Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)

Burgess Meredith: Harry

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• Janie : Where's your car?

  Harry : Why, do you mind walking?

  Janie : [laughs]  I'd love to.

  Harry : Good, I like to walk.

  [Breathes deeply] 

  Janie : I guess if you don't have to, you want to, huh?

  Harry : Well, even if you don't want to, you may have to. So, you might as well want to.

  Janie : [laughs]  I guess if you don't want to and you don't have to, you just don't. Cause you don't want to.

  Harry : Yeah, well, you can always take a Streetcar.

• Janie : [During a dream]  I've got it! I'll marry all three of 'em.

  Tom , Dick , Harry : All three of us?

  Janie : Sure!

  Tom , Dick , Harry : Do you think it'd work?

  Janie : Why not? I think the four of us would make a lovely couple.

• Janie : I guess you think I'm awful. We'll probably never see each other again. You never will understand.

  Harry : What are you doing tonight?

  Janie : Oh, I didn't mean it. I - eh...

  Harry : No, I know you didn't. I'm just impulsive. Eight o'clock all right?

  Janie : Swell! Golly!

• Janie : Why can't a girl like me marry a millionaire?

  Harry : There's not enough millionaires. How many millionaires do you think there are?

  Janie : In America?

  Harry : Yeah.

  Janie : Oh, about a million.

  Harry : Nine thousand six hundred and fifty-three. And most of them are already married.

  Janie : Well, if they're married, maybe they got sons?

  Harry : The rich have a very low birth rate.

• Harry : You know how many girls there are like you?

  Janie : One.

  Harry : There's eleven million six hundred and five thousand five hundred and fifty-two, at least.

• Janie : But, golly, you can't explain everything by numbers. You make it sound like a horse race.

  Harry : Well, that's what it is. You gotta figure the odds, see.

  Janie : Well, sure, the odds are against any two people meeting. After all, there's something like two billion people in the world. And if a girl meets any fella, it's an accident, isn't it?

  Harry : Yeah, well...

  Janie : Well, there's no reason why the accident can't be a rich fella instead of poor fella.

• Harry : See, you've got the wrong clothes!

  Janie : I've got the right clothes. I got the wrong fella.

• Harry : I forgot to tell you. You're suppose to let go of the ball.

• Janie : I got one chance in a million, huh?

  Harry : U-huh. And that leaves girls like you for fellas like me.

• Harry : I suppose the answer is get ahead, all right, but without sluggin' all the time. You see, I think livin' with people is better than fighting with 'em. And I don't believe in this every man for himself. I get lonesome.

• Janie : Why, I, I hardly know you.

  Harry : Well, sometimes people know each other better in one night, than they do in - two weeks!

  Janie : They do?

  Harry : Yeah. How 'bout it Janie?

• Tom : There's a little car right there that's the finest thing on the market and the most amazing thing about it is the price, only five hundred and ninety-eight dollars.

  Harry : Five hundred and ninety...

  Tom : Yes sir. That little car's got more zip, more class, more efficiency, more economy than a dive bomber.

• Tom : Gosh, will your girlfriend be surprised when she sees us?

  Harry : Oh, she sure will!

• Tom : Listen, when we get there, I want you and the girlfriend to climb right in that little ol' back seat. Just forget that I'm here. I don't want you to be conscience of my presence. You know what I mean?

  Harry : Sure do.

• Tom : [points to Harry]  Janie, I want you to tell this fuzzle-top feather-merchant who you're engaged to.

  Janie : [points to Dick]  Him.

  Harry : Him?

  Tom : Him?

  Janie : Him.

  Tom : What about me?

  Janie : I'm engaged to you too.

  Dick : What?

  Tom : You mean you're engaged to both of us?

  Janie : I'm engaged to all three of you.

  Dick : What?

  Tom : But you can't be!

  Janie : Why not? You all asked me.