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Film Quotes by Alison Skipworth

9 quotes
Coming-Out Party
Year: 1934

Director:
John G. Blystone
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.
Madame Racketeer
Year: 1932

Director:
Harry Wagstaff Gribble*Alexander Hall
Warden George Waddell: Now, don't take any wooden nickels.
Countess von Claudwig: Ha-ha, what an excruciating sense of humor you have.
-- Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer (1932)
Madame Racketeer
Year: 1932

Director:
Harry Wagstaff Gribble*Alexander Hall
Elmer Hicks: I thought you were dead!
Countess von Claudwig: You mean you hoped I was.
-- Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer (1932)
Madame Racketeer
Year: 1932

Director:
Harry Wagstaff Gribble*Alexander Hall
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)
Madame Racketeer
Year: 1932

Director:
Harry Wagstaff Gribble*Alexander Hall
Countess von Claudwig: Many a famous chambermaid began as an unknown actress.
-- Alison Skipworth (as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks) in Madame Racketeer (1932)
Madame Racketeer
Year: 1932

Director:
Harry Wagstaff Gribble*Alexander Hall
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)
The Princess Comes Across
Year: 1936

Director:
William K. Howard
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.
-- Alison Skipworth (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across (1936)
The Princess Comes Across
Year: 1936

Director:
William K. Howard
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.
-- Alison Skipworth (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across (1936)
The Princess Comes Across
Year: 1936

Director:
William K. Howard
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.
-- Alison Skipworth (as Lady Gertrude Allwyn) in The Princess Comes Across (1936)