Mildred Pierce (1945)
Jack Carson: Wally Fay
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Quotes
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Wally Fay : [to Ida] I hate all women. Thank goodness you're not one.
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Mildred Pierce : Cut it out, Wally. You make me feel like Little Red Riding Hood.
Wally Fay : And I'm the Big Bad Wolf, huh? Now, Milly, you've got me all wrong. I'm a romantic guy, but I'm no wolf.
Mildred Pierce : Then quit howling!
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Mildred Pierce : Wally, you should be kept on a leash! Now why can't you be friendly?
Wally Fay : But I *am* being friendly!
Mildred Pierce : No, I mean it. Friendship's much more lasting than love.
Wally Fay : Yeah, but it isn't as entertaining.
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Wally Fay : My client feels, and I am in complete accord with her, that she has been irrep - ih...
Mrs. Forrester's Lawyer : 'Irreparably'?
Wally Fay : ...unduly damaged. Therefore there is one more little formality that we should discuss first.
Mrs. Forrester's Lawyer : What's that, Mr. Fay?
Wally Fay : The financial settlement. You see, my client would like ten thousand dollars.
Mrs. Forrester's Lawyer : I think I'm safe in observing that almost anyone would like ten thousand dollars, Mr. Fay. But ih -...
Wally Fay : But ih - ?
Mrs. Forrester's Lawyer : We see no necessity for a financial settlement of any kind.
Wally Fay : You don't, huh?
Mrs. Forrester's Lawyer : No.
Wally Fay : [smirking] You will.
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Wally Fay : You know, you keep on refusing me, and one of these days I'm going to start thinking you're stubborn.
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Wally Fay : Not too much ice in that drink you're about to make for me.
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Wally Fay : You know, this is a pretty big night for you.
Policeman #1 : Yeah?
Wally Fay : Yeah, lots of excitement. There's a stiff in there!
Policeman #1 : Is that so? Oh and I suppose you were running right down to the station to report it?
[Wally forces a laugh]
Policeman #1 : [to partner] Yeah... Say, he say's there's a dead guy in the house.
Policeman #2 : You never saw a deader.
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Wally Fay : There's something about the sound of my own voice that fascinates me.
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Wally Fay : Oh boy! I'm so smart it's a disease!