Gangway (1937)
Jessie Matthews: Pat Wayne
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Quotes
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Pat Wayne : That's the life, Joe. You know you're alive there. Working for a newspaper means something real.
Joe : Sure. Nothing ever happens in England. Those birds in America have all the fun. Gangsters!
Pat Wayne : Riots!
Joe : Fires!
Pat Wayne : Earthquakes!
Joe : Revolutions!
Pat Wayne : Floods!
Joe : Stick-ups!
Pat Wayne : Murders!
Joe : Gee, what a swell country to live in.
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Pat Wayne : But, chief, I can't be a lady's maid.
Daily Journal Editor : You won't be. She's no lady.
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Pat Wayne : I want action.
Daily Journal Editor : Nedda'll give you all the action you can stand.
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Pat Wayne : I'm doing my best, madam.
Nedda Beaumont : Who cares about your best? It's my best that counts.
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Nedda Beaumont : I see you served Lady Pendragon.
Pat Wayne : [Looking over Nedda's shoulder at her reference letter] Oh, yes, I... I did, didn't I?
Nedda Beaumont : Why did you leave?
Pat Wayne : Well, you see, her ladyship sort of disappeared.
Nedda Beaumont : Disappeared? One can't just disappear.
Pat Wayne : Oh, Lady Pendragon did. It was the strangest thing. But, one moment she was sitting there, and the next moment she wasn't.
Nedda Beaumont : Well, what of it? A lady can't sit down forever. Maybe she had somewhere to go.
Pat Wayne : A lot of the family still hold to that theory. But everybody else who goes somewhere has always come back.
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Pat Wayne : Just think, Joe, what fun it is to be a newspaper woman like the ones in the American movies. Wise-cracking with the boss, sitting around with the boys. Then the alarm, and off you go.
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Pat Wayne : You're going the wrong way. That's where the shooting is.
Smiles Hogan : Cut the clownin', c'mon.
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Smiles Hogan : [Holding a gun on a Justice of the Peace who's in bed] C'mon, Pop. Snap into it! This guy's an oil
[earl]
Smiles Hogan : .
Pat Wayne : Lay off, Smiles. Me and the oil will handle this.
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Pat Wayne : I'm not afraid.
Greta Brand : Then why are your teeth clattering?
Pat Wayne : Because I'm afraid. No I'm not.