Johnny Eager (1941)

Robert Taylor: Johnny Eager

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• Johnny Eager : Oh, now don't turn ordinary on me. I get tired of ordinary dames. And I don't want to get tired of you.

• Johnny Eager : She's shakin' like a dice box.

• Johnny Eager : When you've been where I've been you can never get enough company.

• Garnet : Is there any dame you haven't got in your pocket?

  Johnny Eager : You don't feel crowded do you Sugar?

• 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.

• Matilda : That Miss Bard, anytime you wanna whistle, she'll come running.

  Johnny Eager : Forget that!

  Matilda : Anytime you wanna whistle. I watched her eyes. You watched 'em too. You know it.

• Garnet : Well, you're not exactly Romeo.

  Johnny Eager : You're not exactly Juliet.

  Garnet : You might say you like it.

  Johnny Eager : Anytime I don't like it, you'll hear me loud and clear.

• Johnny Eager : Look, Billy, can you just keep on dumping the ash trays and bringing in the ham and eggs, I'll dress myself.

  Billiken : But, look boss, I'm supposed to be a gentleman's gentleman or somethin'. Now, ain't I? You gotta take my ad-vice about these things.

  Johnny Eager : Behave.

• Johnny Eager : Only a sucker plays with dice he can't handle.

• Johnny Eager : If I give you any more you'll just put it on the horses or give it to that dame of yours. You stop playing sucker and we'll talk about a deal.

• Johnny Eager : This town's liable to explode on me any minute, I've got four million things to think about, and you want to talk about love at four o'clock in the afternoon.

• 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.

• 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?

• Lisbeth Bard : Don't lie to me, Mr. Eager.

  Johnny Eager : Why not?

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

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

• Johnny Eager : Why do dames always get so messy?

• Johnny Eager : I got eight million kinds of grief and now my dame's going to throw a wingding on me.

• Johnny Eager : Now, look. This town's sizzling, Sugar, and I'm going to have to walk awful soft. This new prosecutor's going to make things so tough I'll have to keep moving like a - like a light mouse in a revolving cage.

• 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 : You're always telling me I don't understand something or other. But, you're the guy who doesn't understand, because you're a sucker and a sucker never understands a smart guy. If you weren't a chump for booze, you'd probably be a chump for some dame. Yeah, decent and pure about it too, until she walked off with some bald headed bankroll and had you back on the booze again.

• Johnny Eager : This town's full of women and I had to pick the most dangerous one in town. The one woman most likely to upset my apple cart.

• Johnny Eager : Oh, now don't turn ordinary on me. I get tired of ordinary dames. I don't ever want to get tired of you.

  Lisbeth Bard : I didn't mean to turn ordinary on you, Johnny. It was just an approach to get you to say you love me.

• 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 : You told him about us?

  Mae Blythe : Oh, sure. I think he'd black my eye if he'd knew about this. Sure I told him, Johnny. I had to be honest with him. You see, I love the guy.

  Johnny Eager : Love. Grade A. Pasteurized. I get it, kid.

  Mae Blythe : No you don't. You don't get it at all. You don't even know what I'm talking about. So long, Johnny.

• Johnny Eager : I don't worry about what I missed when I was a kid. I'm getting all those things now.

• Johnny Eager : Why you daffy boob. Give a fella a chance to say something, will you?

• Johnny Eager : She's no different from any other dame. A little better quality, I'll admit. But, just a kid, after all, Just a kid who thinks she's carrying a torch.

• Johnny Eager : Its the last job you do for me. There's five yards in it.

  Julio : I ought to do it for free for old times sake. But, I could use 500.

• 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.