Show Boat (1936)

Hattie McDaniel: Queenie

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Quotes 

• Joe : I just shell them peas.

  Queenie : You ain't pickin' them up.

  Joe : No, but I could've if you didn't. I could do a lotta things if it was necessary.

  Queenie : Then why don't you?

  Joe : It ain't necessary.

• Pete : Hey, where'd you get that gold brooch?

  Queenie : You mean this scrumptious piece o' jewelry?

  Pete : Yeah, where'd you get it?

  Queenie : It was give tuh me.

  Pete : Who give it to you?

  Queenie : Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies!

  Queenie : [she walks off, laughing heartily] 

  Pete : [muttering]  I know who give it to you and she's gonna be sorry, too. All right, Miss Julie LaVerne, if that's how you feel about me...

  Pete : [he rips the photo of Julie out of its frame on the stand, but is seen by Windy] 

• Queenie : Joe, I believe you de laziest man dat evah lived on dis river.

  Joe : On dis river, Queenie? That's sayin' a whole lot. Yeah, that's sayin' a *whole* lot.

• Queenie : Dere you go again! Look at dem peas all over the floor.

  Joe : The River done it.

  Queenie : The River done it?

  Joe : The River can do most anything, Queenie.

• Parthy : Mercy! Something must be on fire the way Queenie's running

  Cap'n Andy Hawks : Now what's the trouble, Queenie?

  Queenie : There's a powerful fine lookin' fella' out here, wants to know if you all could accommodate him by takin' him down the river fuh as the next town.

  Cap'n Andy Hawks : We don't carry no passengers - fine lookin' did you say? Is he an actor?

  Queenie : Might be. But he seems more like the kind of a gentleman it's a pleasure to wait on.

• Pete : Outta my way, eight ball!

  Queenie : Who wants to get in your way?

• Queenie : Joe. Joe! Where have you been slow poke? Why are you always draggin' them big feet like they's chunks of lead?

  Joe : Take your time, Queenie.

  Queenie : Take my time? I gotta have that flour to bake the bread with.

  Joe : They won't run away from you, Queenie. And if it do? They always be tomorrow.

• Queenie : They'll be some taters to peel later. And when I yell for ya, you come in and *make* it quick! Lazy, good for nothin'.

• Queenie : [singing]  He can be happy wid jes' a sip of gin

  Joe : Why you all talkin' about gin?

  Queenie : I even loves him when his kisses got gin!

• Queenie : How come you all know dat song?

  Magnolia : Why? Do you know it, Queenie?

  Queenie : For shore, I does. But I never hear anybody but colored folks sing dat song. Sounds funny for Miss Julie to know it.

  Magnolia : Julie sings it all the time!

• Queenie : Shif'less! Lifeless! No good!

• Joe : She'll be all right.

  Queenie : That's what you say about everythin'. You don't get excited - why? Cause you don't do nuthin'. You don't cook, like me. You don't act, like the show folks. You don't work on the tow boat. What do you do you?

• Joe : Why, dat's my fa-vo-right song!

  Queenie : [singing]  Mah man is shif'less, An' good for nuthin' too, He's mah man jes' de same, He's never near me, When dere's work to do...