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 Claudette Colbert Quotation"Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over." "I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't." "Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them. If they want you, you want to do it." "I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody." In response to an invitation to write an autobiography - "Books written by actresses are for the birds. Besides what would I write?...that somebody was looking for an Italian type to play the ingenue in a film and I might do?" "Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother." Movie Title: The Sign of the Cross (1932) as Poppaea: [The Empress, soaking naked in a tub of ass' milk and calling to her handmaiden.] Poppaea : Take off your clothes and get in here! Movie Title: Midnight (1939) as Eve Peabody: Eve Peabody : Well. So this, as they say, is Paris, huh? Train guard: Yes, madame. Eve Peabody : Well, from here it looks an awful lot like a rainy night in Kokomo, Indiana. Eve Peabody : From the moment you looked at me, I had an idea you had an idea. Eve Peabody : [at the ball] Don't forget, every Cinderella has her midnight. Movie Title: The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) as Franzi: Franzi : Girls who start with breakfast don't usually end up with supper. Princess Anna : I love him so dearly. Franzi : I'm just wild about him. Princess Anna : Isn't he good-looking? Franzi : Oh, and how! Princess Anna : That's it exactly! And how! Did you see him in his new uniform? Franzi : At the wedding? Stunning! Princess Anna : But to tell you the truth, I like him even better in his dinner-coat. Franzi : With the straw hat? Princess Anna : Yes, with the straw hat! Franzi : Oh, that's nothing. Did you ever see him in... oh, never mind! Franzi : Jazz up your lingerie! Movie Title: Cleopatra (1934) as Cleopatra: Cleopatra : Together we could conquer the world. Julius Caesar : Nice of you to include me. Movie Title: I Met Him in Paris (1937) as Kay Denham: Double-talking waiter: You have the ask to wish for me your pleasure? Kay Denham : What?? Double-talking waiter: You have the ask to wish for me your pleasure? Kay Denham : I have the ask to wish for you me pleasure... Double-talking : [waiter] Yes! I am the waiter speaking who American. Okey-dokey? Gene Anders : Do you mind if I tell you again that I love you? Kay Denham : Go right ahead. Gene Anders : Will you believe it? Kay Denham : No. But I like it. Movie Title: Torch Singer (1933) as Mimi Benton: Mimi Benton : Well, I'll tell you what happened to her. While you were touring China, she went through hell. It's a nice place, you must go there someday. Michael Gardner : You've changed all right! You're selfish, hard. Mimi Benton : Sure I am, just like glass. So hard, nothing'll cut it but diamonds. Come around some day with a fistful. Maybe we can get together. Movie Title: Let's Make It Legal (1951) as Miriam Halsworth: Miriam Halsworth : You don't believe in the, the sanctity of divorce, do you? Hugh Halsworth : It's all right for people who've never been married. Miriam Halsworth : What's the use? You'll never stop gambling. Hugh Halsworth : Do you want to bet? Movie Title: Arise, My Love (1940) as Augusta Nash: Tom Martin : You know, it's a funny thing that you of all people should be sitting beside me. You're precisely my type. Augusta Nash : Mmm-hmm. How long were you in that prison? Mr. Phillips : Gusto Nash, you're fired, as of immediately! Augusta Nash : Oh, it's not true! Mr. Phillips : I know it's not true. I just wanted to taste the words. Sheer rapture! Movie Title: The Gilded Lily (1935) as Marilyn David: Peter Dawes : But popcorn - ah, popcorn was made for watching the world go by. Look. I stick my hand in the bag without taking my eyes off the street. I throw some popcorn in my craw. I chew...and I'm still looking. That's what I call class. Marilyn David : Sure. Peanut eaters don't know how to live. Marilyn David : Pete, you're a smart fellow. What do poor little working girls usually do next? Peter Dawes : Well, they usually drown themselves, one way or the other. Marilyn David : I'll take the other. Marilyn David : I'm just a freak! Movie Title: The Palm Beach Story (1942) as Gerry Jeffers: Tom Jeffers : So this fellow gave you the look? Gerry Jeffers : At his age it was more of a blink. Tom Jeffers : Seven hundred dollars and sex didn't even enter into it, I suppose? Gerry Jeffers : Sex always has something to do with it, dear. Gerry Jeffers : Anyway, men don't get smarter as they get older. They just lose their hair. Gerry Jeffers : Don't you know that the greatest men in the world have told lies and let things be misunderstood if it was useful to them? Didn't you ever hear of a campaign promise? Tom Jeffers : Funny having to sleep with a sitting-room between us. Gerry Jeffers : And the doors locked. Tom Jeffers : You don't have to worry about that. Tom Jeffers : Where'd you get that dress? Gerry Jeffers : Why, that's what I've been telling you about! Tom Jeffers : What's that on your wrist? Gerry Jeffers : It's just what you think it is, dear. [He looks at the bracelet on her wrist] Tom Jeffers : What kind of stones are those? Gerry Jeffers : Just what they look like. Tom Jeffers : Do you know what it feels like to be strangled by bare hands?! Movie Title: I Cover the Waterfront (1933) as Julie Kirk: Joe Miller : You wouldn't go for a kiss, would you? Julie Kirk : No. Not very far. Julie Kirk : Men never know what the sea really looks like. Women know. When they've looked out there for years, waitin' for somebody to come back. Movie Title: It Happened One Night (1934) as Ellie: Ellie : Your ego is absolutely colossal. Peter Warne : Yeah, yeah, not bad, how's yours? [Shuts and locks the door.] Ellie : You know, compared to you, my friend Shapeley is an amateur. Just whatever gave you any idea I'd stand for this? Peter Warne : Hey now, wait a minute. Let's get this straightened out right now. If you're nursing any silly notion that I'm interested in you, forget it. You're just a headline to me. Ellie : A headline? You're not a newspaper man are you? Peter Warne : Chalk up one for your side. [After Ellen stops a car by showing her leg] Peter Warne : Why didn't you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars. Ellie : Well, ooo, I'll remember that when we need forty cars. Ellie : By the way, what's your name? Peter Warne : What's that? Ellie : Who are you? Peter Warne : Who me? (smiling) I'm the whippoorwill that cries in the night. I'm the soft morning breeze that caresses your lovely face. Ellie : You've got a name, haven't you? Peter Warne : Yeah, I got a name. Peter Warne. Ellie : Peter Warne. I don't like it. Peter Warne : Don't let it bother you. You're giving it back to me in the morning. Ellie : Pleased to meet you, Mr. Warne. Peter Warne : The pleasure is all mine, Mrs. Warne. Peter Warne : Excuse me lady, but that upon which you sit is mine. Ellie : I beg your pardon? Movie Title: No Time for Love (1943) as Katherine Grant: Katherine Grant : Oh, you---you coward! Kissing a woman! Jim Ryan : What am I supposed to kiss? |
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