Love Crazy (1941)

William Powell: Steve Ireland

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Quotes 

• Steve : She's married now - got a husband.

  Susan Ireland : Yeah? Whose husband has she got?

• Steve : The silk ones are happy; they are free. The felt ones are dead.

• Steve : Where did you leave your parachute?

  Dr. David Klugle : I beg your pardon?

  Steve : Never mind. You'll pry no information from me, General Electric Whiskers.

• [Steve meets a suited and booted Ward for the second time; the first, he was in an undershirt] 

  Steve : Oh, it's you again. I didn't recognize you with your clothes on.

• Steve : [singing as he gets out of a taxi at his apartment building]  It's delightful to be married. To be, be, be, be married.

  Jimmy - the Doorman : He'd sure sing a different tune if he lived with my old lady for a while.

  Taxi Driver : Oh, I don't know. I didn't mind it so much.

  Jimmy - the Doorman : [as the tax pulls away]  Huh?

• Ward Willoughby : [On the phone]  Hello, Susan. Listen, the nuthouse people picked me up. They think I'm Steve. Will you send somebody down to... Hey, who is this? What are you doing there?

  Steve : Blelelelelelelele.

• George Renny : You've got nothing to fear from the Lunacy Commission.

  Steve : Then, why am I afraid?

• Dr. David Klugle : Mrs. Ireland, uh, I have some very tragic news for you. Your husband has just been declared insane.

  Susan Ireland : Declared insane? Steve, you fool.

  Steve : Oh, Susan, I tried to tell them that I'm mall right.

  Susan Ireland : [Sweeps the blocks he has been stacking off the desk]  Stop it! Stop that acting, you lunatic.

• Steve : You mean that old feeling that threw a flower pot at me the last time you saw me?

  Isobel Grayson : I'll never forgive myself for that. The geraniums died.

• Steve : Oh, darling, you know - you shouldn't be allowed to stand in the moonlight like that. It ought to be against the law - like other strong drugs.

• Steve : Darling, I've got some great news for you.

  Susan Ireland : What?

  Steve : I've decided to keep you another year.

  Susan Ireland : Maybe you haven't seen the other models. They haven't got brakes like me.

• Isobel Grayson : Can't I give an old pal a little first aid?

  Steve : Ah, ho, ho, ho. I remember your first aid, Isobel. You, you don't stick to the rules.

• Mrs. Cooper : It's the elevator boy again. He says Mrs. Grayson wants her shoes.

  Steve : Oh, oh, uh, well I guess they must be in my other coat.

  Mrs. Cooper : Well!

  Susan Ireland : That's how Steve dresses me, you know. He steals a pair of shoes here, a dress there. All I have to buy are my under things, thank heaven.

• Steve : Of course, the elevator would never stick when my mother... when my mother-in-law was in it.

• Susan Ireland : Steve, am I what you'd call a jealous type?

  Steve : Jealous? You? Ah, ho. Why you haven't an atom of jealousy in you - not a bit. That's one of your great virtues.

  Susan Ireland : Then why do I wanna chop your head off?

• Steve : What was that guy doing in his undershirt?

  Susan Ireland : He has to have his torso free when he shoots his bow and arrow.

  Steve : Well, uh, huh, what kind of an answer is that?

  Susan Ireland : He's the world's champion bow-and-arrower.

• Steve : I'll see you later, mother. And, uh, huh, and don't think that it hasn't been fun because it hasn't.

• Steve : What's the matter, is my face tickling your foot?

• Isobel Grayson : You're lucky you can even swallow.

  Steve : If I couldn't swallow I wouldn't want to live.

• Mrs. Cooper : I'll show you how to wrap it, Steve. Have you got a bandage?

  Steve : I hope not - I mean, I don't think so.

• Susan Ireland : I love that walk to the justice of the peace.

  Steve : It's four miles.

  Susan Ireland : But he always gives us sherry when we get there.

  Steve : One finger.

  Susan Ireland : And then I row you up the river.

  Steve : That takes an hour.

• Steve : [Disguised as Miss Ireland, his sister]  You know, Stephen nearly killed three men with his bare hands.

  Ward Willoughby : What were they, pygmies?

• Steve : I'll go to the mayor. I'll go to the governor. The President. I'll get your job for this, you old beaver-puss.

  Dr. David Klugle : And sometimes he seems almost sane.

• Steve : My friend, I set you free. Hence forth, you are a free man.

  Robert : You can't free me sir. I's free now.

  Steve : Don't be silly. If I can't free you, then why am I Abraham Lincoln?

• Steve : Now look here, George If you help Susan divorce me, you will lose my business and my business's business.

  George Renny : Well, as a matter of fact, Steve, I was just about to tell Susan I think she's being a little hasty.

  Steve : Well then, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and tell her.

  George Renny : Susan, I think you're being a little hasty.

• Steve : Susan, where'd you go? I looked all over town for you. I haven't wept a slink.

  Susan Ireland : Really?