You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Ann Miller: Essie Carmichael
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Quotes
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Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : If it's illegal to manufacture fireworks without a permit, then I guess we're guilty of that too, because we've been doing it a long time.
Penny Sycamore : I don't feel guilty, do you, Essie?
Essie Carmichael : No.
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Essie Carmichael : I'll get in my dancing clothes and be right down.
Boris Kolenkhov : Aw, my pavlova, you are like a beautiful swan.
[Essie exits]
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : Is she making any progress, Kolenkhov?
Boris Kolenkhov : Confidentially, she stinks.
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff : As long as she's having fun.
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Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby : [to Alice] If you had any sense, young woman, you'd stay where you belong and stop being ambitious.
Essie Carmichael : Shall I sock her, Alice?
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Rheba : Grandpa go to the graduation exercises today?
Essie Carmichael : Guess so.
Rheba : I wonder how many people Grandpa's going to bring home for dinner tonight.
Essie Carmichael : I don't know, it all depends if he goes walking in a park.
Rheba : Well let him bring them, I'll be ready for them.
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Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent : [to Martin] Our records show you owe back income tax for 14 years.
Ed Carmichael : Hey wait a minute, mister, that's too far back, that's outlawed ain't it?
Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent : What's your name?
Ed Carmichael : What difference does that make?
Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent : You ever file a tax return?
Ed Carmichael : No sir.
Wilbur G. Henderson, IRS Agent : What was your income last year?
Ed Carmichael : I don't know, about $50, wasn't it, Essie?
Essie Carmichael : I don't know.