Charlie Castle: Am I the worst oaf in the world?
Marion Castle: The world's a big place. You're the worst one in my life.


--Ida Lupino (as ) in The Big Knife

Paul Collins: I've got a date tonight with a lady, a genuine lady.
Mrs. Helen Chernen: [Nastly] That'll be a novelty.


--Ida Lupino (as ) in The Hard Way

John Gray: I've got some photographs here I'd like to show you.
Mary Elton: Now listen, if you try selling me any of those things I'll shout for the police! This is London, not Paris.


--Ida Lupino (as ) in The Ghost Camera

Ellen Creed: Hell is like the kingdom of Heaven. It's within.


--Ida Lupino (as ) in Ladies in Retirement

Ellen Creed: It takes a lot of courage to kill for the first time, Albert. Once you've sold your soul to the devil, it becomes easier. Much easier.


--Ida Lupino (as ) in Ladies in Retirement

Emily Bronte: All our lives there has been too much left unsaid between us. Loving is the only thing that really matters, Charlotte. It's worthwhile being hurt a bit to find that out. The world has always frightened me a little, so I'm really not afraid to leave it now. Though sometimes, when I hear the wind blowing through the heather, or see the sun go down beyond Wuthering Heights, I think, perhaps, I'd like to stay just a little longer.


--Ida Lupino (as Emily Bronte) in Devotion

Julia Thomas: Who is he?
Man in crowd: Jacob Walz. Must be a Dutchman.
Julia Thomas: Or a German.
Man in crowd: Yeah, that's what I said - a Dutchman.


--Ida Lupino (as ) in Lust for Gold

Lana Carlsen: The doors made me do it!


--Ida Lupino (as Lana Carlsen) in They Drive by Night

Lila Thorne: I may have come from gorillas, but that doesn't mean I have to mix with them socially!


--Ida Lupino (as ) in The Lady and the Mob

Lilli Marlowe: Ever since I was a little girl, I dreamed I'd meet a drunken slob in a bar who'd give me fifty bucks and we'd live happily ever after.


--Ida Lupino (as ) in Private Hell 36