Paid (1930)

Joan Crawford: Mary Turner

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• Mary Turner : Gee, you're white, Joe.

  Joe Garson : Save the flowers for my funeral.

• Joe Garson : Would you like a little shot of booze? I got some I could swear to.

  Mary Turner : No, thanks. I'm not much given to drinking anything.

  Joe Garson : It's a good idea. A moll that guzzles is a moll that gabs. And I can't have nothin' but deaf and dumb gals around me.

• Joe Garson : Say, you look good to me.

  Mary Turner : Do I? It makes it better, doesn't it?

  Joe Garson : Uh-hu. How do I look to you?

  Mary Turner : Well, I'm here, aren't I?

  Joe Garson : And don't I know it.

• Joe Garson : You know, you burn me up.

  Mary Turner : I guess you've known lots of girls, haven't you?

  Joe Garson : Oh, you know, comin' and goin'. But, I'm crazy to get one to hang on to. And I think you're it.

• Joe Garson : [after facing a frigid Mary]  I'm wise. You ain't a regular. You're only a volunteer. I just got you.

  Mary Turner : But, I - I - well, I don't know what you mean?

  Joe Garson : You ain't never - you know what I mean. That's right, ain't it?

  Mary Turner : Well, yes.

  Joe Garson : I thought I had you pegged.

• Joe Garson : I wasn't wise then.

  Mary Turner : And now?

  Joe Garson : Wise as a tree full of owls, that's me.

• Mary Turner : Why does a man always choose the most innocent flowers when he's up to the blackest villainy?

• Bob Gilder : I lied to you about coming here. And I'd have made love to you, if you'd let me. Because, you're in my heart and soul. And I don't much care of what happens to you or me, so long as I'm with you.

  Mary Turner : That comes too easy, Bob, - and too late.

  Bob Gilder : Oh, that's the trouble with lunatics like me. We say things we don't mean so much that we can't put any real feeling over when we need to most.

• Mary Turner : You lost your head again, Joe, with Cassidy.

  Joe Garson : I'm sorry, Mary. But, every time I see that big monkey, I want to twist his tail!

• Mary Turner : That's an old gag, Joe. When they haven't anything on you, they'll pick a fight. Then, the first thing you know, you're jugged for assault.

• Mary Turner : Don't ever do it again, Joe. Not even for me. We're playing it safe now. You're gonna lose your head once too often and we're all going for a ride.

  Joe Garson : Listen, any time anybody makes a crack about you, they're gonna get clipped.

• Mary Turner : Four years ago you took away my name and gave me a number. Now, I've given up that number and I've got your name!

• Eddie Griggs : Ever hear of a painting called the Mona Lisa?

  Mary Turner : You mean the one that was stolen out of the Louvre?

  Eddie Griggs : That's the big museum in Paris. Well, I know where I can lay my hands on it in an hour.

  Mary Turner : How can you when they found it and took it back?

  Eddie Griggs : The French claim they found it to save their face. But, what went back is a fake. The real Mona Lisa's hanging in a library of a certain millionaire right here in this town.

  Joe Garson : Well, what of it?

  Eddie Griggs : I know where I can get 200 hundred grand for it tomorrow. That's what of it!

  Red : $200,000 for a daffy painting?

• Inspector Burke : It's very rare you see a real romance in this racket.

  Mary Turner : What are you leading up to now, Inspector?

  Inspector Burke : Only this, it occurs to me that you owe your husband an even break; because, there are no bridal suites where you're headed for.