Bombshell (1933)

Una Merkel: Mac

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Quotes 

• Lola Burns : Get away from me, all of you! You're nothing but a pack of leeches!

  Pops : Leeches?

  Lola Burns : Yes, leeches! At least he

  [motions to Space] 

  Lola Burns : was right; I don't know how I expected to bring a baby in here with an old fool for his grandfather who's half-drunk all the time!...

  Pops : After the way I've worked to handle your affairs...

  Lola Burns : Well, what about my affairs! Where are they? Why aren't my bills paid? Where does my money go? I never see any of it!

  Mac : Lola, you're exciting yourself...

  Lola Burns : Well, what are you doing about you? Don't think I don't know about your stealing and all the cuts you get from the stores! And you

  Elsie, Hanlon's Secretary : Aw, listen, Sis...

  Lola Burns : And you who never, haven't had a job to your name for three years and bringing her in here like it was a hotel for traveling salesmen! I've only stood it because it's the only home and family I've got. But I'm getting sick of it, you understand? There's only Loretta and the dogs that ever do a single thing for me. All the rest of you are just out for what you can get and I'm getting pretty tired of being a golden goose or whatever you call it!

  Space Hanlon : Atta girl, Sugar!

  Lola Burns : Don't "atta girl" me! I never want to see you again as long as I breath. You're worse than all the rest of 'em!

  [starts quoting Space] 

  Lola Burns : "Stone-Age Stuff!" "Mad with Desire!" "Lovers' Brawl!" Is that the way you prove you just more than care for me? Treating me like a strip act in a burlesque show! A glamorous Bombshell, eh? A glorified chump, that's what I've been! Well, I'm through do you understand? With the business, with everybody! You can get another "It Girl," a "But Girl" or a "How, When and Where Girl." I'm clearing out - and you can all stay here in this half-paid-for car barn and get somebody else to pull the apple cart! I'm going where ladies and gentlemen hang their hats and get some peace and quiet... and if any of you try to interfere with me - I'll complain to the authorities!

• Lola Burns : All right, Mac, have 'em bring around my roadster.

  Mac : Your brother took the roadster to Tijuana.

  Lola Burns : Tijuana? Say, who told him that...

  Pops : I sent Junior down there to look over a crop of fillies with the idea of a possible purchase...

  Lola Burns : I know the kinda fillies he'll look over!

• Mac : Can't you get in time enough to put on your uniform?

  Loretta : Don't scald me wit' your steam, woman, I knows where the bodies buried.

• Mac : Lola, the Studio car just arrived with this new script. You'll have to get right over there.

  Lola Burns : Studio? Well, what about location?

  Mac : It's raining out in Riverside...

  Lola Burns : Oh, new scenes, new lines everything.

  [Looks at the script] 

  Lola Burns : Well, what's this? I don't recognize it?

  Mac : Retakes on "Red Dust". The Hayes Office censored something and the picture's got to open Monday in New York. Come on, we'll have to hurry.

  Lola Burns : But, I don't know these lines. Gosh, that means a different make-up and I have to have my hair changed again. I ask you, Miss Carroll, as one lady to another - isn't that a load o' clams?

• Mac : Yes, I know it's six o'clock and I know she's due on location at 7:30 and I know she's to wear the white dress without the brassiere and I know you'll always be a second assistant director because you don't think anybody else is capable of thinking for himself or herself!

• Lola Burns : Gee whiz! With all the dough I drag down every week, I don't see why things can't be run better!

  Mac : You know, I can only do one thing at at time. I really think you ought to discharge Loretta! She's becoming impossible and full of lip, too.

  Lola Burns : Oh, Loretta's all right.