Florence Quotes in Being Julia (2004)

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Florence Quotes:

  • Florence: I think I used to know your father in Jersey, he was a doctor, wasn't he? He used to come to our house quite often.

    Julia Lambert: Actually, he was a vet, he used to go to your house to deliver the bitches. Your house was full of them.

  • George Thompson: I wish I could be going on a honeymoon when I'm his age.

    Florence: Why wait that long?

  • Tim: What if something goes wrong?

    Florence: Things don't go wrong, man - they just go.

  • Florence: Women want to feel desired. And men love it when their women make that extra effort to be desirable. After all, without sex, none of us would be born. And we are all born out of a woman's cunt. It is the center of the world. And the more we can do to glorify that holy spot, the more we're doing for mankind.

  • [About Richard's gift of $2000.]

    Jerri: What planet is he from?

    Florence: I'm still trying to figure that out.

  • Florence: What did you think? That I was falling in love with you?

  • Florence: You can't buy my feelings, you can't pay to make me love you.

    Richard Longman: But we are people, aren't we? And people feel things, don't they?

    Florence: I'm your whore.

  • Florence: Do you have a secret fantasy?

    Richard Longman: [laughs] Not really.

    Florence: Come on, come on, everybody has a secret fantasy.

    Richard Longman: Uhm,

    [laughs]

    Richard Longman: three days in Vegas with a beautiful woman.

    Florence: That's it?

    Richard Longman: Yeah.

    Florence: There's nothing that you always wanted, but you never asked for?

    [looks at him intimately]

    Florence: Tell me.

  • Florence: You know, these dances, these wild crazy dances--I think they've succeeded where science failed. 'Cause you know, I can go to a beauty parlor and sit there for hours having my hair done and my nails polished, but I don't feel any younger. I might look it. These dances, these wild crazy dances--they do something to me inside.

  • Florence: All right, then you can go to some nice, warm place, and I don't mean California.

  • Winton: I've only known you twenty-four hours, but I'm in love with you.

    Florence: Doesn't usually take that long.

  • Florence: Listen, Joan Gale's body was swiped from the morgue, have you ever heard of such a thing as a death mask?

    Jim: I used to be married to one.

    Florence: Then it came to life and divorced you, I know all about that.

  • Florence: [describing the disfigured man's appearance] And that face, it was like an African war mask.

    Detective: You mean he was colored?

    Florence: I don't know what he was, but he made Frankenstein look like a lily.

  • Florence: Hello, light of my life.

    Jim: Well, well, Prussic Acid.

  • Charlotte Duncan: Ready, Florence?

    Florence: Well, you two will have to struggle along without me, I've got a heavy date. No fouling in the clinches...

  • Charlotte Duncan: I can just see it now, you telling the landlady you didn't have the rent, but Ralph was awfully sweet.

    Charlotte Duncan: It just so happens that the poor people are happier.

    Florence: Then marry Ralph, you'll be the happiest couple in the world.

    Charlotte Duncan: I don't know what you're going on about, I don't see any millionaires running after you.

    Florence: Met one last night, all the money this side of Peoria.

    Charlotte Duncan: Who?

    Florence: George Winton of the Park Avenue Wintons.

  • Florence: [after Charlotte hangs up the phone after talking to Ralph] Who was that? Penny Ante?

    Charlotte Duncan: Mmm-hmm, why?.

    Florence: Just wondering, did you invite him to lunch or did he invite you?

    Charlotte Duncan: Well I don't want to offend you, but, frankly, that's none of your business. I don't interfere in any of your affairs.

    Florence: I don't have any affairs.

    [sits up and shouts]

    Florence: What do you mean?

    Charlotte Duncan: I don't think you could have a real affair, I don't think you could care for anyone.

    Florence: Oh please, I've been in love so many times my heart's calloused, but I never hit one with dough.

  • Florence: [talking about a case] Can I handle this my way?

    Jim: You cannot, I'm still editor of this newspaper.

    Florence: Fine, you said I was fired... well, I quit, you give the assignment to somebody else.

    Jim: Wait a minute, come here.

    Florence: [crying] No, I'm through.

    Jim: Come here, sob sister, all right, go ahead, do it your own way.

  • Florence: As I live and breathe and wear spats, the prince.

    Jim: You been doing experiments with scotch and soda again?

    Florence: Where'd you get that news item, from a little bird?

    Jim: Yeah, have a pleasant vacation?

    Florence: Charming, more delightful people crippled.

  • Florence: [to her boss] I'm gonna make you eat dirt, you soap bubble, I'm gonna make you beg for somebody to help you let go. You may mean the world to your mother but you're a...

    [walks away without finishing her sentence]

  • Winton: [to Florence] Will you marry me?

    Florence: How much money have you got?

    Winton: [laughing] Heaven knows, a lot.

    Florence: [smiling] Well that being the case, I'll take it up with the board of directors.

  • Florence: How's the new secretary?

    Pierre: Very good.

  • [In the Temple of Happiness.]

    Florence: Outside the pulse of the world beats with hate! Hate! But here with you there is a heartbeat of love!

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