Film Quotes by Billie Burke
7 quotes
Year: 1934
Director:
W.S. Van Dyke
Director:
W.S. Van Dyke
Shemp 'Shempy':
as he helps Paula pick up the Dining table and carry it, Where are we going?
Aunt Paula: To Cairo, where do you think, we're going to the Kitchen.
Aunt Paula: To Cairo, where do you think, we're going to the Kitchen.
--
Billie Burke
(as Aunt Paula)
in
Forsaking All Others
(1934)
Year: 1938
Director:
Norman Z. McLeod
Director:
Norman Z. McLeod
Jerry Kilbourne:
Maybe he didn't have a father.
Mrs. Emily Kilbourne: Oh darling, everyone has a father, that's one of nature's unwritten laws.
Mrs. Emily Kilbourne: Oh darling, everyone has a father, that's one of nature's unwritten laws.
--
Billie Burke
(as Mrs. Emily Kilbourne)
in
Merrily We Live
(1938)
Year: 1937
Director:
Dorothy Arzner
Director:
Dorothy Arzner
Contessa di Meina:
I can imagine nothing of less interest to the rest of us.
--
Billie Burke
(as Contessa di Meina)
in
The Bride Wore Red
(1937)
Year: 1938
Director:
Richard Wallace
Director:
Richard Wallace
Marmy Carleton:
The sahib doesn't believe in unemployment.
Mrs. Jennings: He doesn't?
Marmy Carleton: H thinks it should all be done away with.
Mrs. Jennings: How interesting!
Marmy Carleton: He says the only way to do away with unemployment is to do away with employment. If nobody worked, there couldn't be any unemployment, and so the sahib hasn't done a speck of work in four years.
Mrs. Jennings: He doesn't?
Marmy Carleton: H thinks it should all be done away with.
Mrs. Jennings: How interesting!
Marmy Carleton: He says the only way to do away with unemployment is to do away with employment. If nobody worked, there couldn't be any unemployment, and so the sahib hasn't done a speck of work in four years.
--
Billie Burke
(as Marmy Carleton)
in
The Young in Heart
(1938)
Year: 1937
Director:
Norman Z. McLeod
Director:
Norman Z. McLeod
Mrs. Topper:
Wilkins, after all these years, are you trying to be funny?
--
Billie Burke
(as Mrs. Clara Topper)
in
Topper
(1937)
Year: 1935
Director:
David Butler
Director:
David Butler
Paula Brown:
My dear, you have to be an very good actress to be a successful wife.
--
Billie Burke
(as Paula Brown)
in
Doubting Thomas
(1935)
Year: 1937
Director:
Dorothy Arzner
Director:
Dorothy Arzner
Admiral Monti:
Anne Vivaldi, that's it! It's been on the tip of my tongue all night.
Contessa di Meina: How cozy.
Contessa di Meina: How cozy.
--
Billie Burke
(as Contessa di Meina)
in
The Bride Wore Red
(1937)