Colleen (1936)

Jack Oakie: Joe Cork

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Quotes 

• Joe Cork : Say, Pop, I got a terrific idea last night.

  Pop Reilly : Yeah, so did I; but, there wasn't a drop in the house.

• Pop Reilly : It's a funny thing, Joe, how you always manage to drop in just when we're startin' to eat.

  Joe Cork : Thanks, pop. I'll have a cup of coffee with you. Might go for a block of wheatcakes, too.

  Colleen Reilly : Sorry, Joe, I didn't have time to make wheatcakes this morning.

  Joe Cork : Oh, that's all right. I'll eat anything you got.

  Colleen Reilly : And that's no idle boast.

• Waiter : [presents a vintage French wine]  Chateau Huit, 1923.

  Joe Cork : Now listen, buddy. I'm a guy you can't push around. I pay for the best, so I want the best. Now you take that 1923 stuff back, and bring me this year's model!

  Waiter : As monsieur wishes.

  [makes a long face and takes the bottle away] 

• Minnie Hawkins : You sure do things up right. You're a regular man-about-town.

  Joe Cork : "Man-about-town"? Hey listen, honey, you ain't seen nothin' yet. I'm the original boulevardier from the Bronx. Ha ha!

• Minnie Hawkins : Well, smart-aleck, aren't you going to do something? What about "London, Paris, Vienna in the spring..."?

  Joe Cork : Ah, this is bad, this is serious...

  Minnie Hawkins : I didn't have to come here to find that out.

  Joe Cork : [with a pondering expression]  I got it! Somethin's gotta' be done. Something brilliant, a stroke of genius!

  Minnie Hawkins : What, for instance?

  Joe Cork : I'll tell ya' after.

  Minnie Hawkins : After what?

  Joe Cork : After I think about it myself.

• Joe Cork : I really got somethin' this time. Can you imagine a thousand biographies, five hundred bucks a piece, that's a half a million dollars. Two thousands a million dollars. A million dollars invested at four percent, gives me an annual income of $40,000. I'm a millionaire! Ha-ha! Oh, and listen, honey, can you let me have a little change, a quarter or somethin'?

  Colleen Reilly : Okay, millionaire.

• Cedric Ames : Tell me, Mr. Noggin, are the girls scolded if they taste the product?

  Noggin : Certainly not! They're allowed to eat as much as they like.

  Joe Cork : Yeah, we had the same system in the brewery I worked in.

• Minnie Hawkins : Well, I don't know now. Uncle Cedric may not like it.

  Joe Cork : Listen, honey, I'm Uncle Cedric's right hand. When he can't take you to dinner, well, it's up to me.

  Minnie Hawkins : Well, I don't know now.

  Joe Cork : All right, it's all right. Uncle Cedric's left hand will never know what his right hand is doing.

• Joe Cork : Play, gypsy. Play.

  [singing] 

  Joe Cork : Oh, the gay life, The high life, Has always been my life, And maybe you think I don't love it...

• Minnie Hawkins : It's a marvelous i-dear. Even if it don't work.

  Joe Cork : Ah, now listen, Toots, I told you I loved you, didn't I?

  Minnie Hawkins : Yes, you did.

  Joe Cork : And you believe don't you?

  Minnie Hawkins : Yes, I do.

  Joe Cork : A little work. It's gotta work! You don't expect me to marry a poor girl, do you?

  Minnie Hawkins : Oh, no. I do want to go on doing higher things. Joe, I want to be worthy of ya.

• Joe Cork : Look at Minnie, here. A bud about to break into beautiful bloom. Now, nipped by the frost of disappointment.

• Minnie Hawkins : His biography? Oh, I've always wanted to write one. Can I help?

  Joe Cork : Fair enough. I'll take you to a swell chop suey parlor where they've got a pen.

  Minnie Hawkins : Oh, swell.

• Cedric Ames : You know, all my life, I've wanted to have a hat and a cane just like this.

  Joe Cork : All my life I've always wanted to have a boss just like you.