Anthony Powell Quotes in Stage Door (1937)

Anthony Powell: Who's the little blonde?

Anthony Powell: You girls rehearsing for a musical?

Jean Maitland: No, we're just getting over the DTs.

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.

Carmichael: Who's the girl?

Anthony Powell: Oh, I haven't the faintest idea - some stage-struck damsel suffering from over excitement.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Terry Randall: Tony, darling, control yourself.

Anthony Powell: Don't Tony darling me!

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.

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.

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!

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?

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.

Anthony Powell: Well, it takes all kinds a people to make a world!