Colleen (1936)

Joan Blondell: Minnie Hawkins

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Quotes 

• Butler : Just a moment, Miss.

  Minnie Hawkins : Just a moment to you, Beech. Don't irk me!

• Minnie Hawkins : This sure is an elegant chop suey parlor. It don't look on the level to me.

• Minnie Hawkins : You sure do things up right. You're a regular man-about-town.

  Joe Cork : "Man-about-town"? Hey listen, honey, you ain't seen nothin' yet. I'm the original boulevardier from the Bronx. Ha ha!

• Minnie Hawkins : Well, smart-aleck, aren't you going to do something? What about "London, Paris, Vienna in the spring..."?

  Joe Cork : Ah, this is bad, this is serious...

  Minnie Hawkins : I didn't have to come here to find that out.

  Joe Cork : [with a pondering expression]  I got it! Somethin's gotta' be done. Something brilliant, a stroke of genius!

  Minnie Hawkins : What, for instance?

  Joe Cork : I'll tell ya' after.

  Minnie Hawkins : After what?

  Joe Cork : After I think about it myself.

• Minnie Hawkins : Did you girls see any of that book I was readin' this noon?

  Noggin Girl : What's the name of it, Minnie?

  Minnie Hawkins : I don't know. It's had a yellow back with a picture of a girl stabbin' herself on it.

  Noggin Girl : No, I haven't seen it.

  Minnie Hawkins : It was very funny to me.

• Minnie Hawkins : I don't like wearing this uniform. I'd like to wear something pretty and individual.

  Cedric Ames : If you don't like making Chewies, what are you choosing to do?

  Minnie Hawkins : I'd like to trim hats. In fact, I like anything to do with clothes. Pretty clothes. I guess I'm just in love with beauty.

  Cedric Ames : In love with beauty! That thrills me! That thrills me!

• Minnie Hawkins : Mr. Ames, do you know where Uncle Cedric is? I want to see him awful bad.

  Donald Ames 3rd : That's the way he'll be when his wife gets through with him.

• Minnie Hawkins : Oh, Mr. Ames, are you satisfied with my work?

  Donald Ames 3rd : Yes. I think you've done a remarkable job on my Uncle without using a gun.

  Minnie Hawkins : [flutters her eyelashes]  Oh, do you mean I'm a bad influence?

  Donald Ames 3rd : Yes. But, evidently, excellent company.

  Minnie Hawkins : Oh, thank you.

• Minnie Hawkins : Well, I don't know now. Uncle Cedric may not like it.

  Joe Cork : Listen, honey, I'm Uncle Cedric's right hand. When he can't take you to dinner, well, it's up to me.

  Minnie Hawkins : Well, I don't know now.

  Joe Cork : All right, it's all right. Uncle Cedric's left hand will never know what his right hand is doing.

• Minnie Hawkins : [singing]  And its great to feel free, With saucer of tea, With a fella who knows his bananas...

• Minnie Hawkins : [singing]  Say, you're swell, Everything that you say, Is correct and okay, So polite and so perfectly proper, That I'm sort of suspicious, Your kiss may be vicious...

• Minnie Hawkins : It's a marvelous i-dear. Even if it don't work.

  Joe Cork : Ah, now listen, Toots, I told you I loved you, didn't I?

  Minnie Hawkins : Yes, you did.

  Joe Cork : And you believe don't you?

  Minnie Hawkins : Yes, I do.

  Joe Cork : A little work. It's gotta work! You don't expect me to marry a poor girl, do you?

  Minnie Hawkins : Oh, no. I do want to go on doing higher things. Joe, I want to be worthy of ya.

• Donald Ames 3rd : Minnie, you've never been abroad have you?

  Minnie Hawkins : See, here!

  Donald Ames 3rd : I mean, Europe, Paris, London.

  Minnie Hawkins : Ah, London. Nip up to Scotland for the grouse, fly over to Paris for the races, Vienna in the Spring.

• Minnie Hawkins : Oh, hello, Unky-Punky.

• Minnie Hawkins : Thank you, Uncle Cedric. Yes. Good night, Unky-Wonky.

• Minnie Hawkins : You're breaking Minnie's heart.

  Cedric Ames : Yes, but, everything's changed. My attitude's changed. My mind's changed. Everything's changed.

  Minnie Hawkins : Aren't you gonna make me your little daughter?

  Cedric Ames : No, my family seems to think that my health is too feeble for me to have a daughter at this time.

  Donald Ames 3rd : In other words, Miss Hawkins, my Uncle has come to his senses.

  Minnie Hawkins : He hasn't any senses to come to! You know that. Uncle, I'm furious.

• Minnie Hawkins : His biography? Oh, I've always wanted to write one. Can I help?

  Joe Cork : Fair enough. I'll take you to a swell chop suey parlor where they've got a pen.

  Minnie Hawkins : Oh, swell.

• Donald Ames 3rd : Minnie, you've never been abroad, have you?

  Minnie Hawkins : See here!

  Donald Ames 3rd : Oh, I mean Europe, Paris, London.