Easy Living (1937)

Edward Arnold: J.B. Ball

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Quotes 

• Mary Smith : Don't you like this one either?

  J.B. Ball : I do not. It looks like a salt shaker.

  Van Buren : Well, we think its very recherché.

  J.B. Ball : That's the trouble with it.

• Mrs. Ball : Well, you want me to look nice, don't you? After all, the wife of the fourth biggest banker...

  J.B. Ball : I beg your pardon. The third biggest banker. Well, I guess you've got me, Jenny.

  Mrs. Ball : You're not as smart as people think you are.

• Mrs. Ball : You're not as smart as people think you are.

  J.B. Ball : Oh, that's right. That's right.

• J.B. Ball : You mean to tell me you turned in a perfectly good, free-and-clear paid up, American car for a foreign jalopy?

• J.B. Ball : I've waited for 20 years to find out that I was the father of a - of a butterfly - a muttonhead!

• J.B. Ball : Did you come here to pay or what?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Yes. I come here to pay my respects. Because--and the whole world of financials...

  J.B. Ball : Listen, you! You're three years behind on your first mortgage, two years behind on your second, and one year behind on your third!

• J.B. Ball : You're foreclosed! I'm doing you a favor.

  Mr. Louis Louis : Oh, Mr. B., please. give me six months.

  J.B. Ball : Oh, not on your tintype!

• Mary Smith : Oh, hello. Hello, Santa Claus.

  J.B. Ball : How do you do? How are you getting along?

  Mary Smith : All right.

  Mr. Louis Louis : You know each other, eh? Well-well-well-well.

• Mr. Louis Louis : May I make a suggestion? A little bottle of 1923 Mumms? Don't you think?

  J.B. Ball : No. I do not. I think she should have Georges Goulet 1919.

  Mr. Louis Louis : With guinea hen?

  J.B. Ball : You heard me!

• Mr. Louis Louis : She just give me a buzz. But, I got her entirely mystified.

  J.B. Ball : You've got me entirely mystified too!

• [repeated line] 

  J.B. Ball : Say, what's going on around here?

• J.B. Ball : Oh, Pooh! I was a banker's son, and up until I was 26 years old, I was just as dumb as you are.

  Butler : Yes indeed, sir.

  J.B. Ball : But after a while, all the fat fell off my brains and I... say, how old are you?

• Mary Smith : Now, wait a minute, Santa Claus.

  J.B. Ball : Huh?

  Mary Smith : What's the matter with it? Is it hot?

  J.B. Ball : Well, I don't know. I've never worn one.

  Mary Smith : What kind of fur is it anyway?

  J.B. Ball : Zebra. Anything else you want to know?

• John Ball Jr. : I'm gonna make you eat those words.

  J.B. Ball : That's all you'll be eating.

  John Ball Jr. : Possibly!

  J.B. Ball : Probably

  John Ball Jr. : Right!

  J.B. Ball : Right! Yeah.

  John Ball Jr. : Yeah!

  Butler : Yes, sir!

• J.B. Ball : What're you gonna do?

  Mr. Louis Louis : Well, I dunno, but I got a week to do it in.