The World of Henry Orient (1964)

Peter Sellers: Henry Orient

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• Henry Orient : Mrs Boyd, tell me something. Does your daughter ever dress like a Chinaman?

• Isabel Boyd : I've heard of you, of course; but, I haven't had the pleasure of hearing you play.

  Henry Orient : Well, since I'm not - Liberace, I would be surprised if you had.

• Henry Orient : So you don't think anything peculiar in the fact that they were the same little punks, eh?

  Sidney : They live in the neighborhood and they play in the park. So, what's so peculiar about that?

  Henry Orient : But twice with the same dame.

  Sidney : Well, how could it not be the same dame, if the the same dame is the only dame you ever go out with anymore?

• Henry Orient : [improvising on the piano]  You know what dis is?

  Stella Dunworthy : No.

  Henry Orient : You.

  Stella Dunworthy : I?

  Henry Orient : Why don't you take off your hat and sit over there against the last rays of the sunset. That was out of my memories of you. And now - you. The curl of your hair. The soft curve of your cheek. The burnt umber in your sultry eyes. The bare bronze of your shoulders. The sweet warmth of your throat. Those satin arms. Twin poems.

• Henry Orient : [on the phone]  Hello, hello, hello. Pan Am? Listen, what's the next flight out of here? Anywhere. Yeah, that'll do.

• Henry Orient : I have drunk deep of joy tonight, my love. Now there can be no other wine in life left for me.

• Henry Orient : [describing his encounter with Gil and Val, during an intimate moment with Mrs. Dunworthy]  ... and then two small bladders came out of their mouths. And just when she was beginning to hum, too.

• Henry Orient : I have a very good ear for voices. Nine times out of ten it tells me, well, almost everything. After hearing yours, for example, even over the telephone, I could have entered a room - that was full of women and I could have walked directly up to you.

  Isabel Boyd : That is remarkable.

  Henry Orient : But I would have been wrong.

  Isabel Boyd : Oh, why?

  Henry Orient : Because I would have walked up to a dark woman. Dark and sultry, like one of - like one of Sargent's Edwardian beauties. And that - is what puzzles me.

  Isabel Boyd : Oh, would you mind if we talked about my daughter first?

  Henry Orient : You see, you are not by Sargent. Oh, no, no, no. You are by Renoir. Oh, yes. Definitement Renoir. Have you ever seen his 'Girl in April' in the Frick?

  Isabel Boyd : I'm sorry. I...

  Henry Orient : Beautiful. All rose and gold. Golden hair, golden sunshine. A golden girl smiling in a rose garden. You're a nymph with a sultry voice.

  Isabel Boyd : You know, if you're not in a hurry, I'd love to have a cup of coffee.

• Henry Orient : [singing]  No cloud above, No earth below, A universe of sky and snow...