Barbara Stanwyck movie quotes

“- Trenholm: You're hard to please.
- Lily: No, I'm not really. Just a little disappointed.
- Trenholm: Disappointed? In what?
- Lily: You.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Walter Neff: Now you hate him.
- Phyllis Dietrichson: Yes, Walter. He's so mean to me. Every time I buy a dress or a pair of shoes, he yells his head off. He never lets me go anywhere. He keeps me shut up. He's always been mean to me. Even his life insurance all goes to that daughter of his.”

Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff
Barbara Stanwyck - Phyllis Dietrichson

“- Phyllis Dietrichson: We're both rotten.
- Walter Neff: Only you're a little more rotten.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Phyllis Dietrichson
Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff

“- Cragg: Well, that's a business in itself.
- Lily: Oh, I guess I ain't much of a business woman.”

Alphonse Ethier - Cragg
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Trenholm: Don't you realize I'm in love with you?
- Lily: No, you're not.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“One of these days one of you boys is going to start one of these scenes differently and one of us girls is going to drop dead from surprise.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Lee Leander

“You wanna be honest, don't you? You don't have to die to keep the John Doe ideal alive. Someone already died for that once. The first John Doe.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Ann Mitchell

“- Lily: I was hoping you wouldn't be like everybody else. Silly of me, wasn't it?
- Trenholm: I'm disappointed in myself. Because you're beginning to upset me.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily
George Brent - Trenholm

- Walter Neff: You can't get away with it. You want to knock him off, don't you?
- Phyllis Dietrichson: That's a horrible thing to say.
- Walter Neff: What do you think I was, anyway? A guy that walks into a good-looking dame's front parlor and says: "Good afternoon. I sell accident insurance on husbands. Have you got one that's been around too... (continue)(continue reading)

Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff
Barbara Stanwyck - Phyllis Dietrichson

“I'm terribly in love, and you seem to be too, so one of us has to think and try and keep things clear. And maybe I can do that better than you can. They say a moonlit deck is a woman's business office.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“Please don't give up. We'll start all over again. Just you and I. It isn't too late. The John Doe movement isn't dead yet.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Ann Mitchell

“I love those hick shirts he wears with the boiled cuffs and the way he always has his vest buttoned wrong. Looks like a giraffe, and I love him. I love him because he's the kind of a guy that gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. Love him because he doesn't know how to kiss.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Sugarpuss O'Shea

“If it's worth dying for, it's worth living for.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Ann Mitchell

“Any man can give love where he's sure of its return. That isn't love at all. But, to give love with no merit, no thought of return, no thought of gratitude even, that's ordinarily the privilege of God.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“You can always do so much more with mercy than you can with murder.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Megan

“- Charles: Are you an adventuress?
- Jean: Of course I am. All women are. They have to be. If you waited for a man to propose to you from natural causes, you'd die of old maidenhood.”
Henry Fonda - Charles
Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“- Walter Neff: Why didn't you shoot again, baby? Don't tell me it's because you've been in love with me all this time.
- Phyllis Dietrichson: I never loved you, Walter, not you or anybody else. I'm rotten to the heart. I used you just as you said. That's all you ever meant to me. Until a minute ago, when I couldn't fire that second shot. I never...” (continue)(continue reading)

Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff
Barbara Stanwyck - Phyllis Dietrichson

“All I want is a chance to earn an honest living.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Trenholm: I am surprised. I didn't expect you to stick to the job.
- Lily: That's why I stuck.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“You don't know very much about girls. The best ones aren't as good as you probably think they are and the bad ones aren't as bad. Not nearly as bad.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Jean