Nice Girl? (1941)

Deanna Durbin: Jane Dana

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• Jane Dana : Who wants to be just useful and contented? After all, I'm not a cow.

• Jane Dana : Well, we live only once.

  Richard Calvert : [laughs]  Yeah, stingy, isn't it? We should have at least two. Our own and a good one.

• Jane Dana : Don, I'm afraid I did some things that must have hurt you a lot.

  Don Webb : I only remember the things you did that didn't.

• Jane Dana : [Tasting her soup at the dinner table]  Oh, it's hot!

  Sylvia Dana : [to Nancy, who's blowing on her soup]  One does not blow on one's soup.

  Nancy Dana : Oh, doesn't one?

  Oliver Dana : Well, there are several schools of thought in the art of soup cooling. There are the blowers, the fanners, the diluters with ice water, and the wait-til-it-coolers. Now I belong to the old school -- the toughies. We take our soup straight and if it burns us, we just laugh it off, see?

• Jane Dana : I can see my tombstone: Here lies Jane Dana. Scientist and spinster. She died at the age of 82. A nice girl.

• Jane Dana : I'm afraid I'm not very sophisticated.

  Oliver Dana : Sophisticated? Heh, now you are being young. Real sophistication, dear, is just another name for good taste. Sophistication isn't doing, it's knowing.

• Jane Dana : [Crying on her dad's shoulder]  Oh, dad, I did something so stupid. So cheap. I threw myself at him and he didn't even kiss me. He didn't even try.

  Oliver Dana : [Smiling with relief]  Why, the bounder!

• Don Webb : I'm not sure where Samoa is, do you?

  Jane Dana : [Pointing]  Yeah, it's right over that way.

  Don Webb : [Sarcastically]  Oh, now I know.

  Jane Dana : Well, all I know is that Robert Louis Stevenson said, "To get to Samoa you go to the Pacific Ocean and turn left."

• Don Webb : [In the car with Jane]  Listen to her purr. She doesn't growl, she doesn't groan. She just purrs. Isn't that beautiful?

  Jane Dana : [Mocking]  Beautiful.

• Richard Calvert : What would you like? Ice tea, ice coffee or milk?

  Jane Dana : Champagne.

• Don Webb : You're not going to marry anybody but me. Everybody knows that.

  Jane Dana : Everybody but me.

• Jane Dana : [as she makes notes while feeding rabbits]  No, it'll be a long time before I know anything, except maybe the habits of rabbits.

• Nancy Dana : [When the phone rings]  May I be excused? I think it's for me. I'm anticipitating

  [sic] 

  Nancy Dana : a call.

  Jane Dana : Nancy, anticipating.

  Nancy Dana : Thank you, Jane.

• Oliver Dana : Anything wrong?

  Jane Dana : Well, why, Dad? You notice a change in me?

  Oliver Dana : Oh, no sudden change. Of course, since the day when I used to walk the floor with you, you have grown up a little.

• Jane Dana : You know any more tricks with potatoes?

  Don Webb : Well, no.

  Jane Dana : Then, let's go home.