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Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotten in Gaslight (1944)

Ingrid Bergman: Paula Alquist

Gaslight

Ingrid Bergman credited as playing...

Paula Alquist

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  • Paula Alquist Anton: If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!
  • Paula Alquist Anton: It isn't here, you must have dreamed you put it there. Are you suggesting that this is a knife I hold in my hand? Have you gone mad, my husband? Or is it I who am mad?
  • Paula Alquist Anton: My broach. The broach I lost at the Tower. I've found it at last, you see, but it doesn't help you, does it, and I'm trying to help you, aren't I, trying to help you to escape. How can a mad woman help her husband to escape?
  • Paula Alquist Anton: Yes, of course, that's it. I am mad.
  • [throws the knife away]
  • Paula Alquist Anton: I'm always losing things and hiding things and I can never find them, I don't know where I've put them.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: This night will be a long night.
  • Brian Cameron: But it will end. It's starting to clear. In the morning, when the sun rises sometimes it's hard to believe there ever was a night. You'll find that, too.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: It's all dead in here. The whole place seems to smell of death.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: I couldn't have dreamed it. No, I couldn't. I couldn't have dreamed it. No, I couldn't have dreamed it. I couldn't have dreamed it! Did I dream? Did I really, really dream? Dream, dream.
  • [last lines]
  • Gregory Anton: You're not angry with me?
  • Paula Alquist Anton: Angry? If you hadn't come, I should have sent for you.
  • [long kiss and embrace]
  • Miss Thwaites: Well!
  • Miss Thwaites: Have a biscuit, dear.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: Thank you.
  • Miss Thwaites: Digestive biscuits. Unpleasant name, isn't it? I always call them "diggy biscuits."
  • Gregory Anton: Ring for the maid.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: I can put it on myself.
  • Gregory Anton: We've had this subject out before. Please, pull the bell cord.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: It seems so unnecessary.
  • Gregory Anton: What do you suppose the servants are for? Answer me. What do you suppose the servants are for?
  • Paula Alquist Anton: To do things. To serve us, I suppose.
  • Gregory Anton: Exactly.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: Please don't leave me here all by myself now. I get so frightened when I am here alone and you go out night after night.
  • Gregory Anton: Frightened? You never told me that before.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: I'm telling you now! I'm frightened of the house! I hear noises and footsteps. I imagine things, that there are people over the house. I'm frightened of myself, too.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: Did you turn on the gas? Did you turn on the gas anywhere downstairs just now?
  • Paula Alquist Anton: That house comes into my dreams sometimes - a house of horror. It's strange. I haven't dreamed of it since I've known you. I haven't been afraid since I've known you.
  • Gregory Anton: Afraid?
  • Paula Alquist Anton: Yes. For years I've been afraid of something nameless ever since she died. You've cast out fear for me.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: I must look for it, mustn't I? If I don't find it, you will put me in the madhouse. Where could it be, now?
  • Paula Alquist Anton: Will you light the gas, please?
  • Gregory Anton: I'll have it mended. You better not wear it until I have. You might lose it. You know, you are inclined to lose things.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: I am? I didn't realize that.
  • Paula Alquist Anton: Suddenly, I am beginning not to trust my memory at all.
  • Gregory Anton: I tell you, you're just tired, that's all. It doesn't mean anything.

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