Lily Vautier:
Darling, remember, you are Gaston Monescu. You are a crook. I want you as a crook. I love you as a crook. I worship you as a crook. Steal, swindle, rob. Oh, but don't become one of those useless, good-for-nothing gigolos.
--Miriam Hopkins (as Lily) in Trouble in Paradise
--Miriam Hopkins (as Lily) in Trouble in Paradise
Lily Vautier:
Well, I'll leave you alone with that lady. But if you behave like a gentleman, I'll break your neck.
--Miriam Hopkins (as Lily) in Trouble in Paradise
--Miriam Hopkins (as Lily) in Trouble in Paradise
Lily Vautier:
You know, when I first saw you, I thought you were an American.
Gaston Monescu: Thank you.
Lily Vautier: Someone from another world, so entirely different. Oh, one gets so tired of one's own class - princes and counts and dukes and kings! Everybody talking shop. Always trying to sell you jewelry. Then I heard your name and found out you were just one of us.
Gaston Monescu: Disappointed?
Lily Vautier: No, proud. Very proud.
--Miriam Hopkins (as Lily) in Trouble in Paradise
Gaston Monescu: Thank you.
Lily Vautier: Someone from another world, so entirely different. Oh, one gets so tired of one's own class - princes and counts and dukes and kings! Everybody talking shop. Always trying to sell you jewelry. Then I heard your name and found out you were just one of us.
Gaston Monescu: Disappointed?
Lily Vautier: No, proud. Very proud.
--Miriam Hopkins (as Lily) in Trouble in Paradise
Lydia Darrow:
When you hitch love up to marriage, it loses something.
--Miriam Hopkins (as ) in All of Me
--Miriam Hopkins (as ) in All of Me
Millie Drake:
[about Kit] That silly young boy she's been carrying on with has been called into the navy, and she must immediately become a young sailor's bride... of 42.
--Miriam Hopkins (as Millie Drake) in Old Acquaintance
--Miriam Hopkins (as Millie Drake) in Old Acquaintance
Mrs. Leslie Carter:
Actors aren't supposed to be human beings, are they? They're strange animals always on exhibition.
David Belasco: Caroline!
Mrs. Leslie Carter: Why people love to admire them as they would a good bit of horseflesh, or a brilliant peacock spreading its feathers.
--Miriam Hopkins (as ) in Lady with Red Hair
David Belasco: Caroline!
Mrs. Leslie Carter: Why people love to admire them as they would a good bit of horseflesh, or a brilliant peacock spreading its feathers.
--Miriam Hopkins (as ) in Lady with Red Hair
Mrs. Leslie Carter:
I'm going to be an actress.
Mrs. Dudley: Oh, now you start that again! You don't know what you're talking about. It takes years of training to become a successful actress.
Mrs. Leslie Carter: I can walk and talk and shout as well as any other!
--Miriam Hopkins (as ) in Lady with Red Hair
Mrs. Dudley: Oh, now you start that again! You don't know what you're talking about. It takes years of training to become a successful actress.
Mrs. Leslie Carter: I can walk and talk and shout as well as any other!
--Miriam Hopkins (as ) in Lady with Red Hair
Mrs. Leslie Carter:
Why must they make some harmless weekend seem like a vulgar, obscene escapade? What kind of minds have these women got? Oh, whatever I've done, I've done to myself! Not the baby!
--Miriam Hopkins (as ) in Lady with Red Hair
--Miriam Hopkins (as ) in Lady with Red Hair
Princess Anna:
I don't know very much about life. I got all my knowledge out of the Royal Encyclopedia. A special edition arranged for Flausenthurm, with all the interesting things left out.
--Miriam Hopkins (as Princess Anna) in The Smiling Lieutenant
--Miriam Hopkins (as Princess Anna) in The Smiling Lieutenant
Princess Anna:
Papa, you may not realize it, but I'm desperate. I'm no longer responsible. I'm capable of anything. If you don't let me have my Lieutenant, do you know what I'm going to do?
King Adolf XV: What?
Princess Anna: I'm going to marry an American!
--Miriam Hopkins (as Princess Anna) in The Smiling Lieutenant
King Adolf XV: What?
Princess Anna: I'm going to marry an American!
--Miriam Hopkins (as Princess Anna) in The Smiling Lieutenant
