Gypsy (1962)
Rosalind Russell: Rose Hovick
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Quotes
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Rose Hovick : Remember - you're a lady. You make them beg for more... and then don't give it to them!
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Rose Hovick : [on remarrying] After three husbands, it takes a lot of butter to get you back in the frying pan.
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Rose Hovick : [singing] You'll be swell, you'll be great. Gonna have the whole world on a plate! Starting here, starting now. Honey, everything's coming up roses.
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Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick : You really would have been something, Mother.
Rose Hovick : Think so?
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick : If you had had someone to push you like I had.
Rose Hovick : If I could've been, I would've been. And that's show business.
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Rose Hovick : Here she is, boys! Here she is, world! Here's Rose!
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Rose Hovick : You need something to remind you your goal was to be a great actress. Not a cheap stripper.
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick : My sister's the actress, mother. And I'm *not* a cheap stripper. I'm the highest-paid in the business.
Rose Hovick : You won't be ready for vaudeville when it comes back.
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick : No, I'll be *dead*.
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Rose Hovick : Have a Goldstone, Mr Eggroll...
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Rose Hovick : [contemplating an unneeded wig] You know, we could get a nice refund on this... if we'd ever paid for it.
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Rose Hovick : Nothing is better than vaudeville!