The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Fanny Brice: Fannie Brice

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Quotes 

• Fanny Brice : If I can give Belasco four dollars for silk stockings made of cotton, I can give Ziegfeld a little more for a mink coat made of skunk.

• Fanny Brice : Tell Mr Ziegfeld, I'm not in and if I was in, I wouldn't see him and if I did see him, tell him, I wouldn't buy a thing.

• Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : [Scolding the wardrobe man for having dressed Miss Brice in an inappropriately showy costume]  How do you expect Miss Brice to sing a sad song about her man, dressed up like a nightingale? I find personalities, and you try to destroy them. I didn't engage Miss Brice as a showgirl.

  Clarence : [after having altered Miss Brice's costume to the bare minimum]  Is that all right, Mr. Ziegfeld?

  Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. : Well, it's all right for now. Tomorrow, get her another outfit. And don't make it, buy it. Go to a second-hand store and get her an old dress. She's supposed to be a, an apache, a poor French girl, an urchin!

  Clarence : [meekly]  Yes, sir.

  Fanny Brice : [looking disappointed]  So, to work for Mr. Ziegfeld, I gotta' be an urchin. Even in burlesque I was middle class.

• Fanny Brice : Get me some viskey!

• Burlesque Prima Donna : Once in burlesque, always in burlesque, unless you got looks, or a voice, or something.

  Fanny Brice : Well, that's what I got, kid.

  Burlesque Prima Donna : What?

  Fanny Brice : Something.

• Fanny Brice : [Admiring herself, and her showy costume, in the mirror]  Don't lose your nerve, kid. This is your big chance. Be a trouper! Look at you. You're working for Ziegfeld now. And you look like a million dollars. For the first time in your life, you're class, ya mug.

• Burlesque Prima Donna : Fanny, on the level, you don't ever hope to get out of burlesque, do you? You're good here because these people are from 10th Avenue. How good do you think you'd be on Fifth Avenue?

  Fanny Brice : Half as good.

• Burlesque Prima Donna : It's real mink all right. It's probably stolen goods!

  Fanny Brice : You mean it's hot?

  Burlesque Prima Donna : Well, of course, it's warm.

  Fanny Brice : Then I'll be arrested if I keep it?

  Burlesque Prima Donna : Of course you will.

  Fanny Brice : Call the stage manager! Call the police! Call my mother!

• Fanny Brice : [singing]  It's cost me a lot, But there's one thing that I've got, It's my man, Cold and wet, tired you bet, But all that I soon forget, With my man...