figure:
1. The human figure; the body; the anatomy. 2. The female form of the body, particularly the breasts, waist, and hips and their relative size.
Synonyms: curvaceousness; shapeliness.
Quotes:
(1) Tira (Mae West) in I'm No Angel (1933): ' One figure can sometimes add up to a lot .'
(2) Mae West in I'm No Angel (1933): ' A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles .'
(3) Lola Brewster (Kim Novak) to Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) in The Mirror Crack'd (1980): ' I'm so glad to see you. Not only have you kept your gorgeous figure but you added so much to it .'
(4) James Bond (Roger Moore) and a shapely woman in Octopussy (1983):
-- Woman: ' You have a very good memory for faces .'
-- James Bond: ' And figures .'
(5) Chrissy (Rita Wilson) and Roberta (Rosie O'Donnell) looking at the magazine cover featuring Teeny Terrell (Melanie Griffith) in Now and Then (1995):
-- Chrissy: ' Can you believe this tramp? Now what is it that she has that gets people so excited? '
-- Roberta: ' Long legs, a tiny waist and perky breasts .'
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Quotes Containing figure:
Tillie Schlaine (Carol Burnett) to Pete Seltzer (Walter Matthau) in Pete ''n'' Tillie (1972): - Tillie: ''What do you think?'' - Pete: ''I think you are a fine-figure of a woman .'' - Tillie: ''I wasn''t asking about me. I was asking about the apartment.'' - Pete: ''Oh. It needs a man''s touch .'' -Tillie: ''Incidentally, for future reference, no woman who fancies she has a good-figure likes to hear she''s a fine-figure of a woman . The two aren''t the same at all.''
Bob Weston (Tony Curtis) to psychologist Helen Gurley Brown (Natalie Wood) in Sex and the Single Girl (1964): ''She''d hit the ceiling if she thought you and me were sitting here alone. You know what she''d figure? She''d figure a broad as pretty as you as got to be on-the-make .''
Mae West in I''m No Angel (1933): ''A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles. ''
Tira (Mae West) in I''m No Angel (1933): ''A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles. ''
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope) in The Lemon Drop Kid (1951): ''You still have your hourglass figure , my dear, but most of the sand has gone to the bottom .''
Tira (Mae West) in I''m No Angel (1933): ''One figure can sometimes add up to a lot.''
Tira (Mae West) in I'm No Angel (1933): 'One figure can sometimes add up to a lot.'
Tira (Mae West) in I'm No Angel (1933): 'A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles. '
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope) in The Lemon Drop Kid (1951): ?You still have your hourglass figure , my dear, but most of the sand has gone to the bottom .'
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope) in The Lemon Drop Kid (1951): ''You still have your hourglass figure , my dear, but most of the sand has gone to the bottom .''
Lola Brewster (Kim Novak) to Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) in The Mirror Crack''d (1980): ''I''m so glad to see you. Not only have you kept your gorgeous figure but you added so much to it .''
Mae Mordabito (Madonna) and Doris Murphy (Rosie O''Donnell) trying to figure ways of attracting crowds to their baseball games in A League of Their Own (1992): - Mae: ''What if, at a key moment in-the-game , my uniform bursts open and, oops, my bosoms come flying out?'' - Doris: ''You think there are men in this country who ain''t seen your bosoms?''
Mae Mordabito (Madonna) and Doris Murphy (Rosie O''Donnell) trying to figure ways of attracting crowds to their baseball games in A League of Their Own (1992): - Mae: ''What if, at a key moment in-the-game , my uniform bursts open and, oops, my bosoms come flying out?'' - Doris: ''You think there are men in this country who ain''t seen your bosoms?''
Private eye V.I. Warshawski (Kathleen Turner) squints at the bad guys thumb and forefinger trying to figure out just how much space there is between them in V.I. Warshawski (1991): - Tough guy : ''Don''t push me, Warshawski, because you''re about this close.'' - Warshawski: ''What''s that? Your I.Q. or the size of your dick?''
Michael O''Hara (Orson Welles) in The Lady from Shanghai (1948):''Personally, I don''t like a girlfriend to have a husband . If she''ll fool a husband I figure she''ll fool me.''
Lola Brewster (Kim Novak) to Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor) in The Mirror Crack'd (1980): 'I'm so glad to see you. Not only have you kept your gorgeous figure but you added so much to it .'
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