My Man and I (1952)

Claire Trevor: Mrs. Ansel Ames

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• Mrs. Ansel Ames : People are always writing books about people, it's a waste of time. Nobody knows anything about anybody. They don't even know about themselves...

  Chu Chu Ramirez : It's big trouble with most people. They study themselves like it was the only subject.

  Mrs. Ansel Ames : What other subject is there?

  Chu Chu Ramirez : [chuckles]  It's a big world...

  Mrs. Ansel Ames : The world never interested me much. JUST the little hunk I'm standing on. You're standing on it with me. It used to be Ames...

  Chu Chu Ramirez : Why he not stand there now?

  Mrs. Ansel Ames : He says I pushed him off. I think he jumped.

• Ansel Ames : [after confronting Ramirez with a shotgun and Ramirez has left]  No Mex is pushing me around.

  Mrs. Ansel Ames : Oh, sure, that shotgun makes you real hard to push.

  Ansel Ames : I don't need no gun with him.

  Mrs. Ansel Ames : Then why are you still pointing it at him?

  Ansel Ames : You know, maybe I'm pointing in the wrong direction.

  Mrs. Ansel Ames : Could be. Why don't you try sticking it in your mouth?

  Ansel Ames : Oh, you miserable...

  Mrs. Ansel Ames : [laughs]  .

• Mrs. Ansel Ames : Fine thing when all you have to bawl about is a dead cat. Those rotten dogs!