Unfinished Business (1941)
Irene Dunne: Nancy Andrews
Quotes
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Frank : Are you in love with a railroad man?
Nancy Andrews : No, I'm in love with romance.
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Nancy Andrews : I hear you drink more than is good for you.
Tommy Duncan : An escape.
Nancy Andrews : You'll end up ruining your health.
Tommy Duncan : Health, like money, is no good unless you spend it.
Nancy Andrews : I hear you're very lavish with both.
Tommy Duncan : It's my way of having fun.
Nancy Andrews : What are you running away from?
Tommy Duncan : Life.
Nancy Andrews : I didn't know drinking could help you avoid life.
Tommy Duncan : It does.
Nancy Andrews : How?
Tommy Duncan : You being naïve?
Nancy Andrews : No, I'd like to know.
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Tommy Duncan : Where do you come from, anyway?
Nancy Andrews : Messina, Ohio.
Tommy Duncan : Oh, Indian country.
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Nancy Andrews : You mind turning on the radio? Oh, and Elmer, there are hardly any cigarettes in here. I wish you'd keep this filled.
Elmer : Yes, ma'am.
Nancy Andrews : And you might mix some cocktails.
Elmer : They're mixed.
Nancy Andrews : Put on something hot.
Elmer : Madam, I don't know how to mix hot cocktails.
Nancy Andrews : I mean the radio.
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Nancy Andrews : You know, if you hadn't been with Mr. Duncan for such a long time, I'd fire you.
Elmer : I wouldn't mind. Give me a chance to catch up on some sleep.
Nancy Andrews : You're not my idea of a butler.
Elmer : You're not my idea.
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Nancy Andrews : You like my hat, Elmer?
Elmer : No!
Nancy Andrews : Why, it's the latest thing.
Elmer : I don't care.
Nancy Andrews : Oh, what's wrong with it?
Elmer : It don't belong to ya.
Nancy Andrews : I bought it.
Elmer : It still don't belong to ya. It belongs to somebody you think ya are.
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Nancy Andrews : Well, it's all your fault. You said you were going to teach me how to live. I'm gonna learn if it kills me.
Tommy Duncan : Learning how to live is one thing. We didn't enter into a suicide pact.
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Tommy Duncan : If you've got something in your system that bothers ya, get rid of it. An inhibition is only a small fact of life that people refuse to face. And later on when you're asleep or, shall we say, slightly relaxed...
Nancy Andrews : Relaxed is a good word.
Tommy Duncan : ...out it pops. The minute you face the fact, it ceases to be an inhibition. Am I making sense, or are these eggs getting the better of me?
Nancy Andrews : I only wish I could get rid of some of my inhibitions sometime when I'm conscious.
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Tommy Duncan : Did I ever tell you about my obsession?
Nancy Andrews : I didn't know you had one.
Tommy Duncan : Yeah, when I was a baby, a black cat crawled into my crib and sat on my chest. Scared the living daylights out of me. For years, I used to wake up at night and see that cat's eyes staring at me. Well, I got rid of that.
Nancy Andrews : Don't tell me you dropped a black cat down the back of some woman's evening dress?
Tommy Duncan : No. My grandmother filled the house with black cats. Black cats upstairs, downstairs, in the bed, underneath the bed. Lady, I got so I could meow right in the cat's face and never bat an eye. If a cat scratched me, I scratched it back. That got rid of that complex.
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Tommy Duncan : Uh, Mrs. Duncan, I'd like to present Mrs. Duncan.
Nancy Andrews : How do you do!
Sheila : I suppose we should all congratulate each other.
Tommy Duncan : I've already done it. You three can go ahead.
Nancy Andrews : Congratulations!
[Shakes hands with Sheila]
Sheila : Oh, congratulations.
Nancy Andrews : Congratulations!
[Shakes hands with Steve]
Steve Duncan : Congratulations!
Nancy Andrews : Maybe we can all celebrate our anniversaries together if our husbands remember.
Sheila : They can always be prompted.
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Tommy Duncan : I've been doing a lot of thinking this past year.
Nancy Andrews : Have you?
Tommy Duncan : Yeah. The Army has a way of toughening up your muscles and softening up your pride.
Nancy Andrews : Well, you mustn't allow anything to soften your pride.
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Tommy Duncan : I suppose you never will forgive me.
Nancy Andrews : Nothing to forgive.
Tommy Duncan : I can be sorry, can't I?
Nancy Andrews : Are you?
Tommy Duncan : I guess I was pretty hurt at the time.
Nancy Andrews : Maybe you had a right to be.
Tommy Duncan : I had no right to be crude.