Quotes

It Started with Eve

Jonathan Reynolds: The trouble with being sick is you've got to associate with doctors.

[two tycoons leave Anne a paltry tip]
Anne Terry: This must be a new five-dollar coin they're putting out... it looks like the same old dime to me.

[Jonny drags Anne off the train to pose as his fiancee again, leaving her friends open-mouthed]
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Come on, I'll give you another fifty dollars!
Jenny: Well, what do you know!
Jackie Donovan: Don't worry, Jenny, it's platonic. He wants her for his father.

[first lines]
Newspaper Editor: Ain't it pretty!
[shows staff the newspaper's front page mock-up with screamer headline "JONATHAN REYNOLDS DEAD"]

[examing old newspaper photographs of Jonathan Reynolds Sr]
First assistant editor: Well, his inheritance tax ought to make the country even.
Second assistant editor: He was born too late. Two hundred years ago, he would have been a pirate - Captain Kidd, himself!
Third assistant editor: Look at that stomach. I saw him at a banquet once. He didn't order a steak - he ordered a cow!

[praying]
Newspaper Editor: As long as he has to go, please let him go no later than 9:20 - that dirty Herald has been getting all the breaks.
[phone rings]
Newspaper Editor: Yeah? What do you mean he isn't dead yet? Frank, I gotta have some action!

[to his dying father]
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Oh, say, the fishing in Mexico - there's nothing like it. It's not really fishing... it's kind of big game hunting. They have fish with teeth and horns - a throwback to the buffalo. You go out in a boat and the fish charge at you. You just got to catch 'em in self-defense. You and I and two machine guns are going down there next month.

Jackie Donovan: I was just telling you about the fellow I used to go with. Turns out he was fickle - he married his fiancee.

[Jonny tries to convince his father that Anne hates him]
Jonathan Reynolds: What did she call me?
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: A pompous, self-indulgent, overbearing imitation of a dictator.

[Jonny angrily chases Anne around his living room]
Anne Terry: Going around pinching people at your age.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: When I get three seconds older, I'm going to start punching people.

[Jonny is still chasing Anne around his living room]
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: If you hear something snap, don't turn around - it'll be your neck.

[a waiter brings Jonathan Sr. an enormous, fruit-fillled cocktail]
Anne Terry: What's that?
Jonathan Reynolds: It's a Reynolds Special.
Anne Terry: Oh, but you shouldn't be... what's in it?
Jonathan Reynolds: Oh, oh, nothing but, ah, coconut milk and, ah, vegetable juices. Doctor Harvey orders it for me. It's horrible.
Anne Terry: Then why do you drink it.
Jonathan Reynolds: It reminds me of Doctor Harvey and makes me hate him and when I hate him, I feel good.

[Jonny drags Anne off the train yet again]
Railway Porter: Lady, the next time you ain't goin' no place, why don't you try a plane!

Anne Terry: You told me you'd have that picture destroyed!
Jonathan Reynolds: Destroyed? If I'd done that, they'd never have seen it.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: They?
Jonathan Reynolds: Those women... those bead-twirlers. They called before they left.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: They're gone! I mean... they've gone?
Jonathan Reynolds: Well, they saw the picture in the paper. They said they were taking the first train to Mexico City. I advised them to take a plane - *quicker*.

Jonathan Reynolds: [to Anne Terry] What was it you called me? Pompous, self-indulgent?
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: [Looking smugly at Anne] Imitation of a dictator.
Jonathan Reynolds: It's true. It's me all over. And you'd do well to correct those faults in yourself, me boy.

Jackie Donovan: I just figured out why drug stores have lunch counters. They lose lots of money on food, but they make a big profit on bicarbonate of soda.

Jonathan Reynolds: I like a girl with spirit. To tell you the truth, I thought you were a little, uh, wishy-washy.

Dr. Harvey: It is my firm conviction Mrs. Pennington is a medical freak. I was watching her, and no normal person can talk as long as she does without taking a breath. For a second there I thought you weren't going to calm them down. You were almost an ex-fiancé.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Yeah, it was pretty close.

Anne Terry: They haven't been able to prove definitely that people inherit traits from their parents. They have with horses.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Yes, I know about the horses.

Jonathan Reynolds: You know why lovers quarrel, don't you? Simple. Fun of making it up.

Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: I bring you here by accident and my father likes you so much, that we can't tell him the truth.
Anne Terry: Oh, he'd have liked anybody you brought.
Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: Oh, no, he wouldn't. You should have seen the looks he gave some I brought home.
Anne Terry: Did, did you bring home a great many?
Anne Terry: I mean, just as friends, you know.

Jonathan Reynolds: Wonder if that old witch doctor has a medical diploma. I'll bet he hasn't.

Jonathan Reynolds Jr.: [With Dr. Harvey, walking in on Jonathan in the kitchen] How do you feel, Dad?
Jonathan Reynolds: How do I know? Ask him.

Newspaper Editor: Frank, I'm warning you. If Reynolds isn't dead within a half hour, don't come back here.
Frank - Reporter: Go ahead, threaten me. I got pneumonia.

Hospital Nurse: Now, now, now. You just lie back and rest, and in a minute you're going to have a bowl of nice, warm toastie.
Jonathan Reynolds: I want some nice, hot steakie.

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By what name was It Started with Eve (1941) officially released in Japan in Japanese?