Mrs. Dudley Quotes in Lady with Red Hair (1940)

Mrs. Leslie Carter: I'm going to be an actress.

Mrs. Dudley: Oh, now you start that again! You don't know what you're talking about. It takes years of training to become a successful actress.

Mrs. Leslie Carter: I can walk and talk and shout as well as any other!

Mrs. Dudley: I set dinner on the dining room sideboard at six. Breakfast is ready at nine. I don't stay after dinner. Not after it begins to get dark. We live in town, nine miles, so there won't be anyone around if you need help...

Eleanor "Nell" Vance: We couldn't even hear you.

Mrs. Dudley: No one could. No one lives any nearer than town...

Eleanor "Nell" Vance: No one will come any nearer than that.

Mrs. Dudley: In the night...

Eleanor "Nell" Vance: In the dark.

[looking at the crashed car, Theo and Marrow]

Mrs. Dudley: City people.

Mrs. Dudley: [Eleanor has just been shown her room after she arrives] I can't keep the rooms the way I'd like, but there's no one else they could get that would help me.

Eleanor Lance: How very nice.

Mrs. Dudley: I set dinner on the dining room sideboard at 6. I clear up in the morning. I have breakfast for you at 9. I don't wait on people. I don't stay after I set out the dinner, not after it begins to get dark. I leave before the dark.

Eleanor Lance: Your husband?

Mrs. Dudley: We live over in town, miles away.

Eleanor Lance: Yes.

Mrs. Dudley: So there won't be anyone around if you need help.

Eleanor Lance: I understand.

Mrs. Dudley: We couldn't hear you. In the night.

Eleanor Lance: Do you have any idea when Dr. Markway...

Mrs. Dudley: [cuts her off] No one could. No one lives any nearer than town. No one will come any nearer than that.

Eleanor Lance: I know.

Mrs. Dudley: In the night. In the dark.

[Mrs. Dudley grins and leaves]