Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland movie quotes

“The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish. ”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“I am afraid of nothing, least of all you.”

Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Lady Marian Fitzswalter

“Don't be kind to me, father. It doesn't become you.”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Catherine Sloper

“- Dr. Austin Sloper: You have found a tongue at last, Catherine. 'Tis only to say such terrible things to me.
- Catherine Sloper: Yes. This is a field where you will not compare me to my mother.”
Ralph David Richardson - Dr. Austin Sloper
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Catherine Sloper

“- Lavinia Penniman: Can you be so cruel?
- Catherine Sloper: Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters.”
Miriam Hopkins - Lavinia Penniman
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Catherine Sloper

“- Virginia Brush: That'll show them we're good girls and they can't trifle with us.
- Amy Lind: For goodness sakes, what did we come here for if not to be trifled with?”

Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind

“- Biff Grimes: I guess a little kiss is harmless if it's all in fun.
- Amy Lind: Even if it isn't in fun.”
James Cagney - Biff Grimes
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind

“Actually I think playing badgirls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress. ”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently. ”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword. ”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas. ”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood! ”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need. ”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland

“- Lady Marian Fitzswalter: Why, you speak treason!
- Robin Hood: Fluently.”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Lady Marian Fitzswalter
Errol Flynn - Robin Hood

“- Georges Iscovescu: I am in your debt. For there is no way I can pay you for the loveliness of these few minutes. I thank you, Miss Brown.
- Emmy Brown: You're the strangest man.
- Georges Iscovescu: Perhaps, the loneliest man.”
Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Emmy Brown

“I've nothing to offer you but a life of hardship and danger. But we'd be together.”

Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Robin Hood
Errol Flynn

“- Virginia Brush: Either he's an old friend of the family's or there's something in your eye.
- Amy Lind: I never saw him before in my life until a few minutesago when I passed Fisher's drug store.
- Virginia Brush: He followed you here?
- Amy Lind: No. I followed him.”

Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind

“- Bess: When he looks at you, do you feel a kind of prickly feeling like goosy pimples running all up and down your spine?...Then there's not a doubt of it.
- Lady Marian Fitzswalter: Doubt of what?
- Robin Hood: [entering] That you're in love.”

Una O'Connor - Bess
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Lady Marian Fitzswalter
Errol Flynn - Robin Hood

“- Biff Grimes: So you don't believe in the institution of marriage!
- Amy Lind: An outmoded, silly convention started by the cavemen and encouraged by the florists and jewelers. After all, what's marriage?”
James Cagney - Biff Grimes
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind

“He is different from anyone I've ever known. He's, well he's brave and he's reckless, and yet he's...gentle and kind. He's not brutal like...tell me, when you are in love, is it, well, is it hard to think of anybody but, but one person?”

Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Lady Marian Fitzswalter

“- Lady Marian Fitzswalter: And does it make you want to be with him all the time?
- Bess: Yes, and when he's with you, your legs are as weak as water.”

Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Lady Marian Fitzswalter
Una O'Connor - Bess

“- Emmy Brown: Good night.
- Georges Iscovescu: It's better than good! Somehow, these walls will not seem so empty inside. You will be here very close to me. Breathing in the same night.”
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Emmy Brown
Charles Boyer - Georges Iscovescu

“- Virginia Brush: If there's something in your eye, Amy, I'll help you get it out.
- Amy Lind: There's nothing in my eye, I just plain and simple winked at him that's all.”

Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind

- "Kit Carson" Holliday: What does pride got to do with guns?
- Jeb Stuart: The two things kind of come together down South. You can't pry them apart. Not even with guns.
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - "Kit Carson" Holliday
Errol Flynn - Jeb Stuart