Street Scene (1931)

Beulah Bondi: Emma Jones

Quotes 

• Emma Jones : Aw, men are all alike. They're all easy enough to get along with so long as everything goes the way they want it to, but once it don't, good night.

• Emma Jones : The trouble with a bath is by the time you're through you're just as hot!

• Emma Jones : What them foreigners don't know about bringin' up a baby would fill a book.

• Emma Jones : Well, what I say is, you get married for better or for worse. And if it turns out for the worse, well, all you can do is make the best of it.

• Emma Jones : I know all about that stuff, teachin' kids there ain't no God, and their grandfathers was monkeys!

• Emma Jones : Between you and I, I don't think her mother's long for this world.

  Mrs. Anna Maurrant : Poor Miss Cushing. She's just spent her whole life looking after her mother.

  Emma Jones : Well, I hope to tell ya', after all I've done for my kids, I expect 'em to look after me in my old age.

  Mrs. Anna Maurrant : Oh, I don't know. It seems to me a person ought to get more out of life than just looking after somebody else.