Mildred Pierce (1945)

Eve Arden: Ida Corwin

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• Ida Corwin : [to Wally about his lustful looks in her direction]  Leave something on me. I might catch cold.

• Ida Corwin : [to Mildred]  Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.

• Monte Beragon : Oh, I wish I could get that interested in work.

  Ida Corwin : You were probably frightened by a callus at an early age!

• Mr. Jones : Why do you always interrupt?

  Ida Corwin : It's only because I want to be alone with you. Come 'ere and let me bite you, you darling man! Ruff!

• Ida Corwin : I like Mexico. It's so... Mexican.

• Ida Corwin : When men get around me, they get allergic to wedding rings.

• Veda Pierce : That's what I like about you, Ida. You're so delightfully provincial.

  Ida Corwin : [sarcastically]  And I like you, too.

  Ida Corwin : [to Monte]  Don't look now, Junior, but you're standing under a brick wall.

  Monte Beragon : I don't get it.

  Ida Corwin : You will... when it falls on you.

• Ida Corwin : Laughing boy seems slightly burned at the edges. What's eating him?

  Mildred Pierce : A small green-eyed monster.

  Ida Corwin : Jealous? That doesn't sound like Wally. No profit in it - and there's a boy who loves a dollar.

• Ida Corwin : Oh, men. I never yet met one of them that didn't have the instincts of a heel. Sometimes I wish I could get along without them.

• Ida Corwin : [making a toast]  To the men we've loved - the stinkers!

• Ida Corwin : What is this, a class reunion?

• Ida Corwin : Don't look now, Junior. But you are standing under a brick wall.

  Monte Beragon : I don't get it.

  Ida Corwin : You will when it falls on you.