The Man Who Loved Women (1983)

Julie Andrews: Marianna

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• Marianna : He really and truly loved - all these women. That could do strange and wonderful things, couldn't it? Well, yes, to me too.

• [first lines] 

  Marianna : All these women. They follow him, even to the grave. How is it possible? Well, why not? They loved him very deeply. Each in her own way. Passionately. Kindly. Forever.

• David Fowler : I remember thinking: Oh, Jesus, I'm about to meet the woman with maybe the most beautiful legs in the world. And now I'm not really sure I want to.

  Marianna : Why not?

  David Fowler : Well, what if the top half didn't live up to the bottom half.

• Marianna : He was a most intelligent man. Remarkably intuitive, gentle, almost soulful. And with eyes that saw and caressed with equal intensity.

• David Fowler : There were the most beautiful legs I'd ever seen in my life.

  Marianna : What was so special about them?

  David Fowler : Uh, well, they were - they were *long*, very long. Shapely, obviously. They were athletic too, but not too muscular, you know. And they moved so *gracefully*. Um, they were - they were fantastic! And I just couldn't help myself. I just had to find out who they belonged to. Is that crazy?

• David Fowler : While I'm pursuing them, I'm destroyed by the memory of the women I just left.

  Marianna : Perhaps your adoration of women is only matched by your hunger for a new experience. Consequently, you feel a deepening sense of loss with each new ending.

  David Fowler : Yes.

  Marianna : So when you go forward, you always leave something behind.

  David Fowler : Yes.

• Marianna : Do what you feel like.

• Marianna : When did you start smoking again?

  David Fowler : [coughs]  This morning. I'm terrified of flying. I mean, well, I mean, I'm not so much terrified of flying as I am terrified of crashing.

• Marianna : What are you thinking?

  David Fowler : I just remembered something that happened to me when I was - eight years old. I just busted into the bathroom one day and my mother was taking a bath.

  Marianna : And how did you feel about that?

  David Fowler : I was embarrassed.

  Marianna : And?

  David Fowler : Aroused.

• Marianna : Why don't you lie down again?

• Marianna : For the past week, I've been as dull as dishwater.

• Marianna : One day, he is a helpless, indecisive impotent child. And the next, he's a liquorice billy goat sniffing the wind for sexual sweat.

• Marianna : Maybe David has seen some great truth in a mirror that's just not accessible to me and it's liberated him.

• Marianna : Your delight in women was so passionate, so generous, that miraculously we were all transformed, molded and sculpted by your love as if we were soft clay bent to your quiet will, and then set firm in the fires of your passion.