Possessed (1931)
Joan Crawford: Marian Martin
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Quotes
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Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : You don't own me. Nobody does. My life belongs to me.
Al Manning : You'll make one fine mess of it.
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : It'll still belong to me.
Marian's mother : Don't, Marian, you frighten me when you talk like that.
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : If I were a man it wouldn't frighten you! You'd think it was right for me to go out and get anything I could out of life, and use anything I had to get it. Why should men be so different? All they've got are their brains and they're not afraid to use them. Well neither am I!
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Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : Regret? I left school when I was only 12... never learned how to spell "regret."
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Travers : Careful, Mark, she's only after our money.
Mark Whitney : Are you?
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : ...Yes.
Mark Whitney : Honest, aren't you?
Mark Whitney : You wouldn't want me to lie to you, wouldn't you?
Mark Whitney : That's almost the only thing I could never forgive you.
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Wally : ...so you'd better listen. There's only one way for a girl to get along in this town, and that's with a man - a rich man to help her, but she must keep a cool head. When you meet a man, never look him in the eye.
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : No?
Wally : No. Take a peek at the pocket book.
[She glances at his right pocket]
Wally : . No, wrong number. And one other thing before you go' Find out all you can about them and never tell them anuthing. Men like to think they're Christopher Columbus discovering America.
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Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : Well, I just thought you could give me some advice.
Wally : The East River is full of girls who took advice from men like me.
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Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : Oh, Mark, I feel as if I was walking on the edge of a precipice.
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Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : When a woman sings with the heart, the language is unimportant.
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Wally : [From the train] Have a drink?
[Marian begins to leave]
Wally : Aw, don't go away. Looking out? Wrong Way! Get in and look out.
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : [There is a gate blocking access to the train steps] Get in where? Oh, here?
Wally : Oh, anywhere... just in. Only rwo kinds of people... the ones in and the ones out.
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Al Manning : Say, I'm the best concrete worker they've got. Say, when I talk to cement, it stands up and takes off its hat!
Marian Martin, aka Mrs. Moreland : Yeah, and you're still in overalls.