Rules Don't Apply (2016)

Lily Collins: Marla Mabrey

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• [Hughes alone with the drunk and flirtatious Marla] 

  Howard Hughes : You make an old guy courageous, Marla...

  Marla Mabrey : Is that a compliment, Howard ?

  Howard Hughes : You're not calling me Mr. Hughes... Makes me feel so much younger.

• [Marla together with other contract actresses at a ballet studio] 

  Sally : So, did you get caviar ?

  Marla Mabrey : Yes, I got caviar, but I still haven't met him. Do you have any idea how many houses he has for actresses under contract ?

  Sally : I think something like... 14.

  Mamie Murphy : [smiles]  More like... 22.

  Bella : [smiles]  More like 26.

  Marla Mabrey : [repeats together with the others in disbelief]  26!

• Lucy Mabrey : So, who was it that said..."They also serve who only stand and wait"?

  Marla Mabrey : John Milton on his blindness.

  Lucy Mabrey : Good for you, smart cookie.

  Lucy Mabrey : You know, they say in Hollywood, a girl can get in trouble for having a case of the smarts.

  Lucy Mabrey : Not just in Hollywood, honey.

• Howard Hughes : You think it's crazy to trust your gut instinct?

  Marla Mabrey : There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood lead on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries