Street Scene (1931)

Estelle Taylor: Anna Maurrant

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• Mrs. Anna Maurrant : I think the trouble is that people don't want to make allowances. They don't seem to realize that everybody wants a kind word now and... then.

• Mrs. Anna Maurrant : I often think it's a shame that people don't seem able to live together in peace and quiet without making each other miserable.

• Mr. Frank Maurrant : Some baby of a day.

  Mrs. Anna Maurrant : Everything's well at work, Frank?

  Mr. Frank Maurrant : I'll say I've been working. Dress rehearsin' since 12:00 with lights in this weather. Tomorrow I gotta go to Stanford for the trial.

  Mrs. Anna Maurrant : Oh, you're going to Stanford tomorrow?

  Mr. Frank Maurrant : Sure, the whole crew's goin'. Why, what about it?

  Mrs. Anna Maurrant : Nothing.

• Emma Jones : Between you and I, I don't think her mother's long for this world.

  Mrs. Anna Maurrant : Poor Miss Cushing. She's just spent her whole life looking after her mother.

  Emma Jones : Well, I hope to tell ya', after all I've done for my kids, I expect 'em to look after me in my old age.

  Mrs. Anna Maurrant : Oh, I don't know. It seems to me a person ought to get more out of life than just looking after somebody else.