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Tira: Beulah, peel me a grape.
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Jack Clayton: You were wonderful tonight.
Tira: Yeah, I'm always wonderful at night.
Jack Clayton: Tonight, you were especially good.
Tira: Well... When I'm good, I'm very good. But, when I'm bad...
[winks at Jack]
Tira: I'm better.
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Tira: It's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
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Tira: [to Slick Wiley] What'd you do? Get your hair cut or have your ears moved down?
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Tira: What do you do for a living?
Ernest Brown: Oh, uh, sort of a politician.
Tira: I don't like work either.
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Jack Clayton: Oh I'm crazy about you.
Tira: I did my best to make you that way.
Jack Clayton: Look darling, you need a rest, and so do I. Let me take you away somewhere, we'll...
Tira: Would you call that a rest?
Jack Clayton: What are you thinking about?
Tira: Same thing you are.
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[after he reads her fortune, Rajah gives Tira the horoscope he has prepared for her]
Rajah the Fortune Teller: Keep this where you may consult it frequently.
Tira: Alright, I'll take it to bed with me.
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Tira: Always remember, honey. A good motto is: "Take all you can get and give as little as possible". Don't forget, honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em!
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Tira: By the way, honey, you married or single?
Ernest Brown: Married five times.
Tira: Five times? Wedding bells must sound like an alarm clock to you.
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Ernest Brown: I like to get around and travel; and, believe me, I've been places and seen things.
Tira: Mmm-hmm. I've been things and seen places. That sort of evens us out.
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Rajah the Fortune Teller: You were born in August.
Tira: Yeah, one of the hot months.
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Rajah the Fortune Teller: I see a man in your life.
Tira: What? Only one?
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Rajah the Fortune Teller: I see a change of position.
Tira: Sitting or reclining?
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Tira: Am I making myself clear, boys?
[in low voice]
Tira: Suckers.
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Jack Clayton: Do you mind if I get personal?
Tira: Hmmm, go ahead. I don't mind if you get familiar.
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Tira: Come on, can't you hurry up and get that thing fixed? I gotta get back. I'm expecting Mr. Clayton at the apartment.
Bartons Chauffeur: I'm doing the best I can, ma'am.
Tira: Yeah, your best is no good. Try doing your worst.
Bartons Chauffeur: Yes, ma'am.
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Slick Wiley: I'll see you later.
Tira: the later the better.
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Big Bill Barton: Tira, I've changed my mind.
Tira: Does it work any better?
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Tira: [Answers phone] Hello? Oh, Juror #4. Yes, I remember you. You were the one with the nice kind face. Mmm hmm. Oh, I know you were for me. Mmm hmm. I want to thank you for those beautiful flowers. They were lovely. And don't forget - come up and see me sometime.
[Jack Clayton walks in]
Tira: Mmm hmm. Oh, ah, yes. Yes. Alright, good-bye.
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Alicia Hatton: I suppose you know why I'm here?
Tira: Hardly! You see, I'm a lion tamer not a mind reader.
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Beulah: Miss... we was thinking you're a one-man woman.
Tira: I'm one man at a time.
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Alicia Hatton: Then it might refresh you to know that I'm Kurt's fiancé.
Tira: There's nothing refreshing about that.
Alicia Hatton: You want me to swear?
Tira: Never mind. I can do that myself.
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Tira: Oh, Beulah!
Beulah: Yes, ma'am.
Tira: Peel me a grape.
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Tira: When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better.
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Tira: Somewhere there's a guy with a million waitin' for a dame like me.
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Tira: [Pointing to a picture and telling her maid about her jewelry] He gimme 'em.
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Tira: When I was born with this face, it was the same as strikin' oil.
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Kirk Lawrence: I'll never forget you.
Tira: No one ever does.
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Beulah: Certainly do keep me busy keepin' track of your gentlemen friends.
Tira: I'm gonna make it easy for you, Beulah. I'm thinking about putting in a filing system.
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