“Baby Face” quotes

“- Trenholm: There isn't anything in the world I wouldn't give you.
- Lily: That isn't love.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“You can get anything you put your mind on.”

Theresa Harris - Chico

“Miss Powers, no one could help but be moved by your story. It's obvious, as you say, that you were a victim of circumstance. You have our sympathy.”
George Brent - Trenholm

“- Nick Powers: What do you think we're running here?
- Lily: It looks to me like a zoo!”
Robert Barrat - Nick Powers
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“You could make something of yourself. You have power!”

Alphonse Ethier - Cragg

“You're a coward. I mean it! You let life defeat you. You don't fight back.”

Alphonse Ethier - Cragg

“- Stevens: Don't do this to me. I can't stand it. It's been brutal not seeing you.
- Lily: You better get used to it. Listen, I don't owe you a thing. Whatever I do is my own business. You never had but one idea about me. That's all I ever meant to you.”
Donald Cook - Stevens
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“If you fire me, we're through. It isn't the job, I don't mind that. But it just goes to show me how much you care.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“My life has been bitter and hard. I'm not like other women. All the gentleness and kindness in me has been killed.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Trenholm: Are you really thinking? Or, just pretending to?
- Lily: That's the nice part of being with a mastermind. You do the thinking for both of us.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“I'm desperate. I know what the world thinks. Everyone blames me! No one knows the truth.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“You don't realize your potentialities.”

Alphonse Ethier - Cragg

“- Lily: I never did get much good out of books.
- Cragg: You are a fool. You could learn a lot from that book. But if you are content to stay here like a dumb animal in this miserable life, then I wash my hands from you.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Lily
Alphonse Ethier - Cragg

“I'm a tramp, and who's to blame? My father. A swell start you gave me. Ever since I was fourteen, what's it been? Nothing but men! Dirty rotten men! And you're lower than any of them. I'll hate you as long as I live!”

Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

- Lily: There's only one thing I want.
- Trenholm: Name it, and it's yours.
- Lily: I'd like to have a "Mrs." on my tombstone.
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily
George Brent - Trenholm

“- Trenholm: You're hard to please.
- Lily: No, I'm not really. Just a little disappointed.
- Trenholm: Disappointed? In what?
- Lily: You.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Cragg: Well, that's a business in itself.
- Lily: Oh, I guess I ain't much of a business woman.”

Alphonse Ethier - Cragg
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Trenholm: Don't you realize I'm in love with you?
- Lily: No, you're not.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Lily: I was hoping you wouldn't be like everybody else. Silly of me, wasn't it?
- Trenholm: I'm disappointed in myself. Because you're beginning to upset me.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily
George Brent - Trenholm

“What's going to become of you? It's up to you to decide. If you stay in this town, you are lost.”

Alphonse Ethier - Cragg

“- Jameson - Bank Director: Will you stop blaming Trenholm! It isn't his fault.
- Gault - Bank Director: When a bank closes because of mismanagement, who is to blame?
- Vanderlure - Bank Director: All of us are to blame! You can't hold one person responsible.”
Edward Van Sloan - Jameson - Bank Director
Reginald Mason - Gault - Bank Director
Charles Sellon - Vanderlure - Bank Director

“All I want is a chance to earn an honest living.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Trenholm: I am surprised. I didn't expect you to stick to the job.
- Lily: That's why I stuck.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“A woman, young, beautiful like you, can get anything she wants in the world. Because you have power over men! But you must use men! Not let them use you. You must be a master! Not a slave.”

Alphonse Ethier - Cragg