Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

Joan Blondell: Violet

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• Violet : What you need is a drink.

  Rock Hunter : And how!

  Violet : Maybe two drinks! What'll it be?

  Rock Hunter : Something simple. A bottle and a straw.

• Violet : [Speaking of the milkman she loved in the silent picture era.]  He had the pains for the gaI was working for, and she must have liked his brand of cream because they got married, and he because the producer of all her pictures until the talkies came in. She couldn't speak English, being from Texas.

• Violet : Don't tell me you've gone and flipped for Rock?

  [Peers at her] 

  Violet : Well, I'll be a writer's subplot. You have.

• Violet : This guy I was nuts about was our milkman. I'd get a throatful of heart every a.m. when he'd drive up to our back door on Copa de Ora in Bel Air, the sound of the milk bottles rattling and little cream bottles jiggling. Boy, it was something. But he couldn't see me for dust. It was stardust he saw. He had the pains for the gal I was working for and she must have liked his brand of cream, because they got married.

• Violet : [Both talking about trying to get over the men they love]  Then I went to a psychiatrist.

  Rita Marlowe : I was gonna to do that, too, except in Hollywood they're so busy with producers you can't even get an appointment.

• [last lines] 

  Rock Hunter : We've learned that success - is just the art of being happy. And being happy is - well, being happy is just...

  Rock Hunter , Rita Marlowe , Henry Rufus , Violet , Jenny Wells , April Hunter , Irving La Salle Jr. : The very living end.

• Rita Marlowe : I'm just going to New York with my secretary to rest in seclusion. Ooh! Seclusion? Is that right?

  Violet : That's right, you want to be alone.

  Rita Marlowe : Seclusion sounds so dirty.

  Violet : Well, it isn't.

• Violet : I may look like a man but I don't sound like one.

• Violet : Well, this may come as a shock but I was young and pretty once, like you, and equipped with just as many extras.

• Violet : Now, you listen to me. You've got to stop going overboard for every man who makes you tingle. First there was that English actor who wore the sunglass monocle, and then the Academy Award winner who had you polishing his Oscar. Can't think of the others. And there was Bobo and then Rocky. And all because you can't forget George Schmidlap. What you need is a psychiatrist or a do-it-yourself couch.

• Violet : That wonderful AC/DC feeling.

• Violet : I just got the homogenized blues.