Carefree (1938)

Fred Astaire: Tony Flagg

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• Tony Flagg : Perhaps if I psychoanalyze you, you won't wanna marry Amanda.

  Stephen Arden : Well, I don't wanna not wanna marry Amanda.

• Tony Flagg : Say, Steve, when I went to Switzerland you never drank like this. How long have you been tight?

  Stephen Arden : Three days: Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

  Tony Flagg : And all because this Amanda What's-Her-Name broke her engagement to you?

  Stephen Arden : Yeah, for the third time.

  Tony Flagg : What happened the other two times?

  Stephen Arden : I got stiff.

  Connors : I hope she changes her mind before you get DTs.

• Tony Flagg : Remember when we were in college how stage-struck I was? I wanted to be a dancer. Psychoanalysis showed me I was wrong. It's the one way we have of finding out what we really want and why we want it.

• Tony Flagg : How do you know she's willing to be psychoanalyzed?

  Stephen Arden : Oh, she will if I ask her to.

• Tony Flagg : Well, you do know that you have two minds: The conscious and the subconscious.

  Amanda Cooper : Really?

  Tony Flagg : The conscious mind is the ego. That's the thing that says, "I am I, and you are you."

  Amanda Cooper : Mine never said that.

• Tony Flagg : There's a Miss Cooper waiting for me. She's another one of those dizzy, silly, maladjusted females who can't make up her mind. I'll probably find out she hasn't got one.

• Tony Flagg : [singing]  Till I met you, I never knew a setting sun, Could paint such beautiful skies, I never knew, There were such lovely colors, And the big surprise, Is the red in your cheeks, The gold in your hair, The blue in your eyes.

• Tony Flagg : Dr. Jones, I am turning this case over to you for further treatment. My observations are as follows: She's a typical pampered female. What she needs, instead of a doctor, is a good spanking.

• Tony Flagg : [singing]  Queer what a difference, When your vision is clear, And you see things as they really are...

• Tony Flagg : We're never really afraid of anything we understand.

• Aunt Cora : You should hear what she thinks about you.

  Tony Flagg : What?

  Aunt Cora : She thinks you're a quack.

• Tony Flagg : I wish you'd please understand that I'm only trying to help you find yourself.

  Amanda Cooper : Well, if I ever get lost, I'll call on you.

• Amanda Cooper : You've heard of Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf?

  Tony Flagg : Yes, I have.

  Amanda Cooper : Well, that's what I dreamed about.

  Tony Flagg : You dreamed you were Little Red Riding Hood?

  Amanda Cooper : No, I was the wolf.

• Tony Flagg : Now, if you'll just lie here, Miss Cooper. Try to make your mind a blank.

  Amanda Cooper : That'll be very easy for me to do, doctor.

  [giggles] 

• Amanda Cooper : I was a radio dial.

  Tony Flagg : That's understandable. It's part of your profession, isn't it, singing on the radio?

  Amanda Cooper : Yes. Yes, but you haven't heard it all yet. It seemed that all night long, there were thousands of people that kept turning me off and turning me on and turning me off and turning me on.

• Amanda Cooper : [singing]  I didn't come to do the Charleston, I didn't come to ball the jack, I didn't come to do the Suzy-Q, Or do the bottom they call black, I didn't come to do big apple, I didn't come to do the shag

  Tony Flagg : Well, honey, here I am to do the yam, Because the yam is in the bag!

• Tony Flagg : [singing]  Must you dance, Quite so close, With your lips touching his face? Can't you see, I'm longing to be in his place, Won't you change partners, And dance with me?

• Tony Flagg : Dreams are very curious things, Amanda. Very often, the dream fantasy makes things seem true to the dreamer when in reality, they have no basis in fact.

• Tony Flagg : [singing]  Strange how a dreary world can suddenly change to a world as bright as the evening star.

• Tony Flagg : [singing]  Ask him to sit this one out, and while you're alone, I'll tell the waiter to tell him, he's wanted on the telephone. You've been locked in his arms, ever since heaven knows when. Oh, won't you change partners? And then, you may never want to change partners again.

• Tony Flagg : [singing]  Must you dance every dance with the same fortunate man? You have danced with him since the music began. Won't you change partners, and dance with me?

• Tony Flagg : [singing]  I used to be color-blind. But I met you and now I find, there's green in the grass, there's gold in the moon, there's blue in the skies.

• Tony Flagg : [singing]  That semi-circle that was always hanging about, is not a storm cloud. It's a rainbow. You brought the colors out.