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Film Quotes by Ella Raines

6 quotes
Phantom Lady
Year: 1944

Director:
Robert Siodmak
Mac: Yes, Miss?
Carol Richman: Pinch-bottle and water.
Hail the Conquering Hero
Year: 1944

Director:
Preston Sturges
Libby: [mad at Mayor Noble for criticizing Woodrow] That ass of a father of yours! Going around talking about people he doesn't know anything about.
Forrest Noble: You're still talking about your children's grandfather.
Libby: What are you trying to do? Depress me? If I thought they'd look anything like him...
Forrest Noble: Well, I don't look anything like him.
Libby: I've noticed that. I've pinned my hopes on it.
-- Ella Raines (as Libby) in Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Impact
Year: 1949

Director:
Arthur Lubin
Marsha Peters: It's wonderful the way tools seem to come alive in your hands.
-- Ella Raines (as Marsha Peters) in Impact (1949)
Hail the Conquering Hero
Year: 1944

Director:
Preston Sturges
Forrest Noble: If he waited a year longer, there might have been three of us to welcome him. If he waited two years, there might have been...
Libby: Oh, shut up.
Forrest Noble: Well, that's what marriage is for isn't it?
Libby: Oh, I suppose so, if you look at it from a purely unromantic standpoint - like a breeding farm.
-- Ella Raines (as Libby) in Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Hail the Conquering Hero
Year: 1944

Director:
Preston Sturges
Doc Bissell: [explaining to Woodrow that the town still wants him to run for mayor] Politics is a very peculiar thing, Woodrow. If they want you, they want you. They don't need reasons anymore... they find their own reasons. It's just like when a girl wants a man.
Libby: That's right. You don't need reasons. Although they're probably there.
-- Ella Raines (as Libby) in Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
The Web
Year: 1947

Director:
Michael Gordon
Bob Regan: When I'm worth forty million dollars, I'm going to have a secretary looks exactly like you.
Noel Faraday: Oh, my tastes are fairly simple. Twenty million would be quite enough.
-- Ella Raines in The Web (1947)