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Film Quotes by Thelma Ritter

55 quotes
Rear Window
Year: 1954

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Stella: Every man's ready to get married when the right girl comes along.
-- Thelma Ritter (as Stella) in Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window
Year: 1954

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Stella: I can hear you now: "Get out of my life, you wonderful woman. You're too good for me."
-- Thelma Ritter (as Stella) in Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window
Year: 1954

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Stella: Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
-- Thelma Ritter (as Stella) in Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window
Year: 1954

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Stella: When I married Miles, we were both a couple of maladjusted misfits. We are still maladjusted misfits, and we have loved every minute of it.
-- Thelma Ritter (as Stella) in Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window
Year: 1954

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Stella: When two people love each other, they come together - WHAM - like two taxis on Broadway.
-- Thelma Ritter (as Stella) in Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window
Year: 1954

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Stella: You'd think the rain would've cooled things down. All it did was make the heat wet.
-- Thelma Ritter (as Stella) in Rear Window (1954)
The Mating Season
Year: 1951

Director:
Mitchell Leisen
Val McNulty: Junior Kalinger? Oh, he's OK.
Ellen McNulty: Oh, go on, I've stepped on better things.
-- Thelma Ritter (as Ellen McNulty) in The Mating Season (1951)
Pickup on South Street
Year: 1953

Director:
Samuel Fuller
Candy: You've been recommended as the best pickpocket stoolie in the business.
Moe Williams: What kind of talk is that, calling me a stoolie? I was brought up to report any injustice to the police authority. I call that being a solid citizen.
Candy: But you get paid for it.
Moe Williams: You gonna knock it?
-- Thelma Ritter (as Moe Williams) in Pickup on South Street (1953)
Rear Window
Year: 1954

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
[regarding Jeff's telephoto lens]
Stella: Mind if I use that portable keyhole?
-- Thelma Ritter (as Stella) in Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window
Year: 1954

Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Detective: [referring to what was buried in Thorwald's flower bed] It's over in his apartment. In a hat box. Wanna look?
Stella: Oh, no thanks - I don't want any part of her.
-- Thelma Ritter (as Stella) in Rear Window (1954)