Hootenanny Hoot (1963)

Peter Breck: Ted Grover

Quotes 

• Ted Grover : How's a fella supposed to kiss a gal when she's yapping all the time?

  A.G. Bannister : Well, you could have hit me in the nose.

  Ted Grover : Oh, no. No, it never happened. You might hit back.

• Ted Grover : What's with the candle light bit?

  Claudia Hoffer : Times are tough. We're saving electric.

• [first lines] 

  Ted Grover : Think of us as the only two people left in the world - with no one to care that we live passionately every moment of every day and night. Let me see *passion* in your eyes. Feel it, Vikki. Let your body catch fire.

  Vikki : Oh, Ted, the way you talk

  Ted Grover : You are feeling it, aren't you?

  Vikki : Oh...

• Ted Grover : Vikki's got the best lookin' tonsils in town.

• Ted Grover : We don't talk the same language anymore. I'm walking right out of you life. Way out! In orbit.

• A.G. Bannister : What's the matter? Afraid I'm going to seduce you?

  Ted Grover : Well, now, that would be interesting. Just my conscience to worry about.

  A.G. Bannister : Well, now, what if I promised you - that you wouldn't hate yourself in the morning, huh?

  [seductive kiss] 

• Ted Grover : Now, I'm going to get in my car and take a nice, long ride. And by the time I get to the coast, I'll have washed foam soap and you *right* out of my hair.

• Ted Grover : I'm a very lousy lover when there are people watching, you know.

• Ted Grover : You better take that dress back. Oh, it covers you up, all right, but, it'll never hide what you are.

• Steve Laughlin : She sounds like a bookkeeper. Now, what is a fellow like you want with a bookkeeper?

  Ted Grover : Now, there's a little bookkeeper you'd like to keep in mink.

• Ted Grover : How's everything back in the ulcer capital?

• Steve Laughlin : Big? What's anything big doing in Missouri?

  Ted Grover : Not just Missouri, but, the whole south, the midwest, and all of Canada. A world we never new existed. A world that digs folk singing and country music, the most. And they dig it for 10 million bucks a year!

  Steve Laughlin : What'd you say? Dollars?

  Ted Grover : Dollars!

  Steve Laughlin : What? For folk singing?

  Ted Grover : Folk singing.

  Steve Laughlin : Hey, I think I'm going to like Missouri.

• Ted Grover : Hootenanny? What is that exactly?

  Billie-Jo Henley : Folk singing, Country music. Dancing. Something for everybody, I guess.

• Ted Grover : How this little girl has learned so much about folk singing and the country music business in her 22 years is something I'll never understand and, on top of it, Stevie, she is hip!

• Steve Laughlin : Now what?

  Ted Grover : Now, my little bookkeeper's about to show off her assets.

• A.G. Bannister : Sweetheart, I see you're still taking your nasty pills.

  Ted Grover : A.G., why don't you search out somebody else to haunt.

• Howard Stanton : Folk singing and country music go back to the roots of this country. The songs are really a part of our history. We want this thing to have a theme, Ted. It has to come off big. Americana!

  Ted Grover : Now, what you're getting at is you don't want any of this coffee house type jazz, right?

  Howard Stanton : Right!

  Ted Grover : With beatniks flopping all over the place. Okay. I'll get the deal rollin'.