Success at Any Price (1934)

Frank Morgan: Merritt

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• Merritt : Wait a minute. I've been on a regular merry-go-round here. I need a little relaxation. What are you doing tonight?

  Sarah : Nothing.

  Merritt : Don't you think it would be rather pleasant to take a little drive and forget about business?

  Sarah : No. I've been expecting this.

  Merritt : Are you a mind-reader?

  Sarah : You're easy. I can tell the way a man looks at me. Besides, you raised my salary and, then again, you never even touched me nor held my hand. Which alone is so unusual it makes a girl suspicious.

  Merritt : Ha-ha-ha. Still one step ahead of me. Well, you've got to give me credit. I don't do this sort of thing often.

  Sarah : Oh, yes you do. I'm your Secretary. I ought to know.

  Merritt : Well, my interests in women is just nervousness.

  Sarah : Well, then, don't get a nervous with me.

  Merritt : Ha-ha-ha, alright. But, I can't help being sorry you are a good woman as well as a good Secretary.

• Merritt : What was it you said you wanted?

  Agnes : Money... money, money.

  Merritt : Charming. You're so nice and subtle about it.

  Agnes : I'm too nice to be subtle and you know it. I don't know how to be coy. Besides, you wouldn't like me if I were. If I'm not satisfactory, you can take me off the payroll.

  Merritt : You're just a poor little thing, who doesn't seem to be able to make both ends meet on a thousand a month.

  Merritt : I'm sorry Ray, I do my best. My bank account always seems to be overdrawn. You're a fool to be so generous.

  Merritt : Oh, don't be so morbid. I'll take care of it. I always will. As long as you limit your affections.

• Agnes : Why don't you make it nicer, Ray? Why don't you marry me?

  Merritt : You've got no soul.

  Agnes : Neither have you, you old codfish. That's why we're so well suited.

• Agnes : Aren't there any romantic people in the world? Sometimes I think I'd like something quite different. Something mad and wonderful. A real exciting man to sweep me off my feet.

  Merritt : Try Spain.

• Merritt : Well, you won't make a dream Daddy out of me.

• Merritt : Well, you do pretty well with yourself. You're apt to drive men crazy. That is, if they're a little cracked to start with. I'm still saying... no, let's go on as we are. It may not be perfect, but, it's awfully cozy.

• Merritt : Your friend, he's a raving lunatic.

  Sarah : Oh, no he isn't. He's smart. He's ambitious and he feels everyone's against him and he's had a lot of hard knocks and he's bitter about it. He wants to get ahead.

  Merritt : I can't figure out what you see in him?

  Sarah : You don't know him. There's a side to him that other people don't see. He's, he's got a lot of imagination and he's sensitive. He pretends to be tough because things hurt him and he doesn't want to be hurt.

  Merritt : Well, for your sake, I'll take another look at this very sensitive young man. I'm going downstairs to get a rub down. Tell him he can see me there.

• Merritt : Do you know anything about glamour cream?

  Joe Martin : Yeah, I know all about it. Looks like putty and sells for 14 bucks a jar.

  Merritt : Put it on at night. Penetrates the pores of the skin. Works while you sleep.

  Joe Martin : Sounds like something for bed bugs.

  Merritt : It's made from the glandular fluids of real alligators. I've seen them myself.

  Joe Martin : I wouldn't lay that on too thick in the copy. You know, no dame likes to look like an alligator.

  Merritt : I'm going to call your bluff right now, Martin. You think you can write copy? Between now and 8 o'clock you're going to write the copy for one of our most important new clients. If you get away with it, you're hired at 50 a week.

• Merritt : I've watched you. You're unhappy. Nothings worth taking too seriously.

  Sarah : I don't understand it. Really, I don't. Everybody seems to think love is just a way of passing the time.

  Merritt : Oh, well, that's just New York.