The Poignant, the Piquant and the Painful, Great One Liners From Films

It's time again for movie one-liners. Long time readers of this blog (both of us) are well acquainted with my fondness for great lines from movies. Recalling a quip, stirring, statement, probing question or insightful observation from a film can evoke an entire scene or indeed the feeling of the film itself. On six previous occasions I have published some of my favorite lines. I draw your attention to the right side of this blog (as your facing the computer, if you're looking from within your computer it would, of course, be on the opposite or right side) for links to previous additions, all in the category of Quotes.

In the past I've had lines strictly from males or females and once solely from Woody Allen. But like some previous editions, this is a hodgepodge. So here they are, 20 lines from 20 different films.

Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page. - Cary Grant as Walter Burns in His Girl Friday (1940).

The Apaches, sir, are neither to the north nor the east. Nor are they in their encampment. But if you'da been watching the dust swirls to the south, like most of us, you'd see that they're right there! - John Wayne as Captain Yorke in Fort Apache (1948).

Now listen to me you benighted muckers. We're going to teach you soldiering. The world's noblest profession. When we're done with you, you'll be able to slaughter your enemies like civilized men. - Sean Connery as Daniel Dravot in The Man Who Would Be King (1975).

"Fanny" is Faneul H. Peabody, just the kind of man I've been looking for, lots of money and no resistance. - Aline MacMahon as Trixie Lorraine in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933).

I'm dead, Bill. I just want to stay that way for awhile. - Warren Beatty as Joseph Frady in The Parallax View (1974).

Your imagination! You think every girl's a dope. You think a girl goes to a party and there's some guy in a fancy striped vest strutting around giving you that I'm-so-handsome-you-can't-resist-me look. From this she's supposed to fall flat on her face. Well, she doesn't fall on her face. But there's another guy in the room, over in the corner. Maybe he's nervous and shy and perspiring a little. First, you look past him. But then you sense that he's gentle and kind and worried. That he'll be tender with you, nice and sweet. That's what's really exciting. - Marylin Monroe as The Girl in The Seven Year Itch (1955).

I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost. - Gena Rowlands as Marion Post in Another Woman (1988).

Well sure there is, it comes complete with diagrams on page 47 of how to be a detective in 10 easy lessons correspondent school textbook and uh, your father offered me a drink. - Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1945).

I'd be lost without the weight of you two on my back. I ain't going anywhere. - Jennifer Lawrence as Ree in Winter's Bone (2010).

You know, you two girls have everything. You're tall and short and slim and stout and blonde and brunette. And that's just the kind of a girl I crave. - Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in Animal Crackers (1930).

What have I done? - Alec Guiness as Colonel Nicholson in Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

Look, maybe we could do something else together. Mrs. Robinson, would you like to go to a movie? - Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967).

That'll be the day. - John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in The Searchers (1956).

Love has got to stop some place short of suicide. - Walter Huston as Sam Dodsworth in Dodsworth (1936).

Yeah, I'm fine. I snapped my chin down onto some guy's fist and hit another one in the knee with my nose. - Woody Allen as Allan in Play it Again, Sam (1972).

Conscience... that stuff can drive you nuts! - Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954).

Oh, I still do believe in God, old man. I believe in God and Mercy and all that. But the dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here, poor devils. - Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949).

All I want is to enter my house justified. - Joel McCrea is Steve Judd in Ride the High Country (1962).

There's only one thing you can do with a girl like this. Walk naked into the sea together as the sun sets. Make love once... Then die. - Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis in If...(1968).

It's becoming ridiculous the way you grab attention. Whenever I start to tell a story, you finish it. If I go on a diet, you lose the weight. If I have a cold, you cough. And if we should ever have a baby, I'm not so sure I'd be the mother. - Carole Lombard as Maria Tura in To Be or Not to Be (1942).

More Film Quotes, This Time They're Strictly Woody

Long time readers of this blog (both of us) know of my fondness for film quotes. I have, in fact, dedicated five posts just to quotes. Two were comprised strictly of quotes from males, two from females and one was co-educational. With this post I provide quotes solely from films written and directed by Woody Allen. This was actually quite easy aside from restricting the total to 20. I also imposed a one quote per film quota on myself. Enjoy.

I was born into the Hebrew persuasion, but when I got older I converted to narcissism. - Allen as Sid Waterman in Scoop (2006).

For some miraculous reason, it's a wonderful feeling having a teacher you've seen dance naked in front of a mirror. -Allen as the narrator in Radio Days (1987).

To you, I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the loyal opposition. - Allen as Sandy Bates in Stardust Memories (1980).

I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts. - Allen as Fielding Melish in Bananas (1971).

Maria Elena used to say that only unfulfilled love can be romantic. -Javier Bardem as Juan Antonio in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008).

I never believed in God. No, I didn't even as a little kid. I remember this. I used to think even if he exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him. - Alan Alda as Bob in Everyone Says I Love You (1996).

Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here. -Allen as Alvy Singer in Annie Hall (1977).

Hey, wait a minute! I know where we are. These are the flatlands. My husband's friends used to dump bodies here. - Mai Farrow as Tina Vitale in Broadway Danny Rose (1984).


Well, for anybody with any imagination. You know, life is manageable enough if you keep your hopes modest. The minute you allow yourself sweet dreams you run the risk of them crashing down. -Radha Mitchell as Melinda in Melinda and Melinda (2004).


Years ago I wrote this short story about my Mother called "The Castrating Zionist." - Allen as Isaac Davis in Manhattan (1979).


Tradition is the illusion of permanence. -Allen as Harry Block in Deconstructing Harry (1997).


I can't listen to that much Wagner, ya know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland. - Allen as Larry Lipton in Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).


You can't learn to be real. It's like learning to be a midget. -Jeff Daniels as Gil Shepard in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).


She's perky all right. She makes you want to sneak up behind her with a pillow and suffocate her. - Dianne Wiest as Helen Sinclair in Bullets Over Broadway (1994).


I'm not really the heroic type. I was beat up by Quakers. -Allen as Miles Monroe in Sleeper (1973).


You missed a very dull TV show on Auschwitz. More gruesome film clips, and more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over the systematic murder of millions. The reason they can never answer the question "How could it possibly happen?" is that it's the wrong question. Given what people are, the question is "Why doesn't it happen more often?"  - Max Van Sydow as Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).



That's why I can't say enough times, whatever love you can get and give, whatever happiness you can filch or provide, every temporary measure of grace, whatever works.

- Larry David as Boris Yellnikoff in Whatever Works (2009).

I remember my father telling me, "The eyes of God are on us always." The eyes of God. What a phrase to a young boy. What were God's eyes like? Unimaginably penetrating, intense eyes, I assumed. And I wonder if it was just a coincidence I made my specialty ophthalmology. - Martin Landau as Judah Rosenthal in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989).

And to the, to the gentleman who's appendix I took out, I...I'm, I don't know what to say, if it's any consolation I... I may still have it somewhere around the house. - Allen as Leonard Zelig in Zelig (1983).

I know I could have been a better wife to you... kinder. I could have made love with you more often... or once, even. - Diane Keaton as Sonja in Love and Death (1975).

More Movie Quotes? Yup! I've Got a Bad Case of FQF

It seems I can't get enough of my favorite film quotes of which there are many. So sue me. I first provided a list of my 20 favorite film quotes from men back in November. That was followed the next day by 20 favorites from women. Less than a fortnight ago I offered 20 more from men and again came back with 20 from females a day later. Evidently I've got film quote fever (familiarly known as FQF). There is no known cure. This may be due to the fact that no one suffering FQF has any desire to have it go away.

This time I've got...I don't know I lost count...quotes and it's co-ed -- men and women mixed. Please enjoy.

You know, I never feel comfortable on these sort of things. Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax - the only way you can save money nowadays. - Orson Welles as Harry Lime The Third Man (1949).

Well, there's the trap door, the humidor, and the cuspidor. How many doors would you like? - Ginger Rogers as Jean Maitland in Stage Door (1937).


I don't gripe to you, Reiben. I'm a captain. There's a chain of command. Gripes go up, not down. Always up. You gripe to me, I gripe to my superior officer, so on, so on, and so on. I don't gripe to you. I don't gripe in front of you. You should know that as a Ranger. - Tom Hanks as Capt. Miller  in Saving Private Ryan (1998).


Now, get this, you double-crossing chimpanzee: There ain't going to be any interview and there ain't going to be any story. And that certified check of yours is leaving with me in twenty minutes. I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up. If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong! - Rosalind Russell as Hildy in His Girl Friday (1942).


Maybe there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue, they's just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain't so nice, and that's all any man's got a right to say. - John Carradine as Casy in Grapes of Wrath (1940).


The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. - Robert De Niro as Lorenzo in A Bronx Tale (1993).


You know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known. - Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont in Rear Window (1954).


I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too. - James Stewart as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).


You belong to that unfortunate category that I would call the "Park Avenue brat". A spoiled child who's grown up in ease and luxury... who's always had her own way... and who's misdirected energies are so childish that they hardly deserve the comment, even of a butler on his off Thursday. - William Powell as Godfrey in My Man Godfrey (1936).


Goddamn, that's great. So old Elaine Robinson got started in a Ford. - Dustin Hoffman as Ben Braddock in The Graduate (1967).


We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! - Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. (1950).


After living with you for the last six months, I'm turning into one of your scripts. Well, this is not a script, Diana. There's some real, actual life going on here. - WIlliam Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976).


To a new world of gods and monsters! - Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Pretorius in Bride of Franeknstein (1935).


Lose it? I didn't lose it. It's not like, "Whoops! Where'd my job go?" I QUIT. Someone pass me the asparagus. -Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham in American Beauty (1999).


Sherry, the next time you do NOT want to see anybody, just let me know, and I'll usher them right in. - Bette Davis as Maggie Cutlerin The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942).


Why don't you go home to your wife? I'll tell you what, I'll go home to your wife, and outside of the improvement she'll never know the difference. - Groucho Marx as Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff in Horsefeathers (1932).


And Nietzsche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're gonna live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again. - Woody Allen as Mickey in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).


We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shaughnessy. We believed your 200 dollars. I mean, you paid us more than if you had been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it all right. - Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941).


A homosexual with power... that's scary. - Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk (2008).


Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. - Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club (1999).


Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere. - Kim Novak as Judy Barton in Vertigo (1958).


What is the law? It's a gun pointed at somebody's head. All depends upon which end of the gun you stand, whether the law is just or not. - Cary Grant as Leopold Dilg in Talk of the Town (1942).


The trouble with kids is they always figure they're smarter than their parents - never stop to think if their old man could get by for 50 years and feed 'em and clothe 'em - he maybe had something up here to get by with - things that seem like brain twisters to you might be very simple for him. - William Demarest as Constable Kockenlocker in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944).

Outside, countess. As long as they've got sidewalks YOU'VE got a job. - Joan Blondell as Joan Prescott in Footlight Parade (1933).

Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today. - Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day (1993).

What would I say to a hamburger? Boy. I'd take Mr. Hamburger by the hand and say, "Pal, I haven't seen you for a long, long time." - Paul Muni as James Allen in I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1933).

Well, here I am, anonymous all right. With guys nobody really cares about. They come from the end of the line, most of 'em. Small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee; Brandon, Mississippi; Pork Van, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it, maybe if they're lucky a job waiting for them back at a factory, but most of 'em got nothing. They're poor, they're the unwanted, yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it? They're the bottom of the barrel and they know it. Maybe that's why they call themselves grunts, cause a grunt can take it, can take anything. They're the best I've ever seen, Grandma. The heart & soul. - Charlie Sheen as Chris Taylor in Platoon (1986).

My brother beat me. My sister beat my brother. My father beat my sister and my brother and me. My mother beat my father and my sister and me and my brother. The neighbors beat our family. The people down the block beat the neighbors and our family. - Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig in Zelig (1983).

I changed my life today, what did you do? - Paul Newman as Frank Galvin in The Verdict (1982).

It's becoming ridiculous the way you grab attention. Whenever I start to tell a story, you finish it. If I go on a diet, you lose the weight. If I have a cold, you cough. And if we should ever have a baby, I'm not so sure I'd be the mother. - Carole Lombard as Maria Tura in To Be or Not to Be (1942).

God gives us heartache and the devil gives us whiskey. - Edward G. Robinson as Joseph Randall in Five Star Final (1931).

The Uncertainty Principle. It proves we can't ever really know... what's going on. So it shouldn't bother you. Not being able to figure anything out. Although you will be responsible for this on the mid-term. - Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik in A Serious Man (2009).

Don't You Just Love Great LInes From Movies? I Do Too! Here's 20 More of My Favorites This Time We Hear From the Ladies

As you my legion of readers (both of us) may recall, yesterday I offered a sequel to previous posts comprised of favored film lines. Today I offer part two of the sequel (is a prequel in the works?) with film lines uttered by the fairer sex. 

The original posts ran last November, the first featuring lines uttered by men and as now the second had lines said by women.

No further ado....

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. - Susan Sarandon as Annie Savoy in Bull Durham (1989).

Arrange it, are you crazy? Where am I gonna get a farm? I haven't even got a window box! Barbara Stanwyck as in Christmas In Connecticutt (1945).


The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians. - Gretta Garbo as Ninotchka in Ninochtka(1939).


Why couldn't you have brought this up last week!... Six months isn't so long... not everyone gets corrupted... you have to have a little faith in people. - Mariel Hemingway as Tracy in Manhattan (1979).


If it was raining hundred dollar bills, you'd be out looking for a dime you lost someplace! - Barbara Stanwyck as Ann in Meet John Doe (1941).


I don't want to be worshipped. I want to be loved. - Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in Philadelphia Story (1940).


Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb. - Claudettte Colbert as Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night (1934).


Ever since you got off that boat you've been chasing me like an amorous goat. You've tried your darnedest to make me fall in love with you and now you have. So from now on I'm going to do the chasing, and believe me brother, you're going to know you've been chased. - Myrna Loy as Kay Wilson in I Love You Again (1940).


You... Benedict Arnold in sheep's clothing! - Jean Arthur as Mary Jones in The Devil and Miss Jones (1941).

Well you son-of-a-sea-snake! Have you got on my new pajamas? - Jean Harlow as Lil in Red-Headed Woman (1932).


Well that's your estimate of me, not mine. That check is framed, not cashed! I put it there to remind me never to get mixed up with your kind again!  - Joan Blondell as Carol King in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933).


"Stone-Age Stuff!" "Mad with Desire!" "Lovers' Brawl!" Is that the way you prove that you just more than care for me? Treating me like a strip act in a burlesque show! A glamorous bombshell, eh? A glorified chump, that's what I've been! Well, I'm sick of it, you understand? With the business and everybody! You can get another "It Girl," a "But Girl" or a "How, When and Where Girl." I'm clearing out, and you can all stay here in this half-paid-for car barn and get somebody else to pull the apple cart! I'm going where ladies and gentlemen hang their hats and get some peace and quiet... and if any of you try to interfere with me, I'll complain to the authorities! - Jean Harlow as Lola Burns in Bombshell (1933).


I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion. - Vivian Leigh as Blanche duBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).


Well I wanna be the real thing! And you better wise up coz if I grow and you stay as stupid as you are we're gonna have big problems Ray! - Tracy Ullman as French in Small Time Crooks (2000).


She's my sister AND my daughter! -Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Mulwray in Chinatown (1974).


Command performances leave me quite cold. I've had more fun in the back seat of a '39 Ford than I could ever have in the vault of the Chase Manhattan Bank. - Elizabeth Taylor as Gloria Wandrous in BUtterfield 8 (1960).


Just because I wear a uniform doesn't make me a girl scout.- Shirley MacLaine as Fran Kubelik in The Apartment (1960).


No, no, don't speak. Don't speak. Please don't speak. Please don't speak. No. No. No. Go. Go, gentle Scorpio, go. Your Pisces wishes you every happy return. - Dianne Wiest in Bullets Over Broadway (1994).


Heaven help me. I love a psychotic! - Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950).


If you don't start undressing me soon this is going to turn into a panel discussion. - Scarlett Johansson as Cristina in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008).

Don't You Just Love Great Lines From Movies? I Do Too! Here's 20 More of My Favorites

I recently took a stroll down this blog's memory lane. I variably winced, guffawed, nodded approvingly and dozed off as I read the ghosts of posts past. But there were a couple of posts, offered on consecutive day last November, that I really, really enjoyed. In a sense I was not the author, the words having been provided by several dozen screenwriters from the past 80 or so years. 


The first of these posts was a compilation of 20 memorable film lines uttered by male actors in English language movies. The second was another 20, this time as spoken by female actors. I found re-reading the lines exhilarating. Each recalled not only a film, but a scene and an actor. They bespoke the excellence, not just of that movie, but of cinema in general. 


So having had had one success with an idea I find myself ascribing to the current Hollywood philosophy and repeating it. Yes, here I offer the first of a two-part sequel to those posts with 20 more of my favorites from male actors with 20 from actresses to follow. 

You know what to do, feed the French and shoot the Germans! - Lee Marvin as Major Reisman in The Dirty Dozen (1967).


Just look at that parking lot. - Simon Helberg as Rabbi Scott in A Serious Man (2009).


You're a brave man. Go and break through the lines. And remember, while you're out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in be in here thinking what a sucker you are. - Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup (1933).


Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! - John Belushi as Bluto in Animal House (1978).


And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death. - Lew Ayers as Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).


Oooh, that's a bingo! - Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009).

It's just like the first time I came here, isn't it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet. - Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff in Double Indemnity(1944).

You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done! - Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954).


As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. - Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas (1990).


I knew all that stuff about you helping us was baloney. I'll tell you why we can't go home--because our folks are poor. They can't get jobs and there isn't enough to eat. What good will it do you to send us home to starve? You say you've got to send us to jail to keep us off the streets. Well, that's a lie. You're sending us to jail because you don't want to see us. You want to forget us. But you can't do it because I'm not the only one. There's thousands just like me, and there's more hitting the road every day. - Frankie Darro as Eddie Smith in Wild Boys of the Road (1933).


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die. - Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in Blade Runner (1982).


I object, your honor! This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. - Woody Allen as Fielding Melesh in Bananas (1971).


Yes, it's safe, it's very safe, it's so safe you wouldn't believe it. - Dustin Hoffman as Babe in Marthon Man (1976).


And what are you? So full of hate you want to go out and fight everybody! Because you've been whipped and chased by hounds. Well that might not be living, but it sure as hell ain't dying. And dying's been what these white boys have been doing for going on three years now! Dying by the thousands! Dying for *you*, fool! I know, 'cause I dug the graves. And all this time I keep askin' myself, when, O Lord, when it's gonna be our time? Gonna come a time when we all gonna hafta ante up. Ante up and kick in like men. LIKE MEN! You watch who you call a nigger! If there's any niggers around here, it's YOU. Just a smart-mouthed, stupid-ass, swamp-runnin' nigger! And if you not careful, that's all you ever gonna be!  - Morgan Freeman as Sgt. Rawlins in Glory (1989).


Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals. - Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).


I gotta know what day it is. I gotta know what's the name of the game and what the rules are without anyone else telling me. You gotta own your own days and name 'em, each one of 'em, every one of 'em, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.  - Jason Robards as Murray Burns in A Thousand Clowns (1965).


 I don't wanna badmouth the kid, but he's a horrible, dishonest, immoral louse. And I say that with all due respect. - Woody Allen as Danny Rose in Broadway Danny Rose (1984).


Hey, pilgrim! You forgot your pop-gun! - John Wayne as Tom Doniphon in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).


Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another. - Martin Sheen as Captain Willard in Apocalypse Now (1979).



You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider. - Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life (1946).

You Can Say That Again. Twenty of My Favorite Lines From Films, This Time We Hear from the Ladies

Yesterday on this blog I offered 20 favorite film lines. Because I had so many to choose from in creating the list I decided to create one list of 20 lines spoken by men, which appeared yesterday, and 20 from women which is below. For my thoughts on the importance of individuals lines in movies see the previous post.

Without any further ado, let’s hear from the ladies.

With all my heart, I still love the man I killed. - Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie in The Letter (1940).

What you been eatin', cement? - Jean Harlow as Vantine in Red Dust (1932). (Pictured above.)

Yeah, I'm a tramp, and who's to blame? My Father. A swell start you gave me. Ever since I was fourteen, what's it been? Nothing but men! Dirty rotten men! And you're lower than any of them. I'll hate you as long as I live! - Barbara Stanwyck as Lily Powers in Baby Face (1933).

We rob banks! - Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie & Clyde (1967).

Real diamonds! They must be worth their weight in gold! - Marylin Monroe as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in Some Like it Hot (1959).

You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is all right with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts! - Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seaton in Holiday (1938).

What's really bugging me now is my daytime programming. NBC's got a lock on daytime - lousy game shows - and I'd like to bust them. I'm thinking of doing a homosexual soap opera, "The Dykes": The heart-rending saga about a woman hopelessly in love with her husband's mistress. - Faye Dunaway as Diane Christensen in Network (1976).

Listen. Back in New York, whenever I managed to crash a party full of luscious big-hearted millionaires, there was always sure to be some snub-faced kid in the orchestra playing traps. And so at four in the morning, when the wise girls were skipping off to Connecticut to marry those millionaires, I'd be with him in some nightspot learning tricks on the kettledrum. And he always had a nose like yours. - Claudette Colbert as Eve Peabody in Midnight (1939).

I know, it was a wonderful party, and your suit went over big, and she looked beautiful, and when you left she said, "Thank you, Mr. Smith," but it was the way she said it, you nearly fell through the floor. Horseradish! - Jean Arthur as Clarissa Saunders in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).

So look for me in the future where the primroses grow and pack your man's pride with the rest. From now on, you're the only man in the world that my door is closed to. - Norma Shearer as Jerry Martin in The Divorcee (1930).

Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta - well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream - little eddies and waterfalls - but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way. - Jane Darwell as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

You will care for me, though. I grow on people. Like moss. - Mary Astor as Princess Centimillia in The Palm Beach Story (1942).

I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything. - Mia Farrow as Cecilia in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985).

Divine decadence darling! - Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles in Cabaret (1972).

You know Steve, you're not very hard to figure, only at times. Sometimes I know exactly what you're going to say. Most of the time. The other times... the other times, you're just a stinker. - Lauren Bacall as Slim in To Have and Have Not (1944).

You're sore because you've fallen for a little drunk you tamed in Miami and you don't like it. It makes you sick all over, doesn't it? People will laugh at you, the invincible Devlin, in love with someone who isn't worth even wasting the words on. - Ingrid Bergman as Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946).

I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk! - Barbara Stanwyck as Sugarpuss O'Shea in Ball of Fire (1941).

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. - Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. (1950).

He looked exactly the same when he was alive, only he was vertical. - Shirley MacLaine as Jennifer Rogers in The Trouble With Harry (1955).

I detest cheap sentiment. - Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950).