Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

June Havoc: Elaine Wales

Quotes 

• Elaine Wales : I changed my name. Did you?

  Phil Green : Green has always been my name. What's yours?

  Elaine Wales : Estelle Walovsky. I couldn't take it. The applications, I mean. So one day I wrote the same firm two letters, same as you're doing now. I sent the Elaine Wales one, and I sent it after they said there were no openings. Well, I got the job, all right. Do you know what firm that was? "Smith's Weekly."

  Phil Green : No.

  Elaine Wales : Yes, Mr. Green. The great liberal magazine that fights injustice on all sides.

• Elaine Wales : You just let them get one wrong Jew in here, and it'll come out of us. It's no fun being the fall guy for the kikey ones.

  Phil Green : Miss Wales, I'm going to be frank with you. I want you to know that words like yid and kike and kikey and coon and nigger make me sick no matter who says them.

  Elaine Wales : Oh, but I only said it for a type.

  Phil Green : Yeah, but we're talking about a the word first.

  Elaine Wales : Why, sometimes I even say it to myself, about me, I mean. Like, if I'm about to do something I know I shouldn't, I'll say, "Don't be such a little kike." That's all.