Quotes

Something to Sing About

Hank Meyers: [reacting to Terry's real name] Thaddeus McGillicuddy?
Rita Wyatt: We like it.
Hank Meyers: Are you kidding, Terry?
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Oh no, absolutely on the level. I'm sorry, Hank - they did it to me when I was asleep.

Stephanie 'Steffie' Hajos: [outraged over Terry's new bungalow] Five rooms and three baths! What does he need with three baths? He isn't running a laundry - although he should be!

Stephanie 'Steffie' Hajos: You mean HE objects to being engaged to ME for a few weeks?
Hank Meyers: Honey, he does nothing but object!
Stephanie 'Steffie' Hajos: I? Stephanie Hajos, the Great Star, condescend to have my name linked with this - this HOOFER, and HE OBJECTS? HE OBJECTS! I won't speak to him again! I won't even finish making the picture! Tell my public I am through!

Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: I'll stand up here and let you stick pins in me, but one more tickle, and I'm going to tear off one of your legs and wrap it around your neck for a scarf.

Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Thanks, friends, for a wonderful send off. As you probably know, Hollywood calls. And I'm about to trade close-ups with Montgomery and Taylor and, eh, another big good looking fellow, oh, you know who I mean, eh - Gable. And, eh, may the best profile when.
[Turns his head to the side]

Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: [Pouring glasses of champagne] I'm leavin' Rita with you. Where is Rita? Rita! Rita!
Band Saxophonist: I'll get her.
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Will ya.
Band Saxophonist: Hey, Rita. Terry wants to see you
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Come on canary, get your nose wet.

Bennett O. 'B.O.' Regan: You're happy to be here? Of course you are. Hollywood is the natural goal of any actor's ambition.
Hank Meyers: Oh, you're wrong, B.O. He's not an actor. He's a hoofer!
Bennett O. 'B.O.' Regan: Hollywood is the natural goal of any hoofer

Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Now, look here. You're not going to stand there in all this heat and tell me this Japanese lingo is an act?
Ito: Very much so...
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Pull up a chair. Sit down. I want to hear about this. Tell me about yourself.
Ito: I came here aspiring to be an actor.
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: They couldn't mold you, huh?
Ito: They didn't even try.
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Tell me, how do you like being a gentleman's gentleman?
Ito: Oh, very much. As an actor it was a long time between meals.
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: What are you doing for dinner?
Ito: I know a place on Hollywood Boulevard where they serve wonderful wienerschnitzel.

Bennett O. 'B.O.' Regan: Hours of working, waiting, wondering! And for what? Nothing! We're no nearer to finding Terry Rooney now than when we were when we started. Why do I have to be crucified like this?

Rita Wyatt: Oh, yes. It's such a lovely idea, Thaddeus.
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Oh, Mrs. McGillicuddy, I strive to please. In fact, I strive to please Mrs. McGillicuddy.

Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Hey, is there something strange about me? People seem to be starring at me? What is it?
Rita Wyatt: Oh, it's because you're so beautiful, darling.
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Oh, you think that's it?
Rita Wyatt: Yes.
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Well, it has been said.

Rita Wyatt: Oh, darling, I'm so proud of you! I don't know what to do. To think I married a celebrity and didn't even know it.
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Oh, it was nothing at all! Anybody in my place would have done the same.
Rita Wyatt: You're not having a slight attack of swell-head, are you?
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Yes, darling, I'm afraid so. I've got that good old feeling coming over me now.

Mr. Blaine: Oh, cut! Cut, cut! Steffie, darling, what *is* the matter? You're not giving me anything.
Stephanie 'Steffie' Hajos: Can I make a love scene with a icicle? He doesn't give *me* anything! Nothing!

Stephanie 'Steffie' Hajos: [Acting out a love scene] Maybe someday in some far away place.
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Oh, no. No place, darling. No far away place. Here and now. Here and *now*!
[Ends love scene kissing Steffie]
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: [to the Director, Mr. Blaine] Is that what you mean?
Mr. Blaine: Perfect!
Stephanie 'Steffie' Hajos: [Overcome and out of breath] The boy has talent!

Hank Meyers: Hey, wait a minute. What are you up to now?
Miss Amy Robbins: Just a little blind item for my column: What rising young star was caught making love to his secretary?
Hank Meyers: Now, listen, if you print that story you're going to ruin two lives.
Miss Amy Robbins: What lives?
Hank Meyers: Yours and mine. First of all, if you print it, I'm gonna sock you on the nose. If I sock you on the nose, I'm gonna lose my job. So, figure it out.

Hank Meyers: Listen, do you think Terry Rooney would be fooling around with a funny little secretary with a glamorous dame like Stephanie Hajos here in the Studio?
Miss Amy Robbins: Oh, Hank!
Hank Meyers: Now, you better sharpen your pencil.

Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: My first, my childhood love? Well let me go way way back. In fact, she was the dog catcher's daughter in my hometown. And every time my pooch was snatched.
Miss Amy Robbins: What?
Terrence 'Terry'; Rooney: Oh, I meant, every time they snatched my pooch, she'd get it back to me by hook or by crook. In fact, it happened so often, that her old man began to think my dog was quintuplets.

Miss Amy Robbins: What a quaint servant, what's his name?
Hank Meyers: Ito.
Miss Amy Robbins: Ito!
Hank Meyers: Oh, he adores Terry. Why, when Terry disappeared we had trouble restraining Ito from committing Charlie-Carry, or, eh, Harry-Carol.

Jimmy - Band Member: Let's see, you want eight uppers, eight lowers, and a compartment, right?
Rita Wyatt: No compartment. I'll take the lower.

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What is the Spanish language plot outline for Something to Sing About (1937)?