Stepping Out (1931)

Charlotte Greenwood: Sally Smith

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Quotes 

• Tubby Smith : Sally, I'm your husband. You go home!

  Sally Smith : I'm through with you. I'm going to stay here and be kissed by a Spaniard!

• Sally Smith : You win. I won't buy another stitch of clothes. I'll go around like Lady Godiva. Just buy me a horse, will ya. Buy me a horse.

• Sally Smith : Old man river's getting so economical that I'll soon be wearing cotton stockings and making my underwear out of flour sacks.

• Sally Smith : What did you say to Tom the day he lent his swimming pool to those Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties?

  Tubby Smith : What did I say?

  Sally Smith : Tom asked you if you'd seen any legs that made you want to leave home. And you said, "None but my wife's."

• Sally Smith : I wish I had my own money. I wouldn't ask Tubby for one cent. I think wives ought to have a salary.

• Sally Smith : All that worries me is that some sly puss will still my meal ticket.

• Sally Smith : Who is that donut that Tubby is dunking in the pool?

  Tom Martin : Dunking a donut?

  Sally Smith : A red-headed donut.

• Tubby Smith : Sally, let's all go to the races together.

  Sally Smith : I'm sorry, Tubby. A racetrack is no place for a jackass!

• Paul Perkins : I beg your pardon. Where have I seen your face before?

  Sally Smith : Well, I don't know. I usually carry it around with me.

• Sally Smith : Well, now that we we're all in a huddle, what are we gonna do?

  Hal Rogers : How about a little bite?

  Sally Smith : What? Oh, oh, you mean something to eat.

• Sally Smith : We're wild - but, cautious. Suppose you come over to our bungalows and have dinner with us?

• Paul Perkins : Hi ya, Suger! How's every little thing?

  [Sally offers Paul a cigarette] 

  Paul Perkins : No, I'll think I'll take a cigar, if you don't mind.

  Sally Smith : Aren't you afraid of stunting your growth?

  Paul Perkins : Now, don't kid me about my size. I may fool ya.

  Sally Smith : [listening to Hal at the piano]  Paul, do you play?

  Paul Perkins : Well, not the piano. But, get me on a sofie and...

  Sally Smith : Oh, yeah? Well, back right up.

  [pushes Paul onto the sofa] 

  Sally Smith : Back right up.

• Sally Smith : What are you gonna be when you get out of school?

  Paul Perkins : That is the question. To be or not to be.

  Sally Smith : Do you keep up with your studies?

  Paul Perkins : Well, yes and no.

  Sally Smith : Do you ever do any homework?

  Paul Perkins : Sure, where's your home?

  Sally Smith : Oh, naughty. Naughty, naughty, naughty boy!

  Paul Perkins : Hey, am I bad?

  Sally Smith : You are a baddie!

  Paul Perkins : Oh, goodie!

• Sally Smith : Eve, save me! He's been reading, "Tarzan of the Apes."

  Paul Perkins : Well, didn't you ask me if I was up on my lessons?

  Sally Smith : Yeah, but, I don't want to be around when you graduate.

• Sally Smith : [singing]  You're the boy, Meant for me, Come on climb, Upon my knee...

• Sally Smith : [singing]  Let's play tag, And peek-a-boo, You tag me, And I'll tag you...

• Sally Smith : [singing]  I got guns, forty-four, You've got fun, Have some more, Root-toot-toot, Pistol shoot, Just like Frankie and Johnnie.

  [grabs Paul's head and keeps it smothered on her chest] 

  Sally Smith : ... I won't let you go. I won't let you go.

• Sally Smith : Oh, my husband!

  Tubby Smith : Whose husband where you expecting?

  Sally Smith : Oh, Eve, Amos and Andy are here.

• Sally Smith : I suppose you two Arabs know you're in the wrong tent!

• Tubby Smith : Great Scott! Have you taken to smoking cigars down here?

  Sally Smith : Pardon me?

  [coughs] 

  Sally Smith : I suppose you're going to say to me that I can't smoke cigars.

  [coughs] 

  Tubby Smith : Evidently, you can't.

  Sally Smith : There's a lot of things that we girls can do that we don't talk about.

• Tubby Smith : Sally, believe it or not, these girls are not here with us.

  Sally Smith : Yes, I can see that Tubby. You're waiting for a ferry boat.