Jimmy the Gent (1934)

Bette Davis: Joan Martin

Quotes 

• 'Jimmy' Corrigan : [as Joan enters]  Cigarette?

  Miss Joan Martin : No, thanks.

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : You know, I've been thinkin' about you, Baby.

  Miss Joan Martin : I wish you wouldn't, Jimmy.

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : What?

  Miss Joan Martin : Think about me.

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : What's the matter?

  Miss Joan Martin : I'm liable to catch something hanging out in your mind.

• Miss Joan Martin : [to Jimmy]  You're the greatest chiseler since Michaelangelo!

• 'Jimmy' Corrigan : I'd give my right eye.

  Miss Joan Martin : It would turn out to be glass!

• Miss Joan Martin : You're the kind of guy that would steal two left shoes!

• Charles Wallingham : You'd better give this case your personal attention.

  Miss Joan Martin : I'll get on it right away before Jimmy Corrigan and his Tarzans get wind of it.

  Charles Wallingham : Wait a minute. Corrigan doesn't get any... tips from the emergency.

  Miss Joan Martin : I don't trust him! He'd bribe a corpse to sit up and telephone!

• Miss Joan Martin : You don't care what anybody does! It's just getting caught!

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : What's the matter with that? Im in business, aren't I?

  Miss Joan Martin : I'll say! Crooked business!

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : Oh, all business is crooked!

  Miss Joan Martin : Signed Jimmy Corrigan, the boy with the worm's eye view!

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : There's only two kinds of guys in business - those who get caught and those who on't!

• Miss Joan Martin : [to Wallingham]  Are we sitting pretty or are we sitting pretty?

• Charles Wallingham : [as she is crying]  Joan, dear, I'm a bit gauche at this sort of thing, but why don't you let me take care of you?

  Miss Joan Martin : [Shocked]  Mr. Wallingham!

  Charles Wallingham : Oh, don't "Mister" me, please, as I've grown very fond of you.

  Miss Joan Martin : Mr. Wallingham!

  Charles Wallingham : [Said as a double entendre]  I've tried to make you... really mine.

• 'Jimmy' Corrigan : Hello, Baby. I was just gonna give yuh a ring.

  [He notices she is just glaring at him] 

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : What's the matter?

  Miss Joan Martin : [Contemptuously]  You go down deeper, stay under longer, and come up dirtier than any man I've ever known!

• 'Jimmy' Corrigan : Hiya, baby.

  Miss Joan Martin : Jimmy! What? It's taking my breathe away. So swank!

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : Cosy, ain't it.

  Miss Joan Martin : Cosy? It's colossal!

• Miss Joan Martin : Make me respect you.

• Miss Joan Martin : [Speaking of Wallingham]  He bothers you, doesn't he?

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : Yeah, like a crumb in a union suit!

  Miss Joan Martin : Well, it'll always bother you. Jimmy, he's got something you haven't.

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : The only thing he's got that I want is you, and he took you away from me.

• Miss Joan Martin : How exciting! What a chance for us.

  Charles Wallingham : I love your enthusiasm.

• Charles Wallingham : It's invaluable having you here, knowing as much about Corrigan as you do and his peculiar technique. You're very stimulating.

  Miss Joan Martin : I need a haircut.

• Miss Joan Martin : Every time a hot tip comes into this office, Ronny Gaston steps out to get a deck of cigarettes.

  Charles Wallingham : I see - and your feminine instinct tells you?

  Miss Joan Martin : It tells me I'm going to get a big black cigar.

• 'Jimmy' Corrigan : What's on your mind?

  Miss Joan Martin : Ronny Gaston.

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : Why, the dirty little rat. Did he squeal?

  Miss Joan Martin : No, I caught him.

• Miss Joan Martin : He's got ethics.

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : I don't care if he has carbuncles. The only difference between him and me is he's got a smoother line.

  Miss Joan Martin : Is that all?

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : Yeah, and a sharper knife and he sticks it between your fourth and your fifth rib and you don't know you're dead until you get home.

• Miss Joan Martin : You can't talk about him like that.

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : I'll talk about him any way I like.

  Miss Joan Martin : You can't make yourself clean by making him dirty.

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : He's a chisler, just the same as me.

  Miss Joan Martin : He's a gentleman and you're a crook.

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : Oh, it looks like he's done all right with you already.

  Miss Joan Martin : Just what do you mean by that?

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : Do you need a diagram?

• Miss Joan Martin : What do you want?

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : You didn't have no right to call me a crook.

  Miss Joan Martin : Oh, did I call you that? I apologize to the crooks.

• Miss Joan Martin : Put your arms around me. Make me love you. Make me love you! Oh, you've got to make me love you.

• Miss Joan Martin : [final lines]  What are you doing?

  'Jimmy' Corrigan : Ethics, sweetheart. Ethics. I'm just crawlin' with ethics.

• 'Jimmy' Corrigan : What's the matter, baby? Don't you like me any more?

  Miss Joan Martin : Of course, I do. You know that. I always have. But, I'm just afraid that every time I go in the Post Office, I'll see your picture pasted on the wall.

• Charles Wallingham : Please say, yes. Please. We could spend a quiet weekend together.

  Miss Joan Martin : I'm afraid.

  Charles Wallingham : Of what, dear?

  Miss Joan Martin : That I won't make you happy.

  Charles Wallingham : Oh, dearest.

  Miss Joan Martin : I promise you, I'll try awfully hard.

  Charles Wallingham : Sweet little idiot.

  Miss Joan Martin : To make you a good wife.

  Charles Wallingham : Was that your phone?

  Miss Joan Martin : I didn't hear anything.