Sybil Jason and Jesse Scott in Little Big Shot (1935)

Quotes

Little Big Shot

Mortimer: We have everything now but a rubber plant.

Hank Gibbs: I just got in this morning. You're looking great!
Steve: Oh, I feel great. That's prosperity, Hank. You're looking at old man prosperity himself.

Mortimer: Ah, the aperitifs.
Steve: I beg your pardon?
Mortimer: I said aperitifs. That's a much smarter word than cocktails. It's so European.

Steve: The bird of time is on the wing and I am forced by a pressure of business to discontinue my free offer for today. Remember: time flies, time flies!

Mortimer: Look at Europe. The unrest. The chaotic state of politics.

Gloria: Why don't you look were you're going?
Gloria: I wasn't going. I was sitting.
Mortimer: Well, why don't you look were you're sitting?

Mortimer: Now, to proceed to the demonstration: e pluribus unum, corpus delicti, spitana, poof!

Steve: Please send up some extra towels and some cracked dice.

Mortimer: You know a funny thing, no matter how many foreign countries our watches go to, they never change their faces.
Gloria: Is that a joke, Mr. Thompson?
Steve: He thinks so; but, don't encourage him.

Onderdonk: What's the bet?
Mortimer: I place the key our room right on this counter in full view. Over it, I put my imported alpine bonnet. Now, by the add of a few magic Abyssinian words, known only to myself and a few of the better Abyssinians, I can lift the key under the hat without touching that hat in any way, whatsoever.

Gloria: Would you please put my bag someplace that I can unpack?
Steve: All right, young lady; but, don't bully me!

Gloria: Would you like an all-day sucker?

Jean: Well, now, cut out the fairy tales. Why don't you tell me the truth?
Steve: I am telling you the truth!
Jean: Maybe that's why it sounds so funny.

Nick - Wine Waiter: If you think I'm going to get soft-hearted about a couple of guys that use a child to hold down their dinner checks, you're crazy.
Mortimer: Look here, look here, look here. You've got us all wrong.

Gloria: I like your name, Mr. Mortimer.
Mortimer: Oh, do you? Thank you, so much.
Gloria: I had a dog named Mortimer once. He wasn't a very good dog though. But, I liked him anyway.

Gloria: Do you know "Rolling in Money"?
Black Child Playing Harmonica: Sho 'nuff! Can you sing it?
Gloria: Sho 'nuff. You just play it and leave the rest to me.
Black Child Playing Harmonica: All right, boys, "Rolling in Money". Hit it!
Gloria: [singing] I'm rolling in money, Rolling in money, I'm up to my neck in do-re-mi, I'm rolling in money, Rolling in money...

Jean: I knew it. I knew it was too good to be true. I knew there was a catch in it. Why you cheap floor-flushers. Using a sweet little kid like that for a come-on to sell your phony watches.

Steve: You could get a job!
Steve: We're off again! Hat check girl turns reformer. Why don't you get a soap box and a tambourine.

Gloria: [imitating Greta Garbo] Vhy don't they leave me alone? I vant to be alone. I vork so hard. I am so ti-ired. I tink I go home.

Jean: I can't figure you out. First you're a heel and then you're a hero. I wish you'd make up your mind.

Gloria: [imitating Mae West] Do I make myself clear boys? Now, now, no wisecracks. Hmph, come up and see me sometime.

Jean: What she wants, you can't give her.

Gloria: [singing] I used to be a nothin', But I swore I'd be a somethin', Had to do it, Did it somehow, But, I'm a little big shot now...

Gloria: [singing] I tried to step like Ginger Rogers, Act like Hepburn for awhile...

[repeated line]
Steve: If I could only get ahold of some dough.

Mortimer: Would you mind repeating that order.
Soda Fountain Customer: A double caramel, strawberry, marshmallow, chocolate, oriental sundae with fresh fruit and pecans. Parfait.
Mortimer: Parfait?
Soda Fountain Customer: Parfait.
Mortimer: Oh, parfait. I couldn't interest you in a plain vanilla soda?

Mortimer: What do you think we better do?
Jean: I think you better get a job.
Mortimer: Oh, well, that's going too far.
Jean: You're going farther than that if you're going anywhere.

Jean: Say, Steve, I gotta tell you something. I wasn't going to, but, well - this is gonna be kind of a sock in the jaw
Steve: What's one more sock in the jaw.

Jean: Oh, you're such worthless guys. I wish I didn't like you.

Ralph Lewis - the Rajah: Hey, you know, Steve, you know, there' must be somethin' radically wrong with my crystal. You know, I shoulda prophesied all this.
Steve: Well, even we didn't know anything about the reward for the kidnappers. All of the sudden the newspapers dropped a bunch of dough right in our laps.
Mortimer: And then we got married.

[last lines]
Gloria: It's terrific.

Mortimer: Au revoir. Time files only to return.

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