Film Quotes by Alison Skipworth
9 quotes
Harry Gold:
You've been getting into trouble, at your age, Mrs. Vanderdoe?
Miss Gertrude Vanderdoe: I do not get into trouble; I merely experience annoyances.
Miss Gertrude Vanderdoe: I do not get into trouble; I merely experience annoyances.
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Alison Skipworth
in
Coming-Out Party
(1934)
Warden George Waddell:
Now, don't take any wooden nickels.
Countess von Claudwig: Ha-ha, what an excruciating sense of humor you have.
Countess von Claudwig: Ha-ha, what an excruciating sense of humor you have.
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Alison Skipworth
(as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks)
in
Madame Racketeer
(1932)
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Alison Skipworth
(as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks)
in
Madame Racketeer
(1932)
Countess von Claudwig:
I manage to pick up something nice wherever I go.
--
Alison Skipworth
(as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks)
in
Madame Racketeer
(1932)
Countess von Claudwig:
Many a famous chambermaid began as an unknown actress.
--
Alison Skipworth
(as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks)
in
Madame Racketeer
(1932)
Countess von Claudwig:
When I regain my health, I shall plan a life of dignity and rectitude.
--
Alison Skipworth
(as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks)
in
Madame Racketeer
(1932)
Lady Gertrude Allwyn:
My dear, I am an old woman. I have travelled at home and abroad, and NEVER, NEVER have I known any good to come out of a concertina.
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Alison Skipworth
(as Lady Gertrude Allwyn)
in
The Princess Comes Across
(1936)
Lady Gertrude Allwyn:
The story is from a novel entitled Lavender and Old Lace, but the name of the cinema has been changed to... um... She Done Him Plenty.
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Alison Skipworth
(as Lady Gertrude Allwyn)
in
The Princess Comes Across
(1936)
Lady Gertrude Allwyn:
What is that?
Princess Olga: Why it's one of those things, you know, one of those come-to-you go-from-you things.
Lady Gertrude Allwyn: A concertina. And very vulgar. A definite symbol of the lower classes. Put the thing on the floor and it crawls.
Princess Olga: Why it's one of those things, you know, one of those come-to-you go-from-you things.
Lady Gertrude Allwyn: A concertina. And very vulgar. A definite symbol of the lower classes. Put the thing on the floor and it crawls.
--
Alison Skipworth
(as Lady Gertrude Allwyn)
in
The Princess Comes Across
(1936)