Jean Maitland: [crassly screaming from the bottom of the stairs] OH, LINDA! Linda Shaw: [coming down the stairs] Maybe if you spoke a little LOUDER next time, everyone in the whole HOUSE could hear you. Jean Maitland: [sarcastically] Oh, I'm sorry, I forget that you're old and deaf. - Ginger Rogers (as Jean Maitland) in Stage Door (1937)

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Jean Maitland: [to Linda Shaw as she is leaving for a dinner date] Don't chew the bones and give yourself away! - Ginger Rogers (as Jean Maitland) in Stage Door (1937)

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Jean Maitland: Do you mind if I ask a personal question? Terry Randall: Another one? Jean Maitland: Are these trunks full of bodies? Terry Randall: Just those, but I don't intend to unpack them. - Katharine Hepburn (as Terry Randall) in Stage Door (1937)

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Jean Maitland: Hey, that's a kind of good-lookin' piece of jackrabbit you got there. Linda Shaw: Oh, it's just a little trinket my "Aunt Susan" sent over. Jean Maitland: Say, I think it's very unselfish of those little animals to give up their lives to keep other animals warm. Linda Shaw: You know, they're very smart little animals. They never give up their lives for the wrong people. Jean Maitland: Well, you understand the rodent family much better than I do. - Ginger Rogers (as Jean Maitland) in Stage Door (1937)

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Jean Maitland: Hey, you're not gonna catch the opening tonight, huh? Eve: No, I'm going tomorrow and catch the closing. - Eve Arden (as Eve) in Stage Door (1937)

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Jean Maitland: We started off on the wrong foot. Let's stay that way. - Ginger Rogers (as Jean Maitland) in Stage Door (1937)

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Jean Maitland: When I get back to my room, you're the only thing I want to find missing. - Ginger Rogers (as Jean Maitland) in Stage Door (1937)

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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. - Katharine Hepburn (as Terry Randall) in Stage Door (1937)

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Terry Randall: [entering the boarding house after trying the wrong door] How many doors are there to this place? Jean Maitland: Well, there's the trap door, the humidor, and the cuspidor. How many doors would you like? - Ginger Rogers (as Jean Maitland) in Stage Door (1937)

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Terry Randall: [giving her curtain speech at the end of a trimphant opening night performance of the play within the movie] The person you should be applauding died a few hours ago. I hope that wherever she is, she knows and understands and forgives. - Katharine Hepburn (as Terry Randall) in Stage Door (1937)

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