You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Edwin Maxwell: Attorney to Kirby

Quotes 

• Attorney to Kirby : What happened in Washington?

  Attorney to Kirby : Yes, what'd you find out?

  Attorney to Kirby : A.P., where do we stand?

  Anthony P. Kirby : [as he approaches his desk]  Uh, get me some bicarbonate soda.

  Attorney to Kirby : How do we stand A.P.?

  Anthony P. Kirby : Well gentlemen, there will be no interference from the powers that be.

  Attorney to Kirby : There won't?

  Attorney to Kirby : That's marvelous.

  Attorney to Kirby : Are you sure?

  Attorney to Kirby : What about the senator with the antitrust complex?

  Anthony P. Kirby : [mostly to the previous attorney]  I said there'd be no interference.

  [to all of them while periodically shaking his finger during the rest of the dialogue] 

  Anthony P. Kirby : We're going ahead exactly as we planned. It'll be the largest individual monopoly in the world gentlemen, if we're smart; particularly now that Ramsey is lined up.

  Attorney to Kirby : Ramsey too?

  Attorney to Kirby : That's impossible.

  Attorney to Kirby : No,

  [shakes his head] 

  Attorney to Kirby : the administration would never stand for it.

  Attorney to Kirby : Why, we'd control every title of war material.

  Anthony P. Kirby : That's exactly it gentlemen. With the world going crazy, the next big move is munitions, and Kirby and Company are going to cash in on it.

  Attorney to Kirby : Haha, it's unbelievable.

  Attorney to Kirby : Why the war wouldn't be possible anyway without us.

  [A.P. sits down and Tony yawns unmoved] 

  Attorney to Kirby : A.P., if I know Ramsey, he'll never let himself be absorbed by anybody.

  Anthony P. Kirby : Oh he won't, eh?

  Attorney to Kirby : No.

  Anthony P. Kirby : Well we'll see if he will when I hand him a little surprise. I own every inch of the twelve blocks that completely surround the Ramsey factories.

  Attorney to Kirby : No!

  Attorney to Kirby : That's news to us.

  Attorney to Kirby : Well, we certainly didn't know anything about *that*.

  Anthony P. Kirby : So, huh, how is he going to fulfill his contracts without us? Now you'd better get busy. Complete all your negotiations with the others. I'll handle Ramsey myself.

  Attorney to Kirby : Yes sir.

  Attorney to Kirby : We'll hop right to it.

  [the attorneys excitedly disperse and exit the room as Tony still looks unenthused] 

  Attorney to Kirby : I have a meeting with my net-rate group later this afternoon.

  Attorney to Kirby : Oh good.

  Anthony P. Kirby : [his secretary hands him a glass of bicarbonate soda]  Ten thousand a year for doctors and I'm still taking this stuff.

  [reluctantly takes a drink]