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Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (1930)

Quotes

The Big Pond

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  • Ronnie: Speaking of making love...
  • Pierre Mirande: Was I speaking of it?
  • Ronnie: I mean, you Frenchmen are supposed to know a lot about love-making. Perhaps you could tip me off to something. I'm not getting the breaks that I should get.
  • Pierre Mirande: Oh, you are not?
  • Ronnie: No. I'm a good-looking fellow, don't you think?
  • Pierre Mirande: Yes, true.
  • Ronnie: I pull my line on 'em. Get everything all set. It's all perfectly setup. And then I get the fruit.
  • Pierre Mirande: You get the fruit?
  • Ronnie: The raspberry! The horse laugh!
  • Pierre Mirande: What horse laughs?
  • Ronnie: I mean... oh, nevermind! What I wanna know is what you do when you go out with a girl.
  • Pierre Mirande: Tell me what you do now.
  • Ronnie: Well, I sort of put my arm around her, say 'how 'bout a little kiss, baby?' Maybe I don't even ask for it. And I usually say, 'you're hot stuff, me for you. How 'bout goin' places and doin' things?'
  • Pierre Mirande: Yeah? And, uh, and then?
  • Ronnie: Then they usually give you the air!
  • Pierre Mirande: Huh. And you call that making love? Huh! Poor American girls...
  • Barbara Billings: He thinks of nothing but that old chewing gum! Oh, I wish that stuff'd never been invented!
  • Mrs. Billings: Don't bite the gum that feeds you!
  • Barbara Billings: Pierre, are we going to Venice on our honeymoon?
  • Pierre Mirande: Practically the same. We are going to Cleveland on business!
  • Mr. Billings: Suppose something goes wrong with the gum factory while you're down here makin' whoopee, huh? What then? Think of the unfortunate widows, the poor, the ailing, the pathetic young children all crying for their chewing gum. Think of your duty to society! To the progress of civilization! What're they gonna chew? Beeswax?
  • Barbara Billings: We're not going to be married.
  • Ronnie: What? I've come four thousand miles to get the ozone!
  • Pierre Mirande: He can try to bluff me as much as he likes! But me? I'm like a good French cheese!
  • Pat O'Day: Cheese? How's that?
  • Pierre Mirande: Every day, I get stronger and stronger!

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