Lord Arthur Dilling:
Go into that bathroom and hide. I'll get rid of them!
Fay Cheyney: Thanks, but like many other women, my life has been devoted to not being discovered in bathrooms!
--Norma Shearer (as Fay Cheyney) in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Fay Cheyney: Thanks, but like many other women, my life has been devoted to not being discovered in bathrooms!
--Norma Shearer (as Fay Cheyney) in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Fat Man Who Flirts With Dolly:
[Flirting] Do you ever go out with gentlemen?
Angel Face Crandall: I never met one.
--Norma Shearer (as Angel Face Crandall) in A Lady of Chance
Angel Face Crandall: I never met one.
--Norma Shearer (as Angel Face Crandall) in A Lady of Chance
Ivan:
Tell me the truth.
Jerry Bernard Martin: The truth?
[laughs]
Jerry Bernard Martin: The last thing any man wants to hear from any woman!
--Norma Shearer (as Jerry Martin) in The Divorcee
Jerry Bernard Martin: The truth?
[laughs]
Jerry Bernard Martin: The last thing any man wants to hear from any woman!
--Norma Shearer (as Jerry Martin) in The Divorcee
Harry Van:
Somehow or other I couldn't help feeling touched, that of all the sordid hotels you've been in, that you should have remembered that one.
Irene Fellara: The age of chivalry still lives!
--Norma Shearer (as Irene Fellara) in Idiot's Delight
Irene Fellara: The age of chivalry still lives!
--Norma Shearer (as Irene Fellara) in Idiot's Delight
Harry Van:
The world you live in isn't a world of facts and figures, it's a world of dreams. Maybe that's what I like about you Irene.
Irene Fellara: And maybe you're wrong my darling. Maybe we two cheap people, with our cheap lives, maybe we're the only ones in this crazy world who are real.
--Norma Shearer (as Irene Fellara) in Idiot's Delight
Irene Fellara: And maybe you're wrong my darling. Maybe we two cheap people, with our cheap lives, maybe we're the only ones in this crazy world who are real.
--Norma Shearer (as Irene Fellara) in Idiot's Delight
Hubert Tyler:
You're not to blame. Women should be sheltered, Vicki.
Victoria Anastasia 'Vicki' Wilomirska: After all, what can you expect of us? We were brought up to be merely socially attractive. We have no ambition and no talent except for playing games and not enough of that.
Hubert Tyler: If you'd kept your word to me, Vicki, you wouldn't have to invent your assets.
Victoria Anastasia 'Vicki' Wilomirska: I have nothing to regret you with. I chose my life, and I like it.
--Norma Shearer (as ) in We Were Dancing
Victoria Anastasia 'Vicki' Wilomirska: After all, what can you expect of us? We were brought up to be merely socially attractive. We have no ambition and no talent except for playing games and not enough of that.
Hubert Tyler: If you'd kept your word to me, Vicki, you wouldn't have to invent your assets.
Victoria Anastasia 'Vicki' Wilomirska: I have nothing to regret you with. I chose my life, and I like it.
--Norma Shearer (as ) in We Were Dancing
Edward Moulton-Barrett:
Elizabeth, give me your Bible.
Elizabeth Barrett: My Bible belonged to Mama. I can't have it used for such a purpose.
Edward Moulton-Barrett: Give me your Bible.
Elizabeth Barrett: No.
Edward Moulton-Barrett: You refuse?
Elizabeth Barrett: Yes.
--Norma Shearer (as Elizabeth Barrett) in The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Elizabeth Barrett: My Bible belonged to Mama. I can't have it used for such a purpose.
Edward Moulton-Barrett: Give me your Bible.
Elizabeth Barrett: No.
Edward Moulton-Barrett: You refuse?
Elizabeth Barrett: Yes.
--Norma Shearer (as Elizabeth Barrett) in The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Theodore 'Ted' Martin:
I'd like to make love to you till you scream for help.
Jerry Bernard Martin: [Putting her hands around her throat to pantomine stifling a scream] Can't scream.
--Norma Shearer (as Jerry Martin) in The Divorcee
Jerry Bernard Martin: [Putting her hands around her throat to pantomine stifling a scream] Can't scream.
--Norma Shearer (as Jerry Martin) in The Divorcee
Theodore 'Ted' Martin:
Who's the man?
Jerry Bernard Martin: Oh, Ted, don't be conventional!
--Norma Shearer (as Jerry Martin) in The Divorcee
Jerry Bernard Martin: Oh, Ted, don't be conventional!
--Norma Shearer (as Jerry Martin) in The Divorcee
Amanda:
[as Elyot opens his cigarette case] Give me one for the love of heaven,
--Norma Shearer (as Amanda Prynne) in Private Lives
--Norma Shearer (as Amanda Prynne) in Private Lives
