It Started with Eve (1941)

Deanna Durbin: Anne Terry

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Quotes 

• [two tycoons leave Anne a paltry tip] 

  Anne Terry : This must be a new five-dollar coin they're putting out... it looks like the same old dime to me.

• [Doctor Harvey disposes of Jonathan Sr.'s forbidden cigar] 

  Jonathan Reynolds : Hey, that's a two-dollar cigar!

  Dr. Harvey : Where'd you get it?

  Anne Terry : Don't look at me - I smoke a pipe.

• Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Oh, I think you have a nice room. It's... different.

  Anne Terry : Uh-huh. On a clear day you can see all the way across it.

• [Jonny angrily chases Anne around his living room] 

  Anne Terry : Going around pinching people at your age.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : When I get three seconds older, I'm going to start punching people.

• [a waiter brings Jonathan Sr. an enormous, fruit-fillled cocktail] 

  Anne Terry : What's that?

  Jonathan Reynolds : It's a Reynolds Special.

  Anne Terry : Oh, but you shouldn't be... what's in it?

  Jonathan Reynolds : Oh, oh, nothing but, ah, coconut milk and, ah, vegetable juices. Doctor Harvey orders it for me. It's horrible.

  Anne Terry : Then why do you drink it.

  Jonathan Reynolds : It reminds me of Doctor Harvey and makes me hate him and when I hate him, I feel good.

• Anne Terry : You told me you'd have that picture destroyed!

  Jonathan Reynolds : Destroyed? If I'd done that, they'd never have seen it.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : They?

  Jonathan Reynolds : Those women... those bead-twirlers. They called before they left.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : They're gone! I mean... they've gone?

  Jonathan Reynolds : Well, they saw the picture in the paper. They said they were taking the first train to Mexico City. I advised them to take a plane - *quicker*.

• [last lines] 

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : All right, I'm sorry I pinched you.

  Anne Terry : Honest?

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Mm-hmm.

  Anne Terry : You'll never do it again?

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Never.

  Anne Terry : Promise?

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Mm-hmm.

  [Jonny leans forward as if to kiss Anne] 

  Anne Terry : JONNY!

• Anne Terry : They haven't been able to prove definitely that people inherit traits from their parents. They have with horses.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Yes, I know about the horses.

• Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : I bring you here by accident and my father likes you so much, that we can't tell him the truth.

  Anne Terry : Oh, he'd have liked anybody you brought.

  Jonathan Reynolds Jr. : Oh, no, he wouldn't. You should have seen the looks he gave some I brought home.

  Anne Terry : Did, did you bring home a great many?

  Anne Terry : I mean, just as friends, you know.