Google Ads
Login | Sign Up

Film Quotes by Jessie Royce Landis

7 quotes
Boys' Night Out
Year: 1962

Director:
Michael Gordon
Boys' Night Out
Ethel Williams: Waitress, waitress darling. Another round please.
Waitress: Are you sure, madam?
Ethel Williams: Madam is sure.
Waitress: Madam is crocked.
-- Jessie Royce Landis (as Ethel Williams) in Boys' Night Out (1962)
To Catch a Thief
Year: 1955

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
To Catch a Thief
Jessie Stevens: [referring to John] Handsome. I wouldn't mind buying *that* for you.
-- Jessie Royce Landis (as Jessie Stevens) in To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Catch a Thief
Year: 1955

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
To Catch a Thief
Jessie Stevens: I know you ought to be spanked with a hairbrush and sent back to school - public school - where they could pound some sense into you during recess.
-- Jessie Royce Landis (as Jessie Stevens) in To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Catch a Thief
Year: 1955

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
To Catch a Thief
Jessie Stevens: Sorry I ever sent her to finishing school. I think they finished her there.
-- Jessie Royce Landis (as Jessie Stevens) in To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Catch a Thief
Year: 1955

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
To Catch a Thief
Frances Stevens: Maybe Mr. Houston doesn't care for gambling.
Jessie Stevens: Everyone likes to gamble in one way or another, even you!
Frances Stevens: I have an intense dislike for it.
Jessie Stevens: Francie, dear, when the stakes are right, you'll gamble!
-- Jessie Royce Landis (as Jessie Stevens) in To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Catch a Thief
Year: 1955

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
To Catch a Thief
Frances Stevens: My nerves could stand a drink.
Jessie Stevens: Your nerves and your mother!
-- Jessie Royce Landis (as Jessie Stevens) in To Catch a Thief (1955)
North by Northwest
Year: 1959

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
North by Northwest
Clara Thornhill: You gentlemen aren't REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?
-- Jessie Royce Landis (as Clara Thornhill) in North by Northwest (1959)