Rosalind Russell movie quotes

“- Walter Burns: Sorta wish you hadn't done that, Hildy.
- Hildy Johnson: Done what?
- Walter Burns: Divorced me. Makes a fella lose all faith in himself. Gives him a... almost gives him a feeling he wasn't wanted.
- Hildy Johnson: That's what divorces are for!”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.”
Rosalind Russell

“Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.”
Rosalind Russell

“- Bruce Baldwin: Even ten minutes is a long time to be away from you.
- Hildy Johnson: I heard you the first time. I like it. That's why I asked you to say it again.”
Ralph Bellamy - Bruce Baldwin
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“I'd rather face a tiger any day than the sort of things the critics said about your last book.”

Rosalind Russell - Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia

“Walter, you're wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way.”
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“My first time on film was with Mirna Loy and Bill Powell in 'Evelyn Prentice' and a man with a black glass kept getting in my way. I asked Bill why he didn't keep out of our path. 'He's the cameraman' Bill said.”
Rosalind Russell

“- Mollie Malloy: Aren't they inhuman?
- Hildy Johnson: I know. They're newspapermen.
- Mollie Malloy: All they've been doing is lying. All they've been doing is writing lies. Why won't they listen to me?”
Helen Mack - Mollie Malloy
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.”
Rosalind Russell

“Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.”
Rosalind Russell

“I'm getting married, Walter, and I'm also getting as far away from the newspaper business as I can get.”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“- Hildy Johnson: I suppose I proposed to you?
- Walter Burns: Well, you practically did, making goo-goo eyes at me for two years until I broke down.”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Exercise Instructress: Let's begin with posture. A lady always enters a room erect.
- Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia: Most of my friends exit horizontally.”
Ann Morriss - Exercise Instructress
Rosalind Russell - Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia

“- Hildy Johnson: You are no longer my husband and no longer my boss. And you're not going to be my boss.
- Walter Burns: All right, take it. Work for somebody else. That's the gratitude I get.”
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I'm gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkeyed skull of yours 'til it rings like a Chinese gong!”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“If you want me, Bruce, you've gotta take me as I am instead of trying to change me into something else.”
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“- Bruce Baldwin: You know, Hildy, he's not such a bad fellow.
- Hildy Johnson: No, he should make some girl real happy.”

Ralph Bellamy - Bruce Baldwin
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.”
Rosalind Russell

“- Hildy Johnson: He treats me like a woman.
- Walter Burns: Oh he does, doesn't he? How did I treat you? Like a water buffalo?”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson
Cary Grant - Walter Burns

“- Mame Dennis: Well, now, uh, read me all the words you don't understand.
- Patrick Dennis: Libido, inferiority complex, stinko, blotto, free love, bathtub gin, monkey glands, Karl Marx... is he one of the Marx Brothers?”
Rosalind Russell - Mame Dennis
Jan Handzlik - Patrick Dennis

-Walter Burns: You're a newspaperman.
- Hildy Johnson: That's why I'm quitting. I want to go someplace where I can be a woman.
- Walter Burns: You mean "be a traitor".

Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“- Walter Burns: You've got the brain of a pancake. This isn't just a story you're covering - it's a revolution. This is the greatest yarn in journalism since Livingstone discovered Stanley.
- Hildy Johnson: It's the other way around.”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“- Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia: Mary Haines, don't you have any pride?
- Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary: No pride at all. That's a luxury a woman in love can't afford.”
Rosalind Russell - Mrs. Howard Fowler - Sylvia
Norma Shearer - Mrs. Stephen Haines - Mary

“- Patrick Dennis: Is the English lady sick, Auntie Mame?
- Auntie Mame: She's not English, darling... she's from Pittsburgh.
- Patrick Dennis: She sounded English.
- Auntie Mame: Well, when you're from Pittsburgh, you have to do something.”
Jan Handzlik - Patrick Dennis
Rosalind Russell - Mame Dennis

“That's a B. It's the first letter of a seven-letter word that means your late father.”

Rosalind Russell - Mame Dennis