Maria Tura Quotes in To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Maria Tura: It's becoming ridiculous the way you grab attention. Whenever I start to tell a story, you finish it. If I go on a diet, you lose the weight. If I have a cold, you cough. And if we should ever have a baby, I'm not so sure I'd be the mother.

Josef Tura: I'm satisfied to be the father.

Josef Tura: Wait a minute. I'll decide with whom my wife is going to have dinner and whom she's going to kill.

Maria Tura: Don't you realize Poland's at stake?

Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: Have you no patriotism?

Josef Tura: Now listen, you... first you walk out on my soliloquy and then you walk into my slippers. And now you question my patriotism. I'm a good Pole and I love my country and I love my slippers.

Maria Tura: Well, I hope your country comes first.

Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: So do I.

Maria Tura: This is an emergency! War!

Josef Tura: Look, look, look, I don't know much about the whole thing... but is this Siletsky a real danger to Poland?

Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: A catastrophe!

Maria Tura: He must be taken care of!

Josef Tura: Then he will be taken care of.

Maria Tura: Well, who's gonna do it?

Josef Tura: I'm gonna do it.

Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: But how?

Maria Tura: Where?

Josef Tura: I'm gonna meet Herr Siletsky at Gestapo headquarters. And after I've killed him I hope you'll be kind enough to tell me what it was all about!

Josef Tura: I went to Dobosh and told him when he advertises the new play to put your name first.

Maria Tura: Did you, darling? Oh, that's sweet of you, but I really don't care.

Josef Tura: That's what Dobosh said, so we left it as it was.

Josef Tura: Someone walked out on me. Tell me, Maria, am I losing my grip?

Maria Tura: Oh, of course not, darling. I'm so sorry.

Josef Tura: But he walked out on me.

Maria Tura: Maybe he didn't feel well. Maybe he had to leave. Maybe he had a sudden heart attack.

Josef Tura: I hope so.

Maria Tura: If he stayed he might have died.

Josef Tura: Maybe he's dead already! Oh, darling, you're so comforting.

Maria Tura: No, no, no. I think we've talked much too much about me. Tell me about yourself.

Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: Well, there isn't much to tell. I just fly a bomber.

Maria Tura: Oh, how perfectly thrilling!

Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: I don't know about it being thrilling. But it's quite a bomber. You might not believe it, but I can drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.

Maria Tura: Really?

Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: Does that interest you?

Maria Tura: It certainly does.

Professor Alexander Siletsky: Shall we drink to a blitzkrieg?

Maria Tura: I prefer a slow encirclement.

Josef Tura: It's unbelievable! Unbelievable! I come home to find a man in the same boat with me and my wife says to me, "What does it matter?"

Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: But, Mr. Tura, it's the 'zero hour'.

Maria Tura: You certainly don't want me to waste a lot of time giving you a long explanation.

Josef Tura: No, but I think a husband is entitled to an inkling.

Maria Tura: [to Joseph] You're the greatest actor in the world. Everybody knows that, including you.

Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski: I hope you'll forgive me if I acted a little clumsy, but this is the first time I ever met an actress.

Maria Tura: Lieutenant, this is the first time I've ever met a man who could drop three tons of dynamite in two minutes.

Maria Tura: Think of me being flogged in the darkness, scream, suddenly the lights go on and the audience discovers me on the floor in this gorgeous dress!

Maria Tura: [Talking about the aviator who sent the flowers] It's true, Anna, I don't know who it is. But I'm positive who it might be.

Anna: You mean that young aviator?

Maria Tura: Yes, he's very young. He's in the second row again. He gets better-looking every night... Don't misunderstand me. I love my husband dearly, and why not? He's wonderful. Only he gets so unreasonable, so upset about little things.

Anna: Like the little thing in the second row.