Mildred Pierce (film) Quotes

Mildred Pierce (film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Mildred Pierce ended in 1970.

It features Jerry Wald as producer, Max Steiner in charge of musical score, and Ernest Haller as head of cinematography.

Mildred Pierce (film) is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Eve Arden as Ida, Ann Blyth as Veda, Joan Crawford as Mildred, Jack Carson as Wally, Zachary Scott as Monte, Moroni Olsen as Inspector Peterson, Butterfly McQueen as Lottie, and Jo Ann Marlowe as Kay Pierce.

Mildred Pierce (film) Quotes

Moroni Olsen as Inspector Peterson

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Zachary Scott as Monte

• (Zachary Scott) "We weren't expecting you Mildred, obviously."
• (Ann Blyth) "It's just as well you know. I'm glad you know."
• (Joan Crawford) "How long has this been going on?"

• (Zachary Scott) "Drink?"
• (Joan Crawford) "You drink too much."
• (Zachary Scott) "I know, I do too much of everything. I'm spoiled."
• (Joan Crawford) "You've too many sisters -- They all seem to be my size too."
• (Zachary Scott) "I know, I like them your size."
• (Zachary Scott) "To brotherly love."

• (Zachary Scott) "Oh, I wish I could get that interested in work."
• (Eve Arden) "You were probably frightened by a callus at an early age."

Jack Carson as Wally

• (Jack Carson) "I hate all women. Thank goodness you're not one."

• (Jack Carson) "There's something about the sound of my own voice that fascinates me."

• (Jack Carson) "My client feels, and I am in complete accord with her, that she has been irrep; ih --"
• (Unnamed) "'Irreparably'?"
• (Jack Carson) "-- unduly damaged. Therefore there is one more little formality that we should discuss first."
• (Unnamed) "What's that, Mr. Fay?"
• (Jack Carson) "The financial settlement. You see, my client would like ten thousand dollars."
• (Unnamed) "I think I'm safe in observing that almost anyone would like ten thousand dollars, Mr. Fay. But ih - --"
• (Jack Carson) "But ih; ?"
• (Unnamed) "We see no necessity for a financial settlement of any kind."
• (Jack Carson) "You don't, huh?"
• (Unnamed) "No."
• (Jack Carson) "You will."

• (Jack Carson) "You know, this is a pretty big night for you."
• (Unnamed) "Yeah?"
• (Jack Carson) "Yeah, lots of excitement. There's a stiff in there."
• (Unnamed) "Is that so? Oh and I suppose you were running right down to the station to report it?"
• (Unnamed) "Yeah --"
• (Unnamed) "Say, he say's there's a dead guy in the house."
• (Unnamed) "You never saw a deader."

• (Jack Carson) "You know, you keep on refusing me, and one of these days I'm going to start thinking you're stubborn."

• (Jack Carson) "Not too much ice in that drink you're about to make for me."

• (Jack Carson) "Oh boy. I'm so smart it's a disease."

Eve Arden as Ida

• (Mr. Jones) "Why do you always interrupt?"
• (Eve Arden) "It's only because I want to be alone with you. Come 'ere and let me bite you, you darling man. Ruff."

• (Eve Arden) "Laughing boy seems slightly burned at the edges. What's eating him?"
• (Joan Crawford) "A small green-eyed monster."
• (Eve Arden) "Jealous? That doesn't sound like Wally. No profit in it; and there's a boy who loves a dollar."

• (Eve Arden) "Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."

• (Eve Arden) "When men get around me, they get allergic to wedding rings."

• (Eve Arden) "Leave something on me; I might catch cold."

• (Eve Arden) "What is this, a class reunion?"

• (Eve Arden) "Oh, men. I never yet met one of them that didn't have the instincts of a heel. Sometimes I wish I could get along without them."

Ann Blyth as Veda

• (Ann Blyth) "You think just because you made a little money you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing."

• (Ann Blyth) "That's what I like about you, Ida. You're so delightfully provincial."
• (Eve Arden) "And I like you, too."
• (Eve Arden) "Don't look now, Junior, but you're standing under a brick wall."
• (Zachary Scott) "I don't get it."
• (Eve Arden) "You will; when it falls on you."

• (Ann Blyth) "It's the dress. It's awfully cheap material. I can tell by the smell."
• (Jo Ann Marlowe) "What did you expect? Want it inlaid with gold?"
• (Ann Blyth) "Well, it seems to me, if you're buying anything, it should be the best. This is definitely not the best."
• (Jo Ann Marlowe) "Oh, quit. You're breakin' my heart."

• (Ann Blyth) "With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture. And this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls."

Joan Crawford as Mildred

• (Joan Crawford) "You've been snooping around ever since I got this job, trying to find out what it is; and now you know; you know don't you."
• (Ann Blyth) "Know what? Know what mother?"
• (Joan Crawford) "You knew when you gave that uniform to Lottie that it was mine didn't you."
• (Ann Blyth) "Your uniform."
• (Joan Crawford) "Yes, I'm waiting tables in a downtown restaurant."
• (Ann Blyth) "My mother; a waitress."

• (Joan Crawford) "That Ted Forrester's nice-looking, isn't he? Veda likes him."
• (Zachary Scott) "Who wouldn't? He has a million dollars."

• (Joan Crawford) "I'm sorry I did that -- I'd've rather cut off my hand."

• (Joan Crawford) "You look down on me, because I work for a living. Don't you."

• (Joan Crawford) "I was always in the kitchen. I felt as though I'd been born in a kitchen and lived there all my life, except for the few hours it took to get married."

• (Joan Crawford) "Wally, you should be kept on a leash. Now why can't you be friendly?"
• (Jack Carson) "But I am being friendly."
• (Joan Crawford) "No, I mean it. Friendship's much more lasting than love."
• (Jack Carson) "Yeah, but it isn't as entertaining."

Jo Ann Marlowe as Kay Pierce

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Butterfly McQueen as Lottie

• (Butterfly McQueen) "This is just like my wedding night, so exciting."

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