The Hucksters (1947)
Adolphe Menjou: Mr. Kimberly
Quotes
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Mrs. Kimberly : [to Kay] I'm sorry. I'm afraid now it's going to be two subjects: business talk and oomph.
Mr. Kimberly : Well, what else is there?
Victor Albee Norman : [Tongue in cheek] There's always mah-jong.
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Mr. Kimberly : You might be able to handle the job. And, then again, you might not.
Victor Albee Norman : Well, it might be a job I'd accept. And, then again, it might not.
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Victor Albee Norman : Oh, Jean, this is Mr. Kimberly. Miss Ogilvie, here.
Jean Ogilvie : Hello.
Mr. Kimberly : Aren't you pretty, Miss Ogilvie.
Jean Ogilvie : Well, aren't you nice. I'm doing my hair differently.
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Victor Albee Norman : Now, this is the part of your advertising agency I don't like. People work down here.
Mr. Kimberly : Well, I work. I work all the time.
Victor Albee Norman : You worry. It's not the same.
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Victor Albee Norman : I'll keep my foot in the door by doing a little chore for you.
Mr. Kimberly : How are you going to go about it?
Victor Albee Norman : I'll carry a pipe. Women always seem to trust a man who smokes a pipe. If I had a dog, I'd try and smell a little doggy.
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Mr. Kimberly : Where would you like to go Vic?
Victor Albee Norman : Wherever you say Kim.
Mr. Kimberly : Well, I thought of some quiet restaurant; but, now that I see how oomph! Mrs. Dorrance is...
Kay Dorrance : Do I have to say thank you every time you say that?
Mr. Kimberly : No, it isn't necessary. Say, I've got an idea. I know a gay, noisy place were we can get some wonderful steaks. But, maybe Vickie boy wouldn't want to go there.
Victor Albee Norman : Why not?
Mr. Kimberly : El Siroco. That singer friend of yours is pretty oomphy! herself. And a man can have too much oomph! in the same room.
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Mr. Kimberly : Vic! A nightclub singer. A nobody!
Victor Albee Norman : Well, everybody was a nobody once.
Mr. Kimberly : Yeah, but, lots of them stay nobodies.