Val McNulty Quotes in The Mating Season (1951)

Val McNulty: Junior Kalinger? Oh, he's OK.

Ellen McNulty: Oh, go on, I've stepped on better things.

Ellen McNulty: You don't know what it was like working with her yesterday. I felt like I was 21 again.

Val McNulty: Oh Malarky

Ellen McNulty: Look wiseguy, I didn't feel like I was 21 when I was 21.

Maggie Carleton: When you've been brought up in a half a dozen embassies, the little princes and little dukes and little diplomats, bowing from the waist and kissing your hand, what do you think you dream about?

Val McNulty: What?

Maggie Carleton: You dream of meeting a man.

Maggie Carleton: I married a stranger!

Val McNulty: Everybody marries a stranger.

Val McNulty: Ma, when will you get over that I'm not six years old anymore?

Ellen McNulty: Never. Six is plenty big for a boy to be.