My Man Godfrey (1936)

Gail Patrick: Cornelia Bullock

Photos 

Quotes 

• Alexander Bullock : I've just been going over last month's bills, and I find that you people have confused me with the Treasury Department.

  Cornelia Bullock : Oh, don't start that again, Dad.

  Alexander Bullock : I don't mind giving the government 60% of what I make. But I can't do it when my family spends 50%!

  Irene : Well, why should the government get more money than your own family?

• Cornelia Bullock : You can't go on like this forever. You really like me and you're afraid to admit it, aren't you?

  Godfrey : You want me to tell you what I REALLY think of you?

  Cornelia Bullock : Please do.

  Godfrey : As Smith or as a butler?

  Cornelia Bullock : Choose your own weapon.

  Godfrey : You won't hold it against me?

  Cornelia Bullock : It's your day off.

  Godfrey : Very well. You belong to that unfortunate category that I would call the "Park Avenue brat." A spoiled child who's grown up in ease and luxury, who's always had her own way, and whose misdirected energies are so childish that they hardly deserve the comment, even of a butler on his off Thursday.

  Cornelia Bullock : [hurt and angry]  Thank you for a very lovely portrait.

• [Irene poses dramatically] 

  Cornelia Bullock : Oh, I remember that pose so well. I learned it in Dramatics School. It's Number 8 isn't it?

  Faithful George : Yep, that's Number 8 all right.

  Cornelia Bullock : Am I spoiling your act, dear?

  Irene : [under her breath to Cornelia]  I'll spoil something of yours someday and it won't be your act!

• Cornelia Bullock : Will you do me a big favor?

  Faithful George : Who do you want killed?

  Cornelia Bullock : I'll do my own killing.

• Cornelia Bullock : So Little Red Riding Hood didn't have enough feminine charm to trap a wolf her own age, so she falls in love with a butler and lives happily ever after on an ash pile. If you know what I mean.

  Irene : I know what you mean, if you know what *I* mean.

  Carlo : [entering the room]  May I come in?

  Cornelia Bullock : You're in, aren't you?

  Carlo : Very interesting book. The Greeks of the Middle Ages.

  Cornelia Bullock : Oh, Irene would like that. You love the middle ages, don't you, dear?

• Cornelia Bullock : I'd hate to see you made the laughing stock of Boston...

  Godfrey : I would hate to see anyone made a laughing stock anywhere.

• Cornelia Bullock : My life is precious to me.

  Irene : It won't be in a minute!

• Cornelia Bullock : Little Red Riding Hood didn't have enough charm to trap a wolf of her own age, so she falls in love with the butler and lives happily ever after on an ashpile, if you know what I mean.

  Irene : I know, if you know what I mean.