Humoresque (1946)

Joan Crawford: Helen Wright

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Quotes 

• Sid Jeffers : I envy people who drink. At least they know what to blame everything on.

  Helen Wright : If it's so simple, why don't you drink?

  Sid Jeffers : I have no character.

  Paul Boray : Don't brag.

• Helen Wright : Oh, here we go again. Only a man who doesn't drink thinks black coffee sobers you up.

• Helen Wright : I spend my life doing penance for things I never should have done in the first place.

• Helen Wright : Leave me alone. Go on back to your music. I'm tired of playing second fiddle to the ghost of Beethoven.

• Helen Wright : Me? There's nothing very strange about me. I was married twice before - once at sixteen, once at twenty-one. One was a crybaby and the other was a caveman. Between the two of them I said goodbye to girlhood.

• Helen Wright : Did you think you could go away for weeks, almost months, never call nor write and come back to find me hanging in a clothes closet like a suit that you might put on some day a year from now?

• Helen Wright : Don't you like martinis?

  Paul Boray : Not particularly.

  Helen Wright : They're an acquired taste, like Ravel.

  Paul Boray : I never had much time for acquired tastes, except for Ravel.

• Helen Wright : Bad manners, Mr. Boray, the infallible sign of talent.

• Helen Wright : I'd like to slap your face.

  Paul Boray : Why don't you try it?

  Helen Wright : [smashes her glass against the wall] 

• Paul Boray : Evidently, you don't think too much of me.

  Helen Wright : I love you. So, I don't care what I think of you.

• Helen Wright : [drinking alone, toasting herself]  Here's to love.

  [hesitates] 

  Helen Wright : And here's to the time when we were little girls, and no one asked us to marry.