Prof. Eustace Appleby: I was quite a matinee idol in those days, you know. I still get letters from ladies in the towns where I played.
Dimples: Yes, landladies.


--Shirley Temple (as Dimples Appleby) in Dimples

Prof. Eustace Appleby: You're a very lucky little girl, and I'm glad to see that Mrs. Drew has given you such a good home.
Dimples: [crying] It isn't every little girl who can have such a good "envinoment."
Prof. Eustace Appleby: Oh, darling, I'm taking you home.
Dimples: No, Professor. Mrs. Drew says I'm gonna have a lot of advantages here.
Prof. Eustace Appleby: No place is nice for my little girl when it makes her cry. You're coming home with me.
Dimples: But if I stay here, you won't have to go to jail, and you can give Allen back his money.
Dimples: I won't go to jail, sweetie.


--Shirley Temple (as Dimples Appleby) in Dimples

Lola: Penny, what have you been doing with yourself?
Penny Hale: I've been very busy taking care of my daddy.
Lola: Oh, by the way, how is he?
Penny Hale: Well, when he's around me, he acts cheerful, but I don't think he's cheerful inside. I think he's worried.
Lola: Probably because he hasn't any more buildings to put up.
Penny Hale: No, I think he's worried about you.
Lola: Oh, Penny, you're just guessing! What makes you think that?
Penny Hale: He's always asking me questions about you. Just like you're asking me questions about him.


--Shirley Temple (as Penny) in Just Around the Corner

Ted Knowles, Jockey: Well, there he is. Boy, would I like to take him to the post again.
Margaret O'Hara: Ted.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Don't worry. He spoils you for riding any other horse. And look, baby, I'm not a jockey anymore. When those boys are out there fighting for position with mud in their eyes, I'm sitting up in the stands...
Margaret O'Hara: I know. Nice and easy with my little old sweetheart beside me.


--Shirley Temple (as Margaret O'Hara / Knowles) in The Story of Seabiscuit

Ted Knowles, Jockey: You know, you've got an accent just like old Shawn. On you I like it.
Margaret O'Hara: My, you're a fast starter.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: That's my reputation. Then you did know all along who I was.
Margaret O'Hara: I found out.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Interested?
Margaret O'Hara: I should have known you were a jockey.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Oh, that's all right. I can't expect you to know everything before we've even got started.
Margaret O'Hara: Jockey's have sort of a special something about them that's easy to tell.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Uh, the bandy legs?
Margaret O'Hara: 'Tis more a secret thing of the spirit, I'm thinking.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Say, what's your name?
Margaret O'Hara: Margaret O'Hara.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Margaret. I'll tell you what, Margaret. I'll win my first race this year for you, if you promise to be there with maybe a two-spot on his nose.
Margaret O'Hara: No. Never.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Why not?
Margaret O'Hara: It would be bringing back a black memory to torment me.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: Well, now who's talking crazy? Look, Margaret, I've got to work a couple more horses. Where can I see you again soon?
Margaret O'Hara: No place at all.
Ted Knowles, Jockey: No place at all? Am I that hard on the eyes?
Margaret O'Hara: You're not hard on the eyes at all, Ted, but you're a jockey. Goodbye.


--Shirley Temple (as Margaret O'Hara / Knowles) in The Story of Seabiscuit

Lt. Lenny Archer: [after Mr. and Mrs. Archer came home after a fist fight with the Pringles] Now listen, after this you're not to say anything. You've got to swear.
Corliss Archer: I'll take an oath in blood, like we did when we were kids. Will that satisfy you, Lenny?
Lt. Lenny Archer: Well ...
Corliss Archer: You know I never went back on that. And this is Daddy's blood, too!
Lt. Lenny Archer: Okay.
Corliss Archer: I swear in blood by everything that I hold sacred that I will never reveal your secret.
Lt. Lenny Archer: You'd better not, that's all.
Corliss Archer: They could torture me, and I wouldn't tell!


--Shirley Temple (as Corliss Archer) in Kiss and Tell

Lt. Lenny Archer: Look, you've got to help me. Can you keep a secret?
Corliss Archer: Cross my heart.
Lt. Lenny Archer: Mildred and I were married this morning.
Corliss Archer: Oh, Lenny! What are Mom and Daddy going to say?
Lt. Lenny Archer: Well, I was going to break it to them tonight, but now with this new row going -
Corliss Archer: Does anybody know? About your being married, I mean?
Lt. Lenny Archer: Not a soul. We drove across the state line to Windham Ferry and dug up a justice of the peace. He and his wife are the only ones who know. Except you.
Corliss Archer: But you're gonna tell Mom and Daddy, aren't you?
Lt. Lenny Archer: I don't know. I'm afraid now her parents might move heaven and earth to have it annulled.
Corliss Archer: Could they?
Lt. Lenny Archer: I guess they could. She lied about her age on the license.
Corliss Archer: Golly. How awful
Lt. Lenny Archer: Awful is right.
Corliss Archer: Gosh. That makes Mildred my sister-in-law, doesn't it?


--Shirley Temple (as Corliss Archer) in Kiss and Tell

Dr. Donald Middleton: [after Molly falls down] Are you hurt?
Molly Middleton: [rubbing her bottom] I think I might have a little fever.


--Shirley Temple (as ) in Our Little Girl

Dr. Donald Middleton: Did you and Mommy get into any mischief while I was gone?
Molly Middleton: No, I haven't thought of any good mischief, and Mommy's been too busy riding.


--Shirley Temple (as ) in Our Little Girl

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: All right, get out of bed. I'll show you how to pray, sort of. But don't you tell anybody, see?
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Is it a secret?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Between you and me. Kneel down. Put your hands together like this. Elbows on the bed. Shut your eyes.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Are you gonna shut yours, too?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No. I gotta see that you do it right.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Now what do I do?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Say like this: Now I lay me down to sleep,
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Now I lay me down to sleep,
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: If I should die before I wake,
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: If I should die before I wake,
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I pray the Lord my soul to take.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I pray the Lord my soul to take.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Make me a good little girl.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: [to Sorrowful] You wanna be a little girl?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No, no. Make *you* a good little girl.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: [praying] Make me a good little girl.
[to Sorrowful]
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Is that all?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: That's the works.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: But when do I ask for what I want?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You better do it right now, while your prayer's still hot.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: [praying] Please, God, b

--Shirley Temple (as Marthy 'Marky' Jane) in Little Miss Marker