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Vivian:
What will your first step be?
Philip Marlowe: The usual one. Vivian: I didn't know there was a usual one. Philip Marlowe: Well sure there is, it comes complete with diagrams on page 47 of how to be a detective in 10 easy lessons correspondent school textbook and uh, your father offered me a drink. Vivian: You must've read another one on how to be a comedian.
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Lauren Bacall
(as Vivian Rutledge)
in
The Big Sleep
(1946)
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Norris:
Are you attempting to tell me my duties, sir?
Philip Marlowe: No, just having fun trying to guess what they are.
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Humphrey Bogart
(as Philip Marlowe)
in
The Big Sleep
(1946)
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Eddie Mars:
Convenient, the door being open when you didn't have a key, eh?
Philip Marlowe: Yeah, wasn't it. By the way, how'd you happen to have one? Eddie Mars: Is that any of your business? Philip Marlowe: I could make it my business. Eddie Mars: I could make your business mine. Philip Marlowe: Oh, you wouldn't like it. The pay's too small.
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Humphrey Bogart
(as Philip Marlowe)
in
The Big Sleep
(1946)
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Eddie Mars:
Your story didn't sound quite right.
Philip Marlowe: Oh, that's too bad. You got a better one? Eddie Mars: Maybe I can find one.
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John Ridgely
(as Eddie Mars)
in
The Big Sleep
(1946)
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Lauren Bacall
(as Vivian Rutledge)
in
The Big Sleep
(1946)
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[making a prank phone call]
Philip Marlowe: What can I do for you? I can do what? Where? Oh, no, I wouldn't like that. Neither would my daughter.
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Humphrey Bogart
(as Philip Marlowe)
in
The Big Sleep
(1946)
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Vivian:
You've forgotten one thing - me.
Philip Marlowe: What's wrong with you? Vivian: Nothing you can't fix.
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Lauren Bacall
(as Vivian Rutledge)
in
The Big Sleep
(1946)
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