Funny Face

Audrey Hepburn as Jo and Fred Astaire as Dick

JO

(pulling over the sliding ladder, climbing on)

It's based on empathy. Do you know what the word empathy means?

DICK

(absently, as he replaces the books)

No; I'll have to have the beginner's course on that one. Empathy, er...is it something like sympathy?

JO

Oh, it goes beyond sympathy. Sympathy is to understand what someone feels; empathy is to project your imagination so that you actually feel what the other person is feeling: you put yourself in the other person's place. Do I make myself clear?

(Looking at her, Dick pulls over the ladder, leans down, and kisses Jo.)

JO

Why did you do that?

DICK

(matter-of-factly, as he continues to replace the books)

Empathy: I put myself in your place and I felt that you wanted to be kissed.

JO

I'm afraid you put yourself in the wrong place. I have no desire to be kissed--by you or anyone else.

DICK

Oh, don't be silly; everybody wants to be kissed, even philosophers.

Written by Leonard Gershe