Taxi (1931)

Leila Bennett: Ruby

Quotes 

• Skeets : [Reading movie poster]  "Coming: John Barrymore, The Mad Genius." I wonder what he's mad about.

  Ruby : You know what I think? I think he's copying Frederic March more and more every day. Don't you think so? He's my favorite though, except Joe E. Brown.

• Ruby : Say, where did you go last night? I stood in front of that cigar store so long they took me for an Indian!

• Ruby : Your customers' idea of delicious and yours don't agree.

• Ruby : C'mon. I feel like bein' bored, and you can do the job better than anyone I know.

  Skeets : So long, Matt. See you later. Goodbye Sue. We're going to the wrestling matches.

  Ruby : Maybe you are; but, I'm going to the Winter Garden. They got a picture there of Lil Dagover. I like the sound of her name. Its got sex appeal.

  Skeets : Oh, nothing'll help you, baby.

• Ruby : [to Sue]  I wish I could meet some big Spaniard with a lot of money. You know, I'm getting to the point where I ain't as particular as I used to be. I'll marry any guy that's got a collar and shirt, and if it comes to a pinch, marry him without the shirt.

• Ruby : I knew a fella, Pipsy Hark, he was sent to Sing Sing for, oh gee, I don't know how long. Well, anyway, I was at the trial for what they call a character witness; but, it didn't do any good. After they sent him up... he never came out again. He just took sick and wasted away to nothin'. But, when Pipsy died, some of his friends took up a collection to bury him. I was working over at Gladwin's Hungarian joint, you know that place I told you the food was so bad you couldn't eat it, over on Amsterdam Avenue? Ain't life funny? You're here today and you're gone tomorrow.

• Ruby : You know, its a funny thing, people always asks the waitress, "How is this?" and "How is that?" I always give 'em the same answer, "There's some that says its marvelous. Some that says its rotten." And the funny part of it is, Mr. Riley, about askin' me about fish is, that I never eat it, in no manor or shape or form. In other words, I don't like fish.

• Ruby : I hate fights. Every time Skeets starts a battle, I want to cluck him on the nob. I did once.

• Ruby : Comin' home from Coney Island always makes me sad. I once cried comin' home with Pipsy, you know, the guy I used to go with. Pipsy never got jealous or nothin'. He used to say I was the nicest girl he ever went out with. He got mad once. A salesman, Louis Gonzaldorf, another fella I used to go with...

  Matt Nolan : Why don't you button your lip.

  Ruby : I ain't said much. Well, as I was sayin', Louis Gonzaldorf sold leather goods and he got a sideline of ladies lingerie. I still got some of the things he gave me. He was a good salesman. I'll never forget, he gave me a pair of black teddy bears. But, I only wore them once. They brought me bad luck.

• [last lines] 

  Ruby : They're featherin' their love nest all over again.

• Ruby : Hey, don't forget, you're goin' to that typewrittin' school with me.