Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

Barbara Stanwyck: Jo Courtney

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Quotes 

• Jo Courtney : Perhaps maturity will change all that.

  Hallie : What do you think I'll mature into? You?

  [Jo slaps Hallie] 

• Jo Courtney : [of a bust Hallie is sculpting of her]  Oh, I see you've started working again. Why don't you go back to it?

  Hallie : [despondently]  Suddenly I don't feel like working.

  Jo Courtney : [brightly]  All right, then let's go shopping!

• Hallie : You haven't got the patience.

  Jo Courtney : Oh, you know me better than that, Hallie. Sometimes I've waited years for what I wanted.

• Jo Courtney : You're being perverse.

  Hallie : I was born perverse. Isn't that a woman's nature?

• Jo Courtney : My, we are depressed, aren't we?

  Hallie : No, I'm bored. And I've only just gotten up. Maybe I ought to go back to bed.

• Jo Courtney : It's a big city, full of lost girls.

• Jo Courtney : I'll tell you what. Let's spend the afternoon here. You can start a new head of me. Or my hands. You've always wanted to do my hands.

  Hallie : I'm not in the mood.

• Jo Courtney : Careful, Hallie. Pity can be a dangerous emotion and you have a great capacity for it.

• Jo Courtney : Go on and tell him. Tell him about the days and nights of Hallie Gerard. Tell him about the mud you've rolled in for years. Well, tell him!

• Jo Courtney : Oh, Hallie. Hallie. You've been dreaming. You've had a brief dream of young love and candy kisses. And it's all so foolish, so unreal.

• Jo Courtney : Too many girls end up more loaded than the clients and their so-called brains become addled. The customers take advantage of them. Think of the house, not yourself. Call me if there's any trouble or Oliver. Get yourself a gown. You can pay me back later. Oliver will show you where to buy it and what kind.

• Jo Courtney : Love. Can any man love a woman for herself without wanting her body for his own pleasure? Love is understanding and sharing, enjoying the beauty of life without the reek of lust! Don't talk to me about love! What do you know? What does that young fool know? What does any man know?