Jean Harrington [as 'Lady Eve', about Charles]
I want to see him first and I want him to ask me to be free. That's all. No money, no nothing....there's something I want to say to him before we part.
Most-quoted role: Jean Harrington in The Lady Eve (1941), 26 quotes
Movies Jean Harrington Jean Harrington [about Charles]
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
Jean Harrington [to Charles]
But we always play for money, darling. Otherwise, it's like swimming in an empty swimming pool.
Phyllis Dietrichson It'll be the train, Walter, just the way you want it. Straight down the line.
Phyllis Dietrichson It sounds wonderful. Just strangers beside you. You don't know them and you don't hate them. You don't have to sit across the table and smile at him and that daughter of his every morning of your life...He thinks a lot more of her than he does of me.
Phyllis We're both rotten.
Only you're a little more rotten.
Ann Mitchell Now please, John, you won't let me down, will ya? Will ya? Of course you won't. If you'll just think of yourself as the real John Doe. Listen, everything in that speech are things a certain man believed in. He was my father, John. When he talked, people listened. And they'll listen to you too. Funny, you know what my mother said the other night? She said to look into your eyes and I'd see father there...Now, listen, John. You're a pitcher. Now get in there and pitch. Good luck.
Ann Mitchell He [John Doe] wants to get a few things off his chest and that's the only way he can get himself heard...So he writes me a letter and I dig him up. He pours out his soul to me. From now on, we quote: "I PROTEST" — by John Doe. He protests against all the evils in the world — the greed, the lust, the hate, the fear, all of man's inhumanity to man. Arguments will start. Should he commit suicide or should he not? People will write in, pleading with him — but NO! No sir, John Doe will remain adamant. On Christmas Eve, hot or cold, he goes. See? [when her editor still won't commit] If it was raining hundred dollar bills, you'd be out looking for a dime you lost someplace.
Ann Mitchell Please don't give up. We'll start all over again. Just you and I. It isn't too late. The John Doe movement isn't dead yet. You see, John, it isn't dead or they [Norton's group] wouldn't be here. It's alive in them. They kept it alive by being afraid. That's why they came up here. Oh, darling!...We can start clean now. Just you and I. It'll grow John, and it'll grow big because it'll be honest this time. Oh, John, if it's worth dying for, it's worth living for. Oh please, John...You wanna be honest, don't ya? Well, you don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe. And he's kept that ideal alive for nearly 2,000 years. It was He who kept it alive in them. And He'll go on keeping it alive for ever and always — for every John Doe movement these men kill, a new one will be born. That's why those bells are ringing, John. They're calling to us, not to give up but to keep on fighting, to keep on pitching. Oh, don't you see darling? This is no time to give up. You and I, John, we...Oh, no, no, John. If you die, I want to die too. Oh, oh, I love you.
Martha Ivers Why didn't you stop me, Sam? You know how much I hated her! Why didn't you stop me?
I wasn't there.
Martha Ivers Why didn't you stop... [realizes] You weren't there?
No, I left as soon as I saw your aunt enter the room.
Martha Ivers A sure thing is never a gamble.
No? What odds you give that that's a fact?
Martha Ivers [Upon letting herself into Sam's hotel room unannounced, seeing Toni modeling a new swim suit]
The sun suit looks very well on her Sam, she's got just the figure for it. She's a very pretty girl.
I give another show at 8 o'clock.
Martha Ivers In your room or here?