Lady by Choice (1934)
May Robson: Patricia Patterson
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Quotes
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Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : It's only youngsters that have to watch their step. Old people don't have to be respectable. Old people are respectable in spite of themselves.
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Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : I always say to everybody, if you have to go before a judge, get Judge Daly. His bark is worse than his bite. And even if he is a Democrat, he has an understanding heart.
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Judge Daly : The point is, you were drunk and disorderly.
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : Oh, Judge, drunk, maybe, but, never disorderly.
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Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : I'm high strung. And when a man like that puts his hands on me, I'm apt to forget myself.
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Alabam Lee : Cigarette, Patsy?
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : No, thanks. I don't smoke. But, I do drink.
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Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : Now, see here, Your Honor. When you first went into politics, I voted for you! Twice in the same day.
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Kendall : Cut out the magnolia dialect you crummy old beer guzzler.
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : Crummy old beer guzzler? You dirty low down, floor flusher! You rotten, yellow dog! What kind of language is that to use to a lady?
Kendall : Lady? Huh! I know just who you are and just what gutter you came out of!
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Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : I don't know much about the right things to do. But, I can tell you all about the wrong things not to do. You see, I've done 'em all.
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Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : What's that you're reading?
Alabam Lee : "Famous Women of History" - all about Josephine, Du Barry, and Pompadour.
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : You would pick out a book like that.
Alabam Lee : Swell book! Those three babies certainly knew their stallions. Learn about women from them.
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : They were low women.
Alabam Lee : Well, maybe they started low, but they aimed high.
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Opper : I've told you before, there's no place for a fan dancer in this show.
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : Fan dancer? What are you talking about?
Opper : Well, that's the way she started isn't it?
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : Lincoln started as a rail splitter, didn't he?
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Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : Did you ever hear of Jack Dempsey?
Alabam Lee : Yeah, that's the guy that married Hannah Williams, isn't it?
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : He was an unknown youngster until Jack Kearns got ahold of him. Kearns made a champ out of that kid - just as I'm going to make a champ out of you.
Alabam Lee : Champ or chump? I'm no leather pusher.
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : It doesn't matter what you are. I'm only interested in what you're going to be. A winner!
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Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : Once you knock off your Shakespeare, everything else rolls off your knife.
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Alabam Lee : Mama's going hunting.
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : For what?
Alabam Lee : Bank roll. No penny ante either. No more fishing for shrimp. A whale! That's what I'm after. Somebody with a ton of money.
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Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : What are we hanging around here for?
Judge Daly : I'm waiting for Miss Lee's answer.
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : That is none of our - damn business.
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Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : I balled up her life, just as I balled up my own.
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Alabam Lee : I'll be putty in your hands. Where do we go from here?
Patricia 'Patsy' Patterson : Up to glory. No more hip shaking in a honky tonk. But, a real career. I'm going to make a headliner, a star out of you. I've got everything figured out. It's all I've been thinking of ever sense I came here. Now, in the first place...
Alabam Lee : Wait a minute. There's something much more important than that. Let's get drunk.