Once More, My Darling (1949)

Robert Montgomery: Collier 'Collie' Laing

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• Collier Laing : Mr. Burke, you've got thirty-two teeth. Would you like to try for none?

• Mr. Grant : I saw you the other day in a...a motion picture.

  Collier Laing : Did you, sir? How was I?

  Mr. Grant : Tall. Very tall.

• Mrs. Laing : Don't you ever long for the patter of little feet?

  Collier Laing : Patter of little feet? You mean mice?

  Mrs. Laing : Children also have little feet.

  Collier Laing : Madam, don't tell me that at your age you're thinking of marriage again?

  Mrs. Laing : Yes, I am. Not for myself, for you.

• Collier Laing : The War Department is obviously plotting my ruin. They won't be satisfied until they blow Taps over me.

• Receptionist : Capt. Laing is here, colonel.

  Col. Head : Have him come in.

  Receptionist : You may go in.

  Collier Laing : I will not go in without my mother.

  Receptionist : He won't come in without his mother.

  Col. Head : Uhh... send them in.

• Col. Head : Capt. Laing, there's an old German family in Upper Bavaria called Margradeyshillingsfosthengschweiller.

  Collier Laing : Oh, I'm not surprised.

• Marita Connell : Herman, are you with me or against me?

  Herman Schmelz - Chauffeur : I'm with you, Killer. No funny stuff.

  Collier Laing : You can depend on me, Herman.

  Herman Schmelz - Chauffeur : Oh, I'm not worried about you.

• Collier Laing : I may appear a little priggish, but if I gave in too easily to you, I might do the same thing for some other girl, and you wouldn't like that, would you?

  Marita Connell : Gosh no, you're a nice boy, Collier. I honor you for it. But look out for me tonight.

• Marita Connell : I hope you'll all forgive me for going on like this, but when a girl is facing the natural fulfillment of her aspirations... when she finds herself a part of a scheme of boy meets girl and the inevitable happens...

  Collier Laing : Uh, good night.

• Mamie : Mr. Collie, you've never had a girl like that before.

  Collier Laing : I take no credit for it personally. It could've happened to anyone.

• Marita Connell : Collie, do you think your mother was impressed?

  Collier Laing : There must be a stronger word.

• Marita Connell : Darling, I suppose you've always dreamed of a big church wedding with your mother and all your friends there?

  Collier Laing : Well, yes. It is the most important day in a man's life. He gets to wear a cutaway, and striped trousers, and then there are the presents.

• Collier Laing : Good night, man's best friend.

  Mrs. Laing : Boy's best friend. Man's best friend is his dog.

• Mrs. Laing : All the Laings have been legal eagles.

  Collier Laing : Madam, that is just the point. All those lawyers marrying other lawyers and having little lawyers. Inbreeding is bad, you know. It ruined the royal families of Europe.

• Collier Laing : When I was a baby and learning how to talk, did I say "goo?" No! I said, "affidavit."

• Collier Laing : Now, don't let them intimidate you. Remember, it's nothing but the United States government.

  Mrs. Laing : Of course, captain. All they can do is put you in the penitentiary.

  Collier Laing : And stop calling me captain.

• Collier Laing : Okay, colonel. I'm a sucker. I haven't got a prayer. But I'll do it... for my country.

• Col. Head : They'll all be reading a newspaper and eating an apple.

  Collier Laing : Eating a newspaper and reading an apple.

  [sic] 

  Col. Head : That's right.