Carole Lombard quotes
- La trovi in Actors' Love Affairs
“God knows I love Clark, but he's the worst lay in town.”
- From the movie: To Be Or Not To Be
“- Maria Tura: You certainly don't want me to waste a lot of time giving you a long explanation.
- Joseph Tura: No, but I think a husband is entitled to an inkling.” - La trovi in About Colleagues
“I can't win working with Welles. If the picture's a hit he will get the credit. If it's a flop I'll be blamed.”
- La trovi in Actors in real life
- From the movie: Twentieth Century
“Yes, I tried to save you pain. I lied, yes, only to save you.”
- From the movie: To Be Or Not To Be
- From the movie: Twentieth Century
“- George Smith: And you wanted my respect!
- Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Who cares about your respect? I'm too big to be respected. The men I've known have understood that.” - From the movie: My Man Godfrey
“Life is but an empty bubble.”
- From the movie: My Man Godfrey
“- Godfrey: I can take care of myself.
- Irene Bullock: You can't look me in the eye and say that. You love me and you know it. You know, there's no sense in struggling against a thing when it's got you.” - From the movie: To Be Or Not To Be
“You're the greatest actor in the world. Everybody knows that, including you.”
- From the movie: My Man Godfrey
“I'm terribly grateful. This is the first time I've ever beaten Cornelia at anything and you helped me do it.”
- From the movie: Made for Each Other
“- Jane Mason: Don't you think marriage is a career in itself?
- Mrs. Harriet Mason: Oh, in deed, emphatically! That's why one mustn't rush into it pell-mell.” - From the movie: Twentieth Century
“How about your name in electric lights bigger than everybody's, and your delusion that you were a Shakespeare and a Napoleon and a Grand Lama of Tibet all rolled into one?”
- From the movie: My Man Godfrey
“- Irene Bullock: I went to Venice, and one night I went for a ride in one of those rowboats that the man pushes with a stick. Not a matador. That was in Spain. But something like a matador.
- Godfrey: Do you, by any chance, mean a gondolier?” - From the movie: My Man Godfrey
“- Godfrey: Why can't you let me alone?
- Irene Bullock: Because you're my responsibility and someone has to take care of you.” - From the movie: Twentieth Century
“- Oscar Jaffe: I'm offering you a last chance to become immortal.
- Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Then I've decided to stay mortal with responsible management.” - From the movie: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
“I've always had a suspicion about you. So did my mother. Your forehead slants back too much!”
- From the movie: Nothing Sacred
“I wish I really could die. Go someplace by myself and die alone - like an elephant!”
- From the movie: Twentieth Century
“We're not people, we're lithographs. We don't know anything about love unless it's written and rehearsed. We're only real in between curtains.”
- From the movie: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
“- Ann Krausheimer Smith: If you had it all to do over again, would you still have married me?
- David Smith: Honestly, no.” - From the movie: Nothing Sacred
“You know, I don't, which I am: happy or miserable. I'm all mixed up.”
- From the movie: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
“- Ann Krausheimer Smith: Eat your soup dear.
- David Smith: There's something wrong with that soup.
- Ann Krausheimer Smith: It's your imagination.
- David Smith: Why doesn't the cat eat the soup?” - From the movie: My Man Godfrey
“I wish I had a sense of humor, but I can never think of the right thing to say until everybody's gone home.”
- From the movie: My Man Godfrey
“A scavenger hunt is exactly like a treasure hunt, except in a treasure hunt you try to find something you want, and in a scavenger hunt you try to find something that nobody wants.”
- From the movie: Nothing Sacred
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