Torch Singer (1933)
Claudette Colbert: Sally Trent, aka Mimi Benton
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Quotes
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Mimi Benton : Well, I'll tell you what happened to her. While you were touring China, she went through hell. It's a nice place, you must go there someday.
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Michael Gardner : You've changed all right! You're selfish, hard.
Mimi Benton : Sure I am, just like glass. So hard, nothing'll cut it but diamonds. Come around some day with a fistful. Maybe we can get together.
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Mimi Benton : [to baby daughter] Maybe... maybe you'll take a mother's advice before she goes. You might as well. That's the only thing she's got to give. Don't ever let any man make a sucker out of you. Make him know what you're worth. Anything they get for nothing is always cheap.
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Mimi Benton : [to her newborn daughter] Why couldn't you have been a boy? This world's such a tough place for a girl to come to.
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Mimi Benton : [to Mother Angelica] Dora's the kind of girl that some guy always wants to marry. I get a lot of proposals, but marriage isn't one of them.
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Carlotti : A woman must suffer much before she can sing a little.
Mimi Benton : [Disappointedly] I see.
Carlotti : Come back to me in about a year.
Mimi Benton : [Smiling ironically] All right. In the meantime watch me suffer.
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Mimi Benton : The next time you go in for rescue work, pick out someone who wants to be saved. I don't.