Death Takes a Holiday (1971 TV Movie)

Yvette Mimieux: Peggy Chapman

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Quotes 

• David Smith : [Peggy has tried to throw herself off the cliff]  Peggy! What were you trying to do?

  Peggy Chapman : You know what I was trying to do.

  David Smith : Why? Why would you want to?

  Peggy Chapman : [she touches his face]  I thought you'd look different... but you don't.

  David Smith : He told you?

  Peggy Chapman : Yes.

  David Smith : And now?

  Peggy Chapman : I don't know... I was so frightened at first, so many things bouncing around in my head and then... absolute stillness inside. There were no more questions I had to ask.

  David Smith : But you still haven't told me why! Why this?

  Peggy Chapman : Because I wanted to leave with you.

• Peggy Chapman : There is a tragedy in dying... in dying not knowing absolute love.

• [last lines] 

  David Smith : Peggy, if I don't stay I'll have to take you, and I can't! I love you, Peggy! I can't take all those years of living from you, not when you make them count for so much!

  Peggy Chapman : David, I've waited for you all my life! Do you know what I'm saying? All my life!

  [They embrace] 

  Peggy Chapman : If I go with you, can we be together as we are right now?

  David Smith : Yes.

  Peggy Chapman : For ever?

  David Smith : More.

  Peggy Chapman : Then I want to go with you. Now.

  David Smith : Peggy, I can't promise you that it will be either more or less than you may have imagined.

  Peggy Chapman : I know.

  David Smith : You won't regret it?

  Peggy Chapman : No... not with you.

  David Smith : But you're so young! You've had so few years.

  Peggy Chapman : Most people live 'til they're eighty and never know the fulfillment I've known. David... it's Christmas morning. I want to open the next package.

• Peggy Chapman : [first lines, waking up on the beach after nearly drowning]  I don't remember... the last thing I know I was in a big kelp bed. I remember thinking I'd never come up from down there. But here I am, aren't I... I guess.

• John Cummings : You do take too many chances.

  Peggy Chapman : Now how many is too many? I mean, you don't know until you take the last one, do you? And then that could be the first time or the hundredth

• David Smith : [Peggy has asked him to tell her about himself]  In my earliest recollected incarnation, I was the poet Euripedes. That was about 480 B.C. My next trip in was as John the Baptist.

  [Peggy laughs] 

  David Smith : Not too happy a choice, as it turned out. And then somewhere around 810 I served a hitch in Charlemagne's army. Yes, I was a general, I think... at least I had a very fancy uniform.

  Peggy Chapman : Wonderful! Because at this rate, we'll be here all night.

  David Smith : Wait 'til I get to the fifteenth century. That was easily my best century.