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Terry:
You sound very superior. What have you ever done in the theatre?

Eve:
Everything but burst out of a pie at a Rotarian banquet.

Terry:
You all talk as though the world owed you a living. Maybe if you tried to do something for the theatre, the theatre would do something for you.

Judy:
Oh, what theatre!

Another girl:
Is there a theatre?

Eve:
I don't know. Has anybody looked up the side streets lately?

Terry:
It doesn't seem to me that any of you take your work very seriously.

Judy:
Well, now that you're here, we're all giving up.

Terry:
At least I'm gonna have a try at it. If I can act, I want the world to know it. If I can't, I want to know it.

Eve:
Even your best friends won't tell you.

Terry:
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your minds stretched a little further than the next wisecrack.

Eve:
You know I tried that once, but it didn't snap back into place.

Stage Door  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Terry:
They don't seem to feel the same way about me, though.

Kaye:
Oh, you mustn't mind them.

Terry:
I'm beginning to feel that there's something definitely wrong with me.

Kaye:
You're different, that's all.

Terry:
Well now why. I eat the same food, I sleep in the same kind of bed, I've even got a crease across my back from that lumpy mattress, and I'm doing my best to pick up their slang, though I'm not so hot. How's that - 'Not so hot.'

Kaye:
They'll get to understand you after a while. Maybe you'll get to understand them a little better.

Terry:
Oh, I suppose so.

Kaye:
They do make a lot of noise, but it's just to keep up their courage and hide their fears.

Terry:
Well now, what have they got to be afraid of? Certainly they're young enough to have courage.

Kaye:
Young enough to have fears too. You saw how excited Jean and Ann got just now and that wasn't a job even - just the prospect of one. You don't know what it means waiting and hoping that some manager will interview you.

Terry:
Well, at least you don't have that worry. I saw you in that play last year. You know you're a good actress.

Kaye:
[sighing] I'm not so sure anymore. How do you know who is an actress and who isn't? You're an actress if you're acting. But you can't just walk up and down a room and act. Without that job and those lines to say, an actress is just like any ordinary girl trying not to look as scared as she feels.

Stage Door  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Terry:
By what right do you barricade yourself behind closed doors and refuse to see people?

Powell:
That happens to be none of your business.

Terry:
Do you know a girl just fainted in your outer office because you broke an appointment with her?

Powell:
I'm sorry, I didn't know.

Terry:
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 fifteen feet away from you and you'd never even give her a chance!

Powell:
Are you the greatest actress in the world?

Terry:
Never mind about me, I don't need you, but those other girls do. They sweat and slave and go without food and decent clothes in the hope that someday, someone like you will come out of his office and notice them.

Powell:
Do you realize that if I saw all of the girls that came up here that I wouldn't have time for anything else?...Every year, about fifty thousand girls decide that they want to go on the stage for one reason or another. Well, forty-nine thousand, five hundred of them are wrong! They'd be much better off home washing dishes...They'd be so much better off at home raising families.

Stage Door  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Powell:
Now, whether you were acting in my office or no, you did show fire and emotion and that's what I need in this part.

Terry:
But I'm not an emotional person.

Powell:
You will be when I get through with you. I'll mold you into one.

Terry:
I don't want to be molded. I believe in acting with my brain.

Stage Door  Movie Quote

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Terry:
[about Jean] In the first place, I like her.

Powell:
She won't like you very much after this.

Terry:
Oh, she'll see the light in time.

Powell:
You mean you'd jeopardize your own reputation. Aren't you a kind of a Girl Scout?

Terry:
Just a girl who uses her brain. Anyway, I wanted to show you that I can act.

Powell:
You are a faker.

Terry:
Oh, we're both fakers. Isn't faking the essence of acting?

Powell:
Well, it may apply to actors, but it does not apply to me.

Terry:
You - you're a bigger faker than I am.

Powell:
That's libel.

Terry:
Not if I can prove it.

Stage Door  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Catherine:
[about Terry, after Kaye's suicide] 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.

Stage Door  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Catherine:
You can't think only of yourself. Kaye is dead -- you had nothing to do with that. But there are fifty living people to whom this show may mean as much as it did to Kaye. The ushers, the property men, the old women who clean out the theatre. Each one of them has the right to demand that you give the best performance that you can. That's the tradition of the theatre.

Terry:
Oh, hang the tradition of the theatre! I'm thinking of Kaye.

Catherine:
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.

Stage Door  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Catherine:
It's only after we have suffered we can make the audience feel with us.

Terry:
Does someone have to die to create an actress? Is that what the theatre demands?

Catherine:
It takes more than greasepaint and footlights to make an actress. It takes heartbreak as well.

Stage Door  Movie Quote

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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.

Stage Door  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Eve Gill:
There's nothing the matter with your reputation!

Commodore Gill:
Oh, indeed? I'd rather flattered myself that there was...

Stage Fright  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Wilfred Smith:
I once had a cousin who had an ulcer and an extremely funny face, both at the same time. Everybody laughed at him when he was telling his symptoms. His name was Jim.

Eve Gill:
That must've been terrible!

Wilfred Smith:
Oh, I don't know, "Jim" is quite a common name.

Stage Fright  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Eve Gill:
I played the Fourth deadly sin.

Wilfred Smith:
Were you good?

Eve Gill:
I was... pretty deadly.

Stage Fright  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Dallas:
Haven't I any right to live? What have I done?

Dr. Josiah Boone:
We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the Law and Order League are scouring out the dregs of the town. Come on. Be a proud, glorified dreg like me.

Stagecoach  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

[voting on whether to continue without a cavalry escort]

Marshal Curly Wilcox:
You, Doc?

Dr. Josiah Boone:
I'm not only a philosopher, sir, I'm a fatalist. Somewhere, sometime, there may be the right bullet or the wrong bottle waiting for Josiah Boone. Why worry when or where?

Marshal Curly Wilcox:
Yes or no?

Dr. Josiah Boone:
Having that philosophy, sir, I've always courted danger. During the late war - when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great president, Abraham Lincoln... and General Phil Sheridan - well, sir, I fought mid shot and shell and cannon roar...

Marshal Curly Wilcox:
Do you wanna go back or not?

Dr. Josiah Boone:
No! I want another drink.

Stagecoach  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

[voting on whether to continue without a cavalry escort]

Marshal Curly Wilcox:
How 'bout you, Mr. Hancock?

Samuel Peacock:
Peacock. I'd like to go on, brother. I want to reach the bosom of my dear family in Kansas City, Kansas as quickly as possible; but, I may never reach that bosom if we go on... so, under the circumstances - you understand, brother - I think it best we go back with the bosoms... I mean the soldiers.

Stagecoach  Movie Quote

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Ringo Kid:
Look, Miss Dallas. You got no folks... neither have I. And, well, maybe I'm takin' a lot for granted, but... I watched you with that baby - that other woman's baby. You looked... well, well I still got a ranch across the border. There's a nice place - a real nice place... trees... grass... water. There's a cabin half built. A man could live there... and a woman. Will you go?

Dallas:
But you don't know me - you don't know who I am.

Ringo Kid:
I know all I wanna know. Will you go?

Dallas:
Oh, don't talk like that!

Stagecoach  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Jaime Escalante:
[to his students] There will be no free rides, no excuses. You already have two strikes against you: your name and your complexion. Because of these two strikes, there are some people in this world who will assume that you know less than you do. Math is the great equalizer... When you go for a job, the person giving you that job will not want to hear your problems; ergo, neither do I. You're going to work harder here than you've ever worked anywhere else. And the only thing I ask from you is ganas. Desire.

[Passing one boy, he ruffles up the students hair]

Jaime Escalante:
And maybe a haircut.

[Everyone laughs]

Jaime Escalante:
If you don't have the ganas, I will give it to you, because I'm an expert.

Stand and Deliver  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

[Escalante wakes a sleeping Tito in class]

Tito:
I dreamed I was swimming with dolphins whispering imaginary numbers and searching for the fourth dimension.

Jaime Escalante:
Good! Go back to sleep.

Stand and Deliver  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

[Jaime is eating at the Delgado family's restaurant, speaking with them about Ana's decision to drop out of Garfield High]

Jaime Escalante:
She'll just be a fat winch, waste her life away in your restaurant. You have to understand - she's top student.

Mr. Delgado:
I started washing dishes for a nickel an hour. Now I own this place. Did I waste my life?

Jaime Escalante:
I washed dishes, too, when I first came to this country.

Mr. Delgado:
Good! Why don't you put on an apron and give us a hand?

Jaime Escalante:
Ana could go to college, come back, and teach you how to run this place.

Mr. Delgado:
[He tears up the tab for Jaime's dinner] Professor Escalante, I don't want your money. And I don't need your business.

Jaime Escalante:
[He reaches into his wallet, dropping the money on the table anyway] Tip, for Ana. By the way, I notice you put hot chillies in your dip to sell extra beer - don't you?

Stand and Deliver  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Angel Guzman:
We're busted, why don't we just admit it?

Dr. Ramirez:
How'd you do it?

Angel Guzman:
I got the test ahead of time. I passed it out to all the others.

Dr. Pearson:
How did you get the test?

Angel Guzman:
The mailman [pause] I strangled him and his body's decomposing in my locker.

[The other students laugh]

Stand and Deliver  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

[Angel and the little vato enter the classroom, trailed by another]

Jaime Escalante:
Are your friends auditing?

Thug:
I audited them to come with me.

Stand and Deliver  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

[Angel doesn't want anyone to see him carrying books around]

Jaime Escalante:
Wouldn't want anyone thinking you're intelligent, would you?

Stand and Deliver  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

[Jaime is using girlfriends as the variables in an algebraic equation]

Raquel Ortega:
Can you have negative girlfriends?

Jaime Escalante:
No, only negative boyfriends. Forgive them, for they not know what they do.

Stand and Deliver  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

Angel Guzman:
Hey, aren't you proud of me? I'm the first one here! [pause] What's calcoolus?

Stand and Deliver  Movie Quote

added 5 years ago

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