The Mating Season (1951)

Thelma Ritter: Ellen McNulty

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• Ellen McNulty : Listen, if you're a chicken, you can fool people about your feathers. But when you start laying eggs all over the place, they know you're a chicken.

• Ellen McNulty : When you stop worrying, you'll be dead.

• Ellen McNulty : Never eat standing up, and never cook sittin' down.

• Ellen McNulty : Well, who stole the meat outta her sandwich?

• Mr. Paget : It's the first of July, Mrs. McNulty.

  Ellen McNulty : Already? Gee, June flied in a hurry. Isn't it?

  Mr. Paget : So did May and April. The bank can't wait any longer.

• Val McNulty : Junior Kalinger? Oh, he's OK.

  Ellen McNulty : Oh, go on, I've stepped on better things than him.

• Ellen McNulty : You don't know what it was like working with her yesterday. I felt like I was 21 again.

  Val McNulty : Oh Malarky

  Ellen McNulty : Look wiseguy, I didn't feel like I was 21 when I was 21.

• Ellen McNulty : [to Val, the newlywed]  This is your mating season, you're entitled to be alone.

• Val McNulty : Ma, when will you get over that I'm not six years old anymore?

  Ellen McNulty : Never. Six is plenty big for a boy to be.

• Ellen McNulty : To raise a hundred dollars, I would have to sell 13,000 hamburgers between now and six o'clock tonight. Do you know anybody that's that hungry?