Bell Book and Candle (1958)

Elsa Lanchester: Queenie Holroyd

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• Queenie : You don't really understand, Nicky. She's in love.

  Nicky Holroyd : [shuddering]  Wouldn't she rather be dead?

• Queenie : I sit in the subway sometimes, on buses, or the movies, and I look at the people next to me and I think..."What would you say if I told you I was a witch?"

• Queenie : Oh, Gil, darling, you're depressed.

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : I expect it's Christmas. Always upsets me. Auntie? Auntie, don't you ever wish that you weren't - what we are?

  Queenie : No!

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : That you could just spend Christmas Eve in a little church somewhere, listening to carols instead of bongo drums?

• Queenie : Mr. Henderson and I saw each other a little earlier. I'm afraid he thinks I've been naughty.

• Queenie : Nicky's the one playing the bongos. You know, up to a few months ago, he'd never studied music.

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : He's quite remarkable.

  Queenie : Yes, particularly when you consider that, before that, he used to work in an herb shop.

  Merle Kittridge : Looks to me as if he's eaten one herb too many. That's why he acts so creepy, I suppose.

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : No, it's not that at all. It's just that all the Holroyds are a little sinister. You see, Nicky's my brother.

• Queenie : Before you moved in, a theosophist lived here, and he was very pleasant. Very pleasant.

• Nicky Holroyd : Warlock. Well, you'd never know it to look at him, would you?

  Sidney Redlitch : You wouldn't, but I would.

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : You can recognize them?

  Sidney Redlitch : Like a shot.

  Queenie : How?

  Nicky Holroyd : Just a look or a feeling or something. I can't put my finger on it, but if one came in here right now I'd know him in a minute.

  Nicky Holroyd : Yeah. I wonder if we know any of them?

  Gillian 'Gil' Holroyd : I wonder. I suppose there's lots of it around.

  Shepherd 'Shep' Henderson : Yeah, it's sort of like the flu.