Google Ads
Login | Sign Up

Film Quotes by Mary Astor

19 quotes
Red Dust
Year: 1932

Director:
Victor Fleming
Barbara Willis: That's a... a very polished little speech for a... barbarian.
-- Mary Astor (as Barbara Willis) in Red Dust (1932)
Dolores de Muro: I shall see you again.
Don Cesar de Vega: You presume.
Dolores de Muro: I assume.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Year: 1944

Director:
Vincente Minnelli
Mrs. Anna Smith: Sure, don't mind what happens to your family. At a time like this you think about the chickens.
-- Mary Astor (as Mrs. Anna Smith) in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
The Great Lie
Year: 1941

Director:
Edmund Goulding
Sandra Kovac: "If I didn't think you meant so well, I'd feel like slapping your face"
-- Mary Astor (as Sandra Kovak) in The Great Lie (1941)
The Great Lie
Year: 1941

Director:
Edmund Goulding
Sandra Kovac: I'm not one of you anemic creatures who can get nourishment from a lettuce leaf - I'm a musician, I'm an artist! I have zest and appetite - and I like food!
-- Mary Astor (as Sandra Kovak) in The Great Lie (1941)
Act of Violence
Year: 1948

Director:
Fred Zinnemann
Frank R. Enley: [desperately looking for Johnny] Where do I find him? Where does he live?
Pat: I don't know. Nobody knows!
Frank R. Enley: Well, there must be some way I can find...
Pat: Guys like him don't tell where they live!
-- Mary Astor (as Pat) in Act of Violence (1948)
The Maltese Falcon
Year: 1941

Director:
John Huston
Sam Spade: Haven't you tried to buy my loyalty with money and nothing else?
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: What else is there I can buy you with?
-- Mary Astor (as Brigid O'Shaughnessy) in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon
Year: 1941

Director:
John Huston
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: I do know he always went heavily armed, and that he never went to sleep without covering the floor around his bed with crumpled newspapers, so that nobody could come silently into his room.
Sam Spade: You picked a nice sort of a playmate.
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Only that sort could have helped me, if he'd been loyal.
-- Mary Astor (as Brigid O'Shaughnessy) in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Palm Beach Story
Year: 1942

Director:
Preston Sturges
John D. Hackensacker III: You don't marry someone you just met the day before; at least I don't.
Princess Centimillia: But that's the only way, dear. If you get to know too much about them you'd never marry them.
-- Mary Astor (as The Princess Centimillia) in The Palm Beach Story (1942)