No Time for Comedy (1940)
Rosalind Russell: Linda Paige Esterbrook
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Quotes
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Linda Paige Esterbrook : [Crying] I don't want to lose him!
[Gaylord]
Philo Swift : Well, I don't want to lose Amanda either, but for a totally different reason. I don't want to have my tombstone cluttered up with the names of my formerly beloved wives. It would leave no room for the more important data.
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Philo Swift : [about Linda making Mandy cry] You needn't feel so proud, I make her cry all the time. It usually ends up with me giving her a check.
Linda Paige Esterbrook : I didn't give her a check, I think I just gave her my husband.
Philo Swift : In my office we'd list that transaction as petty cash.
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Gaylord 'Gay' Esterbrook : [after spending the night after the play on a park bench] Hey, you don't look bad for a girl who's just getting up in the morning!
Linda Paige Esterbrook : For a man who's been up all night you look great!
Gaylord 'Gay' Esterbrook : Don't get the idea that I'm an authority on girls getting up in the morning.
Linda Paige Esterbrook : Well, I'm not the last word on men staying up all night either.
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Philo Swift : When she said of your husband that he possesses latent possibilities as yet unrealized, I knew then his position was perilous. You see, my wife has a passion for developing latent powers. When they're not there, she invents them.
Linda Paige Esterbrook : [with an embarrassed laugh] I can't somehow - you'll forgive me...
Philo Swift : What?
Linda Paige Esterbrook : ...take your wife seriously as a rival. She's very pretty, very attractive, and I'm sure very gay.
Philo Swift : She's not gay. She's serious.
Linda Paige Esterbrook : But she looks so, uh, forgive me, "fluffy".
Philo Swift : She's a Lorelei with an intellectual patter.
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Linda Paige Esterbrook : Tell me, why do you always pick successes to inspire? Your husband was a rich, successful man when you married him. My husband is an established playwright, temporarily in the dumps. Why don't you stimulate someone obscure to greatness? Wouldn't that be more exciting?
Amanda Swift : The artist who has arrived and begins to doubt his talent - there's no more poignant tragedy than that.
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Gaylord 'Gay' Esterbrook : Gosh, I haven't kissed you for two months.
Linda Paige Esterbrook : That's nothing to brag about, you big, long drink of water.
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Linda Paige Esterbrook : Did you send a telegram to Gay wishing him luck?
Philo Swift : Yes, I sent him a telegram, but I forget what I wished him.
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Linda Paige Esterbrook : Uh, tell me, do you do anything else besides write plays?
Gaylord 'Gay' Esterbrook : Well, I'm editor of the Redfield Daily Reporter.
Linda Paige Esterbrook : Ohhh? A town of 700 people has a Daily Reporter?
Gaylord 'Gay' Esterbrook : It's 786... Well, it's - we call it the Daily Reporter. It comes out twice a month.
Linda Paige Esterbrook : Uh, huh. Isn't that confusing for your readers?
Gaylord 'Gay' Esterbrook : I don't know. I never thought of it. I guess it is.
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Linda Paige Esterbrook : Well, of course, if you married me, you'd have to give up your room at the "Y". Maybe you don't love me enough to make that sacrifice. Maybe you don't even love me at all.
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Linda Paige Esterbrook : Oh, uh, we'd be glad to buy a ticket for the Policeman's ball.
Police Sergeant : Get outta here. We don't want you at our affair.
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Linda Paige Esterbrook : I'd better get dressed for dinner. I'm going out with Mr. Carrell.
Clementine, Actress in Show : Well, heh, heh, it's a democracy and everybody's entitled to their own taste.
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Richard Benson : You know, he's an eccentric young man, even for a playwright.
Linda Paige Esterbrook : I can't argue with you there.
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Gaylord 'Gay' Esterbrook : I suppose you think Amanda's a complete idiot?
Linda Paige Esterbrook : I think she's a very clever idiot. But an idiot, just the same.