Waterloo Bridge (1940)

Vivien Leigh: Myra

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• Myra Lester : I loved you, I've never loved anyone else. I never shall, that's the truth Roy, I never shall.

• Roy Cronin : The ballet was beautiful.

  Myra Lester : Madame didn't think so.

  Roy Cronin : Well, experts never know - it takes outsiders to know, and I tell you, it was beautiful.

  Myra Lester : That certainly proves you're an outsider.

• Myra Lester : Hello.

  Roy Cronin : Hello

  [they kiss] 

  Roy Cronin : You know, I... I thought about you all last night. Couldn't sleep a wink.

  Myra Lester : You managed to remember me at last, then.

  Roy Cronin : [laughing]  Yes, barely managed. Myra, what do you think we're going to do tonight?

• Roy Cronin : Well, darling.

  Myra Lester : Oh, Roy.

  Roy Cronin : Shall we face it?

  Myra Lester : It's been so quick. Are you quite, quite sure?

  Roy Cronin : Myra, I was never so sure of anything in my life. In the moment you left me after the air raid, I knew I must find you again. I've found you and I'll never let you go. Does that answer you?

  [Myra nods] 

• Roy Cronin : Good night, darling.

  Myra Lester : Goodbye, darling.

  Roy Cronin : Why goodbye when it's only till morning?

  Myra Lester : Because, every parting from you is - is like a little eternity.

• Myra Lester : [Playfully]  You are very conceited, Captain. You are quite mad, Captain! You are reckless and head-strong and - and I adore you, Captain.

• Myra Lester : I may never see him again.

• Roy Cronin : Myra, what do you think we're going to do tonight?

  Myra Lester : Well, I, I...

  Roy Cronin : Oh, you won't have time for that.

  Myra Lester : For what?

  Roy Cronin : For hesitating! No more hesitating for you!

  Myra Lester : No?

  Roy Cronin : No!

  Myra Lester : Well, what am I going to do instead?

  Roy Cronin : You're going to get married.

• Myra Lester : Do people have to kill each other to - give them a heightened sense of life?

• Myra Lester : You should let the future catch up with you more slowly.

• Myra Lester : Do you think you'll remember me now?

  Roy Cronin : I think so. I think so, for the rest of my life.

• Roy Cronin : I knew I wouldn't sleep so I've been walking in the garden, confiding my good luck to the stars.

  Myra Lester : Were they pleased?

  Roy Cronin : No, they seemed indifferent. They went on glittering, the little exhibitionists!

• Myra Lester : What were you going to say?

  Roy Cronin : Wish I could have seen the ballet. I'm sure it would have been a pleasant memory in the trenches.

• Myra Lester : You know, I have a feeling that from now on, everything's going to take a turn for the better. I'm sure it is!

• Lady Margaret Cronin : Forgive me, my dear, but, are you quite well?

  Myra Lester : Yes-yes, of course. I had a drink, that's all, it made me feel funny, queer! What's it like in Scotland? I've never been there. It always sounds so quaint, you know, the heather and the peat. Ha-ha. Peat comes from Ireland, doesn't it. I've never been there, either.

• Myra Lester : How have we been living?

  Kitty : What difference does it make, as long as we live.

  Myra Lester : Where's the money coming from? Where are you getting it?

  Kitty : Where do you think I've been getting it? I was trying to keep it from you, but - well, you know now.

  Myra Lester : You did it for me.

  Kitty : No I didn't! I'd a done it anyhow. C'est La Guerre. No jobs. No boys who want to marry you. Only men who want to kill a few hours, 'cause they know it may be their last.

• Flower Woman on Bridge : How's luck?

  Myra Lester : No such thing.

• Roy Cronin : Must be good for the muscles. I should think a dancer's muscles would be like a strongman.

  Myra Lester : Oh, not quite. That's a bit dreadful. We try to combine slenderness with strength. Well, I've been dancing since I was twelve and I don't think the muscles are over developed.

  Roy Cronin : No-no. No, not in your case.

• Myra Lester : This hateful war.

  Roy Cronin : Yes, I suppose it is. And yet there's - I don't know - a certain amount of excitement about it too. Round the corner of every second, the fascination of the unknown. We're both facing it, this instance.

  Myra Lester : No, we face the unknown in peacetime too.

  Roy Cronin : You're rather matter-of-fact, aren't you?

  Myra Lester : Yes. You're rather romantic, aren't you?

• Roy Cronin : Wonderful evening, wasn't it?

  Myra Lester : Yes. Thank you, very much.

  Roy Cronin : When I come back, we'll go there again.

  Myra Lester : Yes.

  Roy Cronin : That'll be our place. That's were we'll always recapture this evening. Do you think we'll ever see each other again?

  Myra Lester : I think it's doubtful, don't you?

  Roy Cronin : Yes, I suppose it is.

• Flower Woman on Bridge : Oh, nowadays there don't seem to be no luck for nobody.

  Myra Lester : Oh well, better days coming, so the song says.

  Flower Woman on Bridge : I hope so. Toodle-oo.