Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)

James Ellison: Mike

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• Mr. Borden : Well, Michael, there seems to be a touch of spring in the air.

  Mike : Yes sir, that's something even the poor people can enjoy.

• Mary Grey : Why don't you stop shooting off your mouth until you know what you're talking about.

  Mike : Well, if there weren't people like those in there, there wouldn't be people like me.

  Mary Grey : There'd be people like you no matter what happens.

• Mike : You're blaming me?

  Mary Grey : I'm blaming you for being a dope! You're in love and you haven't enough spunk to fight for the thing you want.

  Mike : I won't listen to such nonsense.

  Mary Grey : You try to make everyone else unhappy. You try to make people believe things you don't even believe yourself.

  Mike : So! You know all about me.

  Mary Grey : You're like a pane of glass to me, brother. You haven't the courage to be a capitalist yourself so you try to drag everybody else down to where you are.

  Mike : You're a capitalistic pawn.

  Mary Grey : I'm a what?

  Mike : You're a renegade to your class!

  Mary Grey : You can't talk to me that way and get away with it!

• Mike : I shall never forget my proletariat beginnings! Come on, babe.

• Mike : You get my goat!

  Mary Grey : Where'd you get it in the first place?

• Mike : [after being uestioned by the family about Borden's activities]  The nocturnal meanderings of the upper class do not interest me!

  Tim Borden : Might as well be civil!

  Mike : [Haughtily]  Only when civil liberties are in danger.

• Mike : If they took all the money away from the rich like yourselves, everyone in this country would have $500.

  Olga : How dare you! I've got $2,500 saved up, and you and your bunch are not touching it.