The Velvet Touch (1948)

Rosalind Russell: Valerie Stanton

Quotes 

• Michael Morrell : One of the basic rules of chess is that the king rarely moves.

  Valerie Stanton : That's why so few women play it.

• Valerie Stanton : Gordon's the perfect host. He wants to make you feel at home... and wishes you were.

• Valerie Stanton : You'd better have some food. You're going to need all your strength to answer my questions.

  Mr. Crouch : Oh, thank you, but I'm on the nine-day diet.

  Valerie Stanton : Oh, are you? What day is this?

  Mr. Crouch : Wednesday.

• Jeff Trent : Now don't do anything until I've said you've done it.

  Valerie Stanton : How could I?

• Michael Morrell : Do you mind not calling me 'darling?' You toss affection around as though it were in mass production.

  Valerie Stanton : And you prefer individual attention?

  Michael Morrell : Yes

• Valerie Stanton : No! No she didn't! Marian didn't kill herself!

• Valerie Stanton : No choice?

  Michael Morrell : I told you. With me you take everything on faith.

• Valerie Stanton : I've already told him!

  Gordon Dunning : But not what I'll tell him! I'll tell him things that'll make want to wash his hands every time he touches you! And what I don't know I'll invent! I think I'll go now, while I'm in the mood.

• Michael Morrell : [having feigned ignorance of Valerie's stardom, and compared her continual wearing of hand gloves to that of a fighter]  Do you like Boxing?

  Valerie Stanton : I have never been so tempted to try it.

• Valerie Stanton : This way, I get what I want and you...

  Marian Webster : Get what YOU want!

• Valerie Stanton : This way, I get what I want and you......

  Marian Webster : Get what YOU want!