3 Men in White (1944)

Lionel Barrymore: Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie

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• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : You hypocritical two-headed snake in the grass, what do you mean sneaking around here all morning?

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : The trouble with your stooges is they're anemic. I feed my stooges B-1

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : No man has the right to try to be a doctor unless he can go six months without sleep, food, or money.

  Dr. Lee Wong How : I can a year without sleep, food, or money. I'm from Brooklyn!

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : When I say you're late, I mean you're just 30 years too late. If you had come into this office when I was 25 you'da had about just one minute to decide whether to yell for help or start for the preacher.

• Dr. Randall 'Red' Adams : The minute I get in the same room with her - oh, boy.

  Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : All your good resolutions go up in smoke, huh?

  Dr. Randall 'Red' Adams : Exactly. Now, the only thing to do is to keep saying to myself, "Brains, you're no good to me now. Feet - you get me out of here."

  Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : Well, I guess the only thing you can do is to wear comfortable shoes and - hope for the best.

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : What did you find out about Dr. Red Adams and that beautiful blonde? As far as I can see, she's half social service worker and half female wolf.

  Conover : Boss, as far as I can see, she's gonna git him.

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : Kinda cocky, aren't you Red?

  Dr. Randall 'Red' Adams : No, not cocky, sir. Only happy.

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : Get out of here you dad-ratted vampire! Get out of here! Go on!

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : Well, honey, what can I do for you? What do you want?

  Ruth Edley : Red Adams. Every time I hold his hand, he cries like a baby; but, he won't kiss me and get himself hooked.

  Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : Well, bust my britches.

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : My fine feathered friend, I will bet you one abscess tonsil against a pair of brand new rubber gloves you don't even know her name.

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : It might be a pretty good thing for you young doctors to remember that nature has a pretty fair record for being right. You take something away from a person and the chances are they're going to want something else.

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : That doggone Red Adams, why he's beating his head against a stone wall and he doesn't realize that the wall is not going to bleed to death - but, he is.

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : Well, what are you waiting for?

  Nurse 'Nosey' Parker : For you to stop talking.

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : Out of a city of 10 million people, I have to find one red-headed nincompoop who don't want to be found.

• Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie : A man should learn he has to pay for his own carelessness.