Queen Bee (1955)

Joan Crawford: Eva Phillips

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• Eva Phillips : Any man's my man if I want it that way.

• Eva Phillips : Don't you look sweet, even in those tacky old riding clothes?

• Eva Phillips : I'm an outsider. They hate outsiders. Oh, they're polite enough - that's how they are. You don't know the things they've made me do trying to protect myself. And how ashamed I've been sometimes because of them. You don't know how they are. But you'll find out, as I have how they whisper, small talk, laugh! As if you have to be from the South to be any good! Oh, they're so smug, and namby-pamby! I wish I could get rid of them as easy as this trash!

• Eva Phillips : [about the doctor tending to her son, Ted]  That doctor Pearson is so absurd. He actually trembles when I talk to him. You'd think he'd never seen a beautiful woman before!

  Jennifer Stewart : What did he say?

  Eva Phillips : Oh the most extravagant things...

  Jennifer Stewart : I meant about TED.

• Eva Phillips : We will have a talk, won't we, Judd. Like old times.

  Judson Prentiss : There's nothing to discuss.

  Eva Phillips : I think we should talk. I don't like to insist. But I insist.

• Eva Phillips : Darling, parties are to women what battlefields are to men. But, then... you weren't in the war, were you? Something about drinking, wasn't it?

• Eva Phillips : Just give me a little minute to get my breath back everyone.

  [takes a drink] 

  Eva Phillips : Now I'm ready for people!

• Jennifer Stewart : I admire you so much. You're so nice in spite of... in spite of the way things are.

  Eva Phillips : I believe you're being sympathetic. Don't feel sorry for me, I like people around me to laugh and be gay.

• Eva Phillips : Judd darling, you've come back, you've actually come back.

  Judson Prentiss : I've just been getting acquainted with your cousin.

  Eva Phillips : [turning to Jennifer]  I didn't see you. You're so quiet we'll have to put a bell on you.

• Eva Phillips : There's just one little thing. I know it sounds terrible, but with everything happening so quickly, won't people wonder and talk? People will talk, you know, without reason of course. There isn't any reason, is there?

  Carol Lee Phillips : No Eva, not the way you mean. This may come as a surprise to you, but the only reason we're getting married is because we love each other.

  Eva Phillips : Just thought I'd ask. You know how people are.

  Judson Prentiss : Whatever you are Eva, you're on wheels!

• Eva Phillips : [about Carol]  She doesn't have many friends you know, I suppose it's just her personality. She doesn't even like me.

• Eva Phillips : I'm so bored I could scream.

• Eva Phillips : Once, I was like you - young and innocent and always trying to do the right thing...

  Jennifer Stewart : That must have been a long time ago!

• Judson Prentiss : If she were mine, I'd beat her!

  Avery 'Beauty' Phillips : She's not yours.

  Eva Phillips : [From distance]  Jud, darling ..

  Avery 'Beauty' Phillips : You mustn't keep the lady waiting.

• Eva Phillips : My, how cozy you all look.