Dodie: I'm just shopping. They got some new records in. Do you like Bop?
Al Goddard: Bop? Is that where everybody plays a different tune at the same time?
Dodie: You just haven't heard enough of it.


--Jan Sterling (as Dodie) in Appointment with Danger

Lily Frayne: [Lily Frayne and her date, Pepe, are at the restaurant bar; Pepe looks troubled as he examines a bracelet on his wrist] I don't know why you're objecting to that slave bracelet. I buy one for all my friends. I used to wear two or three of them myself around my ankle in the old days. Everybody wears them.
Pepe, Lily's Gigolo: Mon cher, please, I'm bored hearing about "The Stone Age."
Lily Frayne: [shakes her diamond-covered hand at Pepe] That's where these rocks came from, lover, and don't forget it.
[turns to Bartender]
Lily Frayne: Darling, give Lily a shot for her bronchitis.
Bartender: Of course, Miss Frayne.
Lily Frayne: It's the sea air. I don't know why I live here.
Bartender: I thought you liked the beach.
Lily Frayne: Oh, I do, darling, I do.
[glances at Pepe]
Lily Frayne: But it's so boring. Nothing to do night or day but go to bed.
Bartender: Why don't you make another picture, Miss Frayne? I thought you were great in "Salammbô."
Lily Frayne: Lubitsch did, too, darling. Lubitsch did, too. We were giants in those days. Now you could put the whole bunch under a card table and nobody'd muss a hair.
[glances at Pepe]
Lily Frayne: Did you ever see me in "Salammbô," darling?
Pepe, Lily's Gigolo: Sorry, I wasn't born then.
Lily Frayne: [angry] Well, I was only eleven myself! They called me "Little Lily Frayne." I was the first child star ever to be chased around a desk.


--Jan Sterling (as ) in The Female Animal

Lorraine: I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.


--Jan Sterling (as Lorraine Minosa) in Ace in the Hole

Lorraine: I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.


--Jan Sterling (as Lorraine Minosa) in Ace in the Hole

Nelly Bain: Don't try to change now, Clint, or you'll find that even feeling a little will hurt a lot.


--Jan Sterling (as Nelly Bain) in Man with the Gun

Nelly Bain: You forget, Clint - I know that your father died because he wouldn't wear a gun. You'll die because you do.


--Jan Sterling (as Nelly Bain) in Man with the Gun

Nelly Bain: You notice I don't say anything about your manners. Appearances are all I care about. You're pretty girls and the Palace is not a pretty business.


--Jan Sterling (as Nelly Bain) in Man with the Gun

Nelly Bain: You're staying?
Clint Tollinger: Mm-hmm.
Nelly Bain: Of course - a target right to the end. Standing in front of people who won't stand in back of you.


--Jan Sterling (as Nelly Bain) in Man with the Gun

Sonya Bartow: I love you too, Paul... in my own funny way.


--Jan Sterling (as ) in Flesh and Fury

Vivian Heldon: What you need is fresh air.
Henry Shanway: Yeah. Yeah, open the window, huh?
Vivian Heldon: No, not here. Fresh air I couldn't get in here with a permit.


--Jan Sterling (as Vivian Heldon) in Mystery Street