Film Quotes by Shirley MacLaine
44 quotes
Year: 1969
Director:
Bob Fosse
Director:
Bob Fosse
Oscar Lindquist:
The odds against us are at least a hundred to one.
Charity Hope Valentine: Those are the best odds I ever had.
Charity Hope Valentine: Those are the best odds I ever had.
--
Shirley MacLaine
(as Charity Hope Valentine)
in
Sweet Charity
(1969)
Year: 1962
Director:
Robert Wise
Director:
Robert Wise
Jerry Ryan:
3.30, Friday, and any time thereafter.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Any time thereafter for how long?
Jerry Ryan: You say something?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I said I love you.
Jerry Ryan: When you have something like that to say, don't mumble.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: All right, I'll holler it.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Any time thereafter for how long?
Jerry Ryan: You say something?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I said I love you.
Jerry Ryan: When you have something like that to say, don't mumble.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: All right, I'll holler it.
--
Shirley MacLaine
(as Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz)
in
Two for the Seesaw
(1962)
Year: 1962
Director:
Robert Wise
Director:
Robert Wise
Jerry Ryan:
Didn't you understand one word I said?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Sure! As a juror I'd give me five years.
Jerry Ryan: I'm not kidding. Need someone.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Let go!
Jerry Ryan: Need someone.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Or what? Let me go or I'll yell.
Jerry Ryan: No, you won't.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Help!
Jerry Ryan: You lunatic. Somebody'll come.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Nobody'll come, it's New York.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Sure! As a juror I'd give me five years.
Jerry Ryan: I'm not kidding. Need someone.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Let go!
Jerry Ryan: Need someone.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Or what? Let me go or I'll yell.
Jerry Ryan: No, you won't.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Help!
Jerry Ryan: You lunatic. Somebody'll come.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Nobody'll come, it's New York.
--
Shirley MacLaine
(as Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz)
in
Two for the Seesaw
(1962)
Year: 1962
Director:
Robert Wise
Director:
Robert Wise
Jerry Ryan:
Gittel, when you've been married to somebody for 12 years, lived together for 12 years, you don't just break up. You can't just forget it like it was... Well, anyway, I cut out. Ran.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Stop running, it's the Atlantic Ocean already.
Jerry Ryan: I'm not running any more.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Don't you see? If you can't talk to her, you're running.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Stop running, it's the Atlantic Ocean already.
Jerry Ryan: I'm not running any more.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: Don't you see? If you can't talk to her, you're running.
--
Shirley MacLaine
(as Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz)
in
Two for the Seesaw
(1962)
Year: 1962
Director:
Robert Wise
Director:
Robert Wise
Jerry Ryan:
I told you to make a claim on me, to depend on me. I practically forced you. Gittel, I care for you. I don't want to see you hurt or lost or short-changed.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: So what's the future, Jerry? You gonna think any less about her? A little time'll pass, everything'll be hunky-dory? How am I gonna give her competition? Have a hemorrhage twice a year? Trap you that way? I got half of you by being a wreck, is that how we'll go on? Oh, you gotta short-change me, Jerry.
Jerry Ryan: I've tried not to.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: That's what's outta whack. How hard you try. Who works that hard if everything's OK?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: So what's the future, Jerry? You gonna think any less about her? A little time'll pass, everything'll be hunky-dory? How am I gonna give her competition? Have a hemorrhage twice a year? Trap you that way? I got half of you by being a wreck, is that how we'll go on? Oh, you gotta short-change me, Jerry.
Jerry Ryan: I've tried not to.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: That's what's outta whack. How hard you try. Who works that hard if everything's OK?
--
Shirley MacLaine
(as Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz)
in
Two for the Seesaw
(1962)
Year: 1962
Director:
Robert Wise
Director:
Robert Wise
Jerry Ryan:
Will you stop walking up and down?
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I'm nervous.
Jerry Ryan: So am I, but this walking around isn't helping us any.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I was just waiting to be stopped.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I'm nervous.
Jerry Ryan: So am I, but this walking around isn't helping us any.
Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz: I was just waiting to be stopped.
--
Shirley MacLaine
(as Gittel 'Mosca' Moscawitz)
in
Two for the Seesaw
(1962)
Year: 1961
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
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Shirley MacLaine
(as Martha Dobie)
in
The Children's Hour
(1961)
Year: 1969
Director:
Bob Fosse
Director:
Bob Fosse
Charity Hope Valentine:
Fickle Finger of Fate!
--
Shirley MacLaine
(as Charity Hope Valentine)
in
Sweet Charity
(1969)
Year: 1969
Director:
Bob Fosse
Director:
Bob Fosse
Charity Hope Valentine:
Wow, this place is sure full of celebrities. I'm the only one in here I've never heard of.
--
Shirley MacLaine
(as Charity Hope Valentine)
in
Sweet Charity
(1969)
Year: 1960
Director:
Billy Wilder
Director:
Billy Wilder
Fran Kubelik:
I was jinxed from the word go. The first time I was ever kissed was in a cemetery.
--
Shirley MacLaine
(as Fran Kubelik)
in
The Apartment
(1960)