Quotes from Thelma Ritter movies and TV shows

Alicia Pritchard: Mr. Griggs, a person is not a corporation! A person is flesh and blood... and feelings .

Ellen McNulty: When you stop worrying, you'll be dead.

Ellen McNulty: Never eat standing up, and never cook sittin' down.

Ellen McNulty: If you're a chicken, you can fool people about your feathers. When you start lying eggs all over the place, they know you're a chicken.

Ellen McNulty: You don't know what it was like working with her yesterday. I felt like I was 21 again.
Val McNulty: Oh Malarky.
Ellen McNulty: Look wiseguy, I didn't feel like I was 21 when I was 21.

Ellen McNulty: Well, who stole the meat outta her sandwich?

Mr. Paget: It's the first of July, Mrs. McNulty.
Ellen McNulty: Already? Gee, June flied in a hurry. Isn't it?
Mr. Paget: So did May and April. The bank can't wait any longer.

Roslyn: Why can't I just say he wasn't there. He - I mean you could touch him, but he wasn't there.
Isabelle Steers: Darling, girl, if that was grounds for divorce, there'd only be about 11 marriages left in the United States.

Isabelle Steers: One thing about this town, it's always full of interesting strangers.

Isabelle Steers: I love Nevada. You know, they don't have regular meal times here. Never met so many people didn't own a watch! Might have two wives at the same time, but, no watch. Bless them all.

Isabelle Steers: The Leave It state. Ya got money you want to gamble? Leave it here. You got a wife you want to get ride of? Get rid of her here. Extra atom bomb you don't need? Blow it up here. Nobody's gonna mind in the slightest.

Alma: If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

Stella: When I married Miles, we were both a couple of maladjusted misfits. We are still maladjusted misfits, and we have loved every minute of it.

Jeff: Those two yellow zinnias at the end, they're shorter now. Now since when do flowers grow shorter over the course of two weeks? Something's buried there.
Lisa: Mrs. Thorwald.
Stella: You haven't spent much time around cemeteries, have you? Mr. Thorwald could hardly bury his wife's body in plot of ground about one foot square. Unless he put her in standing on end, in which case he wouldn't need the knives and saw.

Stella: He's gonna run out on her, the coward.
Jeff: Sometimes it's worse to stay than it is to run.

Stella: Maybe one day she'll find her happiness.
Jeff: Yeah, some man'll lose his.

Jeff: I just can't figure it. He went out several times last night in the rain carrying his sample case.
Stella: Well, he's a salesman, isn't he?
Jeff: Well, what would he be selling at three o'clock in the morning?
Stella: Flashlights. Luminous dials for watches. House numbers that light up.

Stella: The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.
Jeff: Oh, hello, Stella.
Stella: And they got no windows in the workhouse.

Stella: When two people love each other, they come together - wham - like two taxis on Broadway.

Jeff: She sure is the "eat, drink and be merry" girl.
Stella: Yeah, she'll wind up fat, alcoholic and miserable.