Flaming Gold (1932)

Helen Ware: Tampico Tess Terrell

Quotes 

• 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.

• Tampico Tess : Don't trip on your kimono!

• Tampico Tess : Here's what he says at the end of it, "And if I can ever repay you for that favor, just call on me. Gratefully yours, William Conway." You get that? Gratefully yours. Boys, that's what I'm banking on!