Impact (1949)

Ella Raines: Marsha Peters

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• Marsha Peters : It's wonderful the way tools seem to come alive in your hands. You seem to sort of come alive, too, as though you got real pleasure out of working with them.

  Walter Williams : I do. When you're doing a job with them, you can't think of anything else.

  Marsha Peters : Bill, if somethings bothering you, why don't you get rid of it?

  Walter Williams : What would you prescribe, doctor?

  Marsha Peters : Amputation for that stupid chip on your shoulder.

• Walter Williams : This is no kind of work for a girl.

  Marsha Peters : Somebody has to do it, if I want to stay in business. And I want to.

• Marsha Peters : The sorry part is you're not big enough to take a hard jolt to your pride and to your ego. Sure. It hurts to be tricked and cheated by someone you loved and believed in. But that doesn't give you the right to take justice into your own hands, to travel on the hearts of others, and walk out on life.

• Marsha Peters : Bitterness and hatred hurt everyone. Can't you see, Bill? They're like a wall that shuts out all the sunshine from a garden and lets everything wither. Make room in your heart for something else, can't you?

• Marsha Peters : As they say, you can take the boy out of the country, but...

  Walter Williams : A rolling stone gathers no moss.

  Marsha Peters : It has to stop rolling sometime, doesn't it?

• Marsha Peters : What have I done to you? If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be here.

  Walter Williams : If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be.

• Marsha Peters : The maid seems to be our only hope now. We've got to keep looking until we find her, that's all.

  Lt. Tom Quincy : That's all?

  Marsha Peters : Wait! She was naturalized, wasn't she?

  Lt. Tom Quincy : Shuffling chopsticks. Quincy, you dumb flatfoot. This - this Su - Su what's-her-name was Chinese born. If her Port of Entry was San Francisco, there'd still be a file on her.

• Marsha Peters : As Mom would say, you never get rich mining the other fella's business.

• Marsha Peters : This ties it all up, doesn't it?

  Lt. Tom Quincy : Yeah, like a greased pig.