Quotes from Humoresque (1946)

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Joan Crawford
Helen Wright: [Drinking alone, toasting herself] Here's to love...
[hesitates]
Helen Wright: ... and here's to the time when we were little girls, and no one asked us to marry.
- Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque (1946)

Joan Crawford
Helen Wright: Bad manners, Mr. Boray, the infallible sign of talent!
- Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque (1946)

Joan Crawford
Helen Wright: Did you think you could go away for weeks, almost months, never call or write and come back to find me hanging in a clothes closet like a suit that you might put on some day a year from now?
- Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque (1946)

Joan Crawford
Helen Wright: Don't you like martinis? They're an acquired taste, like Ravel.
- Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque (1946)

Joan Crawford
Helen Wright: I spend my life doing penance for things I never should have done in the first place
- Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque (1946)

Joan Crawford
Helen Wright: I was married twice before - once at 16, once at 21. One was a crybaby and the other was a caveman. Between the two of them I said goodbye to girlhood.
- Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque (1946)

Joan Crawford
Helen Wright: I'd like to slap your face.
Paul Boray: Why don't you try it?
Helen Wright: [smashes her glass against the wall]
- Joan Crawford (as Helen Wright) in Humoresque (1946)

John Garfield
Paul Boray: All my life I wanted to do the right thing but it never worked out. I'm outside always looking in. Feeling all the time I'm far away from home and where home is I don't know. I can't get back to the simple happy kid I used to be.
- John Garfield (as Paul Boray) in Humoresque (1946)

Oscar Levant
Sid Jeffers: [regarding Helen Wright] She was born with a silver flask in her mouth.
- Oscar Levant (as Sid Jeffers) in Humoresque (1946)

Oscar Levant
Sid Jeffers: Hey, you just spoiled the beginnings of an odious relationship.
- Oscar Levant (as Sid Jeffers) in Humoresque (1946)

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