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 Rosalind Russell Quotation"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly." "Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral." "At MGM there was a first wave of top stars, and a second wave to replace them in case they got difficult. I was second in line of defence, behind Myrna Loy." "Flops are part of a life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses." "In all those types of films I wore a tan suit, a grey suit, a beige suit and then a negligee for the seventh reel near the end when I would admit to my best friend on the telephone that what I really wanted was to become a little housewife." "Taste. Yoy cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete." Movie Title: Take a Letter, Darling (1942) as A.M. MacGregor: Tom Verney : You're a beautiful brain and beautiful clothes. No temperature, no pulse. That's all. A.M. MacGregor : Where did you learn about women, Verney? Tom Verney : It isn't a matter of learning. It's instinct. A.M. MacGregor : I'm a brain with no pulse, eh? I'm a woman, Verney, more woman than you'll ever know. Movie Title: The Velvet Touch (1948) as Valerie Stanton: Valerie Stanton : Gordon's the perfect host. He wants to make you feel at home... and wishes you were. Valerie Stanton : You'd better have some food. You're going to need all your strength to answer my questions. Mr. Crouch : Oh, thank you, but I'm on the nine-day diet. Valerie Stanton : Oh, are you? What day is this? Mr. Crouch : Wednesday. Michael Morrell : One of the basic rules of chess is that the king rarely moves. Valerie Stanton : That's why so few women play it. Movie Title: A Woman of Distinction (1950) as Susan Middlecott: Susan Middlecott : What sort of razor do you plan to use? Jerome : Electric. Susan Middlecott : Oh. Are you... are you A.C. or... D.C.? Movie Title: The Women (1939) as Sylvia Fowler: Nancy Blake : You're so resourceful, darling, I ought to go to you for plots. Sylvia Fowler : You ought to go to someone. Sylvia Fowler : What are you, pet? Nancy Blake : What nature abhors. I am an old maid, a frozen asset. Sylvia Fowler : Oh, you remember the awful things they said about what's-her-name before she jumped out the window? There. You see? I can't even remember her name so who cares? Sylvia Fowler : You simply must see my hairdresser, I DETEST whoever does yours. Sylvia Fowler : Mary Haines, don't you have any pride? Mary Haines : No pride at all. That's a luxury a woman in love can't afford. Edith Potter : When do you go to Africa to shoot, dear? Nancy Blake : As soon as my book is out. Sylvia Fowler : I don't blame you. I'd rather face a tiger any day than the sort of things the critics said about your last book. Sylvia Fowler : I'd die before I hurt Edith. Nancy Blake : [offering Sylvia a tray of nuts] Nuts. Sylvia Fowler : Is that anyway to talk to me after all I've done for you? Crystal Allen : Done what? Sylvia Fowler : You didn't know a soul when you married Steven. After all, it wasn't easy to put you over. Crystal Allen : And who says you put me over. Sylvia Fowler : I've gotten you into some of our very best homes. Crystal Allen : Yes, with some of their very best insults. Sylvia Fowler : Why you sly little fox, you. Sylvia Fowler : Did you get her innuendo? Movie Title: The Trouble with Angels (1966) as Mother Superior: Mother Superior : Rachel? Well, Rachel has a home and parents who love her. She's a follower, not a leader. She can be guided. But, Mary... oh, Mary has a will of iron. To bend but not to break... to yield but not capitulate... to have pride but also humility. This has always been my struggle, Sister. Can I be less tolerant of Mary than the church has been of me? Rachel Devery : Couldn't we have uniforms, too, Reverend Mother? Mother Superior : Most certainly not. The band will perform in their gym suits. Rachel Devery : Our gym suits? Mother Superior : Yes. Mary Clancy : But, they're awful! I mean, it's not as if they were like Sacred Heart's. At Sacred Heart they wear short-shorts for gym. Mother Superior : They're French. Mother Superior : This is a Catholic school Mr. Gottschalk! Mr. Gottschalk : Band uniforms are non-sectarian. Mother Superior : As for the social graces, I'm convinced that your school encourages barbarism and concerns itself only with free thinking, free wheeling and finger-painting. Mr. Petrie: The finest educational minds in the country happen to be on our side! Mother Superior : God is on ours! Movie Title: His Girl Friday (1940) as Hildy Johnson: Hildy Johnson : Of course he had to have a gun to re enact the crime with. And who do you think supplied it? Peter B. Hartwell. B For brains. Walter Burns : There's been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey. Hildy Johnson : No thanks - I jumped out that window a long time ago. Walter Burns : We've been in worse jams than this, haven't we, Hildy? Hildy Johnson : No. Walter Burns : What do you think I am, a crook? Hildy Johnson : Yes. Hildy Johnson : Walter, you're wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way. Hildy Johnson : Look, there's this old newspaper superstition that the first big check you cash, you hide it in the lining of your hat. Reporter: I've been a reporter for 25 years and I've never heard that. Hildy Johnson : Neither have I. Bruce Baldwin : He's got a lot of charm. Hildy Johnson : Yes, it comes naturally; his grandfather was a snake! Walter Burns : Look Hildy, I only acted like any husband that didn't want his home broken up. Hildy Johnson : What home? Walter Burns : "What home"? Don't you remember the home I promised you? Hildy Johnson : If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong! Hildy Johnson : Listen to me, you great big bumble-headed bamboo! Hildy Johnson : He treats me like a woman. Walter Burns : What did I treat you like? A water buffalo? Hildy Johnson : I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up! Hildy Johnson : Did you hear that? That's the story I just wrote. Yes, yes, I know we had a bargain. I just said I'd write it, I didn't say I wouldn't tear it up! It's all in little pieces now, Walter, and I hope to do the same for you some day! (hangs up emphatically) And that, my friends, is my farewell to the newspaper business. Walter Burns : I still wish you hadn't done that, Hildy. Hildy Johnson : Done what? Walter Burns : Divorced me. It makes a man feel he's not wanted. Hildy Johnson : Oh, now look, junior... that's what divorces are FOR! Walter Burns : Well well... how long is it? Hildy Johnson : How long is what? Walter Burns : You know what... how long is it since we've seen each other? Walter Burns : Let's see this paragon of virtue! Is he as good as you say? Hildy Johnson : Why, he's better! Walter Burns : Well then, what does he want with you? Hildy Johnson : Ah-ha, you got me! Hildy Johnson : Walter! Walter Burns : What? Hildy Johnson : The mayor's first wife, what was her name? Walter Burns : You mean the one with the wart on her? Hildy Johnson : Right. Walter Burns : Fanny! Louis : What's the matter, Hildy? Hildy Johnson : Don't give me that innocent stuff! What did you pull on Mr. Baldwin THIS time? Louis : Who, me? Hildy Johnson : Yes, you and that albino of yours! Louis : You talkin' about Evangeline? Hildy Johnson : None other! Louis : She ain't no albino. Hildy Johnson : She'll do 'till one comes along! Louis : She was born right here in this country! Movie Title: Flight for Freedom (1943) as Tonie Carter: Paul Turner : Besides, fliers aren't good for women -- ever. Tonie Carter : Oh, I know. Every flier's married to his plane. Paul Turner : Not quite that bad. But they never know what's going on inside of other people. How can they? They live 10,000 feet up in a world entirely their own. Any girl's safer to leave them there. Tonie Carter : Dad always used to say, when you're safe... you're dead. Movie Title: Auntie Mame (1958) as Mame / Mame Dennis / Auntie Mame: Auntie Mame : Oh, Agnes! Here you've been taking my dictations for weeks and you haven't gotten the message of my book: live! Agnes Gooch : Live? Auntie Mame : Yes! Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death! [Pouring Agnes a drink] Mame : This will calm you down. Agnes Gooch : Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person! Mame : What's wrong with that? Agnes Gooch : Will it mix with Dr. Pepper? Mame : He'll love it! Drink! Mame Dennis : Well, now, uh, read me all the words you don't understand. Patrick Dennis : Libido, inferiority complex, stinko, blotto, free love, bathtub gin, monkey glands, Karl Marx... is he one of the Marx Brothers? [Patrick reads a list of words he doesn't understand] Patrick Dennis : ...Neurotic, heterosexual... Mame Dennis : Oh, my my my my, what an eager little mind. [takes the list] Mame Dennis : You won't need some of these words for months and months. Auntie Mame : Run along to Ito and tell him to bring me a light breakfast - black coffee and a side car. Oh, oh. And a cold towel for your Auntie Vera. Patrick Dennis : Is she in the guest room again? Auntie Mame : Since Sunday, dear. Now run along to Ito and hurry my tray, darling. Your Auntie needs fuel. Mame Dennis : That word is "bastard", darling, B-A-S-T-A-R-D. And it means, "YOUR FATHER"! Movie Title: Gypsy (1962) as Rose Hovick: Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick : You really would have been something, Mother. Rose Hovick : Think so? Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick : If you had had someone to push you like I had. Rose Hovick : If I could've been, I would've been. And that's show business. |
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