Tom Verney:
You're a beautiful brain and beautiful clothes. No temperature, no pulse. That's all.
A.M. MacGregor: Where did you learn about women, Verney?
Tom Verney: It isn't a matter of learning. It's instinct.
A.M. MacGregor: I'm a brain with no pulse, eh? I'm a woman, Verney, more woman than you'll ever know.
--Rosalind Russell (as A.M. MacGregor) in Take a Letter, Darling
A.M. MacGregor: Where did you learn about women, Verney?
Tom Verney: It isn't a matter of learning. It's instinct.
A.M. MacGregor: I'm a brain with no pulse, eh? I'm a woman, Verney, more woman than you'll ever know.
--Rosalind Russell (as A.M. MacGregor) in Take a Letter, Darling
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick:
You really would have been something, Mother.
Rose Hovick: Think so?
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: If you had had someone to push you like I had.
Rose Hovick: If I could've been, I would've been. And that's show business.
--Rosalind Russell (as Rose Hovick) in Gypsy
Rose Hovick: Think so?
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: If you had had someone to push you like I had.
Rose Hovick: If I could've been, I would've been. And that's show business.
--Rosalind Russell (as Rose Hovick) in Gypsy
Rosabelle:
Boy, it's getting harder and harder to make that dough around this place.
Mother Superior: [surprising Rosabelle] And it's going to get even harder. As of now, St. Francis-A-Go-Go is out of business.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Mother Superior: [surprising Rosabelle] And it's going to get even harder. As of now, St. Francis-A-Go-Go is out of business.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Rosabelle:
You mean we're supposed to wash the whole bus, Reverend Mother?
Mother Superior: From bumper to bumper.
Marvel Ann Clancy: But it's such a *big* bus, Reverend Mother.
Mother Superior: Yes... isn't it!
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Mother Superior: From bumper to bumper.
Marvel Ann Clancy: But it's such a *big* bus, Reverend Mother.
Mother Superior: Yes... isn't it!
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Paul Turner:
Besides, fliers aren't good for women -- ever.
Tonie Carter: Oh, I know. Every flier's married to his plane.
Paul Turner: Not quite that bad. But they never know what's going on inside of other people. How can they? They live 10,000 feet up in a world entirely their own. Any girl's safer to leave them there.
Tonie Carter: Dad always used to say, when you're safe... you're dead.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Flight for Freedom
Tonie Carter: Oh, I know. Every flier's married to his plane.
Paul Turner: Not quite that bad. But they never know what's going on inside of other people. How can they? They live 10,000 feet up in a world entirely their own. Any girl's safer to leave them there.
Tonie Carter: Dad always used to say, when you're safe... you're dead.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Flight for Freedom
[first lines]
Sister George: [carrying a sign, returning from a protest] Not a single arrest today, Mother!
Mother Superior: [sarcastically] Don't get discouraged, I'm sure you'll do better next time.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Sister George: [carrying a sign, returning from a protest] Not a single arrest today, Mother!
Mother Superior: [sarcastically] Don't get discouraged, I'm sure you'll do better next time.
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
[last lines]
Mary Clancy: Who knows, Reverend Mother, Maybe someday Rachel will come back and join the order.
Mother Superior: If she does, I quit!
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in The Trouble with Angels
Mary Clancy: Who knows, Reverend Mother, Maybe someday Rachel will come back and join the order.
Mother Superior: If she does, I quit!
--Rosalind Russell (as ) in The Trouble with Angels
[Patrick reads a list of words he doesn't understand]
Patrick Dennis: ...Neurotic, heterosexual...
Mame Dennis: Oh, my my my my, what an eager little mind.
[takes the list]
Mame Dennis: You won't need some of these words for months and months.
--Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame
Patrick Dennis: ...Neurotic, heterosexual...
Mame Dennis: Oh, my my my my, what an eager little mind.
[takes the list]
Mame Dennis: You won't need some of these words for months and months.
--Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame
[Pouring Agnes a drink]
Mame: This will calm you down.
Agnes Gooch: Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person!
Mame: What's wrong with that?
Agnes Gooch: Will it mix with Dr. Pepper?
Mame: He'll love it! Drink!
--Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame
Mame: This will calm you down.
Agnes Gooch: Oh, no! Spirits do the most horrible thing to me. I'm not the same person!
Mame: What's wrong with that?
Agnes Gooch: Will it mix with Dr. Pepper?
Mame: He'll love it! Drink!
--Rosalind Russell (as Mame Dennis) in Auntie Mame