I've Got Your Number (1934)

Pat O'Brien: Terry

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• Johnny : [He and Terry are on a phone repair service call in an unsavory place]  Let's get outta' here.

  Terry Riley : Let's get outta' here.

• Joe Flood : You're more trouble to me than a skin full of fleas.

  Terry Riley : Well, you oughta' know.

• Terry Riley : [rings the doorbell]  Telephone company.

  Blonde Call Girl : Well?

  Terry Riley : Where's the phone?

  Blonde Call Girl : I'll bite. Where is it?

  Terry Riley : We'll both bite. Where's the phone?

  Blonde Call Girl : Oh, the phone! In there.

• Terry Riley : How long do you want the cord?

  Sassy Call Girl : So it reaches the bed.

• Terry Riley : [slaps the blonde call girl on her behind]  So long, chickadee!

• Joe Flood : Some dame telephoned and said that you slapped her on the...

  Terry Riley : Oh, that, yeah.

  Joe Flood : Yeah, oh that, so what?

  Terry Riley : Oh, that was purely an accident.

  Joe Flood : How could it be an accident?

  Terry Riley : Oh, I was gonna slap her on the shoulder and she bent over.

• Bonnie aka Madame Francis : Well, I suppose you're the spirit of Sandy McPherson?

  Terry Riley : Well, I was, but I changed characters. Now, I'm Houdini.

  Bonnie aka Madame Francis : What do you mean bustin' up my seance?

  Terry Riley : Oh, it was gettin' awful dull.

• Bonnie aka Madame Francis : Oh, you're from the phone company.

  Terry Riley : Sister, I am the telephone company.

  Bonnie aka Madame Francis : Why pick on me?

  Terry Riley : Well how did I know it was you?

• Bonnie aka Madame Francis : How 'bout a drink?

  Terry Riley : Oh, no. That's not allowed.

  Bonnie aka Madame Francis : Oh, you never break rules?

  Terry Riley : We've got one rule: the subscriber is always right.

  Bonnie aka Madame Francis : Then, you'll have a drink!

• Terry Riley : What other tricks do you pull around here?

  Bonnie aka Madame Francis : I'm also a mind reader.

  Terry Riley : Sister, if you could read my mind right now, you'd throw me outta here.

  Bonnie aka Madame Francis : [moves closer]  You want me to give you a reading?

  Terry Riley : You can be anything you want; but, the phone still comes out.

  Bonnie aka Madame Francis : I'd like to show you my crystal.

  [takes Terry into the back room and closes the door] 

• Bonnie aka Madame Francis : Well, here's your hat, big shot.

  Terry Riley : Keep in touch, little shot.

• Terry Riley : You'd think you didn't like me.

  Marie Lawson : I don't like fresh figs either.

  Terry Riley : That's all right, duchess, I grow on people.

  Marie Lawson : So do carbuncles.

• Terry Riley : That's the trouble with good lookin' dames, a guy always comes along and upsets 'em.

• Terry Riley : [on the phone, disguising his voice]  Will you give me a room and a bath?

  Marie Lawson : I'll get you the room clerk.

  Terry Riley : I don't want room clerk, I want a bath.

  Marie Lawson : Well, the room clerk will attend to you, sir.

  Terry Riley : I'm old enough to attend to myself and it's Saturday night. This is Cornelius Bergonigswergill.

  [no longer talking in disguise] 

  Terry Riley : Will you give me a bath?

• Johnny : Everything's okay upstairs. How is it here?

  Terry Riley : Oh, everything here is just duckie.

• Johnny : You know, I'd be afraid to take chances with all them women the way you do.

  Terry Riley : Well, I tell you Johnny, you don't know it, but, girls all around this town break up their phones just so I'll come and put things together.

• Marie Lawson : [answers the door]  Oh, it's you!

  Terry Riley : I understand you've got a ringin' in your ears. Maybe it's the phone? Ah, no answer, huh? That's bad. I guess I better go over your apparatus. Maybe you're not hooked up right.

• Terry Riley : Would you like a longer cord?

  Marie Lawson : Did you bring one?

  Terry Riley : I brought everything I thought'd fit your case.

• Terry Riley : You're the stubbornest dame I ever met in my life.

  Marie Lawson : And you're the stupidest jackass!

  Terry Riley : That's fine. That means you're falling for me.

• Terry Riley : What's the matter, duchess?

  Marie Lawson : Oh, I got somethin' on my mind.

  Terry Riley : So have I. I wish you knew.

  Marie Lawson : I do know. That's the trouble with ya.

• Terry Riley : I get it. Some guy's botherin' ya.

  Marie Lawson : Now, why do you say that?

  Terry Riley : Because, I know guys - and you're worth botherin'.

• Marie Lawson : Now, please go home, Terry. I mean it!

  Terry Riley : Why?

  Marie Lawson : Because you've got an idea and I'm against it.

  Terry Riley : What's wrong with a good idea?

  Marie Lawson : You can't come in.

  Terry Riley : I gotta go in. My tools are in there.

  Marie Lawson : I'll hand 'em out to you.

  Terry Riley : And I gotta put your phone together.

  Marie Lawson : You win.

  [she lets him in] 

• Terry Riley : You look tired. Why don't you go to bed?

  Marie Lawson : I'll be in bed two minutes after that door's locked between us.

  Terry Riley : Yeah, but you might forget to pull up the covers. I better stay and tuck you in.

• Terry Riley : What's the matter? You afraid of your natural impulses?

  Marie Lawson : You're not one of my natural impulses.

  Terry Riley : Prove it!

• Terry Riley : Come on, let's be friends. Give me a kiss, will ya? Then, I'll fade - unless you change your mind.

  Marie Lawson : That fade thing's the happiest thought you've had tonight.

  Terry Riley : [short kiss followed by a long kiss]  Oh, and we waste time fighting.

  Marie Lawson : You better go now.

  Terry Riley : Well, either you've got high tension resistance or I'm - slippin'. Good night, duchess.

• Terry Riley : A friend of mine, a girl, she needs a job. Was workin' at a hotel switchboard and I thought, maybe, well, you know, I thought maybe you could get her on here.

  Joe Flood : You're sure she's competent?

  Terry Riley : Oh, you bet she is! I knew you'd fix it up.

  Joe Flood : Well, I'm, maybe I could find a place for her.

  Terry Riley : Ah, that's swell, Joe!

  Joe Flood : Let me see. If I use a little pull, I could probably get her the right spot, you know. Somethin' easy.

  Terry Riley : Ah, that's great. I knew you'd figure it out.

  Joe Flood : Yeah, I could. If I wanted to.

  Terry Riley : Ah, thanks.

  Joe Flood : But I wouldn't give a friend of yours the right time!

  Terry Riley : What?

  Joe Flood : Anybody you know ought to be picked up as a suspicious character.

  Terry Riley : Hey, now lay off, Joe. You're not talkin' about a tramp.

  Joe Flood : Competent, huh? Well, I'll tell you the job I had in mind for her. Some place in a nut factory! Any dame that'd fall for you ain't competent. She's an imbecile!

• Terry Riley : Hold the thought. Hold the thought! I gotta guy. I gotta a guy! Oh, what a dope I am. Wait a minute. Wait. Let me think of his name now. Eh, eh. Schuyler! Schuyler! That's the guy! Big investment man! Do anything for me!

• Terry Riley : Listen, this isn't the fourth of July; but, we're going to celebrate tonight.

• Johnny : I knew if you kept jugglin' them powder puffs long enough, one would smack you in the skull and fracture it. If I know all the signs, you're hooked.

  Terry Riley : Yeah? Well, you'd be a better man if you'd let one of 'em heat you up. You're so cold, you spit ice cubes. Why don't you dig up a dame and bring her along tonight?

  Johnny : Not me. I'm a man's man!

• Terry Riley : Duchess, you're sure easy on the eyes. Ah, no wonder I'm so daffy about you.

• Terry Riley : What's the idea of bringin' this tomato?

  Johnny : You told me to dig up a dame. This is what I dug up.

  Terry Riley : Well, you can go right back and plant her again!

• Terry Riley : You're cockeyed!

  Johnny : So am I!

• Terry Riley : It's all alphabet crackers as far as I'm concerned.

• Marie Lawson : [on the phone]  I've got to see you.

  Terry Riley : You'll see me so fast it'll make your teeth ache. First, tell me were you are.

  Marie Lawson : I'm at the Alexander Hotel, Room 405.

  Terry Riley : All right. Stay right there. Don't move an eyelash!

• Terry Riley : I ought to take a good punch at you.

  Marie Lawson : Please, listen.

  Terry Riley : If you're gonna pull a fast one, why pick me for a sucker?

  Marie Lawson : But you don't understand what happened.

  Terry Riley : No. Every editor in town, every dick knows what happened.

• Terry Riley : Sounds kinda daffy to me.

  Marie Lawson : Yeah, me too. That's why I wanna find Nicky or nobody'll believe me.

  Terry Riley : I still think its a lot of bahula.

• Terry Riley : You're so cold you spit ice cubes.