Spellbound (1945)

Michael Chekhov: Dr. Alexander Brulov

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• Dr. Alex Brulov : Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love. After that they make the best patients.

• Dr. Alex Brulov : Good night and sweet dreams... which we'll analyze at breakfast.

• Dr. Alex Brulov : My dear girl, you can not keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.

• John Ballantyne : That Freud stuff's a bunch of hooey.

  Dr. Alex Brulov : Oh, you are a fine one to talk! You have a guilt complex and amnesia and you don't know if you are coming or going from somewhere, but Freud is hooey! *This* you know! Hmph! Wiseguy.

• Dr. Alex Brulov : What is there for you to see? We both know that the mind of a woman in love is operating on the lowest level of the intellect!

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Alex Brulov : And remember what I say: any husband of Constance is a husband of mine, so to speak.

  John Ballantyne : [laughing]  Alright! Goodbye. Good luck!

  Dr. Alex Brulov : Goodbye!

• Dr. Alex Brulov : I congratulate you and wish you have babies, not psychoses.

• Dr. Alex Brulov : There's lots of happiness in working hard. Maybe the most.

• Dr. Alex Brulov : We are speaking of a schizophrenic and not a Valentine.

  Constance Petersen : We are speaking of a man.

• Dr. Alex Brulov : And how do you know what his real character is?

  Constance Petersen : I know. I know.

  Dr. Alex Brulov : She knows. This is the way science goes backward. Who told you what he is? Freud?, or a crystal ball?

• Dr. Alex Brulov : You grant me I know more than you, but on the other hand, you know more than me. Women's talk. Bah!

• Dr. Alex Brulov : Oh, so you are married? There's nothing so nice as a new marriage. No psychosis yet. No aggressions, no guilt complexes. Congratulations!