Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Shirley Knight: Heavenly Finley

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• Heavenly Finley : [Parting words to her father]  Papa, I'm never comin' into that house again.

• Heavenly Finley : No one in love is free. Or even wants to be.

• Heavenly Finley : You have got an illusion of power, Boss.

  Boss Finley : I have power - and that is no illusion.

• Boss Finley : I'm only tryin' to save my baby from being hurt ever again.

  Heavenly Finley : How? By insistin' I marry Dr. George Scudder? And before him, a 50-year-old moneybags you needed for your business?

  Boss Finley : Me? Sell my own flesh and blood?

  Heavenly Finley : More than once. Remember the Texas oil tycoon? And the Washington wheel? All of them rich, all of them important.

  Boss Finley : Every one of them had a powerful feelin' for you.

• Heavenly Finley : There was a time when you could've saved me, Papa, by lettin' me marry Chance, when we were both young and clean.

• Heavenly Finley : He tried! Oh, how he tried. And when the right doors wouldn't open, he - he went in the wrong ones.

• Heavenly Finley : She doesn't speak very well of you, Papa. She says you're not much of a lover.

  Boss Finley : Who says Miss Lucy says that?

  Heavenly Finley : She wrote it with lipstick on the mirror in the ladies' room at the hotel bar.

• Heavenly Finley : What are you thinking?

  Chance Wayne : I was just - I was just feeling kind of peaceful and easy, listening to those freewheeling birds coming home. If we could just be like one of them out there - just free as a bird.

  Heavenly Finley : No one in love is free or even wants to be.