How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

William Powell: J.D. Hanley

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• J.D. Hanley : [on why Schatze stopped their wedding]  There was a last minute decision in your favor.

  Tom Brookman : Did you tell her about me?

  J.D. Hanley : No. So far as she knows you're still hustling a gas pump.

  Tom Brookman : Are you kidding?

  J.D. Hanley : Well let's go ask her.

  Tom Brookman : Wait a minute JD! Do you think I ought to tell her?

  J.D. Hanley : Are you nuts? She clearly prefers gas pump jockeys to millionaires. What do you want to do? Disillusion the poor girl?

• J.D. Hanley : There'll be dancing and drinks and a few laughs, perhaps.

  Pola Debevoise : Sounds just *creamy*, to me.

  Loco Dempsey : I like laughs.

• J.D. Hanley : There's quite a party of us up from Texas.

  Schatze Page : All men?

  J.D. Hanley : Oh, some wives too. You met some of them this evening. The others went to a show. You know how the women are when they get to New York.

  Schatze Page : I know.

• Schatze Page : Has he got on a tie?

  J.D. Hanley : No tie.

  Schatze Page : And at a formal ceremony! You see what I mean?

  J.D. Hanley : De gustibus non est disputandum.

  Schatze Page : Well, you can certainly say that again.

• J.D. Hanley : That's just one of the few advantages of age. Disappointments become a normal part of life.