Three Secrets (1950)

Frank Lovejoy: Bob Duffy

Quotes 

• Bob Duffy : [after Phyllis kisses him]  If that's your artillery, you just fired a blank.

• Bob Duffy : Look, Phyl. I happen to be a sentimental guy that comes from a family of 12 kids. I get lonesome without eleven people around... or even one.

• Bob Duffy : [after his matchsticks collapse at the bar]  The way they build things nowadays. No foundation. Just like people.

• Bob Duffy : [to Phyllis]  You had me fooled for a while. Long enough to get a license and marry you.

• Phyllis Horn : There's one legitimate thing about me. The way I love you.

  Bob Duffy : Put it in your column.

• Bob Duffy : Just for a moment there I thought you were a human being.

• Bob Duffy : Ever since the beginning, you've been in and out of my life like a night visitor. This time don't bother to check in.

  Phyllis Horn : This time there happens to be a war. I didn't start it. I'm sorry there is one. But as long as there is, I'd be a chump if I didn't make it work for me.

  Bob Duffy : I don't like war profiteers. You sell agony by the paragraph.

• Phyllis Horn : I'd like to speak my peace before I go.

  Bob Duffy : Just so you keep it under a thousand words.

  Phyllis Horn : Only two words. I'm scared. I mean it, Duffy. Ever since I sold my first script for five dollars I've been fighting to get to the top. Stepped all over people. Been ruthless, conniving. Fought like a man in a man's world and I made it. But I don't want to lose you, Duffy. 'Cause this is home plate. If I lose you I'll roam around like a homeless alley cat with no place to come back to. Don't throw me out.

  Bob Duffy : Why is it the only time you sound like a woman is in this crummy room?

  Phyllis Horn : 'Cause it's ours, Duffy.

  Bob Duffy : I shouldn't let you in.

  Phyllis Horn : You couldn't keep me out. It's always been that way, Duffy.

  [They kiss] 

• Bob Duffy : I'm sorry for you, Phyl. You tried hard to be a woman. You just couldn't make it.