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 Thelma Ritter QuotationMovie Title: All About Eve (1950) as Birdie: Birdie : What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end. Birdie : The bed looks like a dead animal act. [Bill is saying goodbye to Birdie as he departs for Hollywood] Bill Sampson : What should I tell Tyrone Power for you? Birdie : Just give him my phone number; I'll tell him myself. Margo Channing : You bought the new girdles a size smaller, I can feel it. Birdie : Something maybe grew a size larger. Margo Channing : When we get home you're going to get into one of those girdles and act for two and a half hours. Birdie : I couldn't get into the girdle in two and a half hours. Margo Channing : Birdie, you don't like Eve, do you? Birdie : You looking for an answer or an argument? Margo Channing : An answer. Birdie : No. Margo Channing : Why not? Birdie : Now you want an argument. Movie Title: A Letter to Three Wives (1949) as Sadie: Mrs. Finney : Can't we have peace in this house even on New Year's Eve? Sadie : You got it mixed up with Christmas. New Year's Eve is when people go back to killing each other. Sadie : The cap's out. Makes me look like a lamb chop with pants on. Sadie : Look, I don't teach you about teachin'. Don't teach me about ducks. Movie Title: Rear Window (1954) as Stella: Stella : When two people love each other, they come together - WHAM - like two taxis on Broadway. Jeff : She wants me to marry her. Stella : That's normal. Jeff : I don't want to. Stella : That's abnormal. Stella : Let's go down there and find out what's burried in that garden. Lisa : Why not? I've always wanted to meet Mrs. Thorwald. Stella : Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence. Stella : Must've splattered a lot. Stella : We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy? Jeff : Readers Digest, April 1939. Stella : Well, I only quote from the best. Stella : You'd think the rain would've cooled things down. All it did was make the heat wet. Stella : Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killin' yet. Stella : Every man's ready to get married when the right girl comes along. Stella : I can hear you now: "Get out of my life, you wonderful woman. You're too good for me." Stella : The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. Jeff : Oh, hello, Stella. Stella : And they got no windows in the workhouse. Stella : You heard of that market crash in '29? I predicted that. Jeff : Oh, just how did you do that, Stella? Stella : Oh, simple. I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said. Nerves, I said. And I asked myself, What's General Motors got to be nervous about? Overproduction, I says; collapse. When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country's ready to let go. Jeff : She's too perfect, she's too talented, she's too beautiful, she's too sophisticated, she's too everything but what I want. Stella : Is, um, what you want something you can discuss? Stella : When I married Miles, we were both a couple of maladjusted misfits. We are still maladjusted misfits, and we have loved every minute of it. Jeff : Would you fix me a sandwich, please? Stella : Yes, I will. And I'll spread a little common sense on the bread. Jeff : She sure is the "eat, drink and be merry" girl. Stella : Yeah, she'll wind up fat, alcoholic and miserable. Stella : Maybe one day she'll find her happiness. Jeff : Yeah, some man'll lose his. Jeff : I just can't figure it. He went out several times last night in the rain carrying his sample case. Stella : Well, he's a salesman, isn't he? Jeff : Well, what would he be selling at three o'clock in the morning? Stella : Flashlights. Luminous dials for watches. House numbers that light up. Stella : He's gonna run out on her, the coward. Jeff : Sometimes it's worse to stay than it is to run. Stella : [to Lisa] You haven't spent much time around cemeteries, have you? Movie Title: Pickup on South Street (1953) as Moe Williams: Candy : You've been recommended as the best pickpocket stoolie in the business. Moe Williams : What kind of talk is that, calling me a stoolie? I was brought up to report any injustice to the police authority. I call that being a solid citizen. Candy : But you get paid for it. Moe Williams : You gonna knock it? Moe Williams : You got any Happy Money? Candy : Happy Money? Moe Williams : Yeah, money that's gonna make me happy. Moe Williams : What's the matter with you? Playing footsie with the Commies! Skip McCoy : You waving the flag, too? Moe Williams : Listen, I knew you since you was a little kid. You was always a regular kind of crook. I never figured you for a louse. Skip McCoy : Stop, you're breaking my heart. Moe Williams : Even in our crummy line of business you gotta draw the line somewhere. Moe Williams : I have to go on making a living so I can die. But even a fancy funeral ain't worth waiting for if I've gotta do business with crumbs like you. Moe Williams : I've got almost enough to buy both the stone and the plot. Capt. Dan Tiger : If you lost that kitty, it's Potter's Field. Moe Williams : This I do not think is a very funny joke, Captain Tiger! Capt. Dan Tiger : I just meant you ought to be careful how you carry your bankroll. Moe Williams : Look, Tiger, if I was to be buried in Potter's Field, it would just about kill me. Movie Title: The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953) as Lucy Cashdollar: Lucy Cashdollar : Don't forget, I'm a five time widow, and when they died they all left me everything they owned. Rest their souls. Fortune Friendly : What do you want with me? I'm broke. Lucy Cashdollar : Well, I figure after five rich husbands, the next one would be on the house. Movie Title: Titanic (1953) as Maude / Maude Young: Maude Young : Where I come from this is either a revival meeting or a crap game. Maude Young : I've seen that look before. He's a runaway. Earl Meeker : From what, some woman? Maude : No, he's running too fast for that. Maude : Over trump! Never send a baby for the beer! Maude : [after Richard has rejected his son Norman and refused to play in the shuffleboard match with him] It certainly clouded up. Well, word'll do it faster than a hickory stick any time. Movie Title: Pillow Talk (1959) as Alma: [Trying to convince Alma she loves living alone.] Jan Morrow : Well, what am I missing? Alma : If you have to ask, you're missing it! Alma : If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it. |
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