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Film Quotes by Jean Simmons

28 quotes
This Could Be the Night
Year: 1957

Director:
Robert Wise
Anne Leeds: I vote, the Board of Education lets me teach, and when it comes to knowing my way around, I'll match myself against any dame in the place!
This Could Be the Night
Year: 1957

Director:
Robert Wise
Anne Leeds: You live like a Casanova with a string of women running up and down the stairs, but when somebody tries to talk to you truthfully you react like an outraged prude. Let me tell you something, you're the museum piece, not me.
Until They Sail
Year: 1957

Director:
Robert Wise
Barbara Leslie Forbes: [Last lines] If my father could read the history of his daughters...
Capt. Jack Harding: He'd understand.
Barbara Leslie Forbes: As they say, to understand is to forgive. Or is it, to understand is not to forgive? I can never remember.
The Robe
Year: 1953

Director:
Henry Koster
Diana: It's good to see you, Marcellus.
Marcellus Gallio: It's ah - good to see you - again.
Diana: Then you do remember me?
Marcellus Gallio: Ah - yes, of course. Let me see now, it was the - was the...
Diana: And your promise, have you forgotten that too?
Marcellus Gallio: What promise?
Diana: To marry me.
Marcellus Gallio: Was I drunk?
Diana: That's not very flattering, Marcellus.
Marcellus Gallio: Oh, I - I mean, if you'd tell me when I was supposed to have said this - the circumstances...
Diana: Oh, I remember them perfectly. I'd cut my finger, and I cried. And then you took the dagger and cut your own finger to show that it didn't really hurt, and then you kissed me, and I stopped crying - and then you promised to marry me when we grew up.
Marcellus Gallio: Dianna! Where have your freckles gone?
Diana: I lost them.
Marcellus Gallio: Oh, I loved every one of them.
Diana: Then I'm sorry I lost them.
-- Jean Simmons (as Diana) in The Robe (1953)
The Robe
Year: 1953

Director:
Henry Koster
Diana: No, Marcellus, they'll kill you!
Marcellus Gallio: You must have faith...
Diana: Faith in what? This new God of yours? How can he help you? He couldn't help his own son, they crucified him!
-- Jean Simmons (as Diana) in The Robe (1953)
The Robe
Year: 1953

Director:
Henry Koster
Diana: Then all the tales I've heard of you are true.
Marcellus Gallio: Every man makes enemies.
Diana: All your enemies seem to be women.
-- Jean Simmons (as Diana) in The Robe (1953)
The Big Country
Year: 1958

Director:
William Wyler
Julie Maragon: Any ranch that you can see on foot just isn't worth looking at.
-- Jean Simmons (as Julie Maragon) in The Big Country (1958)
Footsteps in the Fog
Year: 1955

Director:
Arthur Lubin
Lily Watkins: I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have you to look after...
Guys and Dolls
Year: 1955

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Sergeant Sarah Brown: [after Sky confesses that their date is just part of a bet] Why not? You're a gambler. And darling... you are also a chump.
-- Jean Simmons (as Sergeant Sarah Brown) in Guys and Dolls (1955)
Guys and Dolls
Year: 1955

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Sergeant Sarah Brown: That bacardi flavor, it certainly makes a difference, doesn't it?
Sky Masterson: Oh, yeah. Nine times out of ten.
Sergeant Sarah Brown: You know, this would be a wonderful way to get children to drink milk!
-- Jean Simmons (as Sergeant Sarah Brown) in Guys and Dolls (1955)