The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons1942

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 film about the social decline, ruin and fall of the aristocratic Amberson family at the turn of the century with the coming of the industrial age and the rise of the automobile. more »



Lucy:
What are you studying at school?

George:
College.

Lucy:
College.

George:
Oh, lots of useless guff.

Lucy:
Why don't you study some useful guff?

George:
What do you mean, useful?

Lucy:
Something you'd use later in your business or profession.

George:
I don't intend to go into any business or profession.

Lucy:
No?

George:
No.

Lucy:
Why not?

George:
Well, just look at them. That's a fine career for a man, isn't it? Lawyers, bankers, politicians. What do they ever get out of life, I'd like to know. What do they know about real things? What do they ever get?

Lucy:
What do you want to be?

George:
A yachtsman!

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