Waterloo Bridge (1931)

Mae Clarke: Myra

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Quotes 

• Myra : Lovely night, huh?

  Kitty : Lovely night for what? Air raids? Those fellows up there give me the willies.

  Myra : Well, they're men, aren't they? I'd rather they throw bombs on me, than take no notice of me at all.

  Kitty : I expect they do that just to please you, dearie.

• Myra : Listen, Zeppelins! Do you hear that? Zeppelins, right over your head!

• Roy Cronin : Say, are you an American?

  Myra : Say, are you a mind reader?

  Roy Cronin : Y-y-yeah. Listen, I'm an American too.

  Myra : You were one of the boys who couldn't wait, huh?

  Roy Cronin : Oh, I don't know about that. Found myself one morning with nothing to do. So, I thought I'd come to France.

  Myra : What for?

  Roy Cronin : Fun.

  Myra : Was it?

  Roy Cronin : No.

• Myra : I'd be ashamed to even introduce you to my people, if they were living, which they aren't. Thank God! And do you want to know why I'd be ashamed? Because my mother and father were a couple of drunken sots! And they lived in East St. Louis, that exclusion suburb! That's where I came from. I ran away and went on the stage because I was scared to stay in my own home! I was scared that one of them would kill me when they were liquored. That's how much aristocracy I am!

• Dick, Soldier : Hello, darling, how are you?

  Myra : Just fine. Sorry to keep you waiting.

  Dick, Soldier : You've cost me a pretty penny, already. You know I only bought this car for an hour.

  Myra : [laughs]  That's nothing to what I will cost you.

• Kitty : Looks like another full house tonight.

  Myra : Yeh, what a sap I was to go into "The Bing Boys". I had a chance to go in "Chu Chin Chow". If I'd a taken it, I'd still be a chorus girl. Now look at me - out of work two years.

• Myra : What time is it?

  Kitty : Past eleven.

  Myra : I'm going down to Waterloo Bridge. I might have some friends coming in on leave from Waterloo Station.

  Kitty : Ha-ha. Well, I'll go down to Trafalgar Square. Might be some friends of mine coming in from Downing Street. Cheerio.

• Myra : Oh, what's the odds?

• Roy Cronin : Is this your first air raid?

  Myra : Oh, golly no. I've been in five or six.

• Myra : Well, looks like the raids over, soldier.

  Roy Cronin : Does that mean you want me to buzz off?

  Myra : Well, it's gettin' kinda late.

• Kitty : Hello, Ducky. Come on in.

  Myra : What have you been sayin' to him?

  Kitty : I've been tellin' him nothin' that wasn't good for him to 'ear. I've been singing your bloomin' praises, alright.

• Kitty : The only thing on God's earth, I says, that can save her is an 'usband.

  Myra : A husband?

  Kitty : Yes. And he's willing to step up and do his duty by king and country. And what's more, I'm prepared to be your bridesmaid and 'elp ya blush.

• Myra : Did he say he'd marry me?

  Kitty : Well, not quite. But, he was coming to it though when you busted in and interrupted him. He's yours, I tell ya.

  Myra : What if I don't want him?

  Kitty : Well, what if you don't? What's the odds? All you have to do is go through with the ceremony, collect his separation allowance and live in luxury. Then, there's your insurance, if he gets knocked off in action.