Film Quotes by Marjorie Main
19 quotes
Year: 1940
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Mrs. Cantrell:
You're at the end of the road and the devil is beside ya... waiting.
--
Marjorie Main
(as Mrs. Cantrell, aka Mrs. Adams)
in
Dark Command
(1940)
Year: 1940
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Mrs. Cantrell:
You're no good, Will.
William Cantrell: I've killed men for saying less than that!
Mrs. Cantrell: You've killed a lot of men for saying nothing at all!
William Cantrell: I've killed men for saying less than that!
Mrs. Cantrell: You've killed a lot of men for saying nothing at all!
--
Marjorie Main
(as Mrs. Cantrell, aka Mrs. Adams)
in
Dark Command
(1940)
Year: 1953
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Mrs. Hittaway:
What good is a trailerite if not to help out another trailerite?
--
Marjorie Main
(as Mrs. Hittaway)
in
The Long, Long Trailer
(1953)
Year: 1942
Director:
Jules Dassin
Director:
Jules Dassin
Mrs. McKessic:
Well, bust my britches!
--
Marjorie Main
(as Mrs. McKissick)
in
The Affairs of Martha
(1942)
Year: 1952
Director:
Charles Walters
Director:
Charles Walters
Mrs. Phineas Hill:
All the cheques I've written to Charles, five of them. Supposedly for his pet charities. Well I'm through being charitable to everyone he pets.
--
Marjorie Main
(as Mrs. Phineas Hill)
in
The Belle of New York
(1952)
Year: 1952
Director:
Charles Walters
Director:
Charles Walters
Mrs. Phineas Hill:
And when you leave, take Buffalo Bill with you!
--
Marjorie Main
(as Mrs. Phineas Hill)
in
The Belle of New York
(1952)
Year: 1944
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Agnes Smith:
Katie, where's my cat?
Katie the Maid: I don't know... a little while ago, she got in my way and I kicked her down the cellar steps. I could hear her spine hitting on every step.
Agnes Smith: Oh, if you killed her, I'll kill you! I'll stab you to death in your sleep, then I'll tie your body to two wild horses until you're pulled apart.
Katie the Maid: Oh, won't that be terrible, now? There's your cat.
Katie the Maid: I don't know... a little while ago, she got in my way and I kicked her down the cellar steps. I could hear her spine hitting on every step.
Agnes Smith: Oh, if you killed her, I'll kill you! I'll stab you to death in your sleep, then I'll tie your body to two wild horses until you're pulled apart.
Katie the Maid: Oh, won't that be terrible, now? There's your cat.
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Marjorie Main
(as Katie)
in
Meet Me in St. Louis
(1944)
Year: 1945
Director:
George Marshall
Director:
George Marshall
Grandma Fleagle:
[after Pete has blown out the candle, and he and the Fleagles see that her skin glows in the dark] I glow, don't I?
Pete Marshall: Yes, quite a bit.
Grandma Fleagle: I knowed it! I'm p'isoned, and
[pointing to Fleagles]
Grandma Fleagle: they're the ones that done it to me!
Pete Marshall: They did? How?
Mamie Johnson: What to you want to do, live forever?
Pete Marshall: Yes, quite a bit.
Grandma Fleagle: I knowed it! I'm p'isoned, and
[pointing to Fleagles]
Grandma Fleagle: they're the ones that done it to me!
Pete Marshall: They did? How?
Mamie Johnson: What to you want to do, live forever?
--
Marjorie Main
in
Murder, He Says
(1945)
Year: 1940
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Director:
Raoul Walsh
[she holds a rifle on her son, William, to prevent him from going upstairs after his wife]
William Cantrell: Say, what's the matter with you? What's that gun for?
Mrs. Cantrell: It's for you, Will. I thought I'd borned a man-child when I first hear'd you squallin'. But I didn't. I borned a dirty murderin' snake that's broke my heart to see it crawlin' along. You're no good, Will.
William Cantrell: I've killed a lot of men for saying less than that.
Mrs. Cantrell: You've killed a lot of men for sayin' nuthin' at all! Kansas is red with their bleedin'. I curse the day I ever had you.
William Cantrell: Say, what's the matter with you? What's that gun for?
Mrs. Cantrell: It's for you, Will. I thought I'd borned a man-child when I first hear'd you squallin'. But I didn't. I borned a dirty murderin' snake that's broke my heart to see it crawlin' along. You're no good, Will.
William Cantrell: I've killed a lot of men for saying less than that.
Mrs. Cantrell: You've killed a lot of men for sayin' nuthin' at all! Kansas is red with their bleedin'. I curse the day I ever had you.
--
Marjorie Main
(as Mrs. Cantrell, aka Mrs. Adams)
in
Dark Command
(1940)