Lora Meredith: [to Sarah Jane] You weren't being colored, you were just being childish.


--Lana Turner (as ) in Imitation of Life

Lora Meredith: Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!


--Lana Turner (as ) in Imitation of Life

Marianne Patourel: [Discussing William's love for Marguerite] But when you wrote to my father you lied. You asked for my hand in marriage.
William Ozanne: I didn't lie. Listen to me, Marianne. I love you.
Marianne Patourel: Listen to more lies! You never loved me! You loved *her*. But you sent for me. Why?
William Ozanne: It wasn't a lie. It was o -
Marianne Patourel: Why did you send for me?
William Ozanne: I'll tell you, Marianne. Now I must tell you. I never wanted you to know. I never thought you would ever find out. But now...
Marianne Patourel: What did you never want me to find out?
William Ozanne: That I accidentally wrote your name instead of Marguerite's in the letter to your father.
Marianne Patourel: [She looks crushed] You accidentally wrote my name? Our whole marriage has been a... slip of the pen?
William Ozanne: Marianne...
Marianne Patourel: Does Marguerite know of-of your slip of the pen?
William Ozanne: No. Absolutely not. I never even so much as hinted anything. Oh, please. Believe me, Marianne. I never told a living soul. Well, that's not quite true. I told Tai Haruru.
[She looks moritfied]
William Ozanne: I had to tell him.
Marianne Patourel: Tai Haruru knew? He knew that you hated me. I thought I reached the lowest depths of degradation. But I didn't expect this. So, Tai knew. Course he knew. Now I understand everything. Why you never would've married me if he hadn't forced you into it. Would you, William?
[He turns away guiltily]
Marianne Patourel: Oh, William. William don't ever speak to me again!


--Lana Turner (as Marianne Patourel) in Green Dolphin Street

Samarra: A high priestess cries the day she is born and never again in her lifetime.


--Lana Turner (as Samarra) in The Prodigal

Samarra: The women in the wheel are the pick of the market. Did you not notice how superb were the haunches of the Grecian woman and how the lips of the Egyptian parted when she looked at any man?


--Lana Turner (as Samarra) in The Prodigal

Sheila 'Red': [to Geoffrey Collis] I get a bang out of you and you get a bang out of me.


--Lana Turner (as Sheila Regan) in Ziegfeld Girl

Paul Chevron: [sees the horse] Exactly what I had in mind.
Nora Taylor: [looks at the rider Roberto, played by Ricardo Montalban] Yes... yes indeed!


--Lana Turner (as ) in Latin Lovers