Daily Dialogue — July 5, 2010

Prince Richard: You’re so deceitful you can’t ask for water when you’re thirsty. We could tangle spiders in the webs you weave.
Eleanor of Aquitaine: If I’m so devious, why don’t you go? Don’t stand there quivering in limbo. Love me, little lamb, or leave me. 
Prince Richard: Leave you, madam, with pure joy.
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Departure? is a simple act. You put the left foot down, then the right…

 — Prince Richard (Richard Burton), Eleanor of Aquitane (Katherine Hepburn), The Lion in the Winter (1968), screenplay by James Goldman, based on his play

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is dialogue from favorite movies of GITS readers. The Lion in Winter suggested by Mike Scherer.

Trivia: Katharine Hepburn affectionately referred to Peter O’Toole as “pig” during filming. Every day at five o’clock the two would unwind over a cigarette and a glass of white wine.