Glenda May Jackson movie quotes

“- Miles Kendig: I'm going to tell the truth.
- Isobel von Schmidt: Oh, it's a work of fiction! Ah!”

Walter Matthau - Miles Kendig
Glenda May Jackson - Isobel von Schmidt

“Agatha Christie is so deadly serious in English... but in French, she's so delightfully funny! Je m'apelle Hercule Poirot, un detective. Her murders are so polite!”
Glenda May Jackson - Stevie

“An American without ice in his drink is unthinkable, if not unconstitutional!”
Glenda May Jackson - Isobel von Schmidt

“The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.”
Glenda May Jackson

“My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.”
Glenda May Jackson

“- Miles Kendig: Yours was gin and ginger ale, right?
- Isobel von Schmidt: Mine was never gin and ginger ale. Montrochet '69, right next to the beer.”
Walter Matthau - Miles Kendig
Glenda May Jackson - Isobel von Schmidt

“Oh, do stop following me around. You're making my dog very nervous. He detests the smell of stupidity.”

Glenda May Jackson - Isobel von Schmidt

“- Isobel von Schmidt: How'd you like to play some gin this evening?
- Miles Kendig: For how much?
- Isobel von Schmidt: Will you never learn...”
Glenda May Jackson - Isobel von Schmidt
Walter Matthau - Miles Kendig

“- Isobel von Schmidt: When did you join the police force?
- Miles Kendig: It's the only car I could find that had any gas in it.”
Glenda May Jackson - Isobel von Schmidt
Walter Matthau - Miles Kendig