Central Airport (1933)

Richard Barthelmess: James 'Jim' Blaine

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Quotes 

• Hotel Desk Clerk #3 : [phoning Jim's room to complain about the noise]  The woman over you is complaining.

  James 'Jim' Blaine : [sarcastically]  Well, tell her I'll be right up.

• James 'Jim' Blaine : [Off camera]  A penny for your thoughts.

  [after a pause and then close-up] 

  James 'Jim' Blaine : A penny for your thoughts.

  Jill Collins : [Pensively]  A million dollars couldn't buy them.

• James 'Jim' Blaine : A fella who flies for a living - what right does he have to get married?

• Jill Collins : Oh, if I were only a man!

  James 'Jim' Blaine : [Suggestively]  The job wouldn't be nearly as interesting... not nearly.

• James 'Jim' Blaine : [noticing her cumbersome trailing parachute]  Can I carry your train for you, your highness/

  Jill Collins : Don't you know an exhibition parachute when you see one?

  James 'Jim' Blaine : Well, I was so interested in the exhibition...

  [moving his eyes from the chute to her derrière] 

  James 'Jim' Blaine : ... I never noticed the chute.

• Jill Collins : [Referring to song on the jukebox]  Remember that song? The birds do it... the bees do it...

  James 'Jim' Blaine : [Cynically]  Yeah, and ducks do it, but who wants to be a duck?

• James 'Jim' Blaine : [scoffing at Jill's not-so-subtle suggestion that they should get married]  Well, just because you're hungry you don't have to buy a restaurant, do you?

• Neil 'Bud' Blaine : [Jim's float-plane is rescuing Neil and some other survivors]  I'm afraid you'll never take off with this load, Jim.

  James 'Jim' Blaine : No? Say, this hornet could pull a Brahman out of the Grand Canyon.

• James 'Jim' Blaine : [to Jill about not getting married]  Just because you're hungry you don't have to buy a restaurant, do you?