Marilyn David: I want a glass. About this big. Mmm, no, maybe about THIS big. And I don't care what you put in it - whiskey, hair tonic, rat poison - but whatever it is, when I finish drinking it, I want to be curled up in a little heap, right HERE.

- Claudette Colbert (as Marilyn David) in The Gilded Lily (1935)

Marilyn David: I'm just a freak!

- Claudette Colbert (as Marilyn David) in The Gilded Lily (1935)

Marilyn David: Pete, you're a smart fellow. What do poor little working girls usually do next?
Peter Dawes: Well, they usually drown themselves, one way or the other.
Marilyn David: I'll take the other.

- Claudette Colbert (as Marilyn David) in The Gilded Lily (1935)

Peter Dawes: But popcorn - ah, popcorn was made for watching the world go by. Look. I stick my hand in the bag without taking my eyes off the street. I throw some popcorn in my craw. I chew... and I'm still looking. That's what I call class.
Marilyn David: Sure. Peanut eaters don't know how to live.

- Claudette Colbert (as Marilyn David) in The Gilded Lily (1935)