Under Eighteen (1931)

Regis Toomey: Jimmie Slocum

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• Jimmie Slocum : I wouldn't grow a taste for that fresh air, baby. You know, it don't last forever.

• Jimmie Slocum : You know, when you're gettin' in people's back doors, you get a pretty good slant on life.

  Margie Evans : What's yours, Book of Knowledge?

  Jimmie Slocum : Just this, grouchy, there's so much grief and so much happiness in everybody's life. You never know what's around the corner. And most of your troubles come from trying to find out.

• Jimmie Slocum : Others have their troubles too.

  Margie Evans : You know, Jimmie, you're an awfully nice fellow, but sometimes you give me a terrible pain.

  Jimmie Slocum : Where you got it, honey?

  Margie Evans : Right in the neck.

• Jimmie Slocum : Wasn't you paradin' for that guy Harding?

  Margie Evans : I can't help who I'm told to model for, can I? You ought to be glad I had a chance.

  Jimmie Slocum : Yeah. Me like a sap waiting outside a restaurant while you show your shape to that heel.

• Jimmie Slocum : I thought that dame's been dressin' kinda classy lately.

  Margie Evans : I suppose she's worried about what *you* think.

  Jimmie Slocum : Hmm. Well, she's none of my grief.

• Jimmie Slocum : I don't get you tonight, Marg?

  Margie Evans : Use your brains, you might.

  Jimmie Slocum : Why you talk like that dame's okay.

  Margie Evans : Maybe other people have a right to see things their way.

  Jimmie Slocum : Say, are you boosting her racket?

  Margie Evans : Would I like clothes like her or a car like that or go somewhere besides joints or send my mother off for a rest or anything a sane girl would like? Well, just ask me.

• Margie Evans : If I could be sitting on top of the world, would I be a sap to pass it up?

  Jimmie Slocum : I don't think you mean that Marg.

  Margie Evans : I'm not supposed to think when you come around.

  Jimmie Slocum : Not like that. You're all wet!

  Margie Evans : Yeah?

  Jimmie Slocum : Plenty!

• Jimmie Slocum : What'a a matter, babe? Weren't things lookin' up this morning?

  Margie Evans : Oh sure, they've got to look up. They're flat on their back!

• Jimmie Slocum : [on the phone]  Oh, you're posing for that guy. Well, listen, I know all about him. - Yeah, he's girl nutty! Now, you look out.

• Jimmie Slocum : So, they've got you modeling now, heh? For the rich boys. First crack outta the box, this.

  [referring to Margie's orchid corsage] 

  Jimmie Slocum : I guess the next thing, I'll see you walkin' into a Rolls Royce.

  Margie Evans : Oh, don't be an ass!

  Jimmie Slocum : Oh, so you're talkin' like them too, eh?