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 Barbara Stanwyck Quotation"During Double Indemnity (1944) Fred MacMurray would go to rushes. I remember asking Fred, 'How was I?' 'I don't know about you - but I was wonderful!' Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves." "I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. I intend to go on acting until I'm ninety and they won't need to paste my face with make-up." "Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!" "During 'Double Indemnity' Fred MacMurray would go to rushes. I remember asking Fred: 'How was I?''I don't know about you - but I was wonderful!' Such a true remark. Actors only look at themselves." "Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes." Movie Title: You Belong to Me (1941) as Helen Hunt: Peter Kirk : Are there many lady doctors? Helen Hunt : A few. Peter Kirk : As beautiful as you? Helen Hunt : No doubt. Peter Kirk : The time I've wasted being well. Movie Title: Ball of Fire (1941) as Sugarpuss O'Shea: Sugarpuss O'Shea : Do you know what this means -- "I'll get you on the Ameche"? Professor Bertram Potts : No. Sugarpuss O'Shea : 'Course you don't. An Ameche is the telephone, on account of he invented it. Professor Bertram Potts : Oh, no, he didn't. Sugarpuss O'Shea : Like, you know, in the movies. Professor Bertram Potts : Well, I see what you mean. Very interesting. Make no mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body. Movie Title: You Belong to Me (1953) as Naomi Murdoch: Naomi Murdoch : We're a big disappointment to each other, aren't we? You've got a mother with no principles; I've got a daughter with no guts. Movie Title: The Lady Eve (1941) as Jean / Jane Harrington / Jean Harrington: Charles Pike : You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up the Amazon for a year. Jane Harrington : Good thing you weren't up there two years. Jane Harrington : You see Hopsi, you don't know very much about girls. The best ones aren't as good as you think they are and the bad ones aren't as bad. Not nearly as bad. Jane Harrington : You know Charles? Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith : Oh, is he the tall backwards boy always toying with toads and things? Yes, I think I have seen him skulking about. Jane Harrington : He's not backwards. He's a scientist. Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith : Oh is that what it is? I knew he was, mm... peculiar. Jane Harrington : Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the thrill! "Colonel" Harrington : Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common. Jane Harrington : I don't see why I have to do all the dirty work. There must be plenty of rich old dames waiting for you to push them around. "Colonel" Harrington : You find them, I'll push them. Jane Harrington : I need him like the ax needs the turkey. Charles Pike : Snakes are my life, in a way. Jean Harrington : What a life! Jane Harrington : What were you doing up the Amazon? Charles Pike : Looking for snakes. I'm an ophiologist. Jane Harrington : I thought you were in the beer business. Charles Pike : Beer? *Ale!* Jane Harrington : What's the difference? Charles Pike : Between beer and ale? Jane Harrington : Yes. Charles Pike : My father'd burst a blood vessel if he heard you say that. There's a big difference. Ale's sort of fermented on the top or something, and beer's fermented on the bottom, or maybe it's the other way around. There's no similarity at all. You see, the trouble with being descended from a brewer, no matter how long ago he brewered, or whatever you call it, you're supposed to know all about something you don't give a hoot about. Steward: Breakfast, sir? Charles : What'd you say? Steward: I said, "Breakfast, sir?" Charles : Two scotch and sodas with plain water. Jean : Don't you take cream and sugar? Charles : No, I always take it black. [pause] Charles : Say, what am I talking about? Jean : That's what I was wondering. Steward: How about a nice bicarbonate of soda with an egg in it? It does wonders! Movie Title: California (1947) as Lily Bishop: Lily Bishop : He was a gambler. He played the Mississippi boats. He always used to say, 'It's your cheat who's most afraid of being cheated.' You better stay on your horse after this, Trumbo. It makes you look more important than you really are. Another thing my father told me: 'Always leave a man burying money.' Lily Bishop : You may think you're pretty high and mighty, Trumbo. But let me tell you this... if I live long enough, and I will, I'm going to pull you down off that fancy horse of yours and shove your face in the muck - so help me! Movie Title: Cattle Queen of Montana (1955) as Sierra Nevada Jones: Colorados : And you go back to your settlement. Tell them that there are Indians who do not wish death to all whites... but peace. Sierra Nevada Jones : You going to help us. Colorados : Is it so hard to believe that I am a human being too? Movie Title: Double Indemnity (1944) as Phyllis: Walter Neff : You'll be here too? Phyllis : I guess so, I usually am. Walter Neff : Same chair, same perfume, same anklet? Phyllis : I wonder if I know what you mean. Walter Neff : I wonder if you wonder. Phyllis : I was just fixing some ice tea; would you like a glass? Walter Neff : Yeah, unless you got a bottle of beer that's not working. Movie Title: Roustabout (1964) as Maggie: Charlie Rogers : I never thought I'd be running off with the circus. Maggie : Let's get one thing straight. This is not a circus. This is a carnival. There's a big difference. Charlie Rogers : I guess you're right. I guess a circus has elephants. Movie Title: Golden Boy (1939) as Lorna Moon: Eddie Fuseli : This your girl? Lorna Moon : I'm my mother's girl. Movie Title: Titanic (1953) as Julia Sturges: Julia Sturges : We may be having sand for supper. Julia Sturges : Oh Richard, where did we miss out on each other? I beg your pardon, Sir. I put you down as a useless man, someone to lead a cotillion. Richard Sturges : After all, it was my major talent. Julia Sturges : I'm sorry, sorry about everything. Richard Sturges : We have no time to catalog our regrets. All we can do is pretend 20 years didn't happen. It's June again. You were walking under some Elm trees in a white muslin dress, the loveliest creature I ever laid eyes on. That summer, when I asked you to marry me, I pledged my eternal devotion. I would take it as a very great favor Julia, if you would accept a restatement of that pledge. [They embrace passionately] Julia Sturges : [after losing the argument with Richard, when their daughter decides not to stay with her mother in Michigan but to return to Europe with her father on the next boat] Thank you, Richard. You were most helpful. Now you see why I wanted to steal a little more time. Richard Sturges : Please, Julia. Let's not bicker, since there's no love lost between us. Julia Sturges : That's the tragic part, Richard. There's been so much love lost between us. Richard Sturges : [after Richard and Julia have been quarreling over who will have custody of their son] May dear Julia, I've been around enough bridge tables to recognize someone who's holding a high trump - play it now if you will. Julia Sturges : We'll discuss it later. Richard Sturges : Now! Julia Sturges : All right, Richard. One question first? Richard Sturges : If it's about Norman, you know the answer. No court in the world, no power in the heavens can force me to give up my son. Julia Sturges : He is not your son. Richard Sturges : [after Richard has rejected his son Norman when Richard discovers that he is not Norman's true father] As you pointed out, Norman and I began as strangers. So be it. Julia Sturges : Oh, my poor Richard. How you hate me, and for the wrong reasons. Not because I committed an offense against common decency, but because Norman isn't an elegant extension of Richard Ward Sturges. For you what happened isn't a mortal sin, it's an inexcusable breach of etiquette. Richard Sturges : Thank you, Julia. I stand reproved. Movie Title: Remember the Night (1940) as Lee Leander: John Sargent : You threw a lighted match into the wastebasket?! Lee Leander : Well I wasn't aiming for the spittoon. John Sargent : You know that's called arson? Lee Leander : No! I thought that was when you bit somebody! Movie Title: The Gay Sisters (1942) as Fiona Gaylord: Charles Barkley : Why don't you use a little common sense? Fiona Gaylord : I hate common sense, it's so common. Charles Barkley : Fiona, I love you. Fiona Gaylord : I hate you. Charles Barkley : Wouldn't have me if I was the last man on earth, would you? Fiona Gaylord : No. Charles Barkley : Good, we can go somewhere from there. I was afraid you might have grown indifferent to me. Movie Title: Ladies They Talk About (1933) as Nan Taylor: Susie : Say, there isn't any punishment bad enough for you! Nan Taylor : Yeah? Well, being penned up here with a daffodil like you comes awful close. Movie Title: Ladies of Leisure (1930) as Kay Arnold: Bill Standish : Ever done any posing before? Kay Arnold : I'm always posing. Bill Standish : How do you spend your nights? Kay Arnold : Re-posing. Kay Arnold : Hey, what kind of a sap is that guy? Dot Lamar : He's one of those fellas that even his best friends don't tell him. Kay Arnold : When a dress costs over a hundred bucks, it's a frock! Movie Title: Lady of Burlesque (1943) as Dixie: Biff : What's the matter with comics? Dixie : I went into show business when I was seven years old. Two days later the first comic I ever met stole my piggy bank in a railroad station in Portland. When I was 11 the comics were looking at my ankles. When I was 14 they were...just looking. When I was 20 I'd been stuck with enough lunch checks to pay for a three-story house. Naw, they're shiftless, dame-chasing, ambitionless... Movie Title: The Man with a Cloak (1951) as Lorna Bounty: Lorna Bounty : It is difficult for anyone to speak when you listen only to yourself. Movie Title: Clash by Night (1952) as Mae Doyle D'Amato: Jerry D'Amato : Get something for that head ache! Mae Doyle D'Amato : Yeah, a new head. Jerry D'Amato : Earl, he's one of the smartest men I know. He's in the movie business. Mae Doyle D'Amato : An actor? Jerry D'Amato : No, but I bet Earl could be if he wanted to. He works at the Bijou theatre, in the projection booth. Mae Doyle D'Amato : That's your idea of being in the movie business? Jerry D'Amato : Running movies, what other business would you call it? Mae Doyle D'Amato : Home is where you come to, when you run out of places. Movie Title: The Mad Miss Manton (1938) as Melsa Manton: Melsa Manton : Helen, you search the upstairs. Helen Frayne : Oh, no! I was never much of an individualist. If the upstairs has to be searched, we'll search it together. Dora Fenton : Why, that's communism! Movie Title: The Miracle Woman (1931) as Florence: [In the Temple of Happiness.] Florence : Outside the pulse of the world beats with hate! Hate! But here with you there is a heartbeat of love! Movie Title: Meet John Doe (1941) as Ann: Ann : If it was raining hundred dollar bills, you'd be out looking for a dime you lost someplace! |
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