“Let me put it this way, Mac:
I gotta lot of respect for a guy that’s doin’ what he’s got to do even if its maybe killin’ him. Ya wanna paint pictures so you’re goin’ ahead doin’ it no matter. I like that, Mac. You know, most the time a fella’s got the idea there’s nothin’ much to life except getting through it as easy and comfortable as he can; makin’ a quarter here, a dollar there; eatin’, sleepin’ and dyin’.

Then a fella like you comes along who’s not thinkin’ much about them things. It starts ya wonderin’. Wonderin’ if you’re not maybe missin’ somethin’....”

  Portrait of Jennie
David O’Selznick Production (1948)