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Film Quotes by Olivia de Havilland

43 quotes
My Love Came Back
Year: 1940

Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Amelia Cornell: You're not annoying me anymore, you're just boring.
The Strawberry Blonde
Year: 1941

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Amy Lind: [Amy accuses her of asking Hugo out without being properly introduced]
Virginia Brush: Why I never did any such thing! I simply happened to mention that I was in habit of taking walks in the park with my girlfriend. And besides in moral I didn't wink.
Amy Lind: Don't be a hypocrite, Virginia. Spiritually, you winked.
-- Olivia de Havilland (as Amy Lind) in The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
The Strawberry Blonde
Year: 1941

Director:
Raoul Walsh
Amy Lind: [Virginia is disappointed that Amy didn't change]
Amy Lind: I'm proud of my uniform. It's a sign to the men that women not only have the same right to work as the men, but that in the eyes...
Virginia Brush: Ooh hush, Amy. You're not at a suffragette meeting now!
Amy Lind: [continuing her tirade] The tyranny for man or for woman. The stupid convention that says a woman will wear such and such. The...
Virginia Brush: Please, Amy, just tonight, try to be a woman not a pamphlet.
Amy Lind: [she stands up, looking at the sky] Women throughout the ages... oh, it's a lovely night.
-- Olivia de Havilland (as Amy Lind) in The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Devotion
Year: 1946

Director:
Curtis Bernhardt
Charlotte Bronte: I know nothing. I understand nothing. And yet, I have dared to write 200,000 words about life!
[tosses manuscript on floor]
-- Olivia de Havilland (as Charlotte Bronte) in Devotion (1946)
Hold Back the Dawn
Year: 1941

Director:
Mitchell Leisen
Emmy Brown: [to Anita] You see, I come from a small town. We don't have any of those fine hotels. We eat at the drugstore... But we leave a tip just the same.
-- Olivia de Havilland (as Emmy Brown) in Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Year: 1935

Director:
William Dieterle*Max Reinhardt
Hermia, in Love with Lysander: [to Helena] How low am I, you painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach into your eyes!
-- Olivia de Havilland (as Hermia, In love with Lysander) in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
It's Love I'm After
Year: 1937

Director:
Archie Mayo
Marcia West: Aunt Ella, when Basil Underwood feels like a kipper, I'm sure he doesn't feel like an egg - even an aristocratic one.
-- Olivia de Havilland (as Marcia West) in It's Love I'm After (1937)
It's Love I'm After
Year: 1937

Director:
Archie Mayo
Marcia West: This is Miss Kane.
Gracie Kane: I know you, you wear blue polka-dot shorts!
Marcia West: Are there no reformatories in California?
-- Olivia de Havilland (as Marcia West) in It's Love I'm After (1937)
It's Love I'm After
Year: 1937

Director:
Archie Mayo
Marcia West: What are manners? Little rules for little people!
-- Olivia de Havilland (as Marcia West) in It's Love I'm After (1937)
Hard to Get
Year: 1938

Director:
Ray Enright
Margaret Richards: May I have your hat sir?
Bill Davis: Yeah. Say, take it easy, its the only one I got.
Margaret Richards: I'll put it in the safe.
-- Olivia de Havilland (as Margaret Richards) in Hard to Get (1938)