Paid (1930)

Robert Armstrong: Joe Garson

Quotes 

• 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.

• Police Sergeant Cassidy : She's pretty smart. But, the smart ones slip too. And that little tramp ain't no exception.

  Joe Garson : That little - what did you call her?

  Police Sergeant Cassidy : Oh, you've been playin' Mama and Papa with her?

• Red : Some dick's comin' up here!

  Agnes Lynch : What's he want?

  Joe Garson : I knew that last racket was too hot!

• 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 : 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.

• 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?

• Joe Garson : What about Mary?

  Red : Mary ain't runnin' me. And, besides, I got my future to think about. And a blonde that goes through a $100 bill like a rabbit eatin' lettuce.

• Joe Garson : You know what undertaker's he's at?

  Inspector Burke : Why?

  Joe Garson : Why, I'd like to send him some flowers.

  Inspector Burke : That's real white of you, Joe.

  Joe Garson : Only I don't know whether these florist sell stinkweed.