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Dinner at Eight (1933) More at IMDbPro »

Carlotta Vance: If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.
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Kitty: I was reading a book the other day.
Carlotta: Reading a book?
Kitty: Yes. It's all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
Carlotta: Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.
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Kitty Packard: Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the mens' room at the Astor!
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Carlotta Vance: And then I had a restful, nice luncheon... with 4 lawyers. On the 88th floor of the Watson's building. You know, the sky club. A cloud floated right into my soup plate.
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Dan Packard: Aw, go lay an egg.
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Millicent Jordan: You're joking! Ask that common little woman to the house with that noisy, vulgar man? He smells Oklahoma!
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Kitty: I've told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes!
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Kitty: I'm going to be a lady if it kills me.
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Kitty: [stage whispers during the dinner] Go on, tell Jordan.
Dan Packard: Shut up.
Kitty: Go on, and tell 'im.
Dan Packard: Shut up.
Kitty: If ya don't, you'll be sorry as long as you live.
Dan Packard: Shut up, shut up, shut up. Sh - shut up.
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Carlotta Vance: Oliver! Ducky! I'm never so glad to see anyone in all my life.
Oliver Jordan: Carlotta, this is a surprise! Why, you look marvelous.
Carlotta Vance: Do I? I do, don't I?
Oliver Jordan: Divine!
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Dan Packard: Remember what I told you last week?
Kitty Packard: I don't remember what you told me a minute ago.
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Carlotta Vance: Farewell, Lochinvar!
Dan Packard: What did she call me?
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Larry Renault: Listen to me old-timer. I'm drunk, and I know I'm drunk but I know what I'm talking about.
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Paula Jordan: My poor Larry. He's dead, Carlotta.
Carlotta Vance: And nothing can be done. That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final. Even the young can't do anything about it.
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Millicent Jordan: I don't know where I'm going to find someone to fit in with the Ferncliffes.
Hattie Loomis: Only a rubber plant would fit in with the Ferncliffes.
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Miss Copeland: You were wonderful!
Carlotta Vance: Yes, that was the last thing I did.
Miss Copeland: I remember it as plain as if it were yesterday.
Carlotta Vance: Hmm.
Miss Copeland: Though I was only a little girl at the time.
Carlotta Vance: How extraordinary!
Miss Copeland: Oh, it's wonderful, seeing you like this.
Carlotta Vance: Yes, it 'tis. You know, we must have a long talk about the Civil War sometime. Just you and I.
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Larry Renault: [Kane, his agent, is breaking the news to him that he's washed up] You're trying to throw a scare into me.
Max Kane: Oh, no. l'm just telling you the truth... You know, you never were an actor. You did have looks, but they're gone now. You don't have to take my word for it. Just look in any mirror. They don't lie.
Max Kane: [Forces Renault to look at himself in a nearby mirror] Take a good look. Look at those pouches under your eyes. Look at those creases. You sag like an old woman! Get a load of yourself! Wait till you start tramping around the offices, looking for a job, because no agent's going to handle you. Sitting in those anterooms hour after hour, giving your name to office boys that never even heard of you. You're through, Renault! You're through in pictures and plays and vaudeville and radio and everything. You're a corpse, and you don't know it. Go get yourself buried!
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Max Kane: [entering Renault's room] Am I buttin' in?
Paula Jordan: Not at all. I was just going. Goodbye.
[Paula exits]
Max Kane: Pearls in your oysters.
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Max Kane: How's the great profile today?
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