QUOTES FROM JOAN FONTAINE'S FILMS

"If Don Quixote can fight windmills, I can fight turbines."
"We've tried to build a wall around us so high even the birds couldn't fly over it, but it can never be high enough."
"You know what we're thinking is impossible."
"The world's in an awful mess and I may never get back here. Oh, let's be unconventional."
       as Manina Stuart in "September Affair."

"You have more conceit of your kisses and less reason for it than any scoundrel in England."
"I'm done with the stupid, futile life we live here."
"One day after another, and another, and another-- no past, no future, only the present."
"A man may be free at all costs, but a woman can be free for only a night and a day."
       as Dona St. Columb in "Frenchman's Creek."

"I must go now or I'll be late to luncheon. Anyway, if my father saw me come in both late and beautiful, he might have a stroke."
       as Lina in "Suspicion."

"Oh, I wish I were a woman of thirty-six, dressed in black satin with a string of pearls."
       as the second Mrs. de Winter in "Rebecca."

"You are just about the stupidest man I ever met.
       as Lady Alyce Marshmorton in "Damsel in Distress."

"You don't like girls in uniforms, do you?"
"How romantic a thing like this can be and how sordid it can be when an aunt knows about it."
       as Prudence Cathaway in "This Above All."

"Suddenly I knew I couldn't live without you. I didn't know what I had in mind or what my parents would do when they found me missing. All I wanted was to see you once again, to throw myself at your feet, and cling to you and never leave you. Nothing else, nothing else mattered."
       as Lisa Brendl in "Letter From An Unknown Woman."

"I don't want to be a star on Broadway! I don't want to be an actress."
"Being honest and telling the truth is a mistake."
"When a woman dresses to appeal to all men that's not honest, that's truthful; but when a woman dresses to appeal to only one man, that's not truthful but honest."
       as Susan Darell in "The Affairs of Susan."

"No, I don't hate you. Sometimes I wish I weren't so fond of you."
       as Ivy Lexton in "Ivy."

"Did you really believe that or is that what you wanted to believe. Everytime it happens, I die a little. I loved you so. I couldn't have loved you more if you'd been my own."
       as Francoise to Dominique in "A Certain Smile."

"Are you trying to tell me you'd be distracted if you were married to me?"
       as Susan Spencer in "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt."

"Look at this..,stuck full of pins and it's head is cut off."
       as Gwen Mayfield in "The Devil's Own" aka "The Witches."

"I am bewildered, sir, but I'm certainly not afraid."
"I should be distressed if harm came to you."
"Every conscience must come to it's own decision."
"Do you think I could stay here to become nothing to you? Do you think because I'm poor and obscure and plain that I'm souless and heartless? I have as much soul as you and fully as much heart. And if God had gifted me with wealth and beauty I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you."
       as Jane Eyre in "Jane Eyre."

"These 'friends' of yours engineered this behind your back."
       as Emmy Stebbins to Sgt. Ballantine in "Gunga Din."

"I have been thinking about something, about your being here with me all the time. I've been so wrapped up in the business...for nearly four years, since the doctor said no baby, I hated myself, you and everybody else. I was resentful when you suggested adopting one. I couldn't see taking care of someone else's child...I was wrong."
       as Eve Graham in "The Bigamist."

"Perhaps they'll decide to leave you behind this time. Anyway, we have until they sail."
       as Anne Leslie to Richard Bates in "Until They Sail."

"Oh, don't be so touchy. Come back and sit down." to AA member Ray Milland.
"I'll probably die in a gutter like an old hag."
       as Jenny Carey in "Something to Live For."

Susan: "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight."
Bill: "What? I don't see any stars."
Susan: "There aren't any. We don't need them anymore."
       from the closing scene of "From This Day Forward."

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