Pinky (1949)

Ethel Barrymore: Miss Em

Quotes 

• Melba Wooley : Cousin Em, what do you mean, gettin' sick like this?

  Miss Em : When you're eighty years old, you expect to be sick. Sit down.

  Melba Wooley : Now, now. Naughty, naughty. Eighty years *young* is what we say.

  Miss Em : I don't. It's old, and I won't have it minimized. Takes a lot of livin' to get there, and pure, cursed endurance. Eighty years young indeed!

• Miss Em : I'm not gonna lie flat until I'm laid out. Be soon enough now.

  Dr. Joe McGill : Might as well let her have her own way.

  Miss Em : That's all I ever wanted: to have my own way.

• Melba Wooley : What an idea to make a will. Why, you'll live years and years, dear!

  Miss Em : Pinky's a nurse. She graduated from one of the best hospitals up yonder. Let's ask her. Think I should be makin' my will?

  Pinky Johnson : Well, if you were ever gonna make a will, Miss Em, it's time you were getting it done.

  Miss Em : There, Melba. There's a nurse's opinion. Very sensible, especially as it agrees with my own.