The Apartment (1960)

Hope Holiday: Mrs. Margie MacDougall

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• Margie MacDougall : Night like this, it sorta spooks you, walking into an empty apartment.

  C.C. Baxter : I said I had no family. I didn't say I had an empty apartment.

• Margie MacDougall : Where will we go, my place or yours?

  C.C. Baxter : [pauses to look at his watch]  Might as well go to mine. Everybody else does.

• C.C. Baxter : Mrs. MacDougall, I think it is only fair to warn you that you are now alone with a notorious sexpot.

  Margie MacDougall : No kidding.

• Margie MacDougall : 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... nothin'... no action... dullsville!

• Margie MacDougall : You married?

  C.C. Baxter : Nope.

  Margie MacDougall : Family?

  C.C. Baxter : Nope.

  Margie MacDougall : Night like this, sorta spooks you walking home to an empty apartment.

  C.C. Baxter : I said I had no family, I didn't say I had an empty apartment.

• Margie MacDougall : Can I ask you a personal question?

  C.C. Baxter : No.

  Margie MacDougall : You got a girlfriend?

  C.C. Baxter : She may be a girl, but she's no friend of mine.

  Margie MacDougall : Still stuck on her, huh?

  C.C. Baxter : Stuck on her? Obviously you do not know me very well.

  Margie MacDougall : I don't know you at all!

  C.C. Baxter : Permit me: C.C. Baxter. Junior executive, Arthur Murray graduate... lover.

  Margie MacDougall : I'm Mrs. MacDougall. Margie to you.

• Margie MacDougall : [Baxter's at the phone, trying to decide whom to call about Miss Kubelik. Margie enters the living room, carrying a bowlful of ice cubes]  I broke a nail trying to get the ice-tray out. You ought to buy yourself a new refrigerator.

  [Baxter, not listening, runs past her to the hall door and out] 

  Margie MacDougall : I didn't mean right now.

• C.C. Baxter : Dig up some ice from the kitchen, and let's not waste any more time, preliminary-wise.

  Margie MacDougall : I'm with you, lover!