupil: “Both, kid. Both.”, Anne Goupil asked whether she was going mad or if it was the world. Pierre Goupil: “Both, kid.., Joe Gordon: “Agnes, get me a doctor. I’m going to have a nervous breakdown.”, Joe Gordon told Agnes to get him a doctor because he said that he was going to have a nervous breakdown.

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