Shelley Winters Quotes

Mayor William Dudley You mind telling me what's going on with the ambulances and-

Nurse Andrea Harper (cutting the mayor off) Not a bit Mr. Mayor. You know it seems that there was some idiot who let them build a refinery right in the middle of the city and this is the result! You know I bet it was you. I really would like to hear you talk yourself out of this boo-boo!

Mayor William Dudley You mind telling me what's going on out here?

Nurse Andrea Harper Doctor's orders. Dr. Whitman wants the rest of the hospital evacuated - in a hurry. You know you could do us both a favor Mr. Mayor and get yourself in one of those trucks. At least this'll keep you out of the governor's mansion.

Mayor William Dudley Don't take any bets on it.

Nurse Andrea Harper WELL I AIN'T GONNA VOTE FOR YOU!

Willa Harper John, you always make up that lie. There is no money. Why can't you get that through your head?

Charlotte Haze I forbid you to disturb Professor Humbert again. He is a writer and he is not to be disturbed!

Willa Harper I feel clean! My whole body is a'quiver with cleanness!

Charlotte Haze The Haze woman...the cow...the obnoxious Mama...the brainless baba...Well, the stupid Haze is no longer your dupe....You're a monster. You're a disgusting, despicable, loathsome...fraud. Get out of my way...I'm leaving here today. You can have all of it. But you are never gonna see that miserable brat again!

Manny Rosen Belle, be careful.

Belle Rosen Manny, you think I'm planning to be careless?

Mike Rogo What the hell does he think she's doing?!

Manny Rosen Let her go! She knows what she's doing!

Willa Harper You have all sinned. Which one of you can say, as I can say, that you drove a good man to murder because I kept a-houndin him, for perfume, and clothes, and face paint? And he slew two human beings. And he come to me, and he said, Take this money, and buy yourself the clothes! And the paint!'...But brother-n, brother-n, oh that's where the Lord stepped in, that's where the Lord stepped in...He said, the Lord, to that man, You take that money, and you throw it in the river!

Charlotte Haze This is a confession. I love you. Last Sunday in church, my dear one, when I asked the Lord what to do about it, I was told to act as I am acting now. You see, there is no alternative. I have loved you from the minute I saw you. I am a passionate and lonely woman. And you are the love of my life. Now you know. So you will please at once pack and leave. This is a landlady's order. I am dismissing the lodger. I am kicking you out. Go! Scram! Departez! I shall be back by dinnertime. I do not wish to find you in the house. You see, cherie, if you decided to stay, if I found you at home, which I know I won't, and that's why I'm able to go on like this, the fact of your remaining would only mean one thing. That you ... (He begins to hysterically and uncontrollably burst out laughing with a fiendish sound), that you want me as much as I do you, as a life-long mate. And you are ready to link up your life with mine forever and ever and be a father to my little girl. Goodbye, dear one, pray for me, if you've ever prayed.

Charlotte Haze That miserable little brat. She is becoming impossible. Simply impossible. The idea! The idea of her sneaking back here and spying on us...She's always been a spiteful little pest, since the age of one. Do you know, she kept throwing her toys, her toys out of her crib so that I would have to keep stooping over to pick them up? She has always had some kind of gripe against me. Now, now she sees herself as some kind of a starlet. Well, I see her as a sturdy, healthy, but decidedly homely child. Is it my fault if I feel young? Why should my child resent it? You don't resent it, do you? Do you think I'm just a foolish, romantic American girl?

Alfie Here, don't you dig your nails in again like you did last Thursday night. I've got scratches all down me back.

Ruby Here, I may do more than that to you today.

Willa Harper It ain't in the river, is it, Harry?...Ben never told you he throw'd it in the river, did he?...The children know where it's hid. John knows. Is that it, Harry? Then, it's still here amongst us, taintin us. You must have known about it all along, Harry? But that ain't the reason why you married me. I know that much...He made you marry me, so you could show me the Way and the Life and the salvation for my soul. Ain't that so, Harry? So you might say that it was the money that brung us together. The rest of it don't matter.

Belle Rosen You see, Mr. Scott? In the water, I'm a very skinny lady.

Belle Rosen You see, he's swimming through the corridors and up and down these stairwells, I'm the only one here trained to do things like that!

Linda Rogo Will you shut up?!

Charlotte Haze We can go home now and have a cozy little dinner partout, huh?

Charlotte Haze Oh M'sieur, if what you're needing is peace and quiet, I can assure you you couldn't get more peace anywhere, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

Charlotte Haze Harold, look what happened! I was disloyal to you. I couldn't help it, though. Seven years is a very long time. Why did you go and die on me?! I didn't know anything about life. I was very young. If you hadn't died, all this wouldn't have happened. Oh, darling, forgive me. Forgive me. You were the soul of integrity. How did we produce such a little beast? I promise, I promise, I promise you that I'll know better next time. Next time, it's gonna be somebody you'll be very proud of.

Charlotte Haze It's only natural and healthy that she should take an interest in those fascinating creatures known as the opposite sex.