Beau James (1957)
Alexis Smith: Allie Walker
Quotes
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Allie Walker : You've had a drink.
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : It's a free country.
Allie Walker : There is such a thing as prohibition.
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : All right, so it isn't a free country. Let's drink to that, and to the republic for which it stands.
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Allie Walker : [At ethnic Latvian dinner] Have some Jell-O. You always could talk your way out of anything.
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Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : I'm giving up politics and I'm going back into show business.
Allie Walker : You don't know the difference.
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : Does anybody?
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Allie Walker : Chris Nolan phoned me.
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : From my phone, no doubt.
Allie Walker : Sometimes you have to play along to get ahead.
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : Why get ahead?
Allie Walker : You haven't changed, have you?
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : No, I'm still the fun-loving rover boy.
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Allie Walker : A lot of people think our marriage broke up because there weren't any children. But they were wrong. There was always one around the house.
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : And now you wanna turn him into a man.
Allie Walker : Why not? He'll never make a husband.
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Allie Walker : Aren't you taking a lot for granted? You didn't get enough votes to carry the bedroom - not for a while.
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : I thought once I was mayor, I'd be off probation. You holding out for the presidency?
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Allie Walker : So, why don't you go back to your girlfriends - Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens?
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Allie Walker : Did it ever occur to you, Mr. Walker, that some people are kind because they wanna be? They don't expect to be paid for it.
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Allie Walker : [to Jimmy, before he leaves their dinner table to take the stage] Jim, suppose I ask you not to go up there?
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : What?
Allie Walker : Just leave New York with me now, and open up a grocery store somewhere. What would you... what would you say?
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : Leave New York? Where else is there?
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Allie Walker : Is it possible that you could be married to a man for 18 years and still no know him?
Chris Nolan : Well, of course he was never home much.
Allie Walker : Whose fault was that?
Chris Nolan : It's always the woman's.
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Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : Have you thought over what I asked?
Allie Walker : No divorce. We were both married in the Church. We knew it was for life. Still is for me.
Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : Ours hasn't been a marriage for years, and you know it.
Allie Walker : I haven't interfered in your personal life, have I, Jim? Don't destroy your public life.
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Mayor James J. 'Jimmy' Walker : [Appearing with his wife at the Albany hearing on his corruption charges] You're a brave girl, Allie.
Allie Walker : You're a lot of things, and I've called you all of them. But you're not a thief, and I'll fight any who says... .
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Allie Walker : You never know what you're going to do until you do it. You've lived your whole life off the cuff.