Imitation of Life Quotes

Annie: How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?

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Annie: How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?

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Annie: I'd be happy knowin' you're meetin' nice young folk...

Sarah Jane: Busboys! Cooks! Chauffeurs!
[Hmph]

Sarah Jane: Like Hawkins. No thank you; I've seen your nice young folk.

Annie: I don't wanna fight with you, honey. Not tonight. I don't feel too good. While I get started on the anchovies, will you take this tray in to Miss Lora and her friends?

Sarah Jane: [sarcastic] Why, certainly. Anything at all for Miss Lora and her friends.

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Annie: I'd be happy knowin' you're meetin' nice young folk...

Sarah Jane: Busboys! Cooks! Chauffeurs!
[Hmph]

Sarah Jane: Like Hawkins. No thank you; I've seen your "nice young folk".

Annie: I don't wanna fight with you, honey. Not tonight. I don't feel too good. While I get started on the anchovies, will you take this tray in to Miss Lora and her friends?

Sarah Jane: [sarcastic] Why, certainly. Anything at all for Miss Lora and her friends.

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Baby Jessie Pullman, Age 3: I want my quack-quack!

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Delilah Johnson: What's my baby want?
Peola Johnson, Age 19: I want to be white, like I look.
Delilah Johnson: Peola!
Peola Johnson, Age 19: [gesturing to mirror] Look at me. Am I not white? Isn't that a white girl?

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Delilah Johnson: What's my baby want?

Peola Johnson, Age 19: I want to be white, like I look.

Delilah Johnson: Peola!

Peola Johnson, Age 19: [gesturing to mirror] Look at me. Am I not white? Isn't that a white girl?

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Delilah Johnson: [to Peola] Bow your head! You got to learn to take it!

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Delilah Johnson: What's my baby want?

Peola Johnson, Age 19: I want to be white, like I look.

Delilah Johnson: Peola!

Peola Johnson, Age 19: [gesturing to mirror] Look at me. Am I not white? Isn't that a white girl?

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Jessie Pullman, Age 18: After all, what's the good of algebra and all that stuff to a girl?

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Jessie Pullman, Age 18: After all, what's the good of algebra and all that stuff to a girl?

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

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

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Lora: You're aiming high.

Steve: Why not? It doesn't cost anymore. Don't you believe in chasing rainbows?

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

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Lora: You're aiming high.

Steve: Why not? It doesn't cost anymore. Don't you believe in chasing rainbows?

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

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Sarah Jane: [to mother Annie] I wouldn't be caught dead in a colored teachers' college!

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Sarah Jane: Miss Lora, you don't know what it means to be... different...

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Sarah Jane: I'm somebody else. I'm white... white... WHITE!

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Sarah Jane: Miss Lora, you don't know what it means to be... different...

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Sarah Jane: I'm someone else. I'm white... white... WHITE!

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Sarah Jane: I'm someone else. I'm white... white... WHITE!

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Showgirl: So, honeychile, you had a mammy!

Sarah Jane: Yes. All my life.

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Steve: Your bones...
Lora Meredith: What about my bones?
Steve: They're perfect. My camera could easily have a love affair with you.

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Steve: Your bones...

Lora Meredith: What about my bones?

Steve: They're perfect. My camera could easily have a love affair with you.

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Steve: Your bones...

Lora Meredith: What about my bones?

Steve: They're perfect. My camera could easily have a love affair with you.

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[Sarah Jane enters carrying a serving tray on her head]

Sarah Jane: [affected Southern Negro accent] Fetched y'all up a mess 'a crawdads, Miss Lora... fo' you an' yo' friends!

Lora: Well, that's quite a trick, Sarah Jane... where did you learn it?

Sarah Jane: [affected Southern Negro accent] Oh, 'tain't no trick ta' totin', Miss Lora! I learned it from my mammy, an' she learned it from ol' massa, 'fo' she belonged to you...

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[Sarah Jane enters carrying a serving tray on her head]
Sarah Jane: [affected Southern Negro accent] Fetched y'all up a mess 'a crawdads, Miss Lora... fo' you an' yo' friends!
Lora: Well, that's quite a trick, Sarah Jane... where did you learn it?
Sarah Jane: [affected Southern Negro accent] Oh, 'tain't no trick ta' totin', Miss Lora! I learned it from my mammy, an' she learned it from ol' massa, 'fo' she belonged to you...

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[Sarah Jane enters carrying a serving tray on her head]

Sarah Jane: [affected Southern Negro accent] Fetched y'all up a mess 'a crawdads, Miss Lora... fo' you an' yo' friends!

Lora: Well, that's quite a trick, Sarah Jane... where did you learn it?

Sarah Jane: [affected Southern Negro accent] Oh, 'tain't no trick ta' totin', Miss Lora! I learned it from my mammy, an' she learned it from ol' massa, 'fo' she belonged to you...

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