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Joan Fontaine movie quotes

46 quotes from 3 movies
Joan Fontaine
Lisa Berndle
[voiceover]

I think everyone has two birthdays, the day of his physical birth and the beginning of his conscious life. Nothing is vivid or real in my memory before that day in Spring when I came home from school and found a moving van in front of our building. I wondered about our new neighbor who owned such beautiful things.

Lisa Berndle
[voiceover]

The course of our lives can be changed by such little things. So many passing by, each intent on his own problems. So many faces that one might easily have been lost. I know now that nothing happens by chance. Every moment is measured; every step is counted.

Lisa Berndle
[voiceover]

I'd come to tell you about us, to offer you my whole life, but you didn't even remember me.

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2nd Mrs. de Winter
[to Maxim de Winter]

We ought to do something to make people feel that Manderley is just the same as it always was...Oh yes, but I want to, oh please! I've never been to a large party, but I could learn what to do, and I promise you, you wouldn't be ashamed of me...I'll design a costume all by myself and give you the surprise of your life.

2nd Mrs. de Winter

It's Mrs. Danvers. She's gone mad. She said she'd rather destroy Manderley than see us happy here.

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Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth

I must go now or I'll be late to luncheon. Anyway, if my father saw me come in both late and beautiful, he might have a stroke.

[Lina asks Johnnie how he intends to support them]

Well, if the worst comes to the worst and there's no other way out, I'll have to...

Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth

What?

Borrow some more.

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