Stage Door (1937)
Adolphe Menjou: Anthony Powell
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Quotes
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Anthony Powell : You girls rehearsing for a musical?
Jean Maitland : No, we're just getting over the DTs.
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Jean Maitland : That's a wonderful view.
Anthony Powell : Oh, yes. It is.
Jean Maitland : Wonderful.
Anthony Powell : It's a wonderful little view. It's a beautiful city! Just like a fairyland. It's full of color, romance, illusion, glamour.
Jean Maitland : Maybe it depends on which window you see it from.
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Terry Randall : Anyhow, I wanted to show that I could act.
Anthony Powell : You are a faker!
Terry Randall : Oh, we're both fakers. Isn't faking the essence of acting?
Anthony Powell : Well, it may apply to acting, but it does not apply to me.
Terry Randall : You, you're a bigger faker than I am.
Anthony Powell : That's libel!
Terry Randall : Not if I can prove it.
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Anthony Powell : How long have you been coaching this girl?
Miss Luther : I've only had her a month.
Anthony Powell : Incredible! No one could possibly get that bad in a month's time.
Miss Luther : Would you mind a suggestion?
Anthony Powell : Anything, please!
Miss Luther : I was wondering, could you possibly see an older woman in the part?
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Linda Shaw : [Sees Jean and Annie dancing on stage] Well, well, life is full of surprises.
Anthony Powell : Cute kids, aren't they?
Linda Shaw : You think so?
Anthony Powell : I wonder who they are.
Linda Shaw : Just a lot of riffraff they pick up around town.
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Carmichael : Who's the girl?
Anthony Powell : Oh, I haven't the faintest idea - some stage-struck damsel suffering from overexcitement.
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Jean Maitland : I wish I'd been born lucky instead of beautiful and hungry.
Anthony Powell : You can't have everything. You are beautiful. I'm the lucky one. Will you have a little champagne?
Jean Maitland : No, thanks. I won't be able to stand up as it is.
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Jean Maitland : I love New York from up here. It looks all rouged and manicured and ready to go out for the evening.
Anthony Powell : You're quite a little philosopher, aren't you?
Jean Maitland : Oh, it's probably the champagne talking.
Anthony Powell : Mighty good talk.
Jean Maitland : It's mighty good champagne.
Anthony Powell : Let's have a little bit more poured.
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Anthony Powell : I never believe in making pretenses. Lots of men who are separated from their wives simply let it be understood that they're not married. Now, I believe in this day and age that a man can have his home on the one hand and still live his own life.
Jean Maitland : That's right.
Anthony Powell : That is, any man of character.
Jean Maitland : Well, that's big of you.
Anthony Powell : Well, it just happens to be the way I believe.
Jean Maitland : That is very big of you.
Anthony Powell : Why don't you relax?
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Anthony Powell : I'll be the sculptor and you'll be the clay. I'll mold you to the greatest dancer Broadway has ever known. I'll be Pygmalion. You'll be Galatea.
Jean Maitland : It sounds like a fairy story.
Anthony Powell : Isn't life a fairy story? Aren't grown up people little children at heart? Oh, I know at the office I'm gruff Anthony Powell, theatrical producer. That's a pose. Here with you, I'm just a tired little boy with a dream.
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Anthony Powell : Do you ever stop asking questions?
Terry Randall : I just like to know why...
Anthony Powell : You don't have to know anything. I'll do the talking.
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Terry Randall : I'm not an emotional person.
Anthony Powell : You will be when I get through with you. I'll mold you into one.
Terry Randall : I don't want to be molded! I believe in acting with my brain.
Anthony Powell : Well, I'll mold you one of those also.
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Terry Randall : Tony, darling, control yourself.
Anthony Powell : Don't Tony darling me!
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Anthony Powell : You mean you'd jeopardize your own reputation? Aren't you a kind of a Girl Scout?
Terry Randall : Just a girl who uses her brain.
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Anthony Powell : Miss Randall, I'll have to ask you to pay attention to the Director.
Terry Randall : Well, what am I supposed to do? Walk around like a puppet or use my intelligence?
Anthony Powell : You're to do what your told!
Terry Randall : Don't yell at me!
Anthony Powell : I am yelling at you!
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Carmichael : Is she turning out as well as you expected?
Anthony Powell : She may have possibilities, but right now she's a rank amateur! About as emotional as a fish.
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Anthony Powell : Who's the little blonde?
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Anthony Powell : Something ought to be done about these girls that come to New York and try to go on the stage. They'd be so much better off at home, raising families!
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Anthony Powell : Well, it takes all kinds a people to make a world!