Film Quotes by Miriam Hopkins
24 quotes
Year: 1932
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Lily Vautier:
Darling, remember, you are Gaston Monescu. You are a crook. I want you as a crook. I love you as a crook. I worship you as a crook. Steal, swindle, rob. Oh, but don't become one of those useless, good-for-nothing gigolos.
--
Miriam Hopkins
(as Lily)
in
Trouble in Paradise
(1932)
Year: 1932
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Lily Vautier:
Well, I'll leave you alone with that lady. But if you behave like a gentleman, I'll break your neck.
--
Miriam Hopkins
(as Lily)
in
Trouble in Paradise
(1932)
Year: 1932
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Lily Vautier:
You know, when I first saw you, I thought you were an American.
Gaston Monescu: Thank you.
Lily Vautier: Someone from another world, so entirely different. Oh, one gets so tired of one's own class - princes and counts and dukes and kings! Everybody talking shop. Always trying to sell you jewelry. Then I heard your name and found out you were just one of us.
Gaston Monescu: Disappointed?
Lily Vautier: No, proud. Very proud.
Gaston Monescu: Thank you.
Lily Vautier: Someone from another world, so entirely different. Oh, one gets so tired of one's own class - princes and counts and dukes and kings! Everybody talking shop. Always trying to sell you jewelry. Then I heard your name and found out you were just one of us.
Gaston Monescu: Disappointed?
Lily Vautier: No, proud. Very proud.
--
Miriam Hopkins
(as Lily)
in
Trouble in Paradise
(1932)
Year: 1934
Director:
James Flood
Director:
James Flood
Lydia Darrow:
When you hitch love up to marriage, it loses something.
--
Miriam Hopkins
in
All of Me
(1934)
Year: 1943
Director:
Vincent Sherman
Director:
Vincent Sherman
Millie Drake:
[about Kit] That silly young boy she's been carrying on with has been called into the navy, and she must immediately become a young sailor's bride... of 42.
--
Miriam Hopkins
(as Millie Drake)
in
Old Acquaintance
(1943)
Year: 1940
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Mrs. Leslie Carter:
Actors aren't supposed to be human beings, are they? They're strange animals always on exhibition.
David Belasco: Caroline!
Mrs. Leslie Carter: Why people love to admire them as they would a good bit of horseflesh, or a brilliant peacock spreading its feathers.
David Belasco: Caroline!
Mrs. Leslie Carter: Why people love to admire them as they would a good bit of horseflesh, or a brilliant peacock spreading its feathers.
--
Miriam Hopkins
in
Lady with Red Hair
(1940)
Year: 1940
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Mrs. Leslie Carter:
I'm going to be an actress.
Mrs. Dudley: Oh, now you start that again! You don't know what you're talking about. It takes years of training to become a successful actress.
Mrs. Leslie Carter: I can walk and talk and shout as well as any other!
Mrs. Dudley: Oh, now you start that again! You don't know what you're talking about. It takes years of training to become a successful actress.
Mrs. Leslie Carter: I can walk and talk and shout as well as any other!
--
Miriam Hopkins
in
Lady with Red Hair
(1940)
Year: 1940
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Mrs. Leslie Carter:
Why must they make some harmless weekend seem like a vulgar, obscene escapade? What kind of minds have these women got? Oh, whatever I've done, I've done to myself! Not the baby!
--
Miriam Hopkins
in
Lady with Red Hair
(1940)
Year: 1931
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Princess Anna:
I don't know very much about life. I got all my knowledge out of the Royal Encyclopedia. A special edition arranged for Flausenthurm, with all the interesting things left out.
--
Miriam Hopkins
(as Princess Anna)
in
The Smiling Lieutenant
(1931)
Year: 1931
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Princess Anna:
Papa, you may not realize it, but I'm desperate. I'm no longer responsible. I'm capable of anything. If you don't let me have my Lieutenant, do you know what I'm going to do?
King Adolf XV: What?
Princess Anna: I'm going to marry an American!
King Adolf XV: What?
Princess Anna: I'm going to marry an American!
--
Miriam Hopkins
(as Princess Anna)
in
The Smiling Lieutenant
(1931)