My Man Godfrey (1957)

June Allyson: Irene Bullock

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Quotes 

• Irene : Pull over! That's *my* goat!

• Cordelia : Why all the yelling and screaming?

  Irene : Do I have to have a reason to yell and scream?

• Irene : Well, I guess I'd better go and find my goat.

• Irene : I would have won the scavenger hunt with a porcupine only I was disqualified because one of the judges sat on it. What are you looking at me like that for?

  Godfrey : Was he hurt?

  Irene : No. We sent him back to the zoo.

• [explaining scavenger hunts] 

  Irene : And the first one back with all three wins.

  Godfrey : Wins what?

  Irene : They win the honor of *winning*.

• Irene : Oh, my mother is famous for her scavenger hunts. She has one every year at her charity ball. Then we give all the money to charity. That is, if there's any left only there never is and now you know the whole setup.

• Howard : I think I liked your mother's parties better the way she used to have them. With the scavenger hunt last.

  Irene : Oh, yeah, she had to change that. Because last year some of the couples who went out hunting didn't get back for days! Come on.

  Godfrey : Where did they go?

  Irene : Well! I certainly hope you don't think *I* was going to ask them.

• Godfrey : Everybody's dressed.

  Irene : Well, that's only because it said so on the invitation.

• Irene : Is Godfrey your first or your last name?

  Godfrey : Both.

  Irene : Godfrey Godfrey? What's your middle initial?

  Godfrey : G.

  Irene : For?

  [Godfrey nods] 

  Irene : *Interesting*.

• Godfrey : Well, I'm a man who believes that the more milestones there are in somebody's life, the better.

  Irene : Ah, there, you see. It just goes to show you that the more ragged and countered a man is - oh, I'm sorry - the more likely he is to say something that you can quote.

• Irene : She called him a creep! And you know what you said you'd do to her the next time she was rude to somebody.

  Mr. Bullock : You bet I remember. I said I - hey, it was *you* I said that to.

  Angelica : It was not. It was me. And I've never been so humiliated in my life! You said it was stupid of me to go to the opera in weather like this without long underwear.

  Mr. Bullock : *You* said that to *me*, and in front of all those people!

  Angelica : And if that isn't humiliating, I don't know what is, especially at a benefit. You didn't even send them a check.

  Cordelia : What about my car!

  Angelica : No, honey. They want money.

• Irene : It's very very clear to me that you're not at all what you pretend to be.

  Godfrey : I haven't pretended to be anything yet. You haven't given me the chance.

• Irene : His name is Godfrey Godfrey and his middle initial is G which stands for Godfrey. So there!

• Godfrey : Hasn't it occurred to you that I might very easily be a - be a dope peddler, or a murderer?

  Irene : Oh, no! You're not the kind of man that would ever come easily to it, Mr. Godfrey. And anyway, if you really did it, I'm quite sure they had it coming to them.

  Godfrey : Who?

  Irene : Whoever you murdered.

  Godfrey : Well, it's just that little old lady I strangled for her money, you know.

  Irene : Oh, well, we don't have any little old ladies in the house, so you can start in the morning.

• Irene : What a perfect butler you'd make. With your voice and your beard and everything. And it's very obvious that somewhere along the line, you come from a family that had at *least* nice table manners.

• Mr. Bullock : I must be out of my mind.

  Irene : Oh, nobody's perfect, dad.

• Irene : Are you a Roman?

  Godfrey : No. I'm an Austrian, miss.

  Irene : Did you have a kangaroo when you were a little boy?

  Godfrey : Oh, you must be thinking about Australia.

  Irene : You could have one here if you wanted to, you know.

  Godfrey : Yes, I'm sure I could, but it wouldn't be the same, somehow. Will you excuse me?

• Irene : If you didn't have a kangaroo when you were a little boy, what did you have?

  Godfrey : Just a parrot, and all it ever said was Merry Christmas.

  Irene : Aww, and what did it say the rest of the year?

  Godfrey : Nothing.

  Irene : Poor Godfrey.

  Godfrey : Thank you.

• Irene : You have no right to cross-examine him just because he once wore a beard!

• Mr. Bullock : Get rid of that animal.

  Irene : Oh, no!

  Angelica : Oh, yes! He doesn't even have the decency to let Vincent sing.

  Mr. Bullock : Smart dog. He can stay.

• Godfrey : Hasn't your mother ever explained to you that some things are proper and some things are not?

  Irene : No. You have to be wayward to get any attention from mother.

• Godfrey : I'm your butler, Miss Irene. I'm not your host.

  Irene : Well, of all the unhospitality!

• Irene : What does the man want out of life?

  Molly : He told me once.

  Irene : What?

  Molly : Peace, and quiet.

• [about her boyfriends] 

  Irene : Well, we never could find anything to talk about and we'd just sit there. And then my father would get worried that it was going to fall through, and he'd offer to set whoever it was up in business, and whoever it was would run like crazy. Which only gave Cordelia another chance to be really funny and sarcastic. So I finally said, who needs it?

  Godfrey : Who needs love?

  Irene : Who needs Cordelia knocking herself out at my expense?

• Godfrey : I'd like to tell you a little story about a very sentimental young lady with a very kind heart who helped a man who was very grateful. But then she threatened to undo all the fine work she'd done.

  Irene : [happily]  Oh, Godfrey! You made up a story about me.

  Godfrey : No, I didn't make it up, and evidently you didn't hear the end.

• Hubert : Someone just said that I'm engaged to marry you.

  Irene : Well, you are and shut up about it!

• Motor Cop : Pull over, lady.

  Irene : I've got no time for you now!

  Motor Cop : Will you pull over?

  Irene : Will you get lost?

• Lieutenant O'Connor : Where did you work before you came here?

  Irene : Where did *you* work before? For the Spanish Inquisition?

• Irene : I'm grown up!

  Godfrey : Then act grown up.

• Irene : Nobody will let me help them, because they say I only make matters worse. Now is that really true?

  Godfrey : Sometimes, it is, yes.

• Irene : Didn't you hear Mother say that the last Butler left because of some horse that wouldn't eat or something?