The Young Lions (1958)
Dean Martin: Michael Whiteacre
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Quotes
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Michael Whiteacre : You want me to get shot. Look, I've read all the books. I know that in 10 years we'll be bosom friends with the Germans and the Japanese. Then I'll be pretty annoyed that I was killed.
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Michael Whiteacre : Sometimes I think I give off a scent or something, you know, rouses the female.
Noah Ackerman : Hmm?
Michael Whiteacre : Those girls.
Noah Ackerman : Where?
Michael Whiteacre : Oh now wait a minute. You mean to tell me that you didn't--Oh your antenna's turned off.
Noah Ackerman : No, I frankly didn't notice.
Michael Whiteacre : Oh, you're sick.
Michael Whiteacre : Have you ever had a girl?
Noah Ackerman : Have I ever had a girl?
Michael Whiteacre : That's what I thought!
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Draft Board Physician : You know, for a man your age, you're in excellent health. How do you manage it?
Michael Whiteacre : Clean liquor.
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Michael Whiteacre : Let's have a drink. Don't frustrate me. Anybody that can't spell ''extenuating'' is a friend of mine.
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Michael Whiteacre : [singing] I like New York in June, How about you? I like a Gershwin tune, How about you? I like a fireside when a storm is due, I like potato chips, moonlight, and motor trips, How about you?
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Michael Whiteacre : Honey, I'd flip without you.
Margaret Freemantle : You sure would.
Michael Whiteacre : No, that's the truth. You're so right about me.
Margaret Freemantle : I sure am.
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Michael Whiteacre : I'm against war and this whole drummed-up, super-patriotic atmosphere.
Margaret Freemantle : You just don't wanna get shot. Nobody wants to get shot.
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Michael Whiteacre : Listen, Ackerman, tonight I'm givin' a party - you know: girls, females, broads. And you will attend. You will capture one and carry her off to your cave. You will attend?
Noah Ackerman : Sure, yeah. Yeah!
Michael Whiteacre : Good. Let us not discuss this sort of topic any longer. Let us discuss - alcohol.
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Michael Whiteacre : Margaret, what do you want from me?
Margaret Freemantle : I want you to act like a man.
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Margaret Freemantle : Stop feeling so guilty. lt's getting a little sickening.
Michael Whiteacre : I'd rather be guilty than dead.
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Margaret Freemantle : Well, now you've done it! You're practically in a foxhole right now.
Michael Whiteacre : That's what you wanted, isn't it?
Margaret Freemantle : Michael, you stupid idiot. That isn't what I wanted. You don't have to get killed to keep me loving you.
Michael Whiteacre : I won't get killed. Believe me, I'll have the deepest foxhole and the biggest helmet in the whole infantry.