You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Mary Forbes: Mrs. Anthony Kirby

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• Alice Sycamore : [In a jail cell]  Mrs. Kirby, please believe me, I'm so sorry to have gotten you involved in all this trouble.

  Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby : I'll appreciate it, if you'll leave me strictly alone.

  Jailed Prostitute : Don't let it get you, sister. They're gettin' tougher everywhere. Say, where you been operatin'? You got class. That's the kind of connection I'm lookin' for.

• Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby : Mr. Kirby should have told you: he suffers from indigestion.

  Anthony P. Kirby : Now, now, Miriam, it isn't as serious as all that.

  Boris Kolenkhov : Perhaps it is not indigestion. Perhaps it is stomach *ulcers!*

  Anthony P. Kirby : [looks at Kolenkhov with obvious indignation]  Ulcers?

  Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : Don't pay any attention to Mr. Kolenkhov. He's Russian, and the Russians are inclined to look on the dark side.

  Boris Kolenkhov : All right, I'm Russian! A friend of mine - a Russian - *died* from stomach ulcers!

  Alice Sycamore : Now Mr. Kolenkhov, Mr. Kirby has indigestion, and that's all.

  Boris Kolenkhov : Alright fine, let him wait!

  Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : Oh, please folks, let's not discuss Mr. Kirby's ulcers.

• Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby : [to Alice]  If you had any sense, young woman, you'd stay where you belong and stop being ambitious.

  Essie Carmichael : Shall I sock her, Alice?

• Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby : Anthony, we've got to do something about this girl!

  Anthony P. Kirby : Alright, I'll fire her.

  Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby : This isn't a business deal! You can't settle anything by firing this girl.

  Anthony P. Kirby : Alright, then, I won't fire her.

• Penny Sycamore : Um, eh, have you any hobbies Mrs. Kirby?

  Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby : Well uh, as a matter of fact I have. I'm a student of Occultism.

  Penny Sycamore : What's that?

  Paul Sycamore : That's spiritualism dear.

  Penny Sycamore : Spiritualism? Oh why Mrs. Kirby, I'm surprised. Why, everyone knows spiritualism is a fake.

  Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby : I beg your pardon?

  Paul Sycamore : Now Penny, you mustn't criticize other people's hobbies. You've got one or two of your own you know.

  Penny Sycamore : [happily]  Yes, but not silly ones!

  [Mrs. Kirby looks very offended, Penny grabs her mouth upon realizing that she inadvertantly and accidentally made small of her, and Mr. Kirby agreeably smirks and silently relishes in the fun made at his wife's expense] 

• Jailed Prostitute : [In a jail cell]  Why don't you come down off your high horse, babe. I might be able to do you some good.

  Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby : If you don't mind, I don't need anyone to do me good.

  Jailed Prostitute : You never can tell, Sugar Plum.