The Half-Naked Truth (1932)

Eugene Pallette: Achilles

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• Achilles : [Noticing a young, attractive hotel maid]  Say, girlie, I been watchin' you. What's a nice girl like you doing work like this for?

  Gladys, aka Ella Beebee and Eve : Oh, I'm only doing this temporary. I'm going to be a secretary as soon as I learn to spell better.

  Achilles : Oh, you oughta' be on the stage!

  Gladys, aka Ella Beebee and Eve : I thought of that, too, but I never got around to it.

• Achilles : I wish you wouldn't talk about eatin'. I saw the fat girl this morning and she's down to 112 pounds.

• James 'Jimmy' Bates : What this show needs is a good Press Agent. That guy we got is so dumb he couldn't sell a fat boy to a tribe of cannibals!

  Achilles : I wish you'd can that chatter about eatin'.

  James 'Jimmy' Bates : If this guy is a Press Agent, I am a bird of paradise!

• Teresita : Oh, you are crazy!

  James 'Jimmy' Bates : All pioneers are crazy until they die and then they get a monument.

  Achilles : Who wants a monument?

• Gladys, aka Ella Beebee and Eve : "To be, or not to be, that is the question. Is it best to go on suffering or should one end it all with a bare body?" What does that mean?

  Achilles : It's bodkin!

  Gladys, aka Ella Beebee and Eve : What's a bodkin?

  Achilles : Oh, let's just pass that.

• James 'Jimmy' Bates : Well, you got to get some fun out of life.

  Achilles : Sure.

  James 'Jimmy' Bates : What good is life if you don't get some fun out of it?

• Achilles : Did you ever hear anything from the tamale?

• Teresita : Oh, you're crazy.

  James 'Jimmy' Bates : All pioneers are crazy, till they die - then they get a monument.

  Achilles : Who wants a monument?.