Saratoga Trunk (1945)

Florence Bates: Sophie Bellop

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• Clio Dulaine : If you mean to harm me, she'd be likely to kill you. She'd make a little figure like you out of soap, but she'd stick little pins into it, and you'd sicken and die.

  Sophie Bellop : Not I. I've had pins stuck in me all my life and - knives and everything up to pickaxes.

• Sophie Bellop : [to Clio]  I know my way around this world. I know what it is to be very rich. I know what it is to be very poor. I've lived on nothing for years... in luxury.

• Sophie Bellop : Here's your ring. Hang on to your jewelry. I always say it's a woman's best friend.

• Sophie Bellop : i say and i do as i please because i'm not afraid of anybody. It's a grand feeling.

  Clio Dulaine : In a way, you're just like i am.

• Sophie Bellop : I've got nothing to lose because i live by my wits. They can't take those away from me.

• Sophie Bellop : Your name was Clio Dulaine, and now you want it to be Mrs. Bartholomew Van Steed. I think you can get him with my help, though why you want him with that texan around. Me, I'd marry him though he hadn't a penny. Those shoulders and small through the hips, and the way he looks at you - oh, me! Always was a fool.

• Sophie Bellop : Just deny everything. That's a trick i learned from my husband. Caught him cold once with a chorus girl. He kept on denying it, looking me right in the eye until in the end, darned if i didn't believe the little liar.

• Sophie Bellop : What a to-do. I could hear you way down the hall, screeching like a of couple fishwives.