Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

Mary Tyler Moore: Miss Dorothy Brown

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Quotes 

• Millie Dillmount : I'm going to be a stenog. Tomorrow I start interviewing bosses.

  Miss Dorothy Brown : I thought it was the other way around, bosses interviewing you?

  Millie Dillmount : Oh, I can typewrite forty words a minute. I'm in demand. Besides, I'm going to marry an eligible bachelor. You see, I'm going to marry my boss... whoever he may be.

  Miss Dorothy Brown : You're a modern!

  Millie Dillmount : Thoroughly!

• Miss Dorothy Brown : [after Judith Tremaine walks away]  Bitch!

• Miss Dorothy Brown : Operator, you have obviously never been in a Chinese opium den!

• Miss Dorothy Brown : Oh, I do hope he won't be an addict. I mean with all that dope.

  Millie Dillmount : It didn't hurt Sleeping Beauty or Snow White.

• Millie Dillmount : So you're not in paper clips?

  Miss Dorothy Brown : Well, that's not far from the truth, Millie. The fortune was founded in steel.

  Millie Dillmount : [nodding]  Oh. I don't understand.

• Taxi driver : That'll be 35 cents please.

  Miss Dorothy Brown : A pen, please.

  Taxi driver : A pen? What for?

  Miss Dorothy Brown : To write a check.

  Taxi driver : A check? 35 cents I said, not 35 dollars. Who writes a check for 35 cents?

  Miss Dorothy Brown : Oh, I do.

• [Referring to the elevator] 

  Miss Dorothy Brown : Oh, I love it! All you do in the Ritz elevator is go up and down!

• Miss Dorothy Brown : [talking about the dance, as she's moving in]  Would you introduce me to the gang?

  Millie Dillmount : Well, they're a pretty high-spirited bunch.

  Miss Dorothy Brown : White poor people usually are.

• Millie Dillmount : Cut your hair! Let them see how truly abandoned you are!

  Miss Dorothy Brown : Cut my hair? But I don't understand. Millie, I don't think...

  Millie Dillmount : People can't find the real you under those curls!

• Dorothy's dance partner : [dancing]  Do you know the Tapioca?

  Miss Dorothy Brown : [shy]  Can't say I do...

  Dorothy's dance partner : It's the latest!

  Miss Dorothy Brown : Well, I'm here to learn!

  [he whisks her away] 

• Millie Dillmount , Miss Dorothy Brown : [running up to take their bow]  Echo, echo!

  Millie Dillmount , Miss Dorothy Brown : [about ready to do their jump]  Andiamo, andiamo! Allez oop!