The Nuisance (1933)
Lee Tracy: Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens
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Quotes
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Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens : [regarding a bounced check] You'll learn that money doesn't come out of fountain pens.
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Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens : Doc, I want...
[seeing the doctor has his head down on his desk]
Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens : Are you drunk again?
Dr. Buchanan Prescott : No, no, it isn't that, Joe. As if I... I'm worried.
Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens : What is it now? Somebody water your bourbon?
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Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens : Here I thought your interest in me was purely personal. Now I find out it's just another case of a beautiful client looking for a homely lawyer.
Dorothy Mason : Oh, I don't think *you're* homely.
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Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens : I've got a doctor who could find something wrong with Samson. And why not? Samson was an accident case. Building collapse.
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Aloysius P. McCarthy : I can't figure it. I only stole 50 bucks, and you want two hundred and 70. So I lose 220 bucks for pinching 50. It don't make sense.
Joseph Phineas 'Joe' Stevens : Technocracy, my boy, technocracy.
