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Oh, I ain’t worried, Miss.  Gave myself up for dead back when we started. –Humphrey Bogart, The African Queen

I’m afraid I was born 100 years before my time.
I was born 10 days ahead of mine. -Eric Linden and Cecilia Parker, Ah, Wilderness!

Yet Ah, that Spring should
Vanish with the Rose!
That Youth’s sweet-scented
Manuscript must close!
Well, spring isn’t everything, is it Essie?  There’s a lot to be said for autumn.  That has beauty, too.  And winter-if you’re together. –Lionel Barrymore, Ah, Wilderness!

  Fried Jap going down! –George Tobias, Air Force

  Look like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. –Airplane

Nervous?
Yes.
First time?
No, I’ve been nervous lots of times. –Airplane

  Ah, but you should have seen me when I has stage fever.  You know, every girl has a time in her life when she’s positive she’s divinely talented for the stage.  I used to play Juliet alone in my room. –Katherine Hepburn, Alice Adams

  A rose.  A poor little rose for your thoughts. –Katherine Hepburn, Alice Adams

  Closed on Account of a lot of Death. –Alice’s Restaurant

  I’m sorry, Pepe.  He thought you were going to escape.

And so I have, my friend. -Joseph Calleia and Charles Boyer, Algiers

  You know what you are to me?  Paris.  That’s you.  Paris!  With you, I escape.  Follow me?  The whole town.  A spring morning in Paris.  You’re lovely.  You’re marvelous.  And you know what you remind me of?  The subway. –Charles Boyer, Algiers

I say we nuke the planet from orbit.  It’s the only way to be sure. –Aliens

And tomorrow morning, you will have won your beachhead on the shores of immortality. –George Sanders, All About Eve

Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night. –Bette Davis, All About Eve

I think the time has come to shed some of your humility.  Its just as false not to blow your horn as too blow it too loudly. -George Sanders, All About Eve

I shall propose the toast.  Without wit.  With all my heart.  To Margo.  To my bride-to-be. –Gary Merrill, All About Eve

Margo Channing is a Star of the Theatre.  She made her first stage appearance at the age of 4, in Midsummer Night’s Dream.  She played a fairy and entered-quite unexpectedly-stark naked.  She has been a Star ever since.  Margo is a great Star.  She never was or never will be anything less or anything else. –George Sander, All About Eve

Nice speech, Eve.  But I wouldn’t worry too much about your heart.  You can always put that award where your heart ought to be. -Bette Davis, All About Eve

San Francisco has no Schubert Theatre.  You’ve never been to San Francisco!  That was a stupid lie, easy to expose, not worthy of you. –George Sanders, All About Eve

So little.  So little, did you say?  Why, if there’s nothing else-there’s applause.  I’ve listened backstage, to people applaud.  It’s like-like waves of love coming over the footlights and wrapping you up.  Imagine.  To know, every night, that different hundreds of people love you.  They smile and their eyes shine.  You’ve pleased them.  They want you.  You belong.  Just that alone is worth anything. -Anne Baxter, All About Eve

That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability, but that in itself is probably the reason.  You’re an improbable person, Eve, and so am I.  We have that in common.  Also a contempt for humanity, an inability to love or be loved, insatiable ambition-and talent.  We deserve each other. –George Sanders, All About Eve

That’s all television is, my dear.  Nothing but auditions. –George Sanders, All About Eve

The theatuh, the theatuh-what book of rules says the theatre exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City?  Or London, Paris, Vienna?  Listen, junior.  And learn.  Want to know what the theatre is?  A flea circus.  Also opera.  Also rodeos, carnivals, ballets, Indian tribal dances, Punch and Judy, a one-man band-all theatre.  Wherever there’s magic and make-believe and an audience-there’s theatre.  Donald Duck, Ibsen, and The Lone Ranger.  Sarah Bernhardt and Poodles Hanneford, Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable, Rex the Wild Horse, Elenora Duse-all theatre.  You don’t understand them all, you don’t like them all-why should you?  The theatre’s for everyone-you included, but not exclusively-so don’t approve or disapprove.  It may not be your theatre but it’s somebody’s theatre, somewhere. –Gary Merrill, All About Eve

To those of you who do not read, attend the theatre, listen to unsponsored radio programs or know anything of the world in which you live-it is perhaps necessary to introduce myself. -I am Addison DeWitt. -George Sanders, All About Eve

Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits? –Marilyn Monroe, All About Eve

Man in conceived in sin and born in corruption. -Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men

We live in the trenches out there.  We fight.  We try not to be killed, but sometimes we are-that’s all. –Lew Ayres, All Quiet on the Western Front

When it comes to dying for your country, it’s better not to die at all. -Lew Ayres, All Quiet on the Western Front

Just remember a good loser is still a loser. –Gary Cole, American Gothic

And don’t forget to take the elevator. -Cary Grant, An Affair to Remember

I idealized them.  Every woman I meet I put up there.  Of course, the longer I know her-I mean, the better I know her…

Oh huh.  Yes, it’s hard to keep them up there.
Yes, isn’t it?
Pretty soon, the pedestal wobbles and then topples.
C’est la vie, et cetera. –Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, An Affair to Remember

Winter must be cold for those who have no warm memories.  We’ve already missed the spring. –Deborah Kerr. –An Affair to Remember

Do you think it will ever take the place of night baseball? –Deborah Kerr, An Affair to Remember

I’ll build a stairway to paradise, with a new step everyday.  I’ll get there at any price.  Stand aside, I’m on my way. –An American in Paris

That’s quite a dress you almost have on. -Gene Kelly, An American in Paris

Let’s just say I’m old enough to know what to do with my young feelings. -Georges Guetary, An American in Paris

Paris has ways of making people forget.
Paris?  No, not this city.  It’s too real and too beautiful.  It never lets you forget anything.  It reaches in and opens you wide and you stay that way.  I know.  I came to Paris to study and to paint because Utrillo did and Lautrec did and Rouault did.  I loved what they created and I thought something would happen to me, too.  Well, it happened all right.  Now what have I got left?  Paris.  Maybe that’s enough for some but it isn’t enough for me anymore because the more beautiful everything is, the more it will hurt without you. –Leslie Caron and Gene Kelly, An American in Paris

Back home everyone said I had no talent.  They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French. –Gene Kelly, An American in Paris

A naked American man stole my balloons. –An American Werewolf in Paris

Have you tried talking to a corpse?  He’s boring. –An American Werewolf in Paris

  …but what will you say?
Say?  Oh, I will say, “The play is over.  Go home”.  -Ivan Desny, Anastasia

She is playing solitaire with her memories. -Marita Hunt, Anastasia

Madame A. Anderson.  The last real thing about me is my legal reality. -Ingrid Bergman, Ananstasia

I am the past.  I like it.  It’s sweet and familiar, and the present is cold and foreign, and the future-fortunately, I don’t need to concern myself with that.  But you do.  It’s yours. –Helen Hayes, Anastasia

I am all for crime, Your Honor.  May I propose a toast?  Here is to crime. -Mischa Auer, And Then There Were None

Very stupid to kill the only servant in the house.  Now we don’t even know where to find the marmalade. –Judith Anderson, And Then There Were None

Whaddaya hear?  Whaddaya say? –James Cagney, Angels with Dirty Faces

Why, you’re one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen and that’s not saying much for you. -Groucho Marx, Animal Crackers

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, the silence can be deafening. –Anna and the King

I don't won't to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can take a right turn on a red light. -Woody Allen (on L.A.), Annie Hall

I’m making excellent progress.  Pretty soon, when I lie down on his couch, I won’t have to wear the lobster bib. –Woody Allen, Annie Hall

I can’t get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics. –Woody Allen, Annie Hall

That was the most fun I’ve had without laughing. –Woody Allen, Annie Hall

I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know.  I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. –Woody Allen, Annie Hall

I’ve been killing spiders since I was 30, OK? –Woody Allen, Annie Hall

I was suicidal, as a matter of fact, and would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian, and, if you kill yourself, they make you pay for the sessions you miss. –Woody Allen, Annie Hall

Oh, I did Shakespeare in the Park, Max.  I got mugged.  I was playing “Richard III”, and two guys with leather jackets stole my leotards. –Tony Roberts, Annie Hall

Even as a kid, I always went for the wrong women.  I feel that’s my problem.  When my mother took me to see Snow White, everyone fell in love with Snow White.  I immediately fell for the wicked queen. –Woody Allen, Annie Hall

Shut up and deal! -Shirley MacLaine, The Apartment

You’ve got no right to call me a murderer.  You have a right to kill me-you have the right to do that-but you have no right to judge me. –Marlon Brando, Apocalypse Now

I love the smell of napalm in the morning…it smells like victory. –Robert Duvall, Apocalypse Now

Hail to the king, Baby. –Army of Darkness

Insanity runs in the family.  It practically gallops. -Cary Grant, Arsenic and Old Lace

I want you to get General  Mitchell on the phone-tell him to bomb New York City!
But, Mr. President, the tomatoes are nowhere near New York!
You worry about your problems, I’ll worry about mine. –Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, the Director’s Cut  

Technically, sir, tomatoes are fags.
He means fruits, sir. –Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, the Director’s Cut

I’ll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork. – Irving Brecher, At the Circus  

I did just what she told me to do.  I lived!  I’ve got to find out what to do now. -Peggy Cass, Auntie Mame

Life is a banquet and most suckers are starving to death. –Auntie Mame

Mr. Babcock!  Knowledge is power! -Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame

You know, I’ve been to so many wonderful parties here, Mame.  Now, I’m going to find out how they all ended. –Coral Browne, Auntie Mame

Oh, she’s not English, darling.  She’s from Pittsburgh.
She sounded English.
Well, when you’re from Pittsburgh, you have to do something. –Jan Handzlik and Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame

I’d agree with you if you were right. –Robin Williams, Awakenings

I wouldn’t go on living with you if you were dipped in platinum. –Irene Dunne, The Awful Truth

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Other people’s love affairs are always funny. –Back Street

Bring me a milk…(pregnant pause) Chocolate! –Back to the Future

Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until someone passes out.  Then bring us one every four. –Back to School

Get that look off your face.  Who gave you the right to dig into me and turn me inside out and decide what I’m like?  How do you know how I feel about you, how deep it goes?  Maybe I don’t want anybody to own me-you or anybody.  Get out.  Get out.  Get out! -Kirk Douglas, The Bad and the Beautiful

There are no great men, Buster.  There are only men. -Elaine Stewart, The Bad and the Beautiful

Darling, I was afraid you might be angry or resent my coming here, but-but I had to take that chance.  Why, right in the middle of everything, suddenly I knew one thing so clearly: the party is where you are. –Lana Turner, The Bad and the Beautiful

We’re not quarreling!  We’re in complete agreement!  We hate each other! -Nanette Fabray, The Band Wagon

I can stand anything but pain. –Oscar Levant, The Band Wagon

She came at me in sections.  More curves than a scenic railway. –Fred Astaire, The Band Wagon

For four years, I’ve invited the guests and bought the favors and provided the entertainment and cleaned up the dirt and paid off the waiters and paid off the cops and paid off the papers and paid off the guests, and now it’s Good Night, Ladies, The Party’s Over-I’ve Had A Lovely Evening, But I Must Be Going. –Edmond O’Brien, The Barefoot Contessa

Just this once, Kirk, why don’t you empty your own ashtrays? –Edmond O’Brien, The Barefoot Contessa

Harry, we must beware of those men.  They’re desperate characters…Not one of them looked at my legs. -Jennifer Jones, Beat the Devil

The love of a man for a woman waxes and wanes like the moon, but the love of brother for brother is steadfast as the stars and endures like the word of the prophet. –Beau Geste

If you tried to phone hell from here, it would be a local call. –Bebe’s Kids

Hey, zat kiss vas for me!  After all, she is my niece!
That’s adding incest to injury. –The Bees

For Christ’s sake can you please tell me what is happening?  You told me those beehives of yours were foolproof.  Now these killer bees are all over the place!  Look, this is shaping up in Congress like a goddamn volcano and my ass is hanging right over the cone!

Take it easy, Sam.  It wasn’t the hives, it was that Dr. Morris-the one you picked to bring the frozen bee sperm from Brazil!  He stole some, sold it to the competition, and let their bees escape!

Dr. Morris did that?  Ooh, the bastard!  I’ll have him transferred to a family planning clinic in Bangladesh! –The Bees

I must have your golden hair, fascinating eyes, alluring smile, your lovely arms, your form divine-

Wait a minute.  Wait a minute!  Is this a proposal, or are you taking an inventory? –John Miljan and Mae West, Belle of the Nineties

Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese. –Benny and Joon

Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m very happy to be here.  In fact, I’m very happy to be anywhere.  In fact, I’m-I’m very happy.  Perhaps it’d be a good idea if you just put that bottle right down here in front of me, hmm?  It’ll save yourself quite a number of trips…I’m glad to see you’ve all pulled through so well.  As Mr. er, Mr. Milton so perfectly expressed it, “Our country stands today where it stands today” whatever that is.  And I’m sure you’ll all agree with me if I said now is the time to stop all this nonsense, face facts, get down to brass tacks,, forget about the war and go fishing.  But I’m to going to say it.  I’m just going to sum the whole thing up with one word-my wife doesn’t think I’d better sum it up in that one word. -Fredric March, The Best Years of Our Lives

How many times have I told you I hated you and believed it in my heart?  How many times have you said you were sick and tired of me, that we were all washed up?  How many times have we had to fall in love all over again? –Myrna Loy, The Best Years of Our Lives

I don’t go to church.  Kneeling bags my nylons. -Jan Sterling, The Big Carnival

You know what's wrong with New Mexico, Mr. Wendel?  Too much outdoors.  Give me those eight spindly trees in front of Rockefeller Center any day.  That's enough outdoors for me.  No subways smelling sweet and sour.  What do you use for noise around here?  No beautiful roar from eight million ants fighting, cursing, loving.  No shows.  No South Pacific.  No chic little dames across a crowded bar.  And, worst of all, Herbie, no 80th floor to jump from when you feel like it. -Kirk Douglas, The Big Carnival

She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up. -Humphrey Bogart, The Big Sleep

I don't mind if you don't like my manners.  I don't like 'em myself.  They're pretty bad.  I grieve over them long, winter evenings. -Humphrey Bogart, The Big Sleep

Be excellent to each other.  Party on, Dudes. –Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

There are few people who know the secret of making a heaven here on earth.  You are one of those rare people. -Cary Grant, The Bishop’s Wife

Do you like orchids?
Not particularly.
Nasty things!  Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, and their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption. –Charles Waldron and Humphrey Bogart, The Big Sleep 

Now mount up and do that voodoo that you do so well. –Blazing Saddles

What would you like to have?
Sex. –George Segal and Susan Anspach, Blume in Love

You’re not too smart, are you?  I like that in a man. –Kathleen Turner, Body Heat

We rob banks. –Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde

I want everybody to be smart.  I want ‘em to be as smart as they can be.  A world full of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in. -William Holden, Born Yesterday

No, I’m fine.  In fact, considering I’ve been dead for 16 years, I’m in remarkable health. -Howard St. John, Born Yesterday

To all the dumb chumps and all the crazy broads-past, present, and future-who thirst for knowledge and search for truth, who fight for justice and civilize each other and make it so tough for crooks like you.  And me. –Howard St. John, Born Yesterday

Two’s company and three’s an adult movie. –Brain Donors

Without lamps, there would be no light. –The Breakfast Club

Course, personally, I think it’s a bit tacky to wear diamonds before I’m 40. -Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

She’s a phone, but she’s a real phony.  Know what I mean, kid? -Martin Balsam, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Do you know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are?  You’re chicken.  You got no guts.  You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say, “Okay, life’s a fact”.  People do fall in love.  People do belong to each other because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.  You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you’re terrified somebody’s going to stick you in a cage.  Well, baby, you’re already in that cage.  You built it up yourself, and it’s not bound on the west by Tulip, Texas, or on the east by Somaliland.  It’s wherever you go because no matter where you run you just end up running into yourself! -George Peppard, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Cross my heart, and kiss my elbow. –Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

I always thought it was a ridiculous name for a prison-Sing Sing, I mean.  Sounds more like I should be an opera house or something. –Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

I’m used to being top banana in the shock department. –Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Jose brought up the blueprints for a new ranch house he’s building and I have the strange feeling that the blueprints and my knitting instructions got switched.  I mean, it isn’t impossible that I’m knitting a ranch house. –Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

You’re a very stylish girl.  Can’t we end this stylishly? –George Peppard, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

I certainly had him pegged wrong, didn’t I?  I thought he was just a rat, but he was a super-rat all along-a super-rat in rat’s clothing. –Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

I give you The Monster! –Ernest Theisger, The Bride of Frankenstein

Why did you two ever get married?

Ahh, I don’t know.  It was raining and we were in Pittsburgh. –Barbara Stanwyck and Helen Broderick, The Bride Walks Out

I haven’t the foggiest. –Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Madness!  Madness! –James Donald, The Bridge on the River Kwai

I’m adamant.  I will not have an officer from my battalion working as a coolie. –Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Now it isn’t that I don’t like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I’m strangely drawn toward you, but-well, there haven’t been any quiet moments, Cary Grant, Bringing Up Baby

I bet when he leaves, it won’t be without a pension.  It’ll be roses, roses all the way, cheers, cheers, and good-bye Mr. Chips. –Jean Kent, The Browning Version

Crash Davis: Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hangin' curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. –Kevin Costner, Bull Durham

The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness. –Bull Durham

Take me to the hospital.  I’ve been blown up. –The Burbs

Mama, face it; I was the slut of all time. -Elizabeth Taylor, Butterfield 8

In vaudeville?  I was vaudeville.  You should see my scrapbook. –Kay Medford, Butterfield 8

Emily, I’m going out looking for my pride-alone.  When I find it, if you’re here, I’ll come back, and we’ll see if it’ll have any value to either of us. –Laurence Harvey, Butterfield 8

Life’s a ball/ If only you know it/You’re alive/ So come on and show it/ We’ve got a lot of living to do. –Bye Bye Birdie

C

In here, life is beautiful. –Cabaret

Your best, Mr. Keith, is only a maximum of inefficiency. -Humphrey Bogart, The Caine Mutiny

There is no escape from the Caine, save death.  We are all doing penance, sentenced to an outcast ship, manned by outcasts, and named after the greatest outcast of them all. -Fred MacMurray, The Caine Mutiny

I can’t wait to get out of here.  It’s like paradise with a lobotomy. –California Suite

It’s bizarre. 8 years with the national Theatre, 2 Pinter plays, 9 Shakespeare, 3 Shaw-and I finally get nominated for nauseating little comedy.

That’s why they call it Hollywood. -Maggie Smith and Michael Caine, California Suite

I don’t have a lifestyle.  I have a life. -Jane Fonda, California Suite

New York is not the center of the goddamn universe.  I grant you it's an exciting, vibrant, stimulating, fabulous city, but it's not Mecca.  It just smells like it. -Alan Alda, California Suite

We keep up a front for everyone else.  Why can’t we do it for ourselves? –Michael Caine, California Suite

You’re worse than a hopeless romantic.  You’re a hopeful one. –Jane Fonda, California Suite

When you call me madam, smile. –Ethel Merman, Call Me Madam

Perhaps it’s better if I live in your heart where the world can’t see me.  If I am dead, there’ll be no stain our love. -Greta Garbo, Camille

Avocados are vital to this nation's security interests. With the communists already in control of Nicaragua and Guatemala and El Salvador strife with revolution California is the last secure supply of Avocados in the free world. We're on the verge of a major Avocado gap! –Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death

Okay, let's see... ...so she's going to make love to me, that's, that's good - but she's going to kill me and eat me, that's bad. –Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death

If you had the choice-
Yeah?
Would you rather love a girl or have her love you? -Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkal, Carnal Knowledge  

You’ll excuse me gentlemen.  Your business is politics.  Mine is running a saloon. -Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. -Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.  Someday you’ll understand that.  Not now.  Here’s looking at you kid. -Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

I stick my neck out for nobody. -Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine!  What’s that you’re playing?
Oh, just a little something of my own.
Well, stop it.  You know what I want to hear,
No, I don’t.
You played it for her and you can play it for me.
Well, I don’t think I can remember it.
If she can stand it, I can.  Play it.
Yes, sir, boss. –Humphrey Bogart and Dooley Wilson, Casablanca 

We’ll always have Paris.  We didn’t have it.  We’d-we’d lost it until you came to Casablanca.  We got it back last night. –Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

Make it ten.  I’m only a poor corrupt official. –Claude Rains, Casablanca

I remember every detail.  The Germans wore gray.  You wore blue. –Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

We mustn’t underestimate American blundering.  I was with them when they “blundered” into Berlin in 1918. –Claude Rains, Casablanca

Play it again, Sam.  Play “As Time Goes By”. –Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca

Here’s looking at you, kid. –Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

You know, Rick, I have many friends in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you’re the only one I trust. –Peter Lorre, Casablanca

I came to Casablanca for the waters.
The waters?  What waters?  We’re in the desert.
I was misinformed. –Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains, Casablanca

Do you know what I feel like?  I feel like a cat on a hot tin roof. 
Do it.  Jump. 
Jump where?  Into what?
Take a lover. -Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

You and Skipper and millions like you are living in a kid’s world, playing games, touchdowns, no worries, no responsibilities.  Life ain’t no damn football game.  Life ain’t just a bunch of high spots.  You’re a 30-year-old kid.  Soon you’ll be a 50-year-old kid, pretending to be in shape when you ain’t in it, dreaming and drinking your life away.  Heroes in the real world live 24 hours a day and not just 2 hours in a game.  Mendacity!  You won’t-you won’t live with mendacity!  Why, you’re an expert at it! -Burl Ives, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Gooper is your first-born.  Why, he’s always had to carry a bigger load of responsibility than Brick.  Brick never carried anything in his life but a football or a highball. –Madeline Sherwood, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

What’s the smell in this room?  Didn’t you notice it, Brick?  Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? –Burl Ives, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“Hurry”, Maitland, is the curse of civilization. -Edith Evans, The Chalk Garden

She's golden and striped like something in the jungle. -Hayley Mills, The Chalk Garden

Life without a room to oneself is a barbarity. –Edith Evans, The Chalk Garden

Is it a crime to want to be remembered?

No.  The pharaohs built the pyramids for that reason. –Deborah Kerr, The Chalk Garden

I suppose you know you have a wonderful body.  I’d like to do it in clay. –Lola Albright, Champion

Well, I suppose we’ll have to feed the duchess.  Even vultures have to eat. –Shirley MacLaine, The Children’s Hour

Aw, jeez, Dad.  Look, maybe if you don’t eat anyone, nobody’ll notice. –Chopper Chicks in Zombietown

You’re the sluts!  Try and act like it! –Chopper Chicks in Zombietown

I used to think about $25,000, too, and what I’d do with it, that I’d be a failure if I didn’t get a hold of it.  And then one day I realized I was never going to have $25,000, Mr. MacDonald.  And then another day, a little bit later, considerably later, I realized something else-something I’m imparting to you now, Mr. MacDonald: I’m not a failure.  I’m a success.  You see, ambition is alright if it works, but no system could be right where one-half on one percent were successes and all the rest were failures.  That wouldn’t be right.  I’m not a failure.  I’m a success.  And so are you if you earn you on living and pay your own bills and look the world in the eye.  I hope you win your $25,000, Mr. MacDonald, but, if you shouldn’t happen to, don’t worry about it. –Harry Hayden, Christmas in July

Everyone is beautiful at the ballet. –A Chorus Line

Rosebud! -Orson Welles, Citizen Kane

I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. -George Coulouris, Citizen Kane

Everything was his idea, except my leaving him. -Dorothy Comingnoe, Citizen Kane

I run a couple of newspapers.  What do you do? –Orson Welles, Citizen Kane

You don’t know what it means to know that people are-that a whole audience just doesn’t want you. –Dorothy Comingore, Citizen Kan 

“Girls delightful in Cuba stop.  Could send you prose poems about scenery but don’t feel right spending you money stop.  There is no war in Cuba.  Signed, Wheeler.”  Any answer?

Yes.  “Dear Wheeler, you provide the prose poems.  I’ll provide the war”. –Everett Sloane and Orson Welles, Citizen Kane

You see, Danny, when she rubs her eyes open in the morning, she sees her name up all in bright lights-Peggy Nash, Dancer-and all day long she keeps moving those lights around to different theatres and different cities.  At night she goes to sleep with the music of applause in her ears.  And, Danny, she can’t see you and she can’t hear you because she’s blinded and deafened by that applause. -Arthur Kennedy, City for Conquest

You should attack my guards more often.  Battle seems to become you.  Rex Harrison, Cleopatra

How strangely awake I feel, as if living had just been a long dream-someone else’s dream, now finished at last… -Elizabeth Taylor, Cleopatra

You know, it’s quite possible, Octavian, that when you die, you will die without ever having been alive. -Richard Burton, Cleopatra

I’ve had my fill of the smug condescension of worn-out pretenders, parading on the ruins of your past glories. –Rex Harrison, Cleopatra

There has never been such a silence. –Elizabeth Taylor, Cleopatra

Your eyes!  Your eyes!  They shine like the pants of a blue serge suit. -Groucho Marx, The Coconuts

I’m going to fire some of those people.  Give me the fire bell. -Groucho Marx, The Coconuts

One false move, and I’m yours. -Groucho Marx, The Coconuts

I now take great pleasure in presenting to you the well preserved and partially pickled Mrs. Potter. -Groucho Marx, The Coconuts

One more success like that and I’ll sell my body to a medical institute. –Groucho Marx, The Coconuts

Now, what’s the use to worry?  It’s silly to worry, isn’t it?  You’re gone today and here tomorrow. –Groucho Marx, The Coconuts

In the spring, a young man’s fancy turns pretty fancy. –Burt Lancaster, Come Back, Little Sheba

Little Sheba should have stayed young forever.  Some things should never grow old. –Burt Lancaster, Come Back, Little Sheba

Why are you nervous?  This isn’t “Have-a-gimp-over-for-dinner night”, is it?  You’re not one of those weirdos. –Jon Voight, Coming Home

He was a natural born world shaker-Gregory Peck, Cool Hand Luke

What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate, Strother Martin, later Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke

Hey, Old Man, you home tonight? –Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke

You presume to know me very well, don’t you?

Sire, you stand in the sun. –Charles Boyer and Greta Garbo, Conquest

Did I forget to tell you I’m proud? –Grace Kelly, The Country Girl

Suicide attempts are Frank’s department. –Grace Kelly, The Country Girl

There’s nothing quite so mysterious and dark as a silent theatre.  A night without a star. –Grace Kelly, The Country Girl

Whether you like it or not, Frank’s weak.  He’s a leaner, and I happen to be the one he leans on. –Grace Kelly, The Country Girl

They all start out as Juliets and wind up as Lady Macbeths. –William Holden, The Country Girl

He’s dead!
Why does this always happen to me! –The Creepers 

The serum!  Thank God we didn’t use it on a human being!
Errr… -The Creeping Flesh

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They cause me more trouble than the Methodist Church. –Ray Waltson, Damn Yankees

We’re coming to a tree in the middle of the road.  We’re taking it.  If you’re killed, I’ll be free.  If I’m killed, it doesn’t really matter.  If we both die, good riddance. –Bette Davis, Dangerous

Nothing can hurt us now.  What we have can’t be destroyed.  That’s our victory-our victory because we’re not afraid. -Bette Davis, Dark’s Victory

When it comes it must be met beautifully and finely. -Bette Davis, Dark’s Victory

That you, Martha?…I don’t want to be disturbed. -Bette Davis, Dark’s Victory

What time is it?
It’s the right time, Honey. -Dorothy McGuire and Robert Preston, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 

I always thought I could give them life like a present, all wrapped in white with every promise of happiness inside…All I can promise them is life itself. -Dorothy McGuire, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

I wish someone loved me enough to hit me. -Eve Arden, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Darling, poor fool, don’t you know I’m in love with you? -Bette Davis, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

There’ll be ice cream parlors in hell before I walk back into this place and listen to your jaw! –Robert Preston, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Sonny, I think you’re going to have to learn how to fight.  Runnin’s no good.  If you run now, you still be doin’ it when you’re a grown man. –Robert Preston, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

I found the portrait long before I met Mari, and I worshipped it.  When I did meet her, it was as if I’d always known her and wanted her. –Clifton Webb, The Dark Corner

It’s a nauseating mixture of Park Avenue and Broadway.  It proves I’m a liberal. –Clifton Webb, The Dark Corne 

How I detest the dawn!  The grass always looks like its been left out all night. –Clifton Webb, The Dark Corner

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. -Dirk Bogarde, Darling

Marry me, and I’ll never look at another horse! –Groucho Marx, A Day at the Races

My dear, I have no taste for the abject. –Claude Rains, Deception

I’m making a comeback, ya’ know. -Mike O’Shaughnessy, Designing Women

Evil’s got a smell of its own.  A child can spot it.  I know, Joe.  I know…I lived with it.  I learned it early and deep.  My own father was one of them.  Every day in my childhood, I saw that father of mine-with that criminal mind of his-abuse and torment my mother and drive her straight into a lunatic asylum.  She died there.  Yeah, I know it when I smell it.  Every time I look at one of those “babies”, I see my old man’s face. –Kirk Douglas, Detective Story

Congratulations, Karl.  You’re still a lucky man.  You must have been kissed in your cradle by a vulture. –Kirk Douglas, Detective Story

Yippie-ki-yi-yay, Motherfucker. –Die Hard

  …you’ve got to ask yourself one question: do I feel lucky?  Well, do ya’, punk? -Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry

I saw it on TV so it must be true. –Doom Generation

Shoplifters will be executed. –Doom Generation

I killed him for money and a woman, and I didn’t get the money, and I didn’t get the woman. -Fred MacMurray, Double Indemnity

I never drink-wine. –Bela Lugosi, Dracula

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing. –Bela Lugosi, Dracula

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. -Sterling Hayden, Dr. Strangelove

Mein Fuehrer!  I can walk! –Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove

Well, boys, I reckon that this is it: nuclear combat, toe to toe, with the Rooskies! –Slim Pickens, Dr. Strangelove

Oh, your excellency!
You’re not so bad yourself. -Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx, Duck Soup

Go, and never darken my towels again! -Groucho Marx, Duck Soup

Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you.  He really is an idiot.  I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary.  I suggest that we give him 10 years in Leavenworth, or 11 years in Twelveworth.

I’ll tell you what I’ll do.  I’ll take 5 and 10 in Woolworth. –Groucho and Chico Marx, Duck Soup

Join the Army and See the Navy. –Duck Soup

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E.T. phone home. –E.T. The Extraterrestrial

Beware of the Children. –The Egg and I

Love is the morning and the evening star. -Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry

Do, or do not.  There is no try. - The Empire Strikes Back

I’m altering the deal.  Pray I don’t alter it any further. –The Empire Strikes Back

Sometimes I amaze even myself. –The Empire Strikes Back

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Jeez, you’re old-fashioned, aren’t you?
From the waist up. –Charlotte Rampling and Robert Mitchum, Farewell, My Lovely

This past spring was the first that I’d felt tired and realized that I was growing old.  Maybe it was the rotten weather we had in L.A.  Maybe it was the rotten cases I’d had-mostly chasing a few missing husbands and then chasing their wives, once I’d found them, in order to get paid.  Or maybe it was just the plain fact that I am tired and growing old. –Robert Mitchum, Farewell, My Lovely

I know it’s considered noble to accept an apology, but I’m afraid I’m not the noble type. -Joan Crawford, Female on the Beach

I caught a slight case of decency and it’s gone to my head. -Jeff Chandler, Female on the Beach

I wouldn’t have you if you were hung with diamonds, upside down. –Joan Crawford, Female on the Beach

By the way, when the minister asks if there’s any reason why these two should not be joined in holy matrimony, don’t be surprises if somebody in the back of the room mentions a reason-loud, clear, and unpleasant. –Jan Sterling, Female on the Beach

Be afraid…be very afraid. –The Fly

You are everything I never knew I always wanted. –Fools Rush In

I guess this is where the funny man says, “Shall we dance”. 

You are not a funny man, Captain Pringle, but you are quite a dancer.  What a waltz we had!  Good night. -John Lund and Jean Arthur, A Foreign Affair

Not Anytime Annie!  Say, who could forget her?  She only said ‘no’ once-and then she didn’t hear the question. –George E. Stone, 42^nd Street

All right now, everybody.  Quiet and listen to me.  Tomorrow morning, we’re going to start a show.  We’re going to rehearse for five weeks and we’re going to open on schedule time-and I mean schedule time.  You’re going to work and sweat and work some more.  You’re going to work days, and you’re going to work nights, and you’re going to work between time when I think you need it.  You’re going to dance until your feet fall off and you’re not able to stand up any longer.  But five weeks from now, we’re going to have a show. –Warner Baxter, 42^nd Street

I don’t provoke. -Akim Tamiroff, For Whom the Bell Tolls

I know it’s harder for you.  But now I am you also.  If you go, I go, too.  That’s the only way I can go.  You’re me now.  Surely, you must feel that, Maria.  Remember last night?  Our time is now and it’ll never end.  You’re me now, and I am you.  Now do you understand?  Now, you are going.  And you’re going well and fast and far, and we’ll go to America another time, Maria.  Stand up now and go, and we both go.  Stand up, Maria.  Remember you’re me, too.  You’re all there will ever be of me now.  Stand up.  No.  Stand up.  There’s no goodbye, Maria, because we’re not apart.  Pilar!  No, don’t turn ‘round.  Go now.  Be strong.  Take care of our life. -Gary Cooper, For Whom the Bell Tolls

I was born ugly!  Do you know how to be an ugly woman feels?  Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and to feel that in here you are beautiful? –Katina Paxinou, For Whom the Bell Tolls

I guess when you're used to standing on the outside looking in, you can see a lot of things other people can't. -John Garfield, Four Daughters

A heart can get broken, but it keeps beating just the same. Fried Green Tomatoes

The son of a bitch stole my watch. –Adolphe Menjou, The Front Page

When I get through with you, you’ll look like, well, what do you call beautiful?  A tree?  You’ll look like a tree. -Fred Astaire, Funny Face

That color looks wonderful with your eyes.
Just my right eye.  I hate what it does to the left. -Omar Shariff and Barbara Streisand, Funny Face

Hello, gorgeous. -Barbara Steisand, Funny Face

That’s where I live, on stage. -Barbara Streisand, Funny Face

They’re murderers.  I know the law says they’re not because I’m still alive, but that’s not their fault. -Spencer Tracy, Fury

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Flattery’ll get you anywhere. -Jane Russell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Pardon me, is this the way to Europe, France? –Marilyn Monroe, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

I like a man who can run faster than I can. –Jane Russell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Oh, Judge, I never swear. –Jane Russell, Gentleman Prefer Blondes

Once I tried to let a smile be my umbrella.  I got awful wet. –Celeste Holm, Gentleman’s Agreement

Tell me why it is that every man who seems attractive these days is either married or barred on a technicality? -Celeste Holm, Gentleman’s Agreement

It’s easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. –George Sanders, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Now you will never be tired again.  Come, Lucia.  Come, my dear. –Rex Harrison,  The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

It’s worse than horrible, because a zombie has no will of his own.  You see then sometimes walking around blindly, with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.

You mean like Democrats? -Richard Carlson and Bob Hope, The Ghost Breakers

You ain’t even worth hitting.  Jett, you want to know something true: you’re all through. –Rock Hudson, Giant

Come on, darling, why don’t you kick off your spurs? –Elizabeth Taylor, Giant

And then it happened.  You wound up on the floor, on your back, in the middle of the salad, and I said to myself, “Well, after 100 years, the Benedict family is a real big success”. –Elizabeth Taylor, Giant

It’s always a pleasure to watch the rich enjoy the comforts of the poor. –Hermione Gingold, Gigi

Youth!  Stay close to the young, and a little rubs off. –Maurice Chevalier, Gigi

Every morning you come in yelling, “Rise and Shine!”  I think, “How lucky dead people are!”  But I get up.  I go. -Arthur Kennedy, The Glass Menagerie

Perhaps it was only a transparent piece of glass.  Then all at once, my sister touched my shoulder.  I turned around, and-and looked into her eyes.  Oh, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I'm-I am more faithful than I intended to be. -Arthur Kennedy, The Glass Menagerie

The past is a foreign country.  They do things differently there. –Michael Redgrave, -The Go-Between

I love you now; in half an hour, I'll wonder how I ever got into this.  You have a passion for respectability and I have a horror of loneliness-that's love. -Steven Hill, The Goddess

Leave the gun.  Take the cannolies. –The Godfather

I’m an atheist.  Besides, I’m superstitious. -Porter Hall, Going My Way

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure-especially when you get rid of something you don’t want. –Barry Fitzgerald, Going My Way

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. -Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind

Isn’t it enough that you’ve gathered every other man’s heart today?  You’ve always had mine.  You cut your teeth on it. -Leslie Howard, Gone with the Wind

As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again. -Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind

Here, take my handkerchief.  Never at any crisis of your life have I known you to have a handkerchief. -Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. –Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind

Look at them, all those poor, tragic people.  The South sinking to its knees.  It’ll never rise again.  “The Cause”!  The cause of living in the past is dying right in front of us, Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

I’ll think about it tomorrow. –Vivien Leigh Gone With the Wind

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South.  Here in this patrician world the Age of Chivalry took its last bow.  Here was the last ever seen of the Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and Slave.  Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind… -Gone With the Wind

Oh dear, Yankees in Georgia!  How did they ever get in? –Laura Hope Crews, Gone with the Wind

You get your strength from the red earth of Tara, Scarlet.  You’re part of it, and it’s part of you. –Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind

Tell me, Scarlet, do you never shrink from marrying men you don’t love? –Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind 

Let’s get out of here together.  No use staying here, letting the South come down around your ears.  Too many nice places to go and visit.  Mexico, London, Paris- Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind

Don’t start flirting with me.  I’m not one of your plantation beaus.  I want more than flirting from you.
What do you want?
I’ll tell you, Scarlet O’Hara, if you’ll take that Southern belle simper of your face.  Someday I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: I love you. –Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, Gone with the Wind

No, I don’t think I will kiss you-although you need kissing badly.  That’s what’s wrong with you.  You should be kissed and often and by someone who knows how. –Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind

I’d sell you all my land if I could heal you.
No, I would not let you-for I must die sometime, but the land will be there after me. -Paul Muni and Luise Ranier, The Good Earth

Mrs. Robinson, do you think we could say a few words to each other first this time? -Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate

Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me, aren’t you? –Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate

Mrs. Robinson, if you don’t mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange. –Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate

Maybe we could do something else together.  Mrs. Robinson, would you like to go to a movie? –Dustin Hoffman, The Graduate

I want to be alone. -Great Garbo, Grand Hotel

You can’t discharge me.  I’m my own master for the first time on my life.  You can’t discharge me.  I’m sick.  I’m going to die.  Do you understand?  I’m going to die and nobody can do anything to me anymore. -Lionel Barrymore, Grand Hotel

Believe me, if a man doesn’t know death, he doesn’t know life. -Lionel Barrymore, Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel.  Always the same.  People come.  People go.  Nothing ever happens. –Lewis Stone, Grand Hotel

I’ve got to have more steps.  I need more steps.  I’ve got to get higher.  Higher. -William Powell’s last words, The Great Ziegfeld

Out here due process is a bullet. -John Wayne, The Green Berets  

I’m an old man.  My life is almost over.  Here, with the sunset in my face, it thrills me to see these young people marching on.  Let us drink to youth-to innocent joyous youth. –Charles Coburn. –The Green Years

Joey, this may be the last chance I’ll ever have to tell you to do anything, so I’m telling you: shut up. –Spencer Tracy, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Good afternoon, gentlemen…What’s the name of the game? -Kirk Douglas, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

I never lose.  You see, poker's played by desperate men who cherish money.  I don't lose because I have nothing to lose-including my life. -Kirk Douglas, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 

20,000!  The wages of sin are rising. –Burt Lancaster, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

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Everything is perfect, except for a couple of details.
They hang people for a couple of little details. -William Demarest and Eddie Bracken, Hail the Conquering Hero

Let them dance while they’re young. –The Harmonists

Life was so good in Berlin. –The Harmonists

You know, you never really feel anybody suffering.  You only feel their death. -Art Carney, Harry and Tonto

I seem to have misplaced my buttonhole. –Jimmy Stewart, Harvey

Is he alone?
Well, there’re two schools of thought on that. –Harvey

It’s our dreams, Doctor, that carry us on. –Josephine Hull, Harvey

I’ve been spending my life on flyspecks while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 18^th and Fairfax. –Cecil Kellaway, Harvey

I’ve never heard Harvey say a word against Akron. –Jimmy Stewart, Harvey

My dear, you’re your grandmother all over again.  I was at her funeral. –Harvey

Myrtle Mae, see who the stranger is in the bathtub. –Josephine Hull, Harvey

Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn-and I hope you’ll never learn it. -Josephine Hull, Harvey

Well, I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it. –Jimmy Stewart, Harvey

I do not want to die alone. -Richard Todd, The Hasty Heart

But you tricked and cheated me.  You didn’t give me friendship.  You gave me pity. –Richard Todd, The Hasty Heart

He just swallowed his pride.  It’ll take him a moment or two to digest it. –Patricia Neal, The Hasty Heart

I’ve come and shared a moment with the kings. –Richard Todd, The Hasty Heart

Yes, I can be very cruel.  I have been taught by masters. -Olivia De Havilland, The Heiress

So long.  So long, you ancient pelican. -Regis Tooney, The High and the Mighty

Is it faith or just habit that compels a woman to put on fresh makeup before boarding a life raft? –Paul Kelly, The High and the Mighty

She insisted upon diving into the pool.  And, when she hit the water, the wine hit her. –Frank Sinatra, High Society

He’s not the man for you-I can see that-but I sorta like him.  He’s got a lot of charm.

Well, he comes by it naturally.  His grandfather was a snake. –Ralph Benny and Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday

You’ve got no faith in Johnny, have you Julia?  His little dream may fall flat, you think.  Well, so it may!  What if it should?  There’ll be another. -Katherine Hepburn, Holiday

You’re a disgrace to our family name of Wagstaff if such a thing is possible. –Groucho Marx, Horse Feathers

Why don’t you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out? –Groucho Marx, Horse Feathers

You are king of the Chapel, but I will be queen in my own kitchen.

You will be queen wherever you walk. –Walter Pidgeon, How Green was my Valley

I’ll remember you, honey.  You’re the one that got away. –Paul Newman, Hud

People all over the world have noses.  And to prove that, all you have to do is-to look around the room here.  There are noses-we have noses all over the place-and your nose is one of the funniest parts of the human face, and it’s also a source of embarrassment.  Some people, uh, talk through them.  Most people snore through them.  And some people get punched in them.  A handful whistle and sing through them, generally the amateurs on the radio programs.  Noses have been bitten by mad dogs and movie actors in passionate love scenes.  Doors have been slammed on them, and, uh, they’ve been caught in eggbeaters and electric fans.  The true purpose of the nose is to-to smell what’s in the air…  Some people sniff with the nose at other people’s ideas…One of the most important things about the nose is that it makes trouble, causes wars, breaks up old friendships and wrecks many happy homes.  Now may I go to the track meet, Miss Hicks? –Mickey Rooney, The Human Comedy

Mrs. Kate Macauley
2226 Santa Clare Avenue
Ithaca, California
The War Department regrets you to inform you that your son Marcus... –Frank Morgan, The Human Comedy

I’m tired of playing second fiddle to the ghost of Beethoven. –Joan Crawford, Humoresque

I hate cold showers.  They stimulate me, then I don’t know what to do. –Oscar Levant, Humoresque

Tell me, Mrs. Wright, does you husband interfere with your marriage? –Oscar Levant, Humoresque

Eddie, you’re a born loser. -George C. Scott, The Hustler

Yeah, I sure got character now.  I picked it up in a hotel room in Louisville. -Paul Newman, The Hustler

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I steal. –Paul Muni, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I’ve had hell inside of me, and I can spot it in others. -Lee Marvin, The Iceman Cometh

Oh, Beulah
Yes, ma’am.
Peel me a grape. –Mae West and Gertrude Howard, I’m No Angel 

I was born when you kissed me.  I died when you left me.  I lived for a few days while you loved me. -Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely Place

Hello?  Is that you?  Well, this is Charlie.  I just called you up not to wish you a merry Christmas. –Alan Baxter, In Name Only

What’s wrong with romance-and what’s wrong with illusions as far as that goes, if you can keep them? -Carole Lombard, In Name Only

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind toward some resolution it may never find. -Gene Hackman, I Never Sang for my Father

Frankie!  Frankie!  Your mother forgives me. -Victor McLaglen, The Informe 

You’re drunk, and your last penny is spent, and I have no further use for you, Mr. Gypo Nolan, ipso facto. –J. M. Kerrigan, The Informer

What touches you?  What warms you?  Every man has a dream.  What do you dream about? -Spence Tracy, Inherit the Wind

Hello, Devil.  Welcome to Hell. -Gene Kelly, Inherit the Wind

In a child’s power to master the multiplication table, there is more sanctity than in all your shouted “amens” and “holy holys” and “hosannas”.  An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral, and the advance of man’s knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.  -Spencer Tracy, Inherit the Wind

You ever been in love, Hornbeck?
Only with the sound of my own words, thank God. -Spencer Tracy and Gene Kelly, Inherit the Wind

You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something. -Spencer Tracy, Inherit the Wind

Why should we weep for him?  Because he’s dead?  Because he wept enough for himself during his  lifetime? –Gene Kelly, Inherit the Wind

He’s the only man I know who can strut sitting down. –Gene Kelly, Inherit the Wind

Once in her life, every woman should have that said to her.  I thank you for being the one who said it to me. -Ingrid Bergman, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (On being told she is beautiful)

What is the sixth happiness?
Each person decides in his own heart what the sixth happiness is. -Ingrid Bergman and Athene Seyler, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

I love her-I love her with every fiber of my being, ladies and gentlemen-H.M.S. Torrin. –Bernard Miles, In Which We Serve

…but, first and foremost, I remember Mama. –Barbara BelGeddes, I Remember Mama

Is this for my beauty and talent-or is it payment in advance? -Vanessa Redgrave, Isadora (after receiving diamonds)

I have an extravagant nature.  Surely you've discovered that about me by now. -Vanessa Redgrave, Isadora

Why didn’t you take off all your clothes?  You could have stopped 40 cars. -Clark Gable, It Happened One Night (after Claudette Colbert used her leg, not her thumb, to hitchhike)

I proved, once and for all, that the limb is mightier than the thumb. -Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night

Shapely's the name, and that's the way I like 'em. -Roscoe Karns, It Happened One Night

Listen, partner.  You may not like my nose, but I do.  I always wear it out in the open where if anybody wants to take a sock at it they can do it. –Clark Gable, It Happened One Night

I know you have a civil tongue in your head.  I sewed it there myself. –Whit Bissell, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein

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I like my convictions undiluted; same as I do my bourbon. -George Brent, Jezebel

I seem to have offended the light of love by using a polysyllabic word. -Van Heflin, Johnny Eager

This guy could have climbed the highest mountain in the world-if he’d just started up the right one. -Van Heflin, Johnny Eager

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wax on…wax off… -The Karate Kid

You gave me my first drink, Johnny. -Claire Trevor, Key Largo

You were right.  If your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses. --Humphrey Bogart, Key Largo

Oh, yes, I was afraid, but that’s why I didn’t pull the trigger.  What do I care about Johnny Rocco, whether he lives or dies?  I only care about me.  Me and mine.  If Rocco wants to come back to America let him.  Let him be president.  I fight nobody’s battles but my own. –Humphrey Bogart, Key Largo

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, -Yul Bryner, The King and I

Where’s the rest of me? -Ronald Reagan, Kings Row

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance.
Yeah, but a good line is hard to resist. -Helen Jerome Eddy and Mae West, Klondike Annie

I’m going to tell you something I’ve kept to myself for years.  None of you have ever known George Gipp.  He was long before your time but you all know what a tradition he was at Notre Dame.  And the last thing he said to me, “Rock,” he said, “some time when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they got and win one just for the Gipper.  I don’t know where I’ll be then, Rock,” he said, “but I’ll know about it, and I’ll be happy”. –Pat O’Brien, Knute Rockne

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Let us be crooked but never common. -Charles Coburn, The Lady’s Eve

Boston's not just a city.  It's a state of mind. -Ronald Colman, The Late George Apley

I can afford a blemish on my character but not my clothes. -Vincent Price, Laura

It’s lavish but I call it home. -Clifton Webb, Laura

Very well, I hope you’ll never regret what promises to be a disgustingly earthy relationship.  My congratulations, McPherson.  Listen to my broadcast in 15 minutes.  I’m discussing great lovers of history. –Clifton Webb, Laura

Murder victims have no claim to privacy. –Dana Andrews, Laura

Haven’t you heard of science’s newest triumph-the doorbell? –Clifton Webb, Laura

I shall never forget the weekend Laura died.  A silver sun burned through the sky like a big magnifying glass.  It was the hottest Sunday in my recollection.  I felt as if I were the only human being left in New York.  For, with Laura’s horrible death, I was left all alone.  I, Waldo Lydecker, was the only one who really knew her.  And I had just begun to write Laura’s story when another detective came to see me.  I had him wait. -Clifton Webb, Laura

Do you know what he calls women?  Dames!  A dame in Washington Heights got a fox fur coat out of him.  His very words. –Clifton Webb, Laura

I don’t use a pen.  I write with a quill dipped in venom. –Clifton Webb, Laura

There’s no crying in baseball. –A League of Their Own

I don’t understand this conversation at all.  How drunk am I? -Paul Douglas, A Letter to Three Wives

Let me tell you all about making men strong: Einstein couldn’t kick a football across this dance floor, but he changed the shape of the universe. –Kirk Douglas, A Letter to Three Wives

Do you know what I like about you program?  Even when I’m running the vacuum, I can understand it. –Thelma Ritter, A Letter to Three Wives

With all my heart, I still love the man I killed. -Bette Davis, The Letter

I absolutely must see you.  I am desperate, and if you don’t come, I won’t answer for the consequences. -James Stephenson, The Letter

If the rest of one's life were only a-a few days or a few hours, would that be enough to justify love? -Fredric March, The Letter

Whose law?  We’re on our own here.  We can make our own law here. -John Hodiak, Lifeboat

What good’s a hep cat with one gam missing?  If my leg goes, Rosie goes. -William Bendix, Lifeboat

You've been all over the world, and you've met all kinds of people-but you never write about them.  You only write about yourself.  You think this whole war's a show put on for you to cover like a Broadway play, and, if enough people die before the last act, maybe you might give it four stars. -John Hodiak, Lifeboat

Some of my best friends are…Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat

Well, from all I’ve heard about heaven, it seems to be a pretty unbusinesslike place.  They could probably use a good man like me. -William Powell, Life with Father

Madam, I am the character of my home. -William Powell, Life with Father

Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats? -William Powell, Life with Father

Oh, Gad! –William Powell, Life With Father

Until you stirred him up, I had no trouble with God. –William Powell, Life with Father

Nobody with a dream should come to Italy.  No matter how dead or buried the dream is thought to be, in Italy it will rise and walk again. –Light in the Piazza

I haven’t got a thing to lose.  That makes me dangerous. –Jane Merrow, The Lion in Winter

What is there to fight for?  Everything!  Life itself!  Isn’t that enough?  To be lived, suffered, enjoyed.  What is there to fight for?  Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing-even to a jellyfish. -Charlie Chaplin, Limelight

What do you want a meaning for?  Life is a desire, not a meaning.  Desire is the theme of all life! -Charlie Chaplin, Limelight

Somehow I knew it would work out that way.  Time is the great author.  It always writes the perfect ending. –Charlie Chaplin, Limelight

I agree with Alexandra: what was a man in a wheelchair doing on a staircase?  I ask myself that. –Charles Dingle, The Little Foxes

Can everyone stop getting shot! –Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Well, life is very long and full of salesmanship, Miss Clara.  You might buy something yet. -Paul Newman, The Long Hot Summer

Never say never. -Paul Newman, The Long, Hot Summer

All right, then run, lady-and you keep on running.  Buy yourself a bus ticket and disappear.  Change your name.  Dye your hair.  Get lost.  And then maybe-just maybe-you’re gonna be safe from me. –Paul Newman, The Long, Hot Summer

Yes, sir, they’re gonna say, “There goes that poor old Clara Varner whose father married her off to a dust-scratching, shiftless, no-good farmer who just happened by.”  Well, let ‘em talk.  I’ll tell you one thing: you’re gonna wake up in the morning, smiling. –Paul Newman, The Long, Hot Summer

Here is my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La.  Here is my hope that we all find our Shangri-La. –Hugh Buckner, Lost Horizon

Most men lead lives of “quiet desperation”.  I can’t take “quiet desperation”. -Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend

To love is to suffer.  To avoid suffering, one must not love, but then one suffers from not loving.  Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer.  To be happy is to love, to be happy then is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore to be unhappy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.  I hope you’re getting this down… -Love and Death

Darling, whatever happens, always remember: nothing is fair or unfair under heaven. -William Holden, Love is a Many Splendored Thing

…life’s greatest tragedy is not to be loved. -William Holden, Love is a Many Splendored Thing

We have not missed, you and I-we have not missed that many splendored thing. -William Holden, Love is a Many Splendored Thing

Mark, there is an old Chinese proverb: “Do not wake a sleeping tiger”.

Certainly not in a small boat. –Jennifer Jones and William Holden, Love is a Many Splendored Thing

Why anyone would want to live anywhere but Hong Kong I can’t understand.  Where else in the world could you get ten servants for the price of one? –Isobel Elsom, Love is Many Splendored Thing

You know, Richie, the best thing about the past is you forget what it was that would have made you happy. –Richard Castellano, Lovers and Other Strangers

So what’s the story? –Richard Castellano, Lovers and Other Strangers

Look, I don’t want anybody pointing to me and Joan in a couple if years, telling some miserable story ending with, “But they’re still together”. –Joseph Hindy,  Lovers and Other Strangers

Darling Toby,
It’s a lovely story, but it hasn’t got an ending.  It would be marvelous with an ending. –Leslie Caron, The L-Shaped Room

It doesn’t seem a sad death.
Oh, but it’s not, Sister.  It happens in the bright daylight, the sun flooding everything in a light of pure gold. –Kirk Douglas, Lust for Life

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Why don’t you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? –Robert Benchly, The Major and the Minor

I believe there are two things necessary to salvation…Money and gunpowder. -Robert Morley, Major Barbara

My religion?  My dear, I’m a millionaire.  That’s my religion. –Robert Morley, Major Barbara

Here’s to our house
Through sunshine or showers,
Be it ever so humble,
By golly, it’s ours. –Ray Mayer, Make Way for Tomorrow

Our words, our lives, our pain, nothing!  The taking of our lives, the lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler, all!  That last moment belongs to us-that agony is our triumph. -Henry Fonda, The Male Animal

I want what everybody wants.  I want the Red Sox to win the World Series. –Malice

Yes, angel, I’m gonna send you over. -Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon

We didn’t really believe your story, Miss O’Shaughnessy.  We believed your $200. -Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon

Let’s talk about the black bird. -Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon

It’s heavy.  What is it?
The, er, stuff that dreams are made of.
Huh? -Ward Bond and Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon

You’re good.  You’re very good. -Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon

The chances are you’ll get off with life.  That means if you’re a good girl, you’ll be out in 20 years.  I’ll be waiting for you.  If they hang you, I’ll always remember you. -Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon

Well, if you get a good break, you'll be out of Tehchapi in twenty years and you can come back to me then.  I hop they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. -Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon

You won’t need much of anybody’s help.  You’re good.  It’s chiefly your eyes, I think, and that throb you get in your voice when you say things life, “Be generous, Mr. Spade”. –Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon 

Well, Wilmer, I’m sorry indeed to lose you, but I want you to know I couldn’t be fonder of you if you were my own son.  Well, if you lose a son, it’s possible to get another.  There’s only one Maltese falcon. –Sydney Greenstreet, The Maltese Falcon

Here’s to plain speaking and clear understanding. –Sydney Greenstreet, The Maltese Falcon

When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it. –Humphrey Bogart, The Maltese Falcon

Veram my old, old, old friend. -Lucille Ball, Mame

I never dated Carlo.  I married him.  I never dated him. -Beatrice Arthur, Mame

Every day, up at the crack of noon. –Lucille Ball, Mame

I opened a new window. –Jane Connell, Mame

Why are you doing this?
Because life, my dear, is more than just freezing toads. –The Manhattan Project

This aging debutante, Mr. Jefferson, I retain in my employ only because she is the sole support of her two-headed brother. -Monty Woolley, The Man who Came to Dinner

If you ever come to New York, Doctor, try and find me. –Monty Wooley, The Man Who Came to Dinner

Would you take your clammy hand off my chair?  You have the touch of a love-starved cobra. –Monty Woolley, The Man Who Came to Dinner

Strange?  She’s  right out of The Hound of the Baskervilles. –Monty Woolley, The Man Who Came to Dinner

I think he’s upset.  We didn’t order enough.
Shall we cheer him up?  Waiter!  Do you have any rooms? –Anouk Aimee and Jean-Louis Trintignant, A Man and a Woman

Mr. Whiteside, if Florence Nightingale had ever nursed you, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross.  Good Day! –Mary Wickes, The Man Who Came to Dinner

Come to my room in a half-hour, and bring some rye bread. –Jimmy Durante, The Man Who Came to Dinner

What do you feel like doing tonight?
I don’t know, Ange.  What do you feel like doing? –Joe Mantell and Ernest Borgnine, Marty

Frank, were you on this religious kick at home or did you crack up over here? –Donald Sutherland, M*A*S*H

We older men supply the champagne-but, when youth sings, the old fool stays home and pays the piper. –Lionel Barrymore, Mata Hari

Why else should his grandfather have sent me, as an engagement gift, one roller skate covered with thousand island dressing? -Claudette Colbert, Midnight

Who the hell do you think you’re dealing with?  In case you didn’t happen to notice it, you big Texas, longhorn bull, I’m one helluvah gorgeous chick. –Sylvia Miles, Midnight Cowboy

And I’ll tell you another thing: frankly, you’re beginning to smell-and, for a stud in New York, that’s a handicap. –Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy

Hey, I’m walking here!  I’m walking here! –Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy

Personally, Veda’s convinced me that alligators have the right idea.  They eat their young.  -Eve Arden, Mildred Pierce

Mildred! -Zachary Scott, Mildred Pierce

Veda, I think I’m really seeing you for the first time in my life-and you’re cheap and horrible. -Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce

I always knew that someday we’d come to this particular moment in the theme of things.  You want Veda and your business and a nice quiet life, and the price of all that is me.  You can go back to making your pies now, Mildred.  We’re through. –Zachary Scott, Mildred Pierce

I can’t afford you, Mildred.  You have money and I haven’t.  All I have is pride and name, and I can’t sell either. –Zachary Scott, Mildred Pierce

I loaf-but in a decorative and highly charming manner. –Zachary Scott, Mildred Pierce

With me, loafing is a science. –Zachary Scott, Mildred Pierce

You look down on me because I work for a living, don’t you?  You always have.  All right, I work.  I cook food and sell it and make a profit on it-which, I might point out, you’re not too proud to share with me. –Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce

How do you find your way back in the dark?
Just head for that big star straight on.  The highway’s under it.  It’ll take us right home. -Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, The Misfits

…Right now, I’m looking at something that’s hanging over my desk: a preposterous hunk of brass attached to the most bilious piece if ribbon I’ve ever seen.  I’d rather have it then the Congressional Medal of Honor.  It tells me what I’ll always be proudest of-that, at a time in the world when courage counted most, I lived among 62 brave men… -Jack Lemmon, Mister Roberts

Did I ever tell you about the time he over-whelmed a 45-year-old maiden by the simple tactic of being the first man in her life to ask her a direct question? -Henry Fonda, Mister Roberts

Captain, it is I-Ensign Pulver-and I just threw your stinking palm tree overboard.  Now, what’s all this crud about no movie tonight? -Jack Lemmon, Mister Roberts

The drama is done.  All have departed away. -Richard Basehart, Moby Dick

Choose any path you please and tend to one that carries you down to water.  There’s a magic in water that draws all men away from the land, that leads them over the hills down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea-the sea where each man, as in a mirror, finds himself. –Richard Basehart, Moby Dick

Well, you can’t expect a moustache to go around by itself.  Don’t you think a moustache gets lonely, Captain? -Groucho Marx, Monkey Business

Oh, I realize it’s a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I’ve worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. –Groucho Marx, Monkey Business

Oh, why can’t we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hill?  I mean flee to my lodge in the hills. –Groucho Marx, Monkey Business

That’s what I always say.  Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo. –Groucho Marx, Monkey Business

And the Lord spoke, saying, “First shall thou take out thy Holy Pin.  Then, thou shalt count to three, no more, no less.  Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three.  Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou proceed to three.  Five is right out!  One the number three, being the third number be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch toward thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it”. Monty Python and the Holy Gral

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate? - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

We’re knights of the round table, We dance wherever we’re able, We do routines and chorus scenes, With footwork impeccable.  We dine well here in Camelot.  We eat ham and jam and spam a lot. –Monty Python and the Holy Grail

What are you, then?
I’m French.  Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king! –Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries! –Monty Python and the Holy Grail

You tit!  I soiled my armor!  I was so scared! –Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Would you try to seduce me? –Maggie McNamara, The Moon is Blue

Don’t you think it’s better for a girl to be preoccupied with sex than occupied? –Maggie McNamara, The Moon is Blue

Hand me that section, will ya’?  I want to see if anybody I know is being born today.  Hey, listen to this: Born today to Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Pendergast, a son.  Mrs. Pendergast, the former Constance Milligan, is doing nicely.  Mr. Pendergast is doing alright, too.  He gets $8,600 a year.  The baby arrived 3 minutes ahead of schedule, so Mr. Pendergast refused delivery. -Charles Coburn, The More the Merrier

Damn the torpedoes!  Full steam ahead! –Charles Colburn, The More the Merrier

I should think loneliness would be unknown to a beautiful woman. -Jose Ferrer, Moulin Rouge

Don’t cry.  The damned don’t cry. -Michael Redgrave, Mourning Becomes Electra

She's their star reporter on the Mail!  Every time you opened your kisser, you gave here another story.  She's the dame who slapped that moniker on you!  Cinderella Man!  You've been making love to a double dose of cyanide.  Lionel Stander, Mr. Deed Goes to Town

A glorified doormat. –Lionel Stander, Mr. Deeds Goes to Tow

Now, just one more question.  You see the judge here?  He’s a nice man, isn’t he?…Do you think he’s pixilated? –Gary Cooper, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Job says that a woman is beautiful only when she is loved. -Bette Davis, Mr. Skeffington

I've married you, Fanny, but I haven't won you. -Claude Rains, Mr. Skeffington

I will be very happy every moment that I have him.  Every moment.  If I must lose him, they’ll be time enough for tears.  There’ll be a lifetime for tears. –Teresa Williams. –Mrs. Miniver

…either I’m dead or I’m crazy.

You wouldn’t care to put that to a vote, would you, Senator? -Jimmy Stewart and Grant Mitchell, Mr. Smith goes to Washington

Not a beautiful face, but a good face. -Dick Powell, Murder, My Sweet

Phillip Marlowe-name for a duke.  You're just a nice mug. -Claire Trevor, Murder, My Sweet

I caught the blackjack behind my ear.  A black pool opened up at my feet.  I dived in.  It had no bottom. –Dick Powell, Murder, My Sweet

It was a nice little front yard.  Cozy.  Okay for the average family.  Only you’d need a compass to go to the mailbox.  The house was all right, too.  But it wasn’t as big as Buckingham Palace. –Dick Powell, Murder, My Sweet

Nothing lost, Mr. Christian. -Dudley Diggs, Mutiny on the Bounty

I’ll take my chance against the law.  You’ll take yours against the sea. -Clark Gable, Mutiny on the Bounty

From now on, they spell mutiny with my name. -Clark Gable, Mutiny on the Bounty

Casting me adrift 3,500 miles from a port of call!  You’re sending me to my doom, eh?  Well, you’re wrong, Christian.  I’ll take this boat, as she floats, to England if I must.  I’ll live to see you-all of you-hanging from the highest yardarm in the British fleet. –Charles Laughton, Mutiny on the Bounty

To the voyage of the Bounty!  Still waters and the great golden sea.  Flying fish like streaks of silver, and mermaids that sing in the might.  The Southern Cross and all the stars on the other side of the world. –Franchot Tone, Mutiny on the Bounty

I’ll give you water, Mr. Morrison, keel haul this man. –Charles Laughton, Mutiny on the Bounty

Mack, you ever been in love?

No, I've been a bartender all my life. -Henry Fonda and J. Farrell MacDonald, My Darling Cleminentine

Be dangerous, unpredictable, and make a lot of noise. –My Girl

Oh, by the way, how was my funeral? -Irene Dunn, My Favorite Wife

That's my nature, Godfrey.  I never say anything behind your back that I wouldn't say in public. -Alice Brady, My Man Godfrey

Stand still, Godfrey.  It’ll all be over in a minute. –Carole Lombard, My Man Godfrey

Why don’t you stop imitating a gorilla and imitate a man? –Eugene Pallette, My Man Godfrey

Confess it, you’ve been hermetically sealed most of your life. -George Brent, My Reputation

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Television is not the truth.  Television is a goddamn amusement park.  Television is a circus, a carnival, and a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players.  We’re in the boredom killing business. -Peter Finch, Network

And it’s a happy ending.  Wayward husband comes to his senses, returns to his wife with whom he’s established a long and sustaining love.  Heartless young woman left alone in her arctic desolation.  Music up with a swell.  Final commercial.  And here are a few scenes from next week’s show. -William Holden, Network

Good morning, Mr. Beale.  They tell me you’re a madman. -Ned Beatty, Network

The only reality she knows comes to her from over the TV set.  She’s very carefully devised a number of scenarios for each of us to play, like Movie of the Week.  Well, my God!  Look at us, Louise.  Here we are going through the obligatory middle-of-Act-Two scorned-wife-throws-peccant-husband-out-scene.  But don’t worry.  I’ll come back to you in the end.  All of her plot outlines have me leaving her and coming back to you because the audience won’t buy a rejection of the happy American family.  She does have one script in which I kill myself-an adapted for television version of Anna Karenina-where she’s Count Vronsky and I’m Anna. –William Holden, Network

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like at this time to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks time because of poor ratings.  Since this show was the only thing going for me I had in my life, I have decided to ill myself.  I’m going to blow my brains out right on this program a week from today. –Peter Finch, Network

I am troubled with insomnia.
Well, I know a good cure for it.
Yeah?
Get plenty of sleep. –John Lipson and W.C. Fields, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 

I don’t mind being killed, but I resent hearing it from a character whose head comes to a point. -Groucho Marx, A Night in Casablanca

I respect anybody who has to fight and howl for his decency. -Deborah Kerr, The Night of the Iguana

There are worse things than chastity, Mr. Shannon.
Yes, lunacy and death. –Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton, The Night of the Iguana

I thought you were sexless, but you’ve suddenly turned into a woman.  Do you know how I know that?  Because you, not me, are taking pleasure in my being tied up.  All women, whether they want to face it our not, want to see men in a tied-up situation.  They spend their lives trying to get a man into a tied-up situation.  Their lives are fulfilled when they can a man-or as many men as they can-into a tied-up situation. –Richard Burton, The Night of the Iguana

How can a guy get so low?
He reached too high.  Good night, boys.  Lock up. -(workmen) and Roy Roberts, Nightmare Alley

Listen to me.  I'm no good-I never pretended to be-but I love you.  I'm a hustler-I've always been one-but I love you.  I may be the thief of the world, but with you I've always been on the level. -Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley

What a funny look on your face, dear.  Smiling like that.  You look so kind.  What are you going to do with that- -May Whitty, Night Must Fall

That was restful.  Again. -Greta Garbo, Ninotchka

I do not deny it’s beauty, but it’s a waste of electricity. –Greta Garbo, Ninotchka

But, darling, we won’t have to worry about our future if you’re willing to raffle off your past. –Melvyn Douglas, Ninotchka

The picture takes place in Paris in those wonderful days when a siren was a brunette and not an alarm-and if a Frenchman turned out the light it was not on account of an air raid. –Ninotchka

Oh, no, no, no, my little Volga boatman.  Have you forgotten our first Commandment?  Never complain, never explain.  Now it’s worked so often and so perfectly in the past, let’s not break the rule. –Ina Claire, Ninotchka

I must have a complete report of your negotiations and a detailed expense account.

No, no, Ninotchka.  Don’t ask for it.  There is an old Turkish proverb that says “If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?”

And there is an old Russian saying that “The cat who has cream on his whiskers had better find a good excuse”. –Greta Garbo, Ninotchka

Oh, dear me.  I must be losing my finesse.  If I’m not careful, I’ll be understood by everybody. –Ina Claire, Ninotchka

You gentlemen aren’t really trying to kill my son, are you? –Jessie Royce Landis, North by Northwest

Good-bye.  Remember me as someone who made you very happy.  I have enjoyed everything.  There is only one thing left to enjoy-your river that smiles outside of my window.  It is easy to die when the heart is full of gratitude. -Troy Brown, Nothing Sacred

It’s kind of startling to be brought to life twice-and each time in Warsaw. -Carole Lombard, Nothing Sacred

Oh, let me alone.  I wish I really could die, go someplace by myself and-and die alone, like an elephant. –Carole Lombard, Nothing Sacred

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Don’t point that finger at me unless you intend to use it. -Walter Matthau, The Odd Couple

There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne. -Bette Davis, Old Acquaintance

Man is not made for defeat.  Man can be destroyed but not defeated. -Spencer Tracy, The Old Man and the Sea

She tries to read my mind, and if she can't read my mind, she reads my mail. -Walter Slezak, Once Upon a Honeymoo

They was giving me 10,000 watts a day, and, you know, I’m hot to trot.  The next woman takes me out is going to light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars. –Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoos’ Nest

There Is Still Time…Brother. –On the Beach

I coulda had class!  I coulda been a contender!  I coulda been somebody! -Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront

You’re dead on this waterfront and every waterfront from Boston to New Orleans.  You don’t drive a truck or a cab.  You don’t push a baggage rack.  You don’t work no place.  You’re dead. –Lee J. Cobb, On the Waterfront

Looks happy, don’t he?  He just needed exercise.  Whenever he gets low in spirits or confused in mind, he doesn’t feel right until he’s had a fight.  It doesn’t matter whether he wins or not.  He feels fine again afterward. -Henry Morgan, The Ox-bow Incident

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I do not like to be interrupted in the middle of an insult. -Charles Laughton, The Paradine Case

Physical Ed?  Who's he? -Spencer Tracy, Pat and Mike

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances. - Patto

Be seated.  Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.  He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.  Men, all this stuff you heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out of the war, is a lot of horse-dung.  Americans, traditionally, love to fight.  All real Americans love the sting of battle.  When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble-shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ballplayer, the toughest boxer.  Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.  Americans play to win all the time.  I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for as man who lost and laughed.  That’s why Americans have never lost—and never will lose-a war, because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. –George C. Scott, Patton

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. -Patton

How about coming up to my place for a spot of heavy breathing. –Walter Matthau, Pete ‘n’ Tillie

You know, they were-they were right.  Gabrielle.  The start I mean.  I had to come all this way to find a reason. -Leslie Howard, The Petrified Forest

Well, you’d better come with me, Duke.  I’m planning to be buried in the Petrified Forest.  You know, I’ve been evolving a theory about that that would interest you.  It’s the graveyard of the civilization that’s shot out from under us, the world of outmoded ideas.  They’re all so many dead stumps in the desert.  That’s where I belong-and so do you, Duke.  You’re the last great apostle of rugged individualism. -Leslie Howard, The Petrified Forest

Living, I’m worth nothing to her.  But dead, I can buy her the tallest cathedrals, golden vineyards, and dancing in the street.  One well-directed bullet will accomplish all that.  And it’ll earn a measure of reflected glory for him that fired it.  This document will be my ticket to immortality.  It’ll inspire people to say of me, “There was an artist who dies before his time”. Will you do it, Duke? –Leslie Howard, The Petrified Forest

We were just playing a little game called Photography.  You turn out the lights and see what develops. -Barry Coe, Peyton Place

To hardly know him is to know him well. -Cary Grant, The Philadelphia Story

I don't want to be worshipped.  I want to be loved. -Katherine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story

Not interested in yourself?  You're fascinated, Red.  You're far and away your favorite person in the world. -Cary Grant, The Philadelphia Story

Strength is her religion, Mr. Connor.  She finds human imperfection unforgivable. –Cary Grant, The Philadelphia Story

Not anything.  Don’t say anything-and especially not “darling”. –Katherine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story

No mean Machiavellian is smiling, cynical Sidney Kidd.  The world’s his oyster, with an R in every month. –Cary Grant, The Philadelphia Story

I understand we understand each other. –Henry Daniell, The Philadelphia Story

What’s the use, baby?  I’m a bum.  She saw through me like an X-ray machine.  There’s no place in the world for a guy like me. -William Holden, Picnic

I can’t send you flowers, baby, but I can send you. -Nick Adams, Picnic

Baby, what you do! -William Holden, Picnic

I get so tired of just being told I’m pretty. –Kim Novak, Picnic

We suffer for what the gods give us, and I’m afraid Dorian Gray will pay for his good looks. -Lowell Gilmore, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I have all I need here: drink and drugs and no friends.  I had too many friends. -Morton Lowry, The Picture of Dorian Gray

To get back my youth, I’d do anything in the world, except get up early in the morning, take exercise, or be respectable. -George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I apologize for the intelligence of my remarks, Sir Thomas.  I had forgotten that you were a member of Parliament. -George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I adore simple pleasures.  They’re the last refuge of the complex. -George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

What the gods give, they quickly take away.  Time is jealous of you, Mr. Gray.  Don’t squander the gold of your days.  Live.  Let nothing be lost upon you.  Be afraid of nothing.  There’s such a little time that your youth will last.  You can never get it back. -George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

To regain one's youth, one had merely to repeat one's follies. -George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I like persons better than principles-and persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. –George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I sent my soul through the invisible
Some letter of that after-life to spe
And by and by my soul returned to me
And answered, ‘I myself am Heaven and
Hell’ –The Picture of Dorian Gray (from The Rubaiyat)

Most people die of a sort of creepy common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. –George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

There’s no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray.  All influence is immoral. –George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

It’s an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.  It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world. –George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

You should look upon this tragedy as an episode in the wonderful spectacle of life.  What is it that has really happened?  Someone has killed herself for love of you.  I do wish that I had had such an experience.  That women who have admired me-and there have been some-have always insisted on living on long after I have ceased to care for them or they for me. –George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

When a man says he has exhausted life, you may be sure life has exhausted him. –George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

As we grow older, our memories are haunted by the exquisite temptations we haven’t the courage to yield to.  The world is yours for a season.  It would be tragic if you realized too late, as so many others do, that there’s only one thing in the world worth having-and that is youth. –George Sanders, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Love isn’t an opinion.  It’s, it’s a chemical reaction.  We’ve never even kissed-well, they didn’t hit the moon with the first missile they shot either .

Oh, Jonathan, I guess that’s what I want: to hit the moon. –Tony Randall and Doris Day, Pillow Talk

He’s like a spider, and he expects me to redecorate his web. –Doris Day, Pillow Talk

Ah, that woman has the taste of a water buffalo.
Well, then why do business with her?
Because she happens to be a very rich water buffalo. –Marcel Dalio and Doris Day, Pillow Talk

Hannah Eastman
Bethel Independent Mission
Kansas City, Mo,
Mother, I am convicted. –Montgomery Clift, A Place in the Su

George, I’m in trouble-real trouble, I think. –Shelley Winters, A Place in the Sun

Did you ever hear a rhinoceros in labor? –Fred Astaire, The Pleasure of his Company

You see, Mr. Scott, in the water I’m a very skinny lady. –Shelley Winters, The Poseidon Adventure

I’m sorry, Louise.  You watch temperatures go down and then go up again.  In love, there are no relapses.  Once you’re out of it, the fever never comes back again. –Van Heflin, Possessed

I just can't go back to being on the outside of people's lives, looking in.
Louise, we're all on the outside of other people's lives, looking in.  You wouldn't like being on the inside of my life, anyway.  There's-there's nothing there but a few mathematical equations and a lot of question marks. -Joan Crawford and Van Heflin, Possessed

Your love affair with yourself has reached heroic proportions.  It's doesn't seem to leave much room for me.  Are you sure you can't get along without someone to help you admire yourself? -Joan Crawford, Possessed

Making love to the piano-one of my more attractive minor accomplishments. –Van Heflin, Possessed

All of which doesn’t answer my question.  Will you marry me?  I’m aging visibly, Raymond Massey, Possessed

Smells wonderful!  Why do they still make perfumes like “Bouquet de Fleur” as if things still happened in flower gardens?  Now if they turned out something like “Wet Hair After Swimming”, you’d have something. –Van Heflin, Possessed

You are one UGLY Motherfucker! –Arnold Schwarzenegger, Predator

Oh, you mistake me, my dear.  I have the highest respect for your nerves.  I have heard you mention them with consideration for the last 20 years. –Edmund Gwenn, Pride and Prejudice

Oh, if you really want to be refined you have to be dead.  There’s no one so dignified as a mummy. -Greer Garson, Pride and Prejudice

I didn’t betray you.  I simply put a stop to you. -Pamela Franklin, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

I expect this is to be your gift, Sandy-to kill without concern. –Maggie Smith, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Never trust somebody, love somebody, or need anybody so much that you can't betray them with a smile.  That is the paradox of power. -Montagu Love, The Prince and the Pauper

We hate the people who love us because they’re the only ones who can hurt us. -Samuel S. Hinds, Private Worlds

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. -Robert Montgomery, Private Lives

Have you lost your mind?  How can you “kill the actors”?  What do you mean, “kill the actors”?  Actors are not animals.  They’re human beings.

They are?  Have you ever eaten with one? -Zero Mostel, The Producers

A week?  Are you kidding?  This play has got to close on page 4. -Zero Mostel, The Producers

We find the defendants incredibly guilty. -(The Jury Foreman), The Producers

Leo, he who hesitates is poor. –Zero Mostel, The Producers

You think you’re not in prison now, living in a gray little room, going to a gray little job, leading a gray little life. –Zero Mostel, The Producers

That’s exactly why we want to produce this play: to show the world the true Hitler-the Hitler you love, the Hitler you knew, the Hitler with a song in his heart. –Zero Mostel, The Producers

Hmmm.  Amazing.  It’s absolutely amazing, but, under the right circumstances, a producer could make more money with a flop than he could with a hit.  Hmmm.  Yes, it’s quite possible.  If he was certain that the show would fail, a man could make a fortune. –Gene Wilder, The Producers

How could this happen?  I was so careful.  I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast.  Where did I go right? –Zero Mostel, The Producers

Ezekiel 25:17 –Pulp Fiction

Where are you going?
To the river.
What for?
To make a hole in it. –David tree and Wendy Hiller, Pygmalion

Q

I have been memorizing this room.  In the future, in my memory, I shall live a great deal in this room. -Greta Garbo, Queen Christina

He’ll regret it to his dying day-if ever he lives that long. –Victor McLaglen, The Quiet Man

They have given you a new title, Divinity: Incendiary. -Leo Genn, Quo Vadis

Doors will open beyond which I shall catch a glimpse of the unknown.  Let it be wonderful or let it be awful so long as it is uncommon. -Peter Ustinov, Quo Vadis

I am aware that I must compete with those who sang at the burning of Troy.  MY song must be greater, just as Rome is greater than Troy. –Peter Ustinov, Quo Vadis

No face on this one at all.  Oh, look.  There’s another one smiling.  It’s monstrous of them to die smiling.  It’s inhuman. –Peter Ustinov, Quo Vadis

Petronius?  Dead?  By his own hand?  I don’t believe it…I shall never forgive him for this.  Never.  Without my permission?  It’s rebellion!  It’s blasphemy! –Peter Ustinov, Quo Vadis

Among the gods, your humor is unique. –Leo Genn, Quo Vadis

No mob ever wants justice.  They want vengeance. –Peter Ustinov, Quo Vadis

R

One day that looking glass’ll be the man who loves you.  It’ll be his eyes maybe.  And you’ll look in that mirror and you’ll be more than pretty.  You’ll be beautiful. -Burt Lancaster, The Rainmaker

You gotta take my deal because once in life you got to take a chance on a con man.  You gotta take my deal because there’s dying cattle that might pick up and live.  Because a hundred bucks is only a hundred bucks, but rain in a dry season is a sight to behold!  You gotta take my deal because it’s gonna be a hot night and the world goes crazy on a hot night and maybe that’s what a hot night is for. -Burt Lancaster, The Rainmaker

Rain! -Burt Lancaster, The Rainmaker

Pride!  I ran out of that a long time ago.  I just want to be a woman. –Katherine Hepburn, The Rainmaker

No, I gotta be Lizzie. Melisande is a name for one night, but Lizzie can do me my whole life long. –Katherine Hepburn, The Rainmaker

This is DEFINITELY not my underwear… -Raymond Babbitt, Rain Man

If I live to be 100, I will never understand why any young man would come to Paris without evening clothes. -Clifton Webb, The Razor’s Edge

I've always been a man of the world.  There's no reason why I should forget my manners as I am leaving it. -Clifton Webb, The Razor's Edge

Mr. Elliott Templeton regrets he cannot accept Princess Novemali’s kind invitation owing to a previous engagement with his Blessed Lord.  The old witch! –Clifton Webb, The Razor’s Edge

You know, I’ve never been able to understand why, when there’s so much space in the world, people should deliberately choose to live in the Middle East. –Clifton Webb, The Razor’s Edge

It's gone forever, that funny, young, lost look I loved.  It won't ever come back.  I killed that when I told you about Rebecca.  It's gone.  In a few hours, you've grown so much older. -Laurence Olivier, Rebecca

And another thing.  Please promise me never to wear black satin or pearls, or to be 36 years old. -Laurence Olivier, Rebecca

I repeat what I said: either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderlay with me.

You mean you want a secretary or something?
I’m asking you to marry me, you little fool. –Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, Rebecca

You shoulda let ‘em kill me cause I’m gonna kill you.  I’ll catch up with you.  I don’t know when, but I’ll catch up.  And every time you turn around, expect to see me, because one time you’ll turn around and I’ll be there.  I’ll kill you, Matt. –John Wayne, Red River

Put on the red shoes, Vicky, and dance for us again. -Anton Walbrook, The Red Shoes

Take off the red shoes. -Moira Shearer’s dying words, The Red Shoes

She cut off her nipples with garden shears.  You call that normal? –Elizabeth Taylor, Reflections in a Golden Eye

We just won’t tell anyone we ate the Howells. –Rescue from Gilligan’s Island

I'm hungry. Let's get a taco. –Reservoir Dogs

If you love me, you’ll let me eat your brains. –The Return of the Living Dead

They’re not going to torture me.  It hurts. –Bob Hope, Road to Bali

Sadie Thompson Slept Here. –Road to Bali

I’ll take lemonade-in a dirty glass. -Bob Hope, Road to Utopia

He used to be a big shot. -Gladys George, The Roaring Twenties

I told you we’d meet up sometime when you didn’t have no stripes on your sleeve and here we are. –Humphrey Bogart, The Roaring Twenties

Don’t you notice the beautiful calm in the atmosphere?  That’s because this is the last harbor.  No one here has to worry about where they’re going next because they can go no further. -Robert Ryan, Robert Ryan

Losers always whine about their best.  Winners go home and fuck the prom queen. –Sean Connery, The Rock

We’ve decided on a white wedding, in spite of the circumstances. –Ambrosine Philpotts, Room at the Top

People who are very beautiful make their own laws. -Vivien Leigh, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Rose?
How did you know my name?
What other name could it be? -Ben Cooper and Marissa Pavan, The Rose Tattoo

The Russians are coming!  The Russians are coming!  The Russians are coming! -Ben Blue, The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming

S

Don’t you know I can see a great deal farther than you can?  I can see intangible things. -For example, innocence. -Vaughan Glaser, Saboteur

Major, the big brass are going to yell their heads off about this, and the Japanese aren’t going to like it much either.  Have you got anything to say to them, sir?

Yeah. Tell ‘em we said sayonara. -Miiko Taka and Marlon Brando, Sayonara

Have a drink-just a little one to lessen the difference in our characters. -Noel Coward, The Scoundrel

My strength justifies me, Mr. Van Weyden-the fact that I can kill you or let you live as I choose, the fact that I control the destinies of all on board this ship, the fact that it is my will and my will alone that rules here.  That’s justification enough. –Edward G. Robinson, The Sea Wolf

Cheeriebye. –David Niven, Separate Tables

This is where we change cars, Alvin.  The end of the line. -George Tobias, Sergeant York

I wouldn’t have you as a Christmas tree, Alvin York. –Joan Leslie, Sergeant York

His name is Peter Gay.  He’s the apostle of a new religion, called swing. –James Mason, The Seventh Veil

It’s just my imagination.  Some people have flat feet.  Some people have dandruff.  I have this appalling imagination. -Tom Ewell, The Seven Year Itch

Didn’t you just love the picture?  I did.  But I just felt so sorry for the creature at the end.
Sorry for the creature?  What did you want?  Him to marry the girl?
He was kinda scary-looking, but he wasn’t really all bad.  I think he just craved a little affection-you know, a sense of being loved and needed and wanted. –Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, The Seven Year Itch

What happened at the office?  Well, I shot Mr. Brady in the head, made violent love to Miss Morris and set fire to 300,000 copies of Little Women.  That’s what happened at the office. –Tom Ewell, The Seven Year Itch

…love that overthrows life. –Shakespeare in Love

…riot in the heart. –Shakespeare in Love

…picking a lock with a wet herring. –Shakespeare in Love

I’d dream forever if I could. –Shakespeare in Love

To tell you the truth, I don’t know you well enough to tell you the truth. –Arthur Miller, Shall We Dance?

You know, you’re a lot more intelligent than you look.
Thank you.  I wish I could say the same for you. –Ketti Galliam and Ginger Rogers, Shall We dance

It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily. –Marlene Dietrich, Shanghai Express

Get busy living or get busy dying. –Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption

Put your trust in the Lord.  Your asses are mine.  Welcome to Shawshank. –The Shawshank Redemption

I wasn’t always rich…There was a time when I didn’t know where my next husband was coming from. –Mae West, She Done Him Wrong

The wolf at my door?  Why, I remember when he came right into my home and had pups! –Mae West, She Done Him Wrong

Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?  I’m home every evening. –Mae West, She Done Him Wrong

When women go wrong, men go right after them. –Mae West, She Done Him Wrong

Laddie, I've never gone anyplace peacefully in my life. -Victor McLaglen, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Men, I won’t be going out with ya.  I won’t be here when ya return.  Wish I could.  But I know your performance under your new commander will make me proud of ya, as I’ve always been proud of ya. –John Wayne, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Don’t apologize.  It’s a sign of weakness. –John Wayne, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Where is the little comrade’s room? -Cyd Charisse, Silk Stockings

I have made a discovery: champagne is more fun to drink that goat’s milk. -Cyd Charisse, Silk Stockings

I just got your call.  I-I was having a manicure.
At two o’clock in the morning?
I cannot sleep with long fingernails! -Peter Lorre, Silk Stockings

Music is essential for parades. -Cyd Charisse, Silk Stockings

This is the story of the Unconquerable Fortress: the American Home, 1943. –Since You Went Away

And may I ask what your profession is?
Certainly, I’m a genius. -Maureen O’Hara and Clifton Webb, Sitting Pretty

Mrs. King, throughout this grisly meal your son has been pelting me with cereal.  I have taught him an object lesson, and as you will observe, he doesn't like it.  I guarantee that he will never throw cereal at me or anyone else again.  Ever. -Clifton Webb, Sitting Prett 

He’s a genius, and he needs eight hours undisturbed sleep.  He says so all the time. –Larry Olsen, Sitting Pretty

I have the Hope Diamond.
I have the Hopeless Emerald. -Beulah Bondi and Olivia De Havilland, The Snake Pit

Now you’ve done it!  Now you have done it!  You tore off one of my chests. -Jack Lemmon, Some Like it Hot

Well, that’s it for tonight folks. -Joan Shawlee, Some Like It Hot

Water polo?  Well, isn’t that terribly dangerous?
I’ll say!  I had two ponies drown under me. -Tony Curtis, Some Like it Hot

All they have to do is play eight bars of “Come to me, my Melancholy Baby” and my spine turns to custard.  I get goose-pimply all over and I come to ‘em. –Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot

Look at that!  Look how she moves!  That’s just like Jell-O on springs.  She got some sort of built-in-motor or something, huh?  I tell you it’s a whole different sex. –Jack Lemmon, Some Like It Hot

With all the unrest in the world, I don’t think anybody should have a yacht that sleeps more than 12. –Tony Curtis, Some Like it Hot

Oh, God, I’ve tried to storm the gates of Heaven by sacrificing myself. –Gladys Cooper, The Song of Bernadette

Easy folks.  It's only me.  Only me?  That's the understatement of the year. -Bob Hope, Son of Paleface

Quiet?  You can get a room here with an adjoining hole in your head. –Bob Hope, Son of Paleface

“Shut up”?  You can’t talk to me like that until after we’re married. –Bob Hope, Son of Paleface

Here’s mud in my throat. –Bob Hope, Son of Paleface

Fraulein, is it to be at every meal or merely at dinnertime that you intend on leading us all through this rare and wonderful world of indigestion? –Christopher Plummer, The Sound of Music

A gladiator is like a stallion.  You’ll be pampered.  You’ll be oiled, bathed, shaved, massaged, taught to use your head.  A good body with a dull brain is as cheap as life itself. -Peter Ustinov, Spartacus

In Rome, dignity shortens life even more surely than disease. -Charles Laughton, Spartacus

There is only way to deal with Rome, Antoninus.  You must serve her.  You must abase yourself before her.  You must grovel at her feet.  You must love her. –Laurence Olivier, Spartacus

Rome is an eternal thought in the mind of God. –Laurence Olivier, Spartacus

It is very sad.  To love-and lose somebody.  But in a while, you will forget.  And you will take up the threads of your life where you left off-not so long ago.  And you will work hard.  There is lots of happiness in working hard.  Maybe the most. –Michael Chekhov, Spellbound

One.  Eight.  Nine.  Dr. Parry?  Come.  It’s I, Helen. –Dorothy McGuire, The Spiral Staircase

Oh, we’re both fakers.  Isn’t faking the essence of acting. -Katherine Hepburn, Stage Door

It tales more than greasepaint and footlights to make an actress.  It takes heartbreak as well. -Constance Collier, Stage Door

Don’t bother to read the note.  I’ll tell you what it says.  Eleven roses and the twelfth is you. –Gail Patrick, Stage Door

Very well then, think of Kaye.  Are you going to let her down?  You’ve got to give the performance she wanted you to give.  Then, perhaps, wherever she is, you may bring her peace. –Constance Collier, Stage Door

As long as you keep that door closed, you’ll never know anything.  You’re a producer.  You ought to see people.  Why, the greatest actress in the world might be living out there, 15 feet away from you, and you’d never even give her a chance. –Katherine Hepburn, Stage Door

You can cry on my shoulder.  I’m not going to go bathe anyhow. –Ginger Rogers, Stage Door

Does someone have to die to create an actress?  Is that what the theatre demands? –Katherine Hepburn, Stage Door

You can either take it or forever wish you had. -Henry Fonda, Stage Struck

I love you, June.  You’re life, and I’m leaving you. -David Niven, Stairway to Heaven

Just one more word: If I ever run into any of you bums on a street corner, let’s just pretend we never met before. -William Holden, Stalag 17

Maybe he just wanted to steal our wire cutters.  Did you ever think of that? –Robert Strauss, Stalag-17

She was a tramp.
She was a human being.  Let me remind you that even the most unworthy us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness.
From what I hear, she pursued it in all directions. –Patricia Hitchcock and Leo G. Carroll, Strangers on a Train

Mr. Norman Maine, America’s Prince Charming, was apprehended driving an ambulance down Wilshire Boulevard-with the siren going full blast.  He explained he was a tree surgeon on a maternity case. -Lionel Stander, A Star is Born

Hey-do you mind if I take just one more look? -Fredric March, A Star is Born

You must have born with that name. (Esther Blodgett)  You couldn't have made it up. -James Mason, A Star is Born

Mister Maine is feeling no pain. –Judy Garland, A Star is Born

Sympathy?  That’s not what you’re getting from me, baby.  You don’t deserve it.  You’re a great monument to Norman Maine, you are.  He was a drunk, and he wasted his life, but he loved you.  And he took enormous pride in the one thing in his life that wasn’t a waste, you.  His love for you and your success.  That was the one thing in his life that wasn’t a waste.  And he knew it.  Maybe he was wrong to do what he did, I don’t know.  But he didn’t want to destroy that, destroy the only thing he took pride in.  And now you’re doing the one thing he was terrified of, you’re wiping it out!  You’re tossing aside the one thing he had left.  You’re tossing it right back into the ocean after ’im.  You’re the only thing that remains of him now.  And if you just kick it away, it’s like he never existed, like there never was a Norman Maine at all. –Tommy Noonan, A Star is Born

You know, Esther, there’ll always be a wilderness to conquer.  Maybe Hollywood’s your wilderness now.  From all I hear, it sounds like it.  But, if you’ve got one drop of blood in your veins, you won’t let Mattie or any of her kind break your heart.  You’ll go right out there and break it yourself.  That’s your right. –May Robson, A Star is Born

And now I’m going to turn you over to our demon press agent, Libby.  Don’t let him frighten you.  He has a heart of gold-only harder. –Adolphe Menjou, A Star is Born

Mr. Libby looks after me like a fond mother with a good sense of double-entry book keeping. –James Mason, A Star is Born

As fit as a fiddle and ready for love, though why being fit as a fiddle should make one ready for love I never understood.  How did they decide that a fiddle as fit? –James Mason, A Star is Born

Too young.  I had a very young week last week.  It’s just not worth it. –James Mason, A Star is Born

You know me.  I’m just like you.  It’s two in the morning and I don’t know nobody. –Robert Redford, The Sting

You are too twisted for color TV. –Steel Magnolias

I like the dark.  The dark is comforting to me. -Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire

Hey Stella!  Hey Stella! -Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire

Lies!  Lies, inside and out!  All lies!
Never inside!  I never lied in my heart. -Karl Malden and Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire

You know what luck is?  Luck is believing you're lucky, that's all. -Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire

You need somebody.  And I need somebody, too.  Could it be you and me, Blanche? –Karl Malden, A Streetcar Named Desire

I stayed at a hotel called the Tarantula Arms…That’s where I brought my victims. –Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire

Oh, how strange that I should be called a destitute woman when I have all these treasures locked in my heart. –Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire

Listen baby, when we first met-you and me-when you thought I was common.  Well, how right you was!  I was as common as dirt.  You showed me a snapshot of the place with them columns, and I pulled you down off them columns, and you loved it!  We were having them colored lights going!  And wasn’t we happy together?  Wasn’t it all okay till she showed here? –Marlon Brando, A Streetcar Named Desire

Young man.  Young, young, young man.  Did anyone ever tell you look like a young prince out of Arabian Nights? –Vivien Leigh, A Streetcar Named Desire

Do you have anything in a low-rise mesh bikini? –Stripes

The benefits of science are not for scientists, Marie.  They’re for humanity. –Paul Muni, The Story of Louis Pasteur

When you brought me the roses, I felt something stir inside me that I thought was dead forever. –Patricia Neal, The Subject was Roses 

Such a pretty name for the disease.  Sounds like a rare flower, doesn’t it?  Late-blooming dementia praecox. -Katherine Hepburn,  Suddenly Last Summer

Life is a thief…Life steals everything. -Katherine Hepburn, Suddenly, Last Summer

Suddenly, last summer he wasn’t young anymore. –Elizabeth Taylor, Suddenly, Last Summer

I’ll tell you something else: there’s a lot to be said for making people laugh.  Did you know that’s all some people have?  It isn’t much but it’s better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.  Boy! -Joel McCrea, Sullivan’s Travels

The girl who said “no”, she doesn’t exist anymore.  She dies last summer-suffocated from the smoke-something on fire inside of her, and she live now, but she left me her ring, you see, and she said to me when she slipped this ring on my finger, “Remember I died empty-handed so make sure that your hands have something in them.”  I said, “What about pride?”  And she said, “Forget about pride whenever it stands between you and what you must have”. –Geraldine Page, Summer and Smoke

I must go home now.  I’m sure you’ll understand.  There is much I have to do.  I won’t try and explain what happened last night because I know that, in time, you’ll find a proper way I which to remember it.  What I will do is remember you and pray that you be spared all senseless tragedies.  I wish you good things, Herbie-only good things. -Jennifer O’Neill, Summer of ’42

Cancel my appointments. -Sylvia Sidney’s last words, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

We’re like two junkies getting a fix from the past-you with your war and me with my farm. –Joanne Woodward, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Norma, you’re a woman of 50.  Now, grow up!  There’s nothing tragic about being 50-not unless you try to be 25. -William Holden, Sunset Boulevard

I am big.  It’s the pictures that got small. -Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevar

So there they were turning after all-all those cameras.  Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond.  The dreams she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. -William Holden, Sunset Boulevard

She was still sleepwalking along the giddy heights of a lost career. -William Holden, Sunset Boulevard

You know, this floor used to be wood, but I had it changed.  Valentino said there’s nothing like tile for the tango. -Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard

Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. -William Holden, Sunset Boulevard

You see, this is my life.  It always will be!  There's nothing else-just us-and the cameras-and those wonderful people out there is the dark.  All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. -Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard

Here was an item everybody could have some fun with.  The heartless so-and-sos!  What would they do to Norma?  Even if she got away with it in court-crime of passion, temporary insanity-those headlines would kill her.  "Forgotten Star a Slayer", "Aging Actress", "Yesterday's Glamour Queen"... -William Holden Sunset Boulevard

There it was again-that room of hers, all satin and ruffles.  And that bed, like a gilded rowboat.  The perfect setting for the silent movie queen.  Poor devil-still waving proudly to a parade which had long passed her by. –William Holden, Sunset Boulevard

Great stars have great pride. –Gloria Swanson, Sunset Boulevard

Oh, wake up, Norma.  You’d be killing yourself to an empty house.  The audience left 20 years ago.  Now face it. –William Holding, Sunset Boulevard

Thirty million fans have given her the brush.  Isn’t that enough? –Cecil B DeMille, Sunset Boulevard

Times City Desk?  Hedda Hopper speaking.  I’m talking from the bedroom of Norma Desmond.  Don’t bother with a re-write man.  Take it direct.  Ready?  As day breaks over the murder house, Norma Desmond, famous star of yesteryear, is in a state of complete mental shock. –Hedda Hopper, Sunset Boulevard

You know what you are, Willie?  You’re a 73-year-old schmo. -George Burns, The Sunshine Boys

You remember Dunlap and Rosita?  Well, he used to go around with Rosita.  And Rosita wore a little black velvet ribbon on her neck, and she tied it very tight because she was skinny.  She wanted her cheeks to puff up, but she tied it so tight it affected her hearing.  She couldn’t hear the music… -George Burns, The Sunshine Boys

He pulled a knife on me.  A kitchen knife.  It was still dirty from breakfast. –George Burns, The Sunshine Boys

You know what’s wrong with you, Lewis?  You’ve been sitting on a New Jersey porch for too long.  You’re out of touch.  From my window here, I see everything that’s going on in the world.  Here I see old people, I see young people, nice people, bad people.  I see hold-ups.  I see drug-addicts, ambulances, car crashes, jumpings from buildings.  I see everything.  You see a lawn mower and a milkman. –Walter Matthau, The Sunshine Boys

I hope I’m not saying the wrong thing, but I love you. –Joan Fontaine, Suspicion

No one in love is free, or ever wants to be. -Shirley Knight, Sweet Bird of Youth

What was that, Walter?  They want me!  They really want me! –Geraldine Page, Sweet Bird of Youth

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I used to-used to make obscene phone calls to her-collect-and she used to accept the charges all the time. –Woody Allen, Take the Money and Run

Now that was impertinent of him-to die with his rent unpaid. –Basil Rathbone, A Tale of Two Cities

Years from now when you talk about this-and you will-be kind. –Deborah Kerr, Tea and Sympathy

What on the name of Occupation do you mean by saying that you built a teahouse instead of a schoolhouse? –Paul Ford, The Teahouse of the August Moon

I’ll never forget this village.  And, on the other side of the world, in the autumn of my life, when an August moon rises in the East, I’ll remember what was beautiful and what I was wise enough to leave beautiful. –Glenn Ford, The Teahouse of the August Moon

I’m not the kind of man to take no for an answer. –Paul Ford, The Teahouse of the August Moon

What Lotus Blossom has, the government doesn’t issue. –Glenn Ford, The Teahouse of the August Moon

All right!  Shall I kill myself?
Aw, don’t minimize this. –Glenn Ford and Paul Ford, The Teahouse of the August Moon

My job is to teach these natives the meaning of democracy, and they’re going to learn democracy if I have to shoot ever one of them. –Paul Ford, The Teahouse of the August Moon

Little story now concluded, but history of world unfinished.  Lovely ladies, kind gentlemen: go home to ponder.  What was true at beginning remains true.  Play make man think.  Thought make man wise.  And wisdom makes life endurable. –Marlon Brando, The Teahouse of the August Moon

That’s what I always tell my drivers: No phone pole ever hit a truck unless it was in self-defense. –Alan Hale, They Drive By Night

I always have liked redheads.
You shouldn’t.  Red means stop.
I’m color-blind. –George Raft and Ann Sheridan, They Drive by Night

I’m here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubble gum. –They Live

Yowsir!  Yowsir!  Yowsir! –Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

There can only be one winner, folks, but isn’t that the American way? –Gig Young, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

You get what you settle for. –Thelma and Louise

Strange how an unpleasant child can be a decent dog. –Conrad Veidt, The Thief of Baghdad

This is the Land of Legend where everything is possible when seen through the eyes of youth. –Morton Selton, The Thief of Baghdad

There is nothing wrong in suffering-if you suffer for a purpose.  Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death.  It simply made danger and death worthwhile. -Raymond Massey, Things to Come

Oh, Holly, you and I aren’t heroes.  The world doesn’t make any heroes. -Orson Welles, The Third Man

What can I do old man?  I’m dead, aren’t I? -Orson Welles, The Third Man

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.  In Switzerland they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace-and what did they produce?  The cuckoo clock.  So long, Holly. –Orson Welles, The Third Man

Be sensible, Martins.
Haven’t got a sensible name, Calloway. –Trevor Howard and Joseph Cotten, The Third Man

There is a fine line between clever and stupid. –This is Spinal Tap

This is your neighbor speaking.  I’m sure I speak for all of us when I say that something must be done about your garbage cans in the alley here.  It is definitely second-rate garbage!  Now, by next week, I want to see a better class of garbage, more empty champagne bottles and caviar cans.  I’m sure you’re all behind me on this, so let’s snap it up and get on the ball. -Jason Robards, A Thousand Clowns

I made a deal with him when he was six, up to which time he was known rather casually as Chubby, that he could use whatever name he wished, for however long he wished until his 13th birthday, at which time he'd have to pick a name he liked permanently.  Now, he went through a long period of dog's names, when he was little, "King" and "Rover" having a real vogue there for a while.  For three months, he referred to himself as "Big Sam", then there was Little Max, Snoopy, Chip, Rock, Rex, Mike, Marty, Lamont, Chec-Chevrolet, Woodrow, Lefty, The Phantom.  He received his library card last year in the name of Rafael Sabatini; his cub scout membership lists him as Dr. Morris Fishbein.  "Nick" seems to be the one that'll stick, though. -Jason Robards, A Thousand Clowns

I never answer letters from large organizations. -Jason Robards, A Thousand Clowns

Hello.  Is this somebody with good news or money?  No?  Good-bye. –Jason Robards, A Thousand Clowns

These girls in love should realize that they should be honestly dishonest instead being dishonestly honest. -Clifton Webb, Three Coins in the Fountain

Allow me to assist you from that ludicrous and liquid posture. -Clifton Webb, Three Coins in the Fountain

The possibility of arousing unsuspected passion at my age would be not only disturbing but rather miraculous. –Clifton Webb, Three Coins in the Fountain

To the Fountain of Trevi-to the lovely, romantic Fountain of Trevi where hope can be had for a penny. –Dorothy McGuire, Three Coins in the Fountain

Please, Julia, let’s not bicker since there’s no love lost between us.
That’s the tragic part, Richard.  There’s been so much love between us. -Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck, Titanic

As for you, Mother, I love you very much-but my address is Paris, France. -Audrey Dalton, Titanic

I’ve never caught a jewel thief before.  It’s stimulating. –Grace Kelly, To Catch a Thief

I think that is our dance, Mother. -John Lund, To Each his Own

Wuz you ever bit by a dead bee? –Walter Brennen, To Have and Have Not

You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve.  You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything.  Not a thing.  Oh, maybe just whistle.  You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?  Just put your lips together, and blow. –Lauren Bacall, To Have and have Not

Ods zodikins! –Hugh Griffith, Tom Jones

It’s a good night to be abroad and looking for game. –Albert Finney, Tom Jones

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man’s desires.  Indeed, it will-in a dull man. –Michael MacLiammoir, Tom Jones

Never again will I allow women to wear my dresses. –Erik Rhodes, Top Hat

If I would have forgotten myself with that girl, I would have remembered it. –Fred Astaire, Top Hat

Mister, the stork that brought you must have been a vulture. –Ann Sheridan, Torrid Zone

Years from now when they talk about this-and they will-remember to tell them that it was my idea. –Faye Dunaway, The Towering Inferno

Badges?  We ain’t got no badges.  We don’t need no badges.  I don’t have to show you any stinking badges. –Alfonso Bedoya, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Next time you fellas “strike it rich”, holler for me, will you, before you start splashing water around?  Water’s precious.  Sometimes it can be more precious than gold. –Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

And, waiter, you see that moon?  I want to see that moon in the champagne. -Herbert Marshall, Trouble in Paradise

If I smelled as bad as you, I wouldn’t live near people. –Kim Darby, True Grit

In some humpty-dumpty way, that was true love. -Roscoe Karns, Twentieth Century

It’s typical of my career that in the great crises of life I should stand flanked by two incompetent alcoholics. –John Barrymore, Twentieth Century

I could cut my throat.
If you did, greasepaint would run out of it.  That’s the trouble with you, Oscar-with both of us.  We’re not people.  We’re lithographs.  We don’t know anything about love it’s written and rehearsed.  We’re only real between curtains. –John Barrymore and Carole Lombard, Twentieth Century

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One day, when I was about 6, my parents had a row, and my mother-she threw a pickled herring at my dad and-and missed.  It splattered all against the wall.  I took one look at the pickled herring, and that’s when I decided to become an abstract expressionist. -Alan Bates, An Unmarried Woman

I’m not being precocious.  I’m just a normal 15-year old girl.  Actually, I’m not normal.  I’m still a virgin. –Lisa Lucas, An Unmarried Woman

I was married for nine years.  Eight of those years were very passionate.  But-well, passion’s a mild word for reality.  It’s-well, it was more like war. –Alan Bates, An Unmarried Woman

You know, there are three things that we could do right now: you could call a taxi and go home, or we could go on walking and I could lecture you on the real dilemma of modern art, or we could go to my place and thoroughly enjoy each other. –Alan Bates, An Unmarried Woman

How do you shoot the devil in the back?  What if you miss? –Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. –Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects

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I don’t know why they call this stuff Hamburger Helper.  It does just fine on its own. –Vacation

If you want to call me that, smile. –Gary Cooper, The Virginian

You’re better than news.  You’re history. -Stuart Erwn, Viva Villa!

I believe that a man is fire and a woman, fuel.  And she who is born beautiful is born married. –Marlon Brando, Viva Zapata

You’ve always looked to leaders-strong men without faults.  There aren’t any.  They’re only men, like yourselves.  They change.  They desert.  They die.  There are no leaders but yourselves.  A strong people is the only lasting strength. –Marlon Brando, Viva Zapata!

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May I ask you a personal question…Do you smile all the time? –Barbara Streisand, The Way We Were

Well, I’ll say one thing for prisons.  You meet a better class of people. (1)
There’s a lot to be said for prisons. (2)
You always know where you are when you get up in the morning. (3)
Yes.  And I could do with the sleep. (2)
What do you say?  Prison wasn’t so bad.  Let’s all go back.  Think of the welcome we’ll get. (3)
Well, if things don’t work out right, we’ll do it all over again next year. (1) –Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, and Aldo Ray, We’re no Angels

The first I do is to make sure that he’s dead.  I don’t trust him. –Leo G. Carroll, We’re No Angels

That’s my rulin’ –Walter Brennen, The Westerner

Look, Sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want so don’t worry about me. -Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 

Martha, will you show her where we keep the, er, euphemism? -Richard Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I swear, if you existed, I’d divorce you. -Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Martha and I are merely exercising, that’s all.  We’re merely walking what’s left of our wits.  Don’t pay any attention. -Richard Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Martha, in my mind, you are buried in cement up to the neck.  No, up to the nose, it’s much quieter. –Richard Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I’m loud and I’m vulgar and I wear the pants in the house because somebody’s got to, but I am not a monster. –Elizabeth Taylor, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. –Richard Burton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

You are the only woman I know who can wear an orchid.  Generally, it’s the orchid that wears the woman. –Alexander Knox, Wilson

Now I know I have a heart, because it is breaking. –The Tin Man, The Wizard of Oz

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are. –The Wizard of Oz

Well, my little pretty, I can cause accidents, too. –Margaret Hamilton, The Wizard of Oz

If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own backyard because, if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with. –Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz

Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable…-The Wizard of Oz

You know, it's too bad I'm not covering this dinner of yours tonight because I've got an angle that would really be sensational: the outstanding woman of the year isn't a woman at all. -Spencer Tracy, Woman of the Year

And another thing, I think this bathroom is perfectly ridiculous!  Good night, Crystal. -Virginia Weidler, The Women

There’s a name for you ladies, but it isn’t used in high society-outside of a kennel. -Joan Crawford, The Women

No pride at all!  That’s a luxury a woman in love can’t afford. –Norma Shearer, The Women

Oh, isn’t it wonderful to see all our lives settled, temporarily? –Mary Boland, The Women

To Reno, the biggest little city in the world, the American cradle of liberty!

Reno-beautiful emblem of the Great Divide. –Mary Boland and Paulette Goddard, The Women

I’m an old woman, my dear.  I know my sex. –Lucile Watson, The Women 

Heathcliff, can you see the crag over there where our castle is?  I’ll wait for you until you come. -Merle Oberon’s last words, Wuthering Heights

In this house with Heathcliff, nothing can live.  Nothing but hate.  I can feel it breathing like the devil’s breath on me.  And you.  He hates you worse then he does me.  Each time you kiss him, his heart breaks with rage because it’s not Cathy. -Hugh Williams, Wuthering Heights

Laugh now, Heathcliff.  There’s no laughter in Hell. -Hugh Williams, Wuthering Heights

...needing her more than my own life, belonging to her more than my own soul. -Laurence Olivier, Wuthering Heights

No matter what I ever do or say, Heathcliff, this is me-now-standing on this hill with you.  This is me forever. –Merle Oberon, Wuthering Heights

Cathy, you’re still my queen. –Laurence Olivier, Wuthering Heights

Go on, Heathcliff.  Run away.  Bring me back the world. –Merle Oberon, Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff, make the world stop right here.  Make everything stop and stand still and never move again.  Make the moors never change and make you and I never change.

The moors and I will never change, don’t you, Cathy. –Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, Wuthering Height 

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I’d be your slave, Cathy, if your heart were only stronger than your dull fear of God and the world.  I would live contentedly in your shadow.  But no-you must destroy us both with that weakness you call virtue. –Laurence Olivier, Wuthering Heights

Take me to the window.  Let me look at the moors with you once more, my darling.  Once more. –Merle Oberon, Wuthering Heights

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Didn’t anybody ever tell you before that you smell bad? –Anne Baxter, Yellow Sk 

Young man, if there is such a thing as a tartuffe, you are just that thing.  One more peep out of you, and I’ll give you a sound trundling. -W.C. Fields, You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man

Wait! Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso. –Young Frankenstein

What a dope I was!  I though you were class, like a real high note you hit once in a lifetime.  That’s because I couldn’t understand what you were saying half the time.  Why, you’re like those carnival joints I used to work in-big flash on the outside but on the inside nothing but filth. -Kirk Douglas, Young Man with a Horn

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When my little boy, Dmitri, died, everybody was crying.  Me?  I got up, and I danced.  They said, “Zorba is mad”.  But it was the dancing-only the dancing-that stopped the pain. -Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek

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Alex, will you come I here please?  I wish to talk to you. -Ivan Triesault, from ?