Barbara Stanwyck movie quotes

“- Trenholm: There isn't anything in the world I wouldn't give you.
- Lily: That isn't love.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“I need him like the axe needs the turkey.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“I want you to see the beauty of giving love where it isn't merited.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“I promise you that for the first time in your life you'll know what real happiness is.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“- Nick Powers: What do you think we're running here?
- Lily: It looks to me like a zoo!”
Robert Barrat - Nick Powers
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Stevens: Don't do this to me. I can't stand it. It's been brutal not seeing you.
- Lily: You better get used to it. Listen, I don't owe you a thing. Whatever I do is my own business. You never had but one idea about me. That's all I ever meant to you.”
Donald Cook - Stevens
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“If you fire me, we're through. It isn't the job, I don't mind that. But it just goes to show me how much you care.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“My life has been bitter and hard. I'm not like other women. All the gentleness and kindness in me has been killed.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

- "Colonel" Harrington: I hope you'll never be unhappy.
- Jean: I hope I'll never be more unhappy than I am right now.
Charles Coburn - "Colonel" Harrington
Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“- Jones: She's just a conniving little dame who deserves every bit that's coming to her.
- Megan: Including murder, I suppose?”

Walter Connolly - Jones
Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“- Trenholm: Are you really thinking? Or, just pretending to?
- Lily: That's the nice part of being with a mastermind. You do the thinking for both of us.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“East or West, men seldom deviate very far from their main passion in life.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“You have a right to have an ideal. Oh, I guess we all have one.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“- Walter Neff: Afraid, baby?
- Phyllis Dietrichson: Yes, I'm afraid. But not of Keyes. I'm afraid of us. We're not the same anymore. We did it so we could be together but instead of that, it's pulling us apart.”

Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff
Barbara Stanwyck - Phyllis Dietrichson

“I'm desperate. I know what the world thinks. Everyone blames me! No one knows the truth.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Peter Kirk: Are there many lady doctors?
- Helen Hunt: A few.
- Peter Kirk: As beautiful as you?
- Helen Hunt: No doubt.
- Peter Kirk: The time I've wasted being well.”
Henry Fonda - Peter Kirk
Barbara Stanwyck - Helen Hunt

“- Phyllis Dietrichson: I don't want to kill him. I never did. Not even when he gets drunk and slaps my face.
- Walter Neff: Only sometimes you wish he was dead.
- Phyllis Dietrichson: Perhaps I do.
- Walter Neff: And you wish it was an accident and you had that policy for $50,000 dollars. Is that it?
- Phyllis Dietrichson: Perhaps that too.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Phyllis Dietrichson
Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff

“There's nothing as dangerous as a square shooter. If all men were like you, there wouldn't be any nice girl left.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Lee Leander

“- Lily: I never did get much good out of books.
- Cragg: You are a fool. You could learn a lot from that book. But if you are content to stay here like a dumb animal in this miserable life, then I wash my hands from you.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Lily
Alphonse Ethier - Cragg

- Jean: I don't see why I have to do all the dirty work. There must be plenty of rich old dames just waiting for you to push them around.
- "Colonel" Harrington: You find them, I'll push them.
Barbara Stanwyck - Jean
Charles Coburn - "Colonel" Harrington

“The subtlety of you Orientals is very much overestimated.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“- Charles: You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up the Amazon for a year.
- Jean: Good thing you weren't up there two years.”
Henry Fonda - Charles
Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“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 - Lily

“How can you be so blind to spiritual braveness?”

Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

- Lily: There's only one thing I want.
- Trenholm: Name it, and it's yours.
- Lily: I'd like to have a "Mrs." on my tombstone.
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily
George Brent - Trenholm