Gloria Stuart movie quotes

“Can you exchange one life for another? A caterpillar turns into a butterfly. If a mindless insect can do it, why couldn't I?”
Gloria Stuart - Old Rose

“A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now... only in my memory.”
Gloria Stuart - Old Rose

“The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.”
Gloria Stuart

“When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.”
Gloria Stuart

“I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!”
Gloria Stuart

“- Rebecca Femm: I'm a little deaf.
- Margaret Waverton: I understand.
- Rebecca Femm: Yes. No beds!”
Eva Moore - Rebecca Femm
Gloria Stuart - Margaret Waverton

“- Flora Cranley: I've never seen him like it before. He was always so keen to tell me about his experiments.
- Dr. Arthur Kemp: He meddled in things men should leave alone.”

Gloria Stuart - Flora Cranley
William Harrigan - Dr. Arthur Kemp

“- Flora Cranley: I want to help you.
- Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man: There is nothing left for you to do, my dear, except to go. I shall come back. I swear, I shall come back because I shall defeat them.”
Gloria Stuart - Flora Cranley
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“1,500 people went into the sea when Titanic sank from under us. There were 20 boats floating nearby and only one came back. One. 6 were saved from the water, myself included. 6... out of 1,500. Afterward, the 700 people in the boats had nothing to do but wait. Wait to die, wait to live, wait for an absolution that would never come.”
Gloria Stuart - Old Rose

“I saw my whole life as if I'd already lived it. An endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches. Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared... or even noticed...”
Gloria Stuart - Old Rose

- Old Rose: [about Jack Dawson drawing her naked] My heart was pounding the whole time. It was the most erotic moment of my life. Up until then, at least.
- Lewis Bodine: So what happened next?
- Old Rose: You mean, did we "do it"? Sorry to disappoint you Mr. Bodine, but Jack was very professional.
Gloria Stuart - Old Rose
Lewis Abernathy - Lewis Bodine

It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the 'Ship of Dreams", and it was. It really was.

Gloria Stuart - Old Rose