You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Robert Benchley: Martin Cortland
Quotes
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Martin Cortland : Do anything so long as you make my wife believe I was telling the truth when I was lying to her!
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Robert Curtis : Look, I thought you promised there'd be no more galloping over rooftops?
Martin Cortland : Well, but this is different. She's a foreigner!
Robert Curtis : What's different about it? A gallop is a gallop in any language.
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Martin Cortland : Julia is going to divorce me.
Robert Curtis : I'll be the first to congratulate her.
Martin Cortland : How can you say that! You know I don't want a divorce. I'm a happily married man. I love my wife!
Robert Curtis : And, besides, all this property is in her name.
Martin Cortland : She's going to strip me right down to my underwear, too.
Robert Curtis : You ought to think of that, before you go galloping after something you shouldn't have and can't catch!
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Martin Cortland : Well, now what do you think, Miss Susie Suspicious?
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Robert Curtis : All right, Martin, now what's your real idea of doing this show in camp?
Martin Cortland : Why, Robert, I'm surprised at you. You know I've always wanted to do something for the government.
Robert Curtis : Oh, yeah, sure, sure.
Martin Cortland : You'd think I was getting something out of this.
Robert Curtis : Only my services for nothing, that's all.
Martin Cortland : What do you mean for nothing? The government pays you $21 a month, doesn't it? Where does that money come from? The taxpayers. I'm a taxpayer.
Robert Curtis : Let me thank you, Martin.
Martin Cortland : Don't mention it, my boy.
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Guard House Singer - One of The Four Tones : That Miss Winthrop, she's so beautiful! And I hate her so much! When is Mr. Curtis going to put me in her place?
Martin Cortland : Any day now, Sonya. I'm working out a new angle.
Guard House Singer - One of The Four Tones : A new angle? Old angle! This angle! That angle! I want to dance! And all you do is angle me!
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Martin Cortland : Listen, Sonya, you trust me, don't you?