Quotes about Transformations

Sherry Martin: Things have got to be dolled up nowadays. That's why they put brass on battleships. Look, why don't you let me try to fix you up? You'll be amazed how much better it'll make you feel.
Connie Martin: Even though I'm not a blond, I could be dumb couldn't I?
Sherry Martin: And you'll probably do all right too! It takes a lot of brains to be dumb.

- Ginger Rogers (as Sherry Martin) in Follow the Fleet (1936)

[at the booking office, trying to be hired]
Joe: What kind of a band is this, anyway?
Sig Poliakoff: You gotta be under twenty-five.
Jerry: We could pass for that.
Sig Poliakoff: You gotta be blonde.
Jerry: We could dye our hair.
Sig Poliakoff: And you gotta be girls.
Jerry: We could...
Joe: No, we couldn't!

- Tony Curtis (as Joe/Josephine) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Carreen: I guess things like hands and ladies don't matter so much anymore.

- Ann Rutherford (as Carreen O'Hara) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Thomas Dunson: Give me ten years, and I'll have that brand on the gates of the greatest ranch in Texas. The big house will be down by the river, and the corrals and the barns behind it. It'll be a good place to live in. Ten years and I'll have the Red River D on more cattle than you've looked at anywhere. I'll have that brand on enough beef to feed the whole country. Good beef for hungry people. Beef to make 'em strong, make 'em grow. But it takes work, and it takes sweat, and it takes time, lots of time. It takes years.

- John Wayne (as Thomas Dunson) in Red River (1948)