Night Must Fall (1937)

Rosalind Russell: Olivia GHRayne

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Quotes 

• Olivia Grayne : I'm not a snob, but in case you'd like to call here again, I'd like to point out that although I'm employed by my aunt, I'm not in Dora's position.

  Danny : Well, I hope not. I am gonna marry her though, and I...

  Olivia Grayne : I don't believe you.

  Danny : You don't believe me, do you?

  Olivia Grayne : Your eyes are set quite wide apart... and your hands are quite good, but I really don't know what's wrong with you.

  Danny : Like me, do you?

  Olivia Grayne : No!

  Danny : Everybody else does.

• Inspector Belsize : [Seeing Olivia gazing out the window]  Why, what's the matter? Have you just thought of something?

  Olivia Grayne : Oh, no, no.

  Inspector Belsize : You were looking strange as if you just thought of something.

  Olivia Grayne : Oh, no, it's nothing really. I was just thinking that...

  Inspector Belsize : What?

  Olivia Grayne : [pauses]  Well, I often wonder on a very fine morning what it would be like for night to come... and I never can. I'd have to...

  [laughs] 

  Olivia Grayne : Silly.

  Mrs. Bramson : Hunh, I should think it was!

  Inspector Belsize : No, go on.

  Olivia Grayne : Well, here we all are perfectly ordinary English people. We woke up this morning thinking, hmmm, here's another day. We got up, looked at the weather, talked... Here we all are still talking and... all the time...

  Inspector Belsize : What?

  Olivia Grayne : All the time there may be something lying in the woods, hidden under a bush... with two feet showing, perhaps a high heel catching the sunlight with a bird perched on the end of it, and the other, the other stockinged foot with blood that's dried on the stocking... and somewhere, somewhere there's a man walking about and talking just like us, and he got up in the morning, and he looked at the world... and he killed her.

  Inspector Belsize : Oh.

• Olivia Grayne : You've been drinking.

  Danny : I've had a drink... and I feel fine...

• Olivia Grayne : Is my cigarette worrying you?

  Mrs. Bramson : Not at all!

  [Waving her hand before her face] 

  Mrs. Bramson : I like it!