Johnny Eager (1941)

Van Heflin: Jeff Hartnett

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• Jeff Hartnett : You keep me around because even Johnny Eager has to have one friend.

• Jeff Hartnett : Does that young woman ever do anything besides make exits?

• Garnet : [Quizzing a drooped over Jeff whose nose is stuffed inside a coffee cup]  Hangover?

  Jeff Hartnett : Not in the least. I feel like fighting Joe Louis or adopting some other form of quick suicide.

• Jeff Hartnett : Poor Garnet. She'll hang around in Florida eating her heart out until it finally dawns on her that Lancelot is not coming. Johnny, why didn't you tell her the truth, the poor kid?

  Johnny Eager : Poor Garnet? I thought you didn't like her?

  Jeff Hartnett : I don't.

  Johnny Eager : Well, then, why do you feel sorry for her?

  Jeff Hartnett : Well, Johnny, you can feel sorry for someone you don't like - if you've got a heart or soul or decency.

• Jeff Hartnett : I seem to have offended your light of love by using a polysyllabic word.

• Johnny Eager : Why do you keep pouring that stuff into you?

  Jeff Hartnett : I told you. Every now and then I've got to look in the mirror.

• Jeff Hartnett : He's got a big head. That's why his brain rattles.

• Johnny Eager : Say Jeff. You know these things. That guy - Cy - Cyrano - Cyrano de Bergerac or somethin'. Does a dame really fall for the type of chatter he gave out?

  Jeff Hartnett : Are you starting to encounter literate dames?

  Johnny Eager : Who said anything about dames?

• Johnny Eager : You'll wake up dead one of these days.

  Jeff Hartnett : Well, everybody does - sooner or later.

• Johnny Eager : One of these days you're going to start picking me apart and I'll slap you up from between your ears.

  Jeff Hartnett : My condition renders me immune to assault.

• Johnny Eager : Jeff, from here on we're in clover.

  Jeff Hartnett : In high hats, crawling under the stomach of our favorite snake.

• Johnny Eager : See what I mean about a sucker? There comes a time he doesn't keep his eyes on the ball.

  Jeff Hartnett : An eight ball, Johnny. That's all right. I'm glad.

  Johnny Eager : You better start drinking again.

• Jeff Hartnett : When a woman loves like that, she can love you with every card in the deck and then pull a knife across your throat the next morning.