Paul Douglas credited as playing...
Porter Hollingsway
- Porter Hollingsway: OK. OK, you win. I'll marry you. How about it?
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: Thanks... for nothing.
- Porter Hollingsway: Now what kind of an answer is that?
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: I don't know. I just felt like it. That's all.
- Porter Hollingsway: We'll do all right, kid. We're starting out where it takes most marriages years to get, out in the open. No jokers. You'll see. You've made a good deal, Lora Mae.
- Mrs. Finney: [walking into the room] Lora Mae, honey, if you want me I'll be over at the Callahans' playing...
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: Happy new year, Ma. We're gonna get married.
- Mrs. Finney: ...Bingo!
- [She faints]
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: [amused by Sadie's maid uniform] Sadie Dugan, what are you supposed to be, Baby Snooks?
- Sadie: Hiya Lora Mae.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: Get a load of that cap - I can't wait to tell Ma!
- Rita Phipps: Lora Mae, would you sit there please?
- Porter Hollingsway: Come on, sit down.
- Sadie: There's a couple of things I could tell your Ma about you too.
- Mrs. Manleigh: This great situation belongs in a true-to-life drama - are you two related?
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: No we just had the same governess.
- Sadie: [laughing] Ya kill me!
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: I've been a good wife. The best wife your money could buy.
- Porter Hollingsway: Strictly cash and carry.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: Isn't that what you wanted? Isn't that what you told me? "Out in the open. You made a good deal, kid." Did you every stop to think, Porter, that in over 3 years there's one word we've never said to each other, even in fun?
- Porter Hollingsway: To you, I'm a cash register. You can't love a cash register.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: And I'm part of your inventory. You can't love that, either.
- Porter Hollingsway: I asked you to marry me because I was crazy about you.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: You didn't even ask me!
- Porter Hollingsway: I've been a good husband. You got everything you want.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: If you'd only asked me, if you'd only made me feel like a woman instead of a piece of merchandise!
- Porter Hollingsway: Did you give me a chance to? All you ever showed me was your price tag.
- Deborah Bishop: [drunk] Who is Mister Ross?
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: [sardonically] Mister Ross took a powder about five years ago.
- Porter Hollingsway: No such thing, she gave him the heave-ho.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: [arguing] He went out for a paper one night and never came back!
- Deborah Bishop: Porter says Addie Ross has got class.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: And he knows class like I know navigation!
- Porter Hollingsway: What do you want me to do about it - build you a personal broadcasting system?
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: You don't need a station. Just yell a little louder.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: I've got very definite ideas.
- Porter Hollingsway: Like what?
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: There's never been anybody in particular. Nobody special.
- Porter Hollingsway: Plenty that wanted to, I'll bet.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: What do you think?
- Porter Hollingsway: That you've been waiting for that one guy to come along.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: I got very definite ideas.
- Porter Hollingsway: What's he got to be like, this one guy?
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: Someone who wants to marry me more than anything else in the world.
- Porter Hollingsway: You sure got wrong ideas about things.
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: They may be wrong, but they're definite.
- Deborah Bishop: Have you any idea how much Lora Mae is in love with you?
- Porter Hollingsway: [scornfully] No! How much?
- Deborah Bishop: So much she's afraid to tell you, afraid you'd laugh at her.
- Porter Hollingsway: Me laugh? She couldn't say it with a straight face. Lora Mae in love with me? It's all she can do to wait it out.
- Deborah Bishop: Wait it out?
- Porter Hollingsway: Yeah, like an annuity till it matures. Like a slot machine till it pays off. That's what she's waiting for. A chance to call it off, to collect. "The end of the line. Fares, please." Don't tell me about love and Lora Mae.
- Porter Hollingsway: It's a man's world. Yeah! See something you want, go after it and get it! That's nature. It's why we're made strong and women weak. Strong conquer and provide for the weak. That's what a man's for! Teach our kids that, there'd be more men!
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: It's late. I'd better be going home.
- Porter Hollingsway: OK if I call you a cab?
- Lora Mae Hollingsway: Beats walking in the snow.