The Lady Is Willing (1942)

Aline MacMahon: Buddy

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Quotes 

• Buddy : Oh, stop schmoozing over that kid and tell us where you got it.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : I took her.

  Buddy : Ken!

  Kenneth Hanline : You mean you kidnapped here?

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Oh, Ken, you've got an obscene mind - and you're a bad influence. Buddy, when the manager gets here remind me to tell him to try to find some workmen to remove that bar right away. It's no atmosphere for a growing child.

  Kenneth Hanline : Well, keep her from growing up for just a few minutes will you? I've got to get in shape to save you from the Lindberg law.

• Buddy : Corey? Isn't there somebody in the building by that name?

  Kenneth Hanline : You're thinking of what I'm going to commit to keep us all out of jail - hari-kari.

• Buddy : Yes, yes, yes, yes! But whose is it?

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Mine.

  [Buddy and Ken groan] 

• Buddy : Whose little act of God is this you've swiped?

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Isn't she wonderful?

• Detective Sergeant Barnes : Murphy here and the other witnesses say this lady was wearing the screwiest had they'd ever seen.

  Buddy : [laughing almost hysterically]  That's hardly a distinguishing characteristic these days.

  Detective Sergeant Barnes : So, we come here and we ask the bellboys what lady wears the screwiest hats and every one of 'em says, "Miss Madden."

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Well, the bellboys. What do they know about hats anyway?

• Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Don't you like any of them, darling? He just sits there.

  Buddy : I remember an audience in Cedar Rapids once that behaved the same way.

• Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : So, I said to the policeman, give me that baby, you don't know how to hold her.

  Buddy : And you do?

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Naturally. Every woman knows how to hold a baby - natural instinct. It's like sewing on buttons, or beating an egg.

• Buddy : Are you English?

  Dr. Corey T. McBain : No, Nebraska. Why?

  Buddy : You keep understating everything.

• Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : I just have to get married.

  Buddy : Why don't you marry somebody with money and kill two birds with one ceremony?

• Buddy : Look, we can cut Uncle Charles to 50.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : Berate Uncle Charles? Oh, no, no. I couldn't.

  Buddy : Well, what does he do but run up and down Miami Beach pinching girls? That shouldn't be so expensive.

  Kenneth Hanline : Probably costs him a lot just to keep in condition.

• Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : I don't see why I'm not solvent.

  Kenneth Hanline : Because you have more debts than a college sophomore.

  Buddy : Because of all the money to these leeches.

  Kenneth Hanline : Being solvent means hard cash in the bank - not a swell apartment with a lot of expensive furniture. And the law says you either have to be solvent or married.

• Buddy : [Holding her wrists out as if to be handcuffed]  Well, try and get us connecting cells with a bath between. She's a swell kid, but I have to add and subtract for her.

• Buddy : We can't make you solvent if you keep on sending money to all these leeches. Now, look, there's Stevenson. Now he's had the same bad idea for the same bad play every day for the last five years.

  Elizabeth 'Liza' Madden : But he has talent, and one day he might write a great play. This money keeps him going.

  Kenneth Hanline : Yes, from bar to bar.