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Which Century? Frank takes time out to explain to a visitor: "Sometimes it takes two hours of talking before we get five minutes we can use—and then maybe Zsa Zsa will say, 'We can't use this.' The whole thing takes as long as having a baby." Persistently, Frank gets back to work: "What do you like in men?"
Zsa Zsa: "Strength, intelligence and truth.*Playing games I have no time for."
Frank: "Do you do social work among the rich, as Oscar Levant says?"
Zsa Zsa: "This is utterly ridiculous. I don't know what social work is."
Frank: "Would you like to be Mme. de Stael?"
Zsa Zsa: "Of course. I'd like to be all the great women—De Stael, Pompadour, Du Barry and Josephine. Everyone says I belong in the wrong century. But I can't help that."
Frank (visibly tiring): "I'm still on the outskirts of that strange continent called Zsa Zsa. I don't know what rivers and tributaries there'll be ... Would you resent being called an amalgam of quicksilver, champagne and steel?"
Zsa Zsa: "Yes, I am steel—and platinum."
Frank: "And sharp Sheffield steel." Zsa Zsa: "We write a good book and we get rich! We write a -bad book and we get poorer and poorer."
Frank: "We want it to be a good book." Zsa Zsa (sadly): "That's impossible."
*Actress Gabor's specific choices in matrimony: No.1, Turkish Diplomat Burhan Beige; No. 2, Hotelman Conrad Hilton; No. 3, Actor George Sanders.