Flaming Gold (1932)

Pat O'Brien: Ben Lear

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• Tampico Tess : What do you boys think of me, anyway?

  Ben Lear : Well, Tess...

  Dan Manton : We think you're a perfect... lady.

  Tampico Tess : [laughing]  Well, if you do, you're crazy.

  [still smiling] 

  Tampico Tess : I know what you think, and you're right! I'm a '23 model with a '33 paint job. I'm running a honky-tonk, and I've run lots worse ones than this. When I was young, I got what I wanted by loving; now that I'm old, I get what I want by fighting. I like a fight.

• Ben Lear : I can't understand a woman comin' down to a place like this - for love or money.

• Ben Lear : On a job like this, a dame is a cinch to gum up the parade. It's tough enough to keep up this gang's mind on work without flashing a skirt in front of 'em.

• Ben Lear : Three million guys in New York and you have to pick out Dan. He looked like big dough and you went after the money and you married him.

• Ben Lear : See you in the morning. You know, morning's are a great invention. Every one of 'em is the beginning of a new day.

• Ben Lear : You know Dan, from now on there ought to be one of us on the job all the time.

  Dan Manton : Yeah.

  Ben Lear : What'll I take the day or the night shift? - - What'll I wear? Overalls or pajamas?

  Dan Manton : Take the night shift.

  Ben Lear : Okay. Gee, that's tough. I was just gonna break in a new pair of silk pajamas.