Griff: If I let you set up shop in this neighborhood, the people would chop me like a ripe banana. Kelly: Then why'd you buy ...my merchandise? Griff: I ... I was thirsty!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kelly: I washed my face clean the morning I woke up in your bedroom. Griff: You got morals in my bedroom?... Kelly: You had nothing to do with it. Nothing! It was your mirror. Griff: You must have taken a long look. Kelly: It was the longest look of my life. I saw a broken-down piece of machinery. Nothing but the buck, the bed, and the bottle for the rest of my life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Wherever there's Kellys there's trouble," said Burke, "Wherever fighting's the game,... Or a spice of danger in grown man's work," Said Kelly, "you'll find my name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As one young starlet asked, with annoyance and pretension, "What has Marilyn got? And how can I get it?" A large part of the answe...r lies in Miss Monroe's attitude toward herself. Along with her very evident feminine charms goes a genuine delight in being sexually attractive--an attitude that makes attractiveness seem as natural as sunlight. No amount of connections and calculated exploitation of beauty could achieve the same effect. Miss Kelly is a symbol in a very different way. The heroines she plays take the sexual initiative in a remarkably overt way, but always as perfectly proper young ladies. It is as if a not-nice girl, when in love, would behave otherwise and no well-bred wife would act otherwise toward her husband. Female interest in physical love becomes respectable and proper, as if no one had ever thought it vulgar and immodest in a good woman. The nice girl as coquette or flirt is archaic and coy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You'll meet men you'll live on and men who'll live on you, and those are the only men you'll meet.... You'll be every man's wife-i...n-law, and no man's wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once before a man's kiss tasted like that. He was put away in a psycho ward. I got the same taste the first time Grant kissed me. ...It was a ... what we call a ... naked kiss. It's the sign of a pervert.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Frances Stevens: Even in this light, I can tell where your eyes are looking. Look John, hold them--diamonds--the only thing in the... world you can't resist. Then tell me you don't know what I'm talking about. Ever had a better offer in your whole life, one with everything? John Robie: I've never had a crazier one. Frances Stevens: Just as long as you're satisfied. John Robie: You know as well as I do, this necklace is imitation. Frances Stevens: Well, I'm not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »