Lady of Burlesque (1943)
Michael O'Shea: Biff Brannigan
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Quotes
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Biff : What's the matter with comics?
Dixie : I went into show business when I was seven years old. Two days later the first comic I ever met stole my piggy bank in a railroad station in Portland. When I was 11 the comics were looking at my ankles. When I was 14 they were...just looking. When I was 20 I'd been stuck with enough lunch checks to pay for a three-story house. Naw, they're shiftless, dame-chasing, ambitionless...
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Biff : [on stage] I am what is known as an archeologist. An archeologist is a guy that digs up mummies. Why the other day I dug up a mummy and he was a hepcat. How did I know he was a hepcat? Because he turned to me and said, "Do you dig me, Jack?"
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Biff : [Explaining to Mandy, after having once again been verbally slammed by Dixie] Sometimes these things take time.
Mandy : They sure do!
Biff : You gotta plan it out. Sometimes you finagle them this way, and other times you finagle them that way.
Mandy : That's why I like sweet dumb girls like Alice: no finagling.
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Biff : You won't lose any arguments. Not lookin' like that. You won't have time. You know, if this were a real lasso, I'd drag you up here like a calf in a a Western. Only no calf had a hide as pretty as that.
Dixie : What would you do when you got me? You've had a little trouble putting a brand on, so far.