Quotes from Gilda (1946)

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Glenn Ford
Ballin Mundson: [referring to his knife cane] It is a most faithful and obedient friend: it is silent when I want it to be silent, but talks when I want to talk.
Johnny Farrell: Is it that your idea of a friend?
Ballin Mundson: That is my idea of a friend.
Johnny Farrell: You must lead a gay life.
- Glenn Ford (as Johnny Farrell / Narrator) in Gilda (1946)

Rita Hayworth
Ballin Mundson: Gilda, are you decent?
Gilda: Me?
[long pause]
Gilda: Sure. I'm decent.
- Rita Hayworth (as Gilda Mundson Farrell) in Gilda (1946)

Rita Hayworth
Ballin Mundson: Look your best, my beautiful. This will be the casino's first glimpse of you.
[He kisses her]
Gilda: I'll look my very best, Ballin.
[Looks at Johnny]
Gilda: I want all the hired help to approve of me. Glad to have met you, Mr. Farrell.
Ballin Mundson: His name is Johnny, Gilda.
Gilda: Oh, I'm sorry. Johnny is such a hard name to remember and so easy to forget.
[In a breathy voice]
Gilda: Johnny. There. See you later, Mr. Farrell.
- Rita Hayworth (as Gilda Mundson Farrell) in Gilda (1946)

Glenn Ford
Johnny Farrell: [narrating off screen] She still didn't believe I wasn't coming back. Every night she got all dressed upt... and waited. But a girl like Gilda couldn't stand not knowing the why of things, so she decided to swallow her pride and came to see me. It was wonderful.
- Glenn Ford (as Johnny Farrell / Narrator) in Gilda (1946)

Rita Hayworth
Johnny Farrell: Doesn't it bother you at all that you're married?
Gilda: What I want to know is, does it bother you?
- Rita Hayworth (as Gilda Mundson Farrell) in Gilda (1946)

Glenn Ford
Johnny Farrell: I hated her so I couldn't get her out of my mind for a minute.
- Glenn Ford (as Johnny Farrell / Narrator) in Gilda (1946)

George Macready
Johnny Farrell: I thought we agreed that women and gambling didn't mix.
Ballin Mundson: My wife does not come under the category of women, Johnny.
- George Macready (as Ballin Mundson) in Gilda (1946)

Glenn Ford
Johnny Farrell: I want to go with you, Gilda. Please take me. I know I did everything wrong...
Gilda: [sobbing] Isn't it wonderful? Nobody has to apologize, because we were both stinkers, weren't we? Isn't it wonderful?
Johnny Farrell: Wonderful.
- Glenn Ford (as Johnny Farrell / Narrator) in Gilda (1946)

Glenn Ford
Johnny Farrell: Pardon me, but your husband is showing.
- Glenn Ford (as Johnny Farrell / Narrator) in Gilda (1946)

Glenn Ford
Johnny Farrell: Statistics show that there are more women in the world than anything else. Except insects.
- Glenn Ford (as Johnny Farrell / Narrator) in Gilda (1946)

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