Movie  1969
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Harvey Greenfield: Let me put it to you this way: shut up.
Toni Simmons: [after Julian bursts into the apartment] I didn't know dentists made house calls.
Stephanie: [looking at the label on the bottle] I didn't know they made champagne in Idaho!
Se?or S?nchez: [Meeting on the dance floor] Good evening, doctor.
Dr. Julian Winston: Good evening, patient.
Harvey Greenfield: [after Julian reveals that he told Toni he was married] That's such a big dirty rotten filthy lie, it has class.
[Miss Dickinson has pointed out there is no more room on Greenfield's tab]
Harvey Greenfield: It isn't as if I'm planning to stick you
Dr. Julian Winston: It isn't as if you're going to pay me, either.
[Julian has asked Stephanie if she would like to have a drink with him]
Stephanie: Are you asking me to go out?
Dr. Julian Winston: Why? Is there someone else in that closet?
[Toni realises that she's being kissed by someone other than Julian]
Toni Simmons: Who are you? What are you doing?
Igor Sullivan: Mouth to Mouth resuscitation.
Toni Simmons: You were kissing me!
Igor Sullivan: I lost my head!
Stephanie: Funny how whenever people hurt your feeling, they're always doing it for your own good.
Igor Sullivan: You're lucky I broke in.
Toni Simmons: Why did you?
Igor Sullivan: I thought you were dying.
Toni Simmons: Well, that was the whole idea.
Igor Sullivan: You were going about it all wrong. I believe you're supposed to put your head in the stove.
Toni Simmons: It's a second hand stove. There were no instructions.
Stephanie: Mr Greenfield, please don't handle the instruments.
Harvey Greenfield: I was reading the other day, a dentist in New Jersey has topless nurses.
Stephanie: I didn't know you were interested in reading.
[She exits]
[Igor reveals he's a writer]
Toni Simmons: The one who keeps pounding on his typewriter all night? You drive me crazy.
Igor Sullivan: Why didn't you complain? I could have met you earlier.
[in the X-ray room, Julian reveals that he has hurt Mrs Durant - the first time he has caused a patient pain]
Stephanie: Pity it wasn't Mr Greenfield!
Dr. Julian Winston: [pointing to Igor] Will you give Tarzan here his razor?
Dr. Julian Winston: What happened out there on my mink stole? - I mean the beach. I wanna know.
Dr. Julian Winston: I must say, it's grotesque. A woman your age, throwing yourself at a kid like that.
Stephanie: And what about that eh, father-daughter thing of yours, if you don't think that's...
Dr. Julian Winston: Well, it's different for a man, if a man is with a younger woman it looks entirely appropriate, but when it's the other way around, it's disg...
Stephanie: Alright, you go to your church and I go to mine.
[Greenfield has asked for free dental work for his latest girlfriend]
Dr. Julian Winston: Don't you know any girls with straight teeth?
Igor Sullivan: That's the last time you catch me saving your life.
Stephanie: I was married, when I was young.
Dr. Julian Winston: Married? I had no idea!
Stephanie: Neither did he!
Dr. Julian Winston: Hey did you see that? He just kissed her on the neck.
Toni Simmons: Hm! She sure likes a lot of action.
Dr. Julian Winston: Yes she does, doesn't she.
Toni Simmons: Right now she's surrounded by her husband, her ex boyfriend, her current boyfriend and maybe her future boyfriend.
Dr. Julian Winston: If somebody doesn't stop that guy, he's gonna make love right in the middle of the floor.
Dr. Julian Winston: Toni, I'm going to marry you.
Toni Simmons: How do you mean, Marry?
Dr. Julian Winston: You know, marry, with the judge, the blood test, the license, that kind of marry, right away.
Toni Simmons: But what about your wife?
Dr. Julian Winston: My wife? I'll divorce her.
Toni Simmons: What about the children?
Dr. Julian Winston: I'll divorce them, too.
Harvey Greenfield: Now look, I can give you a dozen explanations, but you might as well know the real one: I'm a member of the CIA.
Georgia: The CIA? I thought you were a television actor?
Harvey Greenfield: That's my cover. So if you ever see me in public with another girl you must pretend not to know me, or it could put my life in great danger.
Se?or S?nchez: There is something so provocative about a nurse in uniform. No frills. No adorments. Just the basic woman.
Stephanie: Really, Mrs Durant. Your teeth are more important than your hair.
Mrs. Durant: You really believe that, don't you. Sad.
Toni Simmons: And did you get a load of that girl?
Dr. Julian Winston: Well, I wasn't paying much attention...
Toni Simmons: When she bend over it looked like she had her knees up inside her dress.
Georgia: If you work for the CIA, how come you hang around with dentists?
Harvey Greenfield: He's installing a miniature radio transmitor in my wisdom tooth.
Toni Simmons: [Describing the first time she met Julian] He was charming, good looking, sophisticated, no sweatshirts.
Igor Sullivan: [Looks down] Sorry, I didn't know this suicide was black tie.
Toni Simmons: Why did you have to go talk to that awful man?
Dr. Julian Winston: I was getting lonely for the sound of the human voice.
Dr. Julian Winston: Where were you all night?
Stephanie: It's all a blur, a beautiful blurry blur.
Dr. Julian Winston: You're getting as prickly as a damn cactus!
Dr. Julian Winston: Stephanie?
Stephanie: Doctor?
Dr. Julian Winston: I think I'm going to kiss you.
Stephanie: When will you know for sure?
Dr. Julian Winston: [They kiss passionately] I plan to do this often.
Stephanie: I'll make a note to remind you.

Toni Simmons: A man who lies cannot love.
Stephanie: [about to close the door] Now that sounds like a fortune cookie.
Dr. Julian Winston: Now if I hear that you've been bothering Stephanie again, I'll knock all your teeth out.
Harvey Greenfield: You'll just have to put them back in again.
Stephanie: Well... I am no sex goddess, but I haven't spent my life up on a tree.
[Toni reveals she tried to commit suicide]
Dr. Julian Winston: You really tried to kill yourself over me?
Toni Simmons: Stupid, wasn't it?
Dr. Julian Winston: I'm a bastard, the biggest bastard in the whole world.
Toni Simmons: Oh, please, you're starting to make it sound like bragging.
Stephanie: [after putting the x-ray gun into place] Hold still, Se?or S?nchez, or the basic woman is liable to x-ray your nose.
[an Airline hostess from an Australian airline has phoned to ask if Dr Winston is free for a date that evening]
Dr. Julian Winston: Tell her I'm grounded!
Stephanie: [down the phone] I'm sorry, Miss, but Dr Winston doesn't do that kind of work any more.
Description
Walter Matthau stars as Julian Winston, an easy-going bachelor dentist whose delicately balanced scheme crumbles under some unexpected circumstances. Winston is stringing along his dizzy blonde mistress, Toni (Goldie Hawn), by telling her he has a wife and children. When he learns that Toni has tried to commit suicide over him, however, he promises to marry her. Toni, refusing to be a homewrecker, insists on meeting Winston's wife. He convinces Stephanie (Bergman)--his starched, no-nonsense receptionist--to pose as his wife, and there are unforeseen twists and surprises for everyone.