Love on the Run (1936)

Clark Gable: Michael Anthony

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Quotes 

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : [Putting Sally in a closet]  If anybody comes, make a noise like a broom.

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Hmmm! Looks like we're going to spend the night with some pretty important ghosts, all them Louises.

  Sally Parker : Well, I'd rather enjoy meeting Richelieu. I want to see if he really looks like George Arliss.

• Sally Parker : [Discovering a bottle of milk]  Oh, a bottle of milk from Marie Antoinette's bath!

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : [Sardonically]  If that was left for her, it's sour by now.

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : We're outta gas!

  Sally Parker : Don't tell me they still use that one at Princeton.

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : I wonder where we are. Get out those maps there, will ya.

  Sally Parker : What color is it down there?

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Pinkish brown.

  Sally Parker : Pinkish brown... We're over Persia.

• Sally Parker : Who do you think you're talking to?

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : I'm talking to a fairly attractive dame with too much dough for her own good.

• Sally Parker : Who is it?

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Louis.

  Sally Parker : Louis who?

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Pick a number from 1 to 10.

  Sally Parker : Louis fourteen.

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : You could've been sitting in the theater the night Lincoln was shot and you wouldn't have covered me.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : I'd have told you, I swear.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Oh, yeah, you'd have told me Lincoln shot Booth.

• Sally Parker : Trains run to Paris, you know? Choo, choo, choo.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : I don't know why I keep explaining things to you, but railroad stations have a habit of being watched.

• Sally Parker : You sheer, unadulterated worm.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Go ahead, I deserve it.

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Well, you don't think I enjoy playing cops and robbers all over Europe with a...

  Sally Parker : But you can't leave me here with all these cabbages.

• Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : [Barney is tied to a chair, lying on the floor and talking to his copy desk on the phone. As Mike and Sally untie the knots, he spells Mike's name, to share the by-line, into the phone]  M for maniac.

  Sally Parker : I for I love you, darling.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : I for I love you darling. C for crackpot.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : H for how soon are we going to get married?

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : H for how soon are we going to get mar... No, I'm not drunk.

  Sally Parker : A for any time you say.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : A for any time you say. Aw, shut up!

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Now, those are things that cut deeply.

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : I'll try to think of some more of them.

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : You doubt me, Mr. Pells?

  Barnabus W. 'Barney' Pells : Naw, I don't doubt you. I just think you're lying.

• Sally Parker : I hope you didn't kill him.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Who? Kill what?

  Sally Parker : Igor.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Oh, that's all right. All snakes live till sundown.

• Sally Parker : Do you expect me to believe that?

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Nope... I mean... Well, I know it sounds a little Elsie Dinsmore, but...

• Sally Parker : How fast are we going?

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Well, we're either up 2,100 feet and going 175 miles per hour, or we're up 175 feet and going 2,100 miles an hour.

  Sally Parker : Whimsical little airplane, isn't it?

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : The constant nagging will have to stop.

  Sally Parker : All right. It has stopped.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : And no more beefing.

  Sally Parker : Not a beef.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Okay. In Mike, you trust.

  Sally Parker : In Mike, I trust.

• Sally Parker : No self-respecting man could accept money for prying into people's private lives.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : No. And they don't even pay much at that.

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Now, before we go into anything else, I need you to know that I quit that glass bottom boat they call "The Chronicle."

  Sally Parker : You quit? Oh, no, how could you?

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : But you said...

  Sally Parker : Oh, never listen to what I say. I learned that a long time ago.

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : We can't both be crazy.

  Sally Parker : That's what you think.

• Michael 'Mike' Anthony : Madam was strutting.

  Sally Parker : His majesty is several centuries ahead of himself. I was minuet-ing.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : May I have the next one?

  Sally Parker : After all, I am your queen.

• Fontainbleau Palace Caretaker : This gun is crazy.

  Michael 'Mike' Anthony : The gun's crazy? You're all right?