Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

Ginger Rogers: Mary Grey

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• Mary Grey : I guess rich people are just poor people with money.

• Mr. Borden : [Seeing Mary eat an apple for her dinner]  Are you on a diet?

  Mary Grey : Yes, but against my wishes.

• Higgins : You were very quiet after you fell down the stairs, sir. You're last request was that we put Miss America in the guest room.

  Mr. Borden : Miss America? Did somebody else come home with us?

  Mary Grey : No, I'm Miss America.

• Mary Grey : Why don't you stop shooting off your mouth until you know what you're talking about.

  Mike : Well, if there weren't people like those in there, there wouldn't be people like me.

  Mary Grey : There'd be people like you no matter what happens.

• Mike : You're blaming me?

  Mary Grey : I'm blaming you for being a dope! You're in love and you haven't enough spunk to fight for the thing you want.

  Mike : I won't listen to such nonsense.

  Mary Grey : You try to make everyone else unhappy. You try to make people believe things you don't even believe yourself.

  Mike : So! You know all about me.

  Mary Grey : You're like a pane of glass to me, brother. You haven't the courage to be a capitalist yourself so you try to drag everybody else down to where you are.

  Mike : You're a capitalistic pawn.

  Mary Grey : I'm a what?

  Mike : You're a renegade to your class!

  Mary Grey : You can't talk to me that way and get away with it!

• Mary Grey : Oh, Higgins, you better get down to the kitchen. There's a revolution or something going on down there.

• Mary Grey : Age doesn't matter when the real thing comes along.

• Mary Grey : If you're a fool enough to spend it, I'm smart enough to help you.

• Mike : You get my goat!

  Mary Grey : Where'd you get it in the first place?

• Mr. Borden : You see, it's my birthday.

  Mary Grey : [Cynically]  Birthdays are all right, but you never get over the first one.

• Minnesota's girlfriend : Why don't you give your boyfriend a liver pill?

  Mary Grey : Why don't you button up your lip?

• Seal Expert : [At the Central Park Zoo]  Don't get them seals wrong, lady. They have more intelligence than most of the carnivorous, except the dog.

  Mary Grey : That so?

  Mr. Borden : Anyhow, they seem to be having a nice time.

  Mary Grey : I can't imagine it would be much fun, swimming around all day in a fur coat.

  Seal Expert : That's were you're wrong again, lady. These ain't fur seals at all.

  Mary Grey : They ain't?

• Mr. Borden : Say, you don't think that I followed you over here?

  Mary Grey : Why should you? What are you? A flatfoot?

  Mr. Borden : Eh, oh, you mean a detective. Oh, no, no.

  Mary Grey : Well, if you are, I haven't done anything.

• Mary Grey : [Sitting a on park bench in Central Park]  You sound like one of them Fifth Avenue cadavers.

  Mr. Borden : Fifth Avenue what?

  Mary Grey : Those people that live over there...

  Mr. Borden : How do they sound.

  Mary Grey : Oh, they're always squawking. You'd think the country was going to the dogs.

  Mr. Borden : Well, they've got their problems too.

  Mary Grey : What problems? I used to stand at the Plaza at night and watch them go home. They look like a lot of wax dummies that have eaten an overdose of sour pickles.

• Mr. Borden : We could go some place and eat.

  Mary Grey : Where?

  Mr. Borden : Well, there's the Flamingo Club.

  Mary Grey : The Flamingo? You mean that very elegant cafe over on...

  Mr. Borden : Well, people must have a wonderful time there, it costs so much... I mean it. I'd love to go.

  Mary Grey : So would I. But, I'd just as soon go to the automat and keep the change.

• Mary Grey : [Sipping champagne]  Every time I drink a sip of this, its just like drinking six pairs of silk stockings.

• Mary Grey : Say, you, lay off the government.

• Mr. Borden : Where did you come from?

  Mary Grey : From upstairs.

  Mr. Borden : I know, but, how did you get upstairs?

  Mary Grey : Well, don't you remember?

  Mr. Borden : In a way I do, but, in a way I don't.

• Mary Grey : I understand you play polo.

  Tim Borden : Yeah. What's that got to do with it?

  Mary Grey : Nothing. It's just that I'm amazed.

  Tim Borden : You're amazed at what?

  Mary Grey : I'm amazed to discover that horses have better breeding than the people who ride them.

• Mary Grey : Somebody's got to fill your father's shoes. They're probably too big for you.

  Tim Borden : Oh, I'm not a man. Is that it?

  Mary Grey : Oh, you wear long pants.

• Mr. Borden : Say, the family were being very nice to you when I came down.

  Mary Grey : They nearly scared me to death.

• Mary Grey : Well, it's pretty simple. Take something from somebody they don't want and they want it more than ever.

  Mr. Borden : You've got a lot of common sense.

  Mary Grey : You've lost yours, but, it'll come back.

• Mary Grey : The other fella's pasture always looks greener.

• Mary Grey : Everybody to his own poison.

• Mr. Borden : It's like having an old car, one you've got used to. You can either junk it or try to salvage it.

  Mary Grey : You're still in love with your wife, aren't you.

  Mr. Borden : Well, no. But, you see, after a certain time, when love goes away, something else is left in its place which is even more important.

• Mary Grey : Come on over here and sit down - so I can really get at this thing.

• Tim Borden : A lot of sailors wandering around the park.

  Mary Grey : What's wrong with sailors? They helped win the war.

  Tim Borden : Great lovers, too.

• Mary Grey : [Breaking away from a kiss and embrace]  I don't like rough stuff.

  Tim Borden : Why don't you be honest?

  Mary Grey : You're a big strong man, aren't you? Well, why don't you leave me alone?

• Mary Grey : [to Borden]  If I stay in this house any longer, you're not going to have any family, and I'm not going to have any sanity.

• Tim Borden : I just about got you figured. You're a gold digger.

  Mary Grey : And what *is* a gold digger?

  Tim Borden : You ought to know.

  Mary Grey : What makes you think you're not a gold digger? What have you done to deserve all this? What have you ever accomplished?

• Mary Grey : I'm not a very good faker. When I do things, I want to mean it.

• Mr. Borden : I've got to get these shoes off before I go another step. They're killing me. I wonder who invented shoes?

  Mary Grey : If the world were carpeted with leather we wouldn't have to wear any shoes. We could go barefoot.