It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

Gene Kelly: Ted Riley

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Quotes 

• Kid Mariacchi : Where do you have to go?

  Ted Riley : Tim's Bar on Third Avenue. It's a long way from here.

  Kid Mariacchi : You're nuts. It's ten minutes.

  Ted Riley : No, it's ten years.

• Ted Riley : Look lady, if you'll excuse, you don't have to hang around with me all evening. I wish I didn't have to hang around with myself.

• Jackie Leighton : But, Ted, aren't you in terrible danger?

  Ted Riley : Yeah. Yeah, I'm in terrible danger. I'm in danger of believing that look on your face.

• Ted Riley : You know something, I used to think I was greater than Babe Ruth, Justice Hall and Dick Tracy rolled into one.

  Jackie Leighton : What did they think you were going to turn out to be?

  Ted Riley : Oh, nothin' much. Just a great man. I have a sneaking feeling I've let them down just a wee bit.

• Ted Riley : I'm mixed up with some of the shadiest characters in town. As a matter of fact, knowing the inspiring and uplifting work you do on this program, I - I feel terrible showing my face in decent homes across the country. Boys, don't be like me. Live clean. Use Klenzrite.

• Ted Riley : I think you're about the prettiest program coordinator I've ever seen. You know, eh, a fella's not safe alone in a cab with a girl these days.

  Jackie Leighton : All right.

  [Leans over and give Ted a long, long kiss] 

  Jackie Leighton : Okay. Satisified? I just couldn't face the boredom of fighting you off for the next ten blocks. Its the simplest method of my own invention: remove the initiative of the rude male and he'll retire in confusion. Now, while you're retiring in confusion, I'll do a little work.

• Ted Riley : What kind of a screwball are you?

  Jackie Leighton : To save you the strain of trying to understand me, I'll give you the salient facts: graduate of Barnard, summa cume laude; career girl; I'm fairly pretty - which is a nuisance; I attract a lot of men at first - but, I can always find a way of getting rid of them and then everybodies happy all around. In short, I can always scare them off.

• Jackie Leighton : As Shakespeare says in The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 7: Most friendship is feigning, most loving - mere folly.

  Ted Riley : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Well, in some ways, you and me and Shakespeare see eye-to-eye.

• Jackie Leighton : See, you didn't bother me in the least on the rest of the trip. My own invention.

  Ted Riley : That invention's gonna explode in your face someday, Einstein.

• Jackie Leighton : I wouldn't bet on that.

  Ted Riley : You know, there's a lot of things you shouldn't bet on; like that Shakespeare quote, for instance. It ain't The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 7. It's As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7: Heigh-ho, sing heigh-ho! Unto the green holly, Most friendship is feigning, most loving - mere folly.

• Ted Riley : Well, well, well, right on the dot. Are you always this prompt?

  Jackie Leighton : Yes. I'm - just a machine.

  Ted Riley : Good, I love to tinker with machinery.

• Ted Riley : Louie, you're a gentleman and a scholar.

• Ted Riley : I don't get you. First, it was strictly - no dice, for which I can hardly blame ya, and now - you - I don't figure a broad like you.

  Jackie Leighton : I don't get you. You talk like a muck or you try to. But, obviously, well, that Shakespeare quote.