Music in My Heart (1940)

Rita Hayworth: Patricia O'Malley

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• Patricia O'Malley : Listen, General, there's 8 million people in New York, counting Brooklyn and Queens, why pick on me to run into?

• Patricia O'Malley : Now, don't tell me the age of chivalry is dead. You wouldn't want me to miss my own wedding. Be a good fellow and wait for another cab.

• Patricia O'Malley : Say, don't go around looking at women like that! They'll marry you by the dozen. You'll wind up in jail for bigamy.

• Patricia O'Malley : Well, this is a new line! The bashful boy routine?

• Robert Gregory : Suppose you do miss the boat? If this Mr. Gardner loves you, he'll wait.

  Patricia O'Malley : But a girl's an awful sucker to leave a $6 million fiancé loose on a boat with a lot of women.

• Patricia O'Malley : You've got a lot of nerve! A total stranger butting in and telling me I'm a gold digger!

• Patricia O'Malley : Let me tell you something, Mr. Butter-In, my sister married for love. You know what she's got? Six kids, four rooms and a washing machine.

• Taxi Driver : Lady, he ain't got any pockets and my meter says $1.10.

  Patricia O'Malley : No pockets? Say, what kind of an army are you in?

  Robert Gregory : I'm not exactly in an army. I'm an actor.

  Taxi Driver : Now I'll never get paid.

• Robert Gregory : I was being deported - on that boat.

  Patricia O'Malley : Deported? What for? You're a citizen, aren't you?

  Robert Gregory : I thought I was; but, the immigration department decided otherwise. You see, my parents failed to take out citizenship papers.

  Patricia O'Malley : Gee, that's tough luck.

• Patricia O'Malley : Tell Mary I'm bringing him home with me. She better find a place for him to sleep.

• Robert Gregory : [in the basement]  You've got to learn to make the best of everything.

  Patricia O'Malley : Make the best of - Coming from you, that's something. Let's take you, for instance, what have you got to make the best out of - oh, you know what I mean.

  Robert Gregory : Everything! Music. A beautiful woman. A wonderful night.

  Patricia O'Malley : I don't mean to be fussy; but, what woman and how much of a night do you see down here?

  Robert Gregory : All of it. All the heavens. Look. There's the Milky Way.

  Patricia O'Malley : Looks like a strand of garlic to me.

  Robert Gregory : That all depends on your point of view. There's the Big Dipper. There's the moon - and a full moon, no less. There's Jupiter. Saturn. Mars.

  [points to Patricia] 

  Robert Gregory : And here's Venus.

  Patricia O'Malley : Something tells me I better say good night.

• Patricia O'Malley : Maybe you could get back into the country legally some way?

  Robert Gregory : The only way I could legally enter the country would be under the quota. They take 322 in that way every year.

  Patricia O'Malley : You see! There's always a way out.

  Robert Gregory : Yes; but, there are 64,953 ahead of me.

• Patricia O'Malley : He never worked anywhere. I mean, unless you count the WPA.

• Patricia O'Malley : When I stop being practical, I certainly went all the way!

• Patricia O'Malley : It's funny. Someone better brush the hayseed out of my hair. Imagine me falling for as phony and as silly a line as he pulled on me!

  Sascha : You mean, with false words he lured you into...

  Patricia O'Malley : Huh?

  Sascha : Lured you into his arms?

  Patricia O'Malley : Well, that's one way of putting it.

• Robert Gregory : You don't mean Charles Gardner, the millionaire publisher?

  Patricia O'Malley : Uh huh,

  Robert Gregory : Say, he's got lots of money.

  Patricia O'Malley : Most millionaires have.

• Robert Gregory : If you don't mind me saying so, you don't sound very much in love with him.

  Patricia O'Malley : I do mind.

  Robert Gregory : Well, then, I won't say it.