Miss Dorothy Brown Quotes in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

Millie Dillmount: I'm going to be a stenog. Tomorrow I start interviewing bosses.

Miss Dorothy Brown: I thought it was the other way around, bosses interviewing you?

Millie Dillmount: Oh, I can typewrite forty words a minute. I'm in demand. Besides, I'm going to marry an eligible bachelor. You see, I'm going to marry my boss... whoever he may be.

Miss Dorothy Brown: You're a modern!

Millie Dillmount: Thoroughly!

Miss Dorothy Brown: [after Judith Tremaine walks away] Bitch!

Miss Dorothy Brown: Oh, I do hope he won't be an addict. I mean with all that dope.

Millie Dillmount: It didn't hurt Sleeping Beauty or Snow White.

Millie Dillmount: So you're not in paper clips?

Miss Dorothy Brown: Well, that's not far from the truth, Millie. The fortune was founded in steel.

Millie Dillmount: [nodding] Oh. I don't understand.

Miss Dorothy Brown: Operator, you have obviously never been in a Chinese opium den!

[Referring to the elevator]

Miss Dorothy Brown: Oh, I love it! All you do in the Ritz elevator is go up and down!

Taxi driver: That'll be 35 cents please.

Miss Dorothy Brown: A pen, please.

Taxi driver: A pen? What for?

Miss Dorothy Brown: To write a check.

Taxi driver: A check? 35 cents I said, not 35 dollars. Who writes a check for 35 cents?

Miss Dorothy Brown: Oh, I do.

Millie Dillmount: Cut your hair! Let them see how truly abandoned you are!

Miss Dorothy Brown: Cut my hair? But I don't understand. Millie, I don't think...

Millie Dillmount: People can't find the real you under those curls!

Dorothy's dance partner: [dancing] Do you know the Tapioca?

Miss Dorothy Brown: [shy] Can't say I do...

Dorothy's dance partner: It's the latest!

Miss Dorothy Brown: Well, I'm here to learn!

[he whisks her away]

Millie Dillmount, Miss Dorothy Brown: [running up to take their bow] Echo, echo!

Millie Dillmount, Miss Dorothy Brown: [about ready to do their jump] Andiamo, andiamo! Allez oop!

Miss Dorothy Brown: [talking about the dance, as she's moving in] Would you introduce me to the gang?

Millie Dillmount: Well, they're a pretty high-spirited bunch.

Miss Dorothy Brown: White poor people usually are.