Funny Face (1957)

Kay Thompson: Maggie Prescott

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Quotes 

• Maggie Prescott : She put herself in your place. All you have to do is put yourself in her place, and the two of you are BOUND to run into each other in SOMEBODY'S place.

• Maggie Prescott : Duval, please! I can't hear myself think, and I'm trying to think in French!

• Maggie Prescott : The Quality Woman must have grace, elegance and pizazz.

  Dick Avery : Every girl on every page of Quality has grace, elegance, and pizazz. Now, what's wrong with bringing out a girl who has character, spirit, and intelligence?

  Dovitch : That certainly would be novel in a fashion magazine.

• Maggie Prescott : [looking for signs of intellect]  Marion, dear... what are you reading?

  Marion : [holds up comic book]  "Minutemen from Mars"!

• Maggie Prescott : Let's give 'em the old pizazz!

• Maggie Prescott : Lettie, take an editorial! "To the women of America...!" No, make it to the women everywhere. "Banish the black, burn the blue, and bury the beige. From now on, girls, think pink!"

• Maggie Prescott : Oh, she's just filled with virtues, isn't she? Only she's not wasting any of them on us.

• Jo Stockton : If the individual rights are not respected by the group, the group itself cannot exist for long.

  Maggie Prescott : What does that mean?

  Dick Avery : Something like do unto others as you'd have others do unto you.

• Dick Avery : We want to sit at your feet and learn. We have so much to learn.

  Maggie Prescott : We sit at your feet humble and ignorant but so willing.

  Jo Stockton : Look, you two just leave his feet alone.

• Maggie Prescott : [talking about the newest edition of her magazine]  This is just paper. And if I send paper to the American woman, I will have let her down! Oh, yes. D for down, D for dreary, and D for dull and for depressing and dismal and deadly!