Lillian Russell (1940)

Henry Fonda: Alexander Moore

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• Alexander Moore : That depends on what she calls success.

  Lillian Russell : What do you call it?

  Alexander Moore : Happiness.

  Lillian Russell : Oh, well, that's just a state of mind. It isn't always success.

• Alexander Moore : Why, I remember taking all kinds of chances, just so someone could rescue me. Once I tried to swim across the Mississippi. I did, really. I knew I couldn't make it. But I saw the riverboat coming and I was hoping that when I called out for help, the right man would leap overboard and swim me to shore.

  President Cleveland : And, did he?

  Alexander Moore : No. They fished me up with a net.

• Alexander Moore : A hero without nerve? Nonsense!

• Alexander Moore : Cynthia, did you hear that? I finally heard a boy call me grandma.

• Alexander Moore : Do I know you?

  President Cleveland : Well, we never were properly introduced, but we have met before.

  Alexander Moore : Don't tell me I flirted with you.

  President Cleveland : Well, you sort of smiled at me a little. I guess maybe you didn't mean to flirt really.

  Alexander Moore : Did I wink at you?

  President Cleveland : No, I don't remember your winking any.

  Alexander Moore : Then I wasn't really flirting.

• Alexander Moore : My eyes aren't what they used to be. Nothing's like it used to be. My legs are crippled with rheumatism. My heart flutters like a jumping jack most of the time. I've lost every tooth in my head. Plates. Upper and lower. My left ear's stone deaf. And if I didn't feel so good, I'd think that old age was coming on me.

• Alexander Moore : When I was young and a man saved a girl's life, it generally meant something.