Come Live with Me (1941)

Hedy Lamarr: Johnny Jones

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Quotes 

• Grandma : After all, time does heal all wounds.

  Johnny Jones : Does it?

  Grandma : No arguing about it. There's no arguing with any of the old sayings because that's why they are old 'cause they tell the truth, and the truth lasts.

• Grandma : You know about Satan and idle hands, don't you?

  Johnny Jones : Oh yes! I've heard about them. Both!

• Johnny Jones : What kind of brandy is this?

  Bill Smith : Blackberry - speciality of Grandma's.

  Grandma : Blackberries will do a lot for you, if you just squeeze them and then leave them alone.

  Charlie Gephardt - Grandma's Hired Hand : Works the same way with the women folks.

  Grandma : Charlie, get out.

  Charlie Gephardt - Grandma's Hired Hand : I was just thinkin' out loud, ma'am.

• Grandma : Sit down, Miss Jones. There where I can see you.

  Johnny Jones : Thank you.

  Grandma : Pretty, aren't you?

  Johnny Jones : [embarrassed]  oh!

  Grandma : Never mind me. When you get old, time is too precious to waste. If people are pretty, you tell them so. And you're pretty.

• Johnny Jones : You see, I have to have a husband, and you said you weren't married. So...?

  Bill Smith : Well, Miss Jones, a wife is just what I don't need.

  Johnny Jones : But you do need money. I thought we could trade. I'll have a husband, and you'll have money.

• Bill Smith : My name's Smith.

  Johnny Jones : My name's Jones.

  Taxi Driver : Let's see - Smith and Jones, and I'm Snow White.

• Barton Kendrick : Well what are we going to do?

  Johnny Jones : We are going to take what's left to us. Why, we haven't even a minute to waste on being sad. Come on, let's hurry!

  Barton Kendrick : Well where should we go?

  Johnny Jones : Oh I don't care. Just so there are people and music and we can be gay!

• Grandma : Part of living is meeting tragedy and rising above it. A woman doesn't amount to anything unless she can do it. It takes a long while to learn that that's true.

  Johnny Jones : Thank you for telling me.

• Johnny Jones : Mr. Smith, it's such a wonderful thing.

  Bill Smith : Why?

  Johnny Jones : That you haven't any money.

  Taxi Driver : And I thought I'd heard everything.

• Johnny Jones : I came here to ask you to marry me.

  Bill Smith : Why?

  Johnny Jones : Because you have no money.

  Bill Smith : [looking befuddled]  Well, this is so sudden.

  Johnny Jones : I was afraid you wouldn't understand.

  Bill Smith : Yeah, yeah, well, I see your point.

• Bill Smith : All right. Laundry, a buck.

  Johnny Jones : Laundry, a buck. A buck?

  Bill Smith : A dollar, a dollar. Food, $5.00.

  Bill Smith : But that's not enough.

  Johnny Jones : It's enough for me. I'm no capitalist. Let's see, now. Oh, razor blades and typewriter paper. And toothpaste and soap and envelopes. Put that all under incidentals. $5.00.

  Bill Smith : $5.00 for all that?

  Johnny Jones : All right, make it 4.50.

  Bill Smith : But I mean...

  Johnny Jones : 4.50. Put it down! And that's all.

  Bill Smith : What about carfare?

  Johnny Jones : I'm not going anywhere.

  Bill Smith : Oh, cigarettes. 30 cents a day is...

  Johnny Jones : 30 cents a week. I'll roll my own.

• Barton Kendrick : Johnny, they found you.

  Johnny Jones : They have?

  Barton Kendrick : A man from the immigration department is talking to Frieda now.

  Johnny Jones : Well, I tried to think it wouldn't happen; but, I knew it would.

  Barton Kendrick : I can't let you go, Johnny! They can't send you back.

  Johnny Jones : They have to. My temporary passport was up three months ago.

• Barton Kendrick : If only I could do something.

  Johnny Jones : Oh, darling, you've done so much already. You made me live again. You'll almost made me forget about being afraid.

• Barney Grogan : I guess you like it here, don't you?

  Johnny Jones : You don't ask somebody in heaven if they like the place.

• Johnny Jones : I can't get married in a week.

  Barney Grogan : Well, Miss, if you can't, then the boys in this country must be slippin'!

• Johnny Jones : It's good of you to try to help me.

  Barney Grogan : Why, Miss, it was more like a pleasure.

• Bill Smith : We'll have a little fire. There's nothing like a nice, open fire, I always say.

  Johnny Jones : Do you?

  Bill Smith : Yeah, I always. And pine logs and curling flames, a faithful dog, nice white bearskin rug, a little woman to fetch your slippers. Nothing like it.

• Johnny Jones : Give me one good reason why we couldn't make a perfectly honest business agreement?

  Bill Smith : Well, I could give you two good reasons. I'm a man, you're a woman!

• Johnny Jones : What's the matter.

  Bill Smith : Oh, well, I was just thinking of the number of stories I've had rejected, I've never written one as funny as this. Two people that never saw each other before and they're just about to get married and promise to love, honor and obey.

  Johnny Jones : Ah, but, a, with us, you understand, that...

  Bill Smith : Oh, all right. I understand. Out the window. All of of it. No love, no honor, no obey.

• Bill Smith : The man firefly he always knows pretty much where he stands. The - maybe I can explain it to you a little better like this. When the girl firefly wants to let the man firefly know that she sort of likes him a little bit, she flashes that little light at two second intervals. - - No, that's on the level. It's been timed. Don't you think that's pretty smart?

  Johnny Jones : Oh, yes. I do. I do. Good night.

• Bill Smith : Well, that was what you wanted me to do, wasn't it?

  Johnny Jones : Yes. It was.