The Rat Race (1960)

Debbie Reynolds: Peggy Brown

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Peggy Brown : I hate this louse-bitten town like poison, and every dirty body in it.

• 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.