The Rat Race (1960)
Debbie Reynolds: Peggy Brown
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Quotes
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Peggy Brown : I wouldn't want to get talked into anything. Anything bad ever happened to me, it was because I got talked in.
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Peggy Brown : [as Nellie removes her earrings for debt repayment purposes] They're only glass.
Nellie : So is the United Nations building. But it stands for something. Now give me your fingers.
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Mac, Owner of Macs Bar : You wanna' hear a saying? "Everybody needs somebody else, who can make them feel ashamed of themselves." My grandmother used to say that. Only in Gaelic.
Peggy Brown : You know what my grandmother used to say?
Mac, Owner of Macs Bar : What?
Peggy Brown : "Your grandmother's got a big mouth." Only in French.
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Nellie : All I asked you to do is have a few drinks in a high-type restaurant, with a gentleman of manners. Is that so hard to take? I could open this window and shout and a hundred girls would jump at the chance.
Peggy Brown : So why don't you open it and shout?
Nellie : Because none of them owe me 600 dollars in cash.
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Peggy Brown : I hate this louse-bitten town like poison, and every dirty body in it.
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Peggy Brown : Look, Nellie...
Nellie : Don't "Nellie" me. "Nelson Miller" to you. "Mr. Miller" let's make it. I don't go for this "familiar." That's my trouble: familiar. The customers, the ponies - it doesn't profit.