Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
Walter Connolly: Timothy Borden
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Quotes
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Mr. Borden : Well, Michael, there seems to be a touch of spring in the air.
Mike : Yes sir, that's something even the poor people can enjoy.
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Mr. Borden : [Seeing Mary eat an apple for her dinner] Are you on a diet?
Mary Grey : Yes, but against my wishes.
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Higgins : You were very quiet after you fell down the stairs, sir. You're last request was that we put Miss America in the guest room.
Mr. Borden : Miss America? Did somebody else come home with us?
Mary Grey : No, I'm Miss America.
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Mr. Borden : You see, it's my birthday.
Mary Grey : [Cynically] Birthdays are all right, but you never get over the first one.
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Mr. Borden : Higgins, I wonder why people work as hard as they do and for what?
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Seal Expert : [At the Central Park Zoo] Don't get them seals wrong, lady. They have more intelligence than most of the carnivorous, except the dog.
Mary Grey : That so?
Mr. Borden : Anyhow, they seem to be having a nice time.
Mary Grey : I can't imagine it would be much fun, swimming around all day in a fur coat.
Seal Expert : That's were you're wrong again, lady. These ain't fur seals at all.
Mary Grey : They ain't?
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Mr. Borden : Say, you don't think that I followed you over here?
Mary Grey : Why should you? What are you? A flatfoot?
Mr. Borden : Eh, oh, you mean a detective. Oh, no, no.
Mary Grey : Well, if you are, I haven't done anything.
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Mary Grey : [Sitting a on park bench in Central Park] You sound like one of them Fifth Avenue cadavers.
Mr. Borden : Fifth Avenue what?
Mary Grey : Those people that live over there...
Mr. Borden : How do they sound.
Mary Grey : Oh, they're always squawking. You'd think the country was going to the dogs.
Mr. Borden : Well, they've got their problems too.
Mary Grey : What problems? I used to stand at the Plaza at night and watch them go home. They look like a lot of wax dummies that have eaten an overdose of sour pickles.
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Mr. Borden : We could go some place and eat.
Mary Grey : Where?
Mr. Borden : Well, there's the Flamingo Club.
Mary Grey : The Flamingo? You mean that very elegant cafe over on...
Mr. Borden : Well, people must have a wonderful time there, it costs so much... I mean it. I'd love to go.
Mary Grey : So would I. But, I'd just as soon go to the automat and keep the change.
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Mr. Borden : Where did you come from?
Mary Grey : From upstairs.
Mr. Borden : I know, but, how did you get upstairs?
Mary Grey : Well, don't you remember?
Mr. Borden : In a way I do, but, in a way I don't.
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Tim Borden : I don't know anything about the *pump* business?
Mr. Borden : You'll learn. There's really nothing to it.
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Mr. Borden : Say, the family were being very nice to you when I came down.
Mary Grey : They nearly scared me to death.
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Mary Grey : Well, it's pretty simple. Take something from somebody they don't want and they want it more than ever.
Mr. Borden : You've got a lot of common sense.
Mary Grey : You've lost yours, but, it'll come back.
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Mr. Borden : It's like having an old car, one you've got used to. You can either junk it or try to salvage it.
Mary Grey : You're still in love with your wife, aren't you.
Mr. Borden : Well, no. But, you see, after a certain time, when love goes away, something else is left in its place which is even more important.
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Mr. Borden : You sure I'm not keeping you from an engagement?
Mrs. Borden : No. I was going to stay home tonight.
Mr. Borden : You're all dressed up.
Mrs. Borden : What? This? It's just a little informal thing I wear around.
Mr. Borden : Well, it's very pretty.
Mrs. Borden : It, eh, shows off my figure, doesn't it?
Mr. Borden : It shows a lot of it, if that's what you mean.
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Mr. Borden : [Looking at the loud tie his secretary has given him for his birthday] Well, that's one bright spot on a gloomy day.
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Higgins : Aren't you feeling well, sir?
Mr. Borden : I guess I'm all right.
Higgins : Perhaps its a touch of spring fever.
Mr. Borden : Perhaps.
Higgins : I felt it myself this afternoon, just walking in the park.
Mr. Borden : What park?
Higgins : Central Park, sir.
Mr. Borden : Oh, yes, I forgot it was there.
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Mr. Borden : I've got to get these shoes off before I go another step. They're killing me. I wonder who invented shoes?
Mary Grey : If the world were carpeted with leather we wouldn't have to wear any shoes. We could go barefoot.
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Mr. Borden : I guess there's no fool, like an old fool.
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Mrs. Borden : Do you know what I've been doing in my spare time?
Mr. Borden : What?
Mrs. Borden : Learning to Rhumba.
[laughs]
Mrs. Borden : I knew you'd be pleased.