Thelma Ritter movie quotes

25 quotes from 4 movies

Rear Window (1954) as Stella

View Quote Just where do you suppose he cut her up? 'Course, the bathtub! That's the only place where he could have washed away the blood. He better get that trunk out of there before it starts to leak.

View Quote The insurance company would be much happier if you'd sleep in bed at night instead of in that wheelchair...Your eyes are all bloodshot. You must have been watching out that window for hours.

View Quote Stella: You've got a hormone deficiency.
Jeff: How can you tell from a thermometer ?
Stella: Those bathing beauties you've been watching haven't raised your temperature one degree in a month.

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Pickup on South Street (1953) as Moe Williams

View Quote Ask a silly question, you get a dopey look.

View Quote Candy: You've been recommended as the best pickpocket stoolie in the business.
Moe Williams: What kind of talk is that, calling me a stoolie? I was brought up to report any injustice to the police authority. I call that being a solid citizen.
Candy: But you get paid for it.
Moe Williams: You gonna knock it?

View Quote Moe Williams: You got any Happy Money?
Candy: Happy Money?
Moe Williams: Yeah, money that's gonna make me happy.

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All About Eve (1950) as Birdie Coonan

View Quote The bed looks like a dead animal act.

View Quote I'll tell ya how, like, like she's studyin' you, like you was a play or a book or a set of blueprints. How you walk, talk, eat, think, sleep.

View Quote I haven't got a union. I'm slave labor.

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Pillow Talk (1959) as Alma

View Quote If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

View Quote Jan: [about living alone] Well, what am I missing?
Alma: If you have to ask, you're missing it!