The Awful Truth (1937)

Cary Grant: Jerry Warriner

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• Jerry Warriner : I was just telling a story about when father was at Princeton. You remember?

  Lucy Warriner : [Lucy, posing as Jerry's sister Lola]  Of course I remember. Pop loved Princeton. He was there nearly twenty years.

• Jerry Warriner : In a half an hour, we'll no longer be Mr. and Mrs. Funny, isn't it.

  Lucy Warriner : Yes, it's funny that everything's the way it is on account of the way you feel.

  Jerry Warriner : Huh?

  Lucy Warriner : Well, what I mean is, if you didn't feel the way you do, things wouldn't be the way they are, would they? I mean, things could be the same if things were different.

  Jerry Warriner : But things are the way you made them.

  Lucy Warriner : Oh, no. No, things are the way you think I made them. I didn't make them that way at all. Things are just the same as they always were, only, you're the same as you were, too, so I guess things will never be the same again.

• Jerry Warriner : And if you get bored in Oklahoma City, you can always go over to Tulsa for the weekend!

• 'Dan' Leeson : Glad to know you.

  Jerry Warriner : Well, how can you be glad to know me? I know how I'd feel if I was sitting with a girl and her husband walked in.

  Lucy Warriner : I'll bet you do.

• Jerry Warriner : What do we drink to?

  Lucy Warriner : Well, let's drink to our future. Here's hoping you and Barbara will be very happy, which I doubt very much.

  Jerry Warriner : No, let's drink to your happiness with Buffalo Bill, which doesn't even make sense.

• Jerry Warriner : What did you tell him?

  Lucy Warriner : I told him the truth, and strange enough, he believed me.

• Lucy Warriner : You're all confused, aren't you?

  Jerry Warriner : Aren't you?

  Lucy Warriner : No.

  Jerry Warriner : Well you should be, because you're wrong about things being different because they're not the same. Things are different except in a different way. You're still the same, only I've been a fool... but I'm not now.

  Lucy Warriner : Oh.

  Jerry Warriner : So long as I'm different don't you thing that... well maybe things could be the same again... only a little different, huh?

• Jerry Warriner : Excuse me, you're sitting on my prospectus.

• Jerry Warriner : [to Barbara Vance on the phone]  Naturally she's anxious to meet you, too, but...

  Lucy Warriner : Yes, tell her I'd love to meet her. Tell her to wear boxing gloves.

• Jerry Warriner : In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to what he's been thinking about all winter.

• Jerry Warriner : I wish Lucy would go out and get some fun for herself now and again. It would do her good. That's the trouble with most marriages today. People are always imagining things. The road to Reno is paved with suspicions. And the first thing you know, they all end up in a divorce court.

• Lucy Warriner : I remember the first drink we ever had together. You, in your very best manner, said, "It must be champagne!" And then you offered a toast. Remember?

  Jerry Warriner : No, I don't.

  Lucy Warriner : Well, being a woman I do. You said... this'll hand you a laugh. You said, "Lend an ear, I implore you, this comes from my heart: I'll always adore you, 'til death do us part." Remember? It was pretty swell... I mean, while it lasted. But all beautiful things must end, so I guess we might as well call it a day.

• Jerry Warriner : How can you know how it feels to have used up the best years of a woman's life.

• Lucy Warriner : Let's drink to our future. Here's hoping you and Barbara will be very happy... which I doubt very much.

  Jerry Warriner : No, let's drink to your happiness with Buffalo Bill...

  Lucy Warriner : Good.

  Jerry Warriner : ...which doesn't even make sense.

• Jerry Warriner : Well, have you heard the gag that's going around town lately - "Who was that lady I saw you with?"

  Dixie Belle Lee : Oh, you mean, "That's no lady, that's your wife"?

• Jerry Warriner : I'm going out to get some popcorn and pink lemonade. I've just seen a three-ring circus.

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  Jerry Warriner : Come on, Haig, get that sun lamp ready.

• Lucy Warriner : [pretending to be Jerry's lower-class sister "Lola" at a gathering with his girlfriend's family]  I'm sorry to interrupt you again, Jerry. Now, what were you saying?

  Jerry Warriner : I was just telling one of Father's stories. You've heard it. With a minute to go, Dad had the ball...

  Lucy Warriner : -A ball? What ball?

  Jerry Warriner : -The football.

  Lucy Warriner : Well, what in the world was Dad ever doing with a football, for heaven's sakes?

  Jerry Warriner : I was just telling a story about when Father was at Princeton. You remember...

  Lucy Warriner : [suddenly very enthused]  Oh, Pop loved Princeton! He was there nearly 20 years, and if ever a man loved a place, he did. He just adored it. And he certainly kept it looking beautiful!