Two for the Seesaw Quotes

Two for the Seesaw is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Two for the Seesaw stopped airing in 1970.

It features Walter Mirisch as producer, André Previn in charge of musical score, and Ted D. McCord as head of cinematography.

Two for the Seesaw is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Two for the Seesaw is 119 minutes long. Two for the Seesaw is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Robert Mitchum as Jerry Ryan.

Two for the Seesaw Quotes

Robert Mitchum as Jerry Ryan

• (Unnamed) "How'd I get in the wrong? Did you call about the icebox or not?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "Not."
• (Unnamed) "Well, I can't follow this. You called."
• (Robert Mitchum) "I called because I was going out of my head in solitary."
• (Robert Mitchum) "I called to make contact with someone of the weaker sex, who's weaker."
• (Unnamed) "OK, here I am. Contact."
• (Robert Mitchum) "I called to ask you to dinner tonight. And a show, if you like."
• (Unnamed) "Well, why didn't ya?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "I was afraid you'd say yes or no."
• (Unnamed) "I would have said "Sure"."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Right away we have problems. What show? Where to eat?"
• (Unnamed) "Wait. Now I'm not so sure. I don't know if I want to get involved. You sound complicated."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Oh."
• (Unnamed) "I'm the girl, right? And you're the man. Make up your mind, ask me, and I'll make up mine."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Been trying for a month."
• (Unnamed) "To ask me to dinner?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "No, to get unstuck from a piece of flypaper. After you've broken your leg in five places you hesitate to make that first step. Reason I hung up on you was because I didn't want to say, "Please, help me""

• (Robert Mitchum) "It's true. Half of me hasn't even been in this town."
• (Unnamed) "I tried Jake."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Of course."
• (Unnamed) "So we're both flops."
• (Robert Mitchum) "No. Not both of us. Not you. I've tried to make you over so you'd be more like me; like everyone, I guess. Stingy, holding back, guarding what we have because we've got so little. Everything you get, you give back double. No, you're not a flop. You're a gift, infant. Underneath that beautiful face there's a street brawler. But underneath that there's someone -- that no one, nothing has ever dirtied. The way people were meant to be. That's what you are."

• (Unnamed) "Things look a lot different to me now. You did me a worid of good, Jerry."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Did I, Gittel? Really? Because if I could think that --"
• (Unnamed) "You helped me. This is the first time I come out with more than I went in. Whoever this guy is, he'll owe you."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Thank you. She'll owe you, too. More than she'll ever know."

• (Unnamed) "Is it OK enough to?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "Is what OK enough to?"
• (Unnamed) "Your leg?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "It may have affected my head."

• (Robert Mitchum) "Be safe, be homeless."

• (Robert Mitchum) "3.30, Friday, and any time thereafter."
• (Unnamed) "Any time thereafter for how long?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "You say something?"
• (Unnamed) "I said I love you."
• (Robert Mitchum) "When you have something like that to say, don't mumble."
• (Unnamed) "All right, I'll holler it."

• (Robert Mitchum) "Well -- so long, honey."
• (Unnamed) "I love you, Jerry. As long as you live, remember the last thing you heard outta me was I love you."
• (Robert Mitchum) "I love you too, infant."

• (Robert Mitchum) "I'd say you were a born victim."
• (Unnamed) "Of what?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "Yourself."
• (Unnamed) "I feel sorry for you. What's so terrible?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "You feel sorry for me?"
• (Unnamed) "Sure."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Gittel, how old are you?"
• (Unnamed) "29."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Stop talking like 28. Start worrying about your own worries."

• (Robert Mitchum) "Gittel, when you've been married to somebody for 12 years, lived together for 12 years, you don't just break up. You can't just forget it like it was -- Well, anyway, I cut out. Ran."
• (Unnamed) "Stop running, it's the Atlantic Ocean already."
• (Robert Mitchum) "I'm not running any more."
• (Unnamed) "Don't you see? If you can't talk to her, you're running."

• (Robert Mitchum) "Will you stop walking up and down?"
• (Unnamed) "I'm nervous."
• (Robert Mitchum) "So am I, but this walking around isn't helping us any."
• (Unnamed) "I was just waiting to be stopped."

• (Unnamed) "I'm late."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Yeah, I know."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Next time I'll make sarcastic remarks."
• (Unnamed) "We're on next time already."

• (Unnamed) "Listen, Jerry, I'm the one in a trap. You move in with me, I'll -- I'll nudja you into marrying me, I know I will. And then what'll I have? I don't wanna have to spend the rest of my life begging. It's not good enough for me, Jerry. Not any more. I want somebody who'll feel about me -- what you said about her before. What do you say we give each other the gate, huh?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "For my sake? So I can go back?"
• (Unnamed) "No. Whether you go or stay. To tell you the God's honest truth, Jerry, I didn't take one free breath since that hemorrhage. I wanna get outta here so I can breathe."

• (Unnamed) "Jerry?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "What?"
• (Unnamed) "You don't like me any more?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "I hate you. Is that passionate enough?"

• (Unnamed) "Why so sore? 'Cause I feel sorry for ya?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "I don't think I can afford you. I'm not ready for a whole human, complete with weaknesses --"
• (Unnamed) "Who asked ya? Who made an offer?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "I did, but I take it back. I'm neither ready nor able to be responsible for anything these days. Least of all an ingenuous nitwit. That's why I'm sore. Disappointment."
• (Unnamed) "What does ingenuous mean? Smart?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "Dumb. Naive."

• (Unnamed) "What have you been doing in New York?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "Mostly walking, by day and by night."
• (Unnamed) "Monotonous but healthy."

• (Robert Mitchum) "Didn't you understand one word I said?"
• (Unnamed) "Sure. As a juror I'd give me five years."
• (Robert Mitchum) "I'm not kidding. Need someone."
• (Unnamed) "Let go."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Need someone."
• (Unnamed) "Or what? Let me go or I'll yell."
• (Robert Mitchum) "No, you won't."
• (Unnamed) "Help."
• (Robert Mitchum) "You lunatic. Somebody'll come."
• (Unnamed) "Nobody'll come, it's New York."

• (Unnamed) "Pick up the phone if you're so strong."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Do you want me to?"
• (Unnamed) "Sure I want you to. I don't know where I stand. I could scream my head off and nobody comes. Who can I count on besides me?"
• (Robert Mitchum) "Me."
• (Unnamed) "Yeah. Lean on you and I'll fall in that big hole, someplace in Nevada."

• (Unnamed) "First thing you said was "Help me", on the telephone."
• (Robert Mitchum) "No. I said I wouldn't say --"
• (Unnamed) "You said "Help me". I said "Sure""

• (Unnamed) "I gotta get outta here before you slug me."
• (Robert Mitchum) "Slug you? That what you expect from your romances?"
• (Unnamed) "When it comes to men, I expect the worst."

• (Robert Mitchum) "I told you to make a claim on me, to depend on me. I practically forced you. Gittel, I care for you. I don't want to see you hurt or lost or short-changed."
• (Unnamed) "So what's the future, Jerry? You gonna think any less about her? A little time'll pass, everything'll be hunky-dory? How am I gonna give her competition? Have a hemorrhage twice a year? Trap you that way? I got half of you by being a wreck, is that how we'll go on? Oh, you gotta short-change me, Jerry."
• (Robert Mitchum) "I've tried not to."
• (Unnamed) "That's what's outta whack. How hard you try. Who works that hard if everything's OK?"

• (Unnamed) "It's like when I was a kid, we used to neck in the vestibule. She's inside you and I'm always outside in the vestibule. Everything you did here was to prove something to her."
• (Robert Mitchum) "To you. To myself."
• (Unnamed) "To her. With her you couldn't stand on your own two feet, so with me you will, only I gotta stand on them too. You'll show her. With her you took handouts, with me you'll give handouts. Lofts, presents. Never mind if I want 'em, you'll show her. When you're blue, I don't have to worry what I did wrong. She called, she didn't call. She wrote a letter, she didn't write a letter. It's always her."

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