Lieutenant Peter Morales:
Is your husband here?
Mrs. Smerrling: [after a pause] Not exactly.
Lieutenant Peter Morales: Were you ever married?
Mrs. Smerrling: [Another pause] Not exactly. I... I, uh - you see, I...
--Elsa Lanchester (as Mrs. Smerrling) in Mystery Street
Mrs. Smerrling: [after a pause] Not exactly.
Lieutenant Peter Morales: Were you ever married?
Mrs. Smerrling: [Another pause] Not exactly. I... I, uh - you see, I...
--Elsa Lanchester (as Mrs. Smerrling) in Mystery Street
Don Klausmeyer:
I'm Don Klausmeyer, from Artways magazine.
Louise Patterson: Yes.
[giggles]
Louise Patterson: Oh, yes. Didn't you review my show in '41?
Don Klausmeyer: I think I did.
Louise Patterson: Oh, come in, Mr. Klausmann.
Don Klausmeyer: KlausMEYER.
Louise Patterson: [laughs gleefully] I've been planning to kill you for years.
--Elsa Lanchester (as Louise Patterson) in The Big Clock
Louise Patterson: Yes.
[giggles]
Louise Patterson: Oh, yes. Didn't you review my show in '41?
Don Klausmeyer: I think I did.
Louise Patterson: Oh, come in, Mr. Klausmann.
Don Klausmeyer: KlausMEYER.
Louise Patterson: [laughs gleefully] I've been planning to kill you for years.
--Elsa Lanchester (as Louise Patterson) in The Big Clock
Emily Creed:
I won't swear on the Bible. It's wicked.
--Elsa Lanchester (as ) in Ladies in Retirement
--Elsa Lanchester (as ) in Ladies in Retirement
Louise Patterson:
[after George Stroud outbids her for a picture] Isn't it a pity... the wrong people always have money.
--Elsa Lanchester (as Louise Patterson) in The Big Clock
--Elsa Lanchester (as Louise Patterson) in The Big Clock
Louise Patterson:
Oh Penelope, you forgot to put away your rollerskates.
--Elsa Lanchester (as Louise Patterson) in The Big Clock
--Elsa Lanchester (as Louise Patterson) in The Big Clock
Mary Shelley:
It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.
--Elsa Lanchester (as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Bride) in Bride of Frankenstein
--Elsa Lanchester (as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / The Monster's Bride) in Bride of Frankenstein
Matilda:
Nobody expects him be normal; he's a bishop.
--Elsa Lanchester (as Matilda) in The Bishop's Wife
--Elsa Lanchester (as Matilda) in The Bishop's Wife
Miss Plimsoll:
Teeny weeny flight of steps, Sir Wilfrid, we mustn't forget we've had a teeny weeny heart attack.
--Elsa Lanchester (as Miss Plimsoll) in Witness for the Prosecution
--Elsa Lanchester (as Miss Plimsoll) in Witness for the Prosecution
Miss Plimsoll:
Wilfrid the Fox! That's what they call him, and that's what he is!
--Elsa Lanchester (as Miss Plimsoll) in Witness for the Prosecution
--Elsa Lanchester (as Miss Plimsoll) in Witness for the Prosecution
Mrs. Carraclough:
Oh, well. Ye may as well know it right off. Lassie won't be waiting for ye at school anymore.
Joe Carraclough: Why not? What's happened?
Mrs. Carraclough: Because she's sold; that's why not.
--Elsa Lanchester (as Mrs. Carraclough) in Lassie Come Home
Joe Carraclough: Why not? What's happened?
Mrs. Carraclough: Because she's sold; that's why not.
--Elsa Lanchester (as Mrs. Carraclough) in Lassie Come Home
