Martin: You know, Laurie, I was just thinking that maybe it's about time you and me started going steady, huh?
Laurie Jorgensen: Why, Martin Pawley, you and me been going steady since we was three years old!
Martin: We have?
Laurie Jorgensen: 'Bout time you found out about it.


--Vera Miles (as Laurie Jorgensen) in The Searchers

Hallie: Rance, do you think I could... I mean, grown up and all... do you think I could learn to read?
Ransom Stoddard: Why, sure you can, Hallie. Why, there's nothing to it. It'd be... it'd be easy. Can you learn how to read? Why, I can... I can teach you. A smart girl like you? Of course you can learn how to read. Now, do you want to try?
Hallie: It's awful worrisome not knowing how. I know the Good Book from preacher talk; but it'd be a soul comfort if I could read the words myself.


--Vera Miles (as Hallie Stoddard) in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Laurie Jorgensen: [reading a letter from Martin on his Indian wife] "She wasn't nearly as old as you." How old does he think I am?


--Vera Miles (as Laurie Jorgensen) in The Searchers

Lila Crane: Look, that old woman, whoever she is, she told Arbogast something. I want her to tell us the same thing.
Sam Loomis: Hold it, you can't go up there.
Lila Crane: Why not?
Sam Loomis: Bates.
Lila Crane: Then, let's find him. One of us can keep him occupied while the other gets to the old woman.
Sam Loomis: You'll never be able to hold him still even if he doesn't want to be held. And, I don't like you going into that house alone.
Lila Crane: I can handle a sick old woman!


--Vera Miles (as Lila Crane) in Psycho

Vida Downey: That was a lovely exhibition.
Lemuel Siddons: Now Vida...
Vida Downey: A one hundred percent domineering, "I forbid you", let's keep them in their places, male performance.
Lemuel Siddons: Male nothing...
Vida Downey: You're all alike, every last one of you. Puffed up, lords of the universe, egotistical know-it-alls.


--Vera Miles (as Vida Downey) in Follow Me, Boys!