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''Oh, Frank, my lips are hot.... Kiss my hot lips.'' -- Sally Kellerman to Robert Duvall, over the PA system, in ''M*A*S*H'' (1970)

''I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends.'' -- Dustin Hoffman to his illicit older lover, Anne Bancroft, in ''The Graduate'' (1967)

''The only question I ever ask any woman is 'What time is your husband coming home?''' -- Paul Newman to Patricia Neal in ''Hud'' (1963)

''I used to live like Robinson Crusoe -- I mean, shipwrecked among eight million people. And then one day I saw a footprint in the sand and there you were. It's a wonderful thing, dinner for two.'' -- Lonely Jack Lemmon to his girl Friday, Shirley MacLaine, in ''The Apartment'' (1960)

''It wasn't supposed to happen this way.... If you lose me, then you'll know I loved you and I wanted to go on loving you.'' -- Kim Novak, shortly before apparently falling to her death, to James Stewart, in ''Vertigo'' (1958)

''I know that when you take me home I'm just going to lie on my bed and think about you.'' -- Betsy Blair to Ernest Borgnine in ''Marty'' (1955)

''Just drive away and leave me as I leave you.... I don't know how to say goodbye. I can't think of any words.'' -- Audrey Hepburn to Gregory Peck in ''Roman Holiday'' (1953)
''Don't try.'' -- Peck, in response

''I never knew it could be like this.'' -- Deborah Kerr, while rolling on the beach with Burt Lancaster, in ''From Here to Eternity'' (1953)

''I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.'' -- Peter Bull to Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in ''The African Queen'' (1951)

''I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe I even loved you before I saw you.'' -- Montgomery Clift to his ideal woman, Elizabeth Taylor, in ''A Place in the Sun'' (1951)

''You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey, that's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon.'' -- James Stewart to Donna Reed, as the couple fall in ''love, in ''It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946)

''I like that. I'd like more.'' -- Lauren Bacall, when she's kissed by Humphrey Bogart, in ''The Big Sleep'' (1946)

''A loving look alone could save me.... Love can make a man a beast. Love can beautify ugliness.'' -- Jean Marais, after Josette Day's love has helped transform him into a handsome prince, in ''La Belle et la BĂȘte'' (1946)

''Something has happened to us... it was like lightning striking. It strikes rarely.'' -- Gregory Peck to Ingrid Bergman in ''Spellbound'' (1945)

''You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.'' -- Lauren Bacall to Humphrey Bogart, who smiles -- and whistles -- after she leaves the room, in ''To Have and Have Not'' (1944)

''I haven't been afraid since I've known you.'' -- Ingrid Bergman to Charles Boyer, later revealed to be not such a nice guy, in ''Gaslight'' (1944)

''If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.'' -- Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman in ''Casablanca'' (1943)

''You should be kissed. And often. And by someone who knows how.'' -- Clark Gable to Vivien Leigh in ''Gone With the Wind'' (1939)

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