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Lucille Ball, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Irene Dunne, Alice Brady, and Guy Kibbee in Joy of Living (1938)

Quotes

Joy of Living

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  • Minerva: Dennis, will you stop drinking for my sake?
  • Dennis: Who said I was drinking for your sake?
  • Margaret 'Maggie' Garret: But I'm not a Garret, I'm a Brewster. And we Brewsters do what we want to do when we want to do it.
  • Margaret 'Maggie' Garret: I want another piece of beer.
  • Margaret 'Maggie' Garret: But I make $10,000 a week!
  • Harrison: Ten thousand? Hmm-mm.
  • [holds up ten fingers, then closes five]
  • Harrison: That balances Mr. Roosevelt's budget.
  • [counting off the other fingers]
  • Harrison: then there's Selena's singing lessons, the twins ballet lessons, Father's stock market contributions, Mother's antiques. The leaves you...
  • [makes an "o" with her hand]
  • Cafe Owner: The waiter is a dummkopf. She's not who she is. I thought she was who she is not. But she ain't. Is it?
  • Margaret 'Maggie' Garret: [looking at her maid under the steam] Do you have to stay all day and smoke that thing?
  • Dennis: Ah, my dear, I've been drinking for over forty years and I've never acquired the habit yet.
  • Margaret 'Maggie' Garret: You mean you overcame the natural impulse to work?
  • Dan Brewster: Why do you have to be so awfully grown up? Weren't you ever a kid?
  • Margaret 'Maggie' Garret: No... no. I was born full grown.
  • Dan Brewster: Yes, Oswego, go out and buy a lot of flowers and perfume and you know... what does your wife like?
  • Oswego: Me!

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