Film Quotes by Norma Shearer
38 quotes
Jan Ashe:
[to Dwight] I just don't want to get married, Dwight. I don't want life to settle down around me like a pan of sour dough. I don't want it one little bit.
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Norma Shearer
(as Jan Ashe)
in
A Free Soul
(1931)
Jerry Bernard Martin:
[slipping on a diamond ring] Oh, I couldn't think of accepting such a valuable gift!
Offscreen man: But, my dear, my feeling for you is purely platonic.
Jerry Bernard Martin: Really? I've heard of platonic love, but I didn't know there was such a thing as platonic jewellery.
Offscreen man: But, my dear, my feeling for you is purely platonic.
Jerry Bernard Martin: Really? I've heard of platonic love, but I didn't know there was such a thing as platonic jewellery.
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Norma Shearer
(as Jerry Martin)
in
The Divorcee
(1930)
Jerry Bernard Martin:
[to Ted] So look for me in the future where the primroses grow and pack your man's pride with the rest. From now on, you're the only man in the world that my door is closed to.
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Norma Shearer
(as Jerry Martin)
in
The Divorcee
(1930)
Jerry Bernard Martin:
All men are fair game from now on!
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Norma Shearer
(as Jerry Martin)
in
The Divorcee
(1930)
Jerry Bernard Martin:
Gee whiz, but I'm glad to see you. Say, I've missed you like the dickens, Helen!
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Norma Shearer
(as Jerry Martin)
in
The Divorcee
(1930)
Jerry Bernard Martin:
What am I going to be doing while you're saving your first million?
Theodore 'Ted' Martin: Waiting for me.
Jerry Bernard Martin: [Giggles] Waiting isn't my idea of the king of indoor sports. I've no intention of waiting around for three or four years while you harvest an additional crop of wild oats.
Theodore 'Ted' Martin: Waiting for me.
Jerry Bernard Martin: [Giggles] Waiting isn't my idea of the king of indoor sports. I've no intention of waiting around for three or four years while you harvest an additional crop of wild oats.
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Norma Shearer
(as Jerry Martin)
in
The Divorcee
(1930)
Juliet:
Romeo. Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo?
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Norma Shearer
(as Juliet)
in
Romeo and Juliet
(1936)
Lisbeth Corbin:
I'm in an orgy, wallowing, and I love it.
--
Norma Shearer
in
Strangers May Kiss
(1931)
Mrs. Katherine Brown:
For Heaven's sake, let's be gay about this!
--
Norma Shearer
in
Let Us Be Gay
(1930)
Mrs. Moorehead:
Besides, there's nothing like a good dose of being left alone to make a man appreciate his wife.
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Norma Shearer
(as Mrs. Stephen Haines)
in
The Women
(1939)