Stage Door Quotes

Bill: One of the best press campaigns... [Offers Jean cigaret]
Jean Maitland: No thanks. Gave it up when I was seven.
Bill: Bright girl. Busy tonight?
Jean Maitland: Yes. [Following routine lines omitted]
Bill: Well, you haven't given up eating, have you?
Jean Maitland: It isn't that. It's - just that I think we hadn't better see each other for a while.
Bill: Why?
Jean Maitland: I just think it's better, that's all.
Bill: [long pause] O-h-h-h.
Jean Maitland: Why do you say "o-h-h-h" like that?
Bill: Well, how would you say it?
Jean Maitland: You make it sound like it meant something else.
Bill: Well, does it?
Jean Maitland: Whatever I do is my own business.
Annie: Are you coming or aren't you?
Jean Maitland: Oh shut up.
Bill: Did you eat something sour for lunch today?

Movie: Stage Door
Southern Sheriff: [to Elmer, who has no pants on] You're under arrest for indecent southern exposure. Is agin' the law. Get a-goin'! It's the hoosegow for you, bub. [as they are leaving the theater, a Bugs Bunny cartoon starts playing]
Southern Sheriff: Say, just a moment. Hold your horses. It's one of them Bugs Bunny cartoonies a-comin' on. I just dotes on that there critter's doin's. Sit, son. I ain't a gonna miss this'n.
Bugs Bunny: [On screen] Eh, what's up, Doc?
Southern Sheriff: [Laughing] Look at that critter! What a scalawag! Don't he beat all? [On screen, Bugs is putting on the sheriff costume]
Southern Sheriff: I can't stand it! He's a-killin' me!
Elmer Fudd: Hey! Wait a minute, you impostor. You're not shewiff. You're the wabbit in disguise. Off with it, you twickster. [Tears off the sheriff's clothes; he's not Bugs Bunny after all]
Southern Sheriff: Hmm. You'll swing for this, sir! [as the sheriff escorts Elmer out of the theater, the band conductor takes off his wig and reveals himself as Bugs]
Bugs Bunny: [Imitating Jimmy Durante] Ah-ha-ha-ha! I got a million of them!

Movie: Stage Door
Terry Randall: I see that, in addition to your other charms, you have that insolence generated by an inferior upbringing.
Jean Maitland: Hmm! Fancy clothes, fancy language and everything!
Terry Randall: Unfortunately, I learned to speak English correctly.
Jean Maitland: That won't be of much use to you here. We all talk pig latin.

Movie: Stage Door
Terry Randall: [delivering her opening speech in the play within the movie] The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower, suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

Movie: Stage Door