Birdie:
What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end.
--Thelma Ritter (as Birdie) in All About Eve
--Thelma Ritter (as Birdie) in All About Eve
Ellen McNulty:
You don't know what it was like working with her yesterday. I felt like I was 21 again.
Val McNulty: Oh Malarky
Ellen McNulty: Look wiseguy, I didn't feel like I was 21 when I was 21.
--Thelma Ritter (as Ellen McNulty) in The Mating Season
Val McNulty: Oh Malarky
Ellen McNulty: Look wiseguy, I didn't feel like I was 21 when I was 21.
--Thelma Ritter (as Ellen McNulty) in The Mating Season
Isabelle Steers:
I never seen a town with so many people that didn't own a watch
--Thelma Ritter (as Isabelle Steers) in The Misfits
--Thelma Ritter (as Isabelle Steers) in The Misfits
Isabelle Steers:
One thing about this town, it's always full of interesting strangers.
--Thelma Ritter (as Isabelle Steers) in The Misfits
--Thelma Ritter (as Isabelle Steers) in The Misfits
Isabelle Steers:
The Leave It state. Ya got money you want to gamble? Leave it here. You got a wife you want to get ride of? Get rid of her here. Extra atom bomb you don't need? Blow it up here. Nobody's gonna mind in the slightest.
--Thelma Ritter (as Isabelle Steers) in The Misfits
--Thelma Ritter (as Isabelle Steers) in The Misfits
Lucy Cashdollar:
Don't forget, I'm a five time widow, and when they died they all left me everything they owned. Rest their souls.
Fortune Friendly: What do you want with me? I'm broke.
Lucy Cashdollar: Well, I figure after five rich husbands, the next one would be on the house.
--Thelma Ritter (as Lucy Cashdollar) in The Farmer Takes a Wife
Fortune Friendly: What do you want with me? I'm broke.
Lucy Cashdollar: Well, I figure after five rich husbands, the next one would be on the house.
--Thelma Ritter (as Lucy Cashdollar) in The Farmer Takes a Wife
Maude Young:
[running to the lifeboat] Give me one of them paddles!
--Thelma Ritter (as Maude Young) in Titanic
--Thelma Ritter (as Maude Young) in Titanic
Maude Young:
I've seen that look before. He's a runaway.
Earl Meeker: From what, some woman?
Maude: No, he's running too fast for that.
--Thelma Ritter (as Maude Young) in Titanic
Earl Meeker: From what, some woman?
Maude: No, he's running too fast for that.
--Thelma Ritter (as Maude Young) in Titanic
Maude Young:
Where I come from this is either a revival meeting or a crap game.
--Thelma Ritter (as Maude Young) in Titanic
--Thelma Ritter (as Maude Young) in Titanic
Maude:
[after Richard has rejected his son Norman and refused to play in the shuffleboard match with him] It certainly clouded up. Well, word'll do it faster than a hickory stick any time.
--Thelma Ritter (as Maude Young) in Titanic
--Thelma Ritter (as Maude Young) in Titanic
