Down to Earth (1947)

Rita Hayworth: Terpsichore, Kitty Pendleton

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Quotes 

• Terpsichore : I thought you couldn't feel any pain.

  Messenger 7013 : I've got a memory, haven't I?

• Terpsichore : Mr. Jordan, I want to cry, but I can't. There are no tears. Mr. Jordan, at least let me cry.

  Mr. Jordan : You can't anymore. Tears are only for mortals. It's an advantage they have over us.

• Terpsichore : [singing]  The law, Why that's a bore, There's a law against, Sittin' on the grass, Against pettin' in the park, Laws prohibiting beating wives, Thereby inhibiting a million guys' lives, If anything's fun, The law suppresses, Tell me what you done, Then I'll get you arrested...

• Muse in fuchsia : That could only come from America!

  Terpsichore : Where else? Why, their number one song on the Hit Parade is, "Who hit Nellie in the Belly with a Flounder".

• Terpsichore : You should hear the type of song he's using, for instance: Take a chick like me, They call me Terpsichore, I'm the Goddess of Song and Dance, I put the ants in the dancers' pants.

• Terpsichore : Fellas? Second chorus.

  [singing] 

  Terpsichore : I'll get two kisses, From two pairs of lips...

• Terpsichore : You need me.

  Danny Miller : Like a hole in the head.

• Terpsichore : According to him, I'm nothing but a man-chasing trollop!

• Terpsichore : Do you know who he's telling the world we inspired? The man who invented the skinless weenie. A frankfurter.

  Muse in gray : A frankfurter! How ghastly.

• Terpsichore : You see, I want to go down to earth and get into a theatrical production.

  Messenger 7013 : Obviously, you don't know our business here. We bring people up from earth, we don't take them down.

• Terpsichore : Is she supposed to be me?

  Messenger 7013 : Indubitably.

• Terpsichore : Max, you rascal, you've been wonderful the way you've handled me all these years.

• Terpsichore : I suppose you think it was sort of bold of me, pushing my way in as I did.

  Danny Miller : I can't say you're a shrinking violet.

• Terpsichore : Why do you keep staring at me like that?

  Danny Miller : Staring? I wasn't aware of it.

  Terpsichore : Well, you've been looking at me in an awfully strange way.

• Terpsichore : [singing]  What's the matter, Don't you want to do it?

  Danny Miller , Eddie : No! But, you talked us into it!

• Terpsichore : [singing]  I want to marry the two of you

  Eddie : Get a load of that dame

  Danny Miller : I think she's weird

  Terpsichore : Why not? Maybe you've got something that he hasn't got...

• Danny Miller : I made this whole show up out of thin air. It's all a fairy tale and Terpsichore's any cock-eyed thing I say she is.

  Terpsichore : I'd be careful, Mr. Daniel Miller. She might hear you say that - and she might not like it!

  Danny Miller : Oh, she might not like it, huh? I suppose she might come down out of the clouds and slap me right across the face.

  Terpsichore : She might! If you continue to paint her as a cheap, man-chasing trollop!

  Danny Miller : Now get this, once and for all, if I say Terpsichore is a trollop, she's a trollop!

• Terpsichore : Oh, go fry an egg!

• Danny Miller : The Greek goddess Terpsichore - you know who she is don't you?

  Terpsichore : Oh, I think so. She's the most talented of all the goddesses, isn't she?

  Danny Miller : I don't know. I never met a goddess. Well, the one in our show is just an ordinary dame.

• Terpsichore : I was warned about your country. How can you mix art with jive and baseball and hot dogs?

• Danny Miller : You're going with me. I want to show you off.

  Terpsichore : Thanks, Danny.

  Danny Miller : Oh, this is the happiest night of my life. You really killed 'em, baby.

• Terpsichore : I didn't realize what any of this meant to you. But, now I do. And all I want to do is help. I'll do *anything*. Anything you say.

• Terpsichore : Let's not keep talking about the show. Don't you - ever think of anything else? Look at that moon. It's like a million dollar gold piece.

• Terpsichore : What wonderful air. It's like wine.

• Terpsichore : I hope its wonderful.

  Danny Miller : Well, if you come through like you did in dress rehearsal, we'll have them tossing their wives in the air.