Jean quotes from Stage Door (1937)

Jean

When does your baggage get here?

Terry

I'm expecting the bulk of it in the morning.

Jean

We could leave the trunks here and sleep in the hall. There's no use crowding the trunks.

Terry

I don't know what we're going to do when the wolfhounds arrive. I hope you don't mind animals.

Jean

Oh, not at all. I've roomed with a great many of them before.

Terry

Yes, I can see that.

Jean

Fresh kill?

Terry

Yes, I trapped them myself.

Jean

Do you mind if I ask a personal question?

Terry

Another one?

Jean

Are these trunks full of bodies?

Terry

Just those, but I don't intend to unpack them.

Jean

Well, I was just thinking if the room got too crowded, we could live in the trunks.

Terry

Yes, that's a good idea. You don't mind helping me unpack. Oh, I beg your pardon, you're not the maid, are you? [Terry drapes unpacked articles of clothing over Jean's arm]

Jean

Oh, that's quite all right. What a lovely dress! Whipped up at home by loving hands.

Terry

Every stitch.

Jean

Do you cook too?

Terry

Nothing fancy. Just plain home-cooking.

Jean

I'll bet you could boil a terrific pan of water.

Terry

I see that in addition to your other charms, you have that insolence generated by an inferior upbringing.

Jean

Hmm. Fancy clothes, fancy language and everything.

Terry

Unfortunately, I learned to speak English correctly.

Jean

That won't be of much use to you here - we all speak pig Latin.

Terry

And I use the right knife and fork. I hope you don't mind.

Jean

All you need's the knife.

Poor darling, you shouldn't have told her. She isn't responsible for Kaye's act.

Jean

She is responsible. It was Kaye's part. It was Kaye's life, but now it's too late. Kaye is dead...Kaye who never harmed anyone. It's all because she hasn't any heart, because she's made out of ice...I'm gonna go sit out front because Kaye asked me to be there. And every line that she reads, I'm gonna say, 'That should have been Kaye's line.' And every move you make, I'm gonna say, 'That should have been Kaye.' Kaye - who is lying in a morgue all broken and alone. And I dare ya to go on tonight.

Jean

Poor kid. Why she hated to leave a dump like this is a mystery.

Terry

Oh, I know how she feels. To me it would be like leaving the house where I was born.

Jean

At least she'll have a couple of kids to keep her company in her old age. And what'll we have? Some broken-down memories and an old scrapbook which nobody'll look at.

Terry

We're probably a different race of people.

Jean

Maybe. Tonight, I feel like sitting out in the moonlight having somebody hold my hand.