Amy Lind Quotes in The Strawberry Blonde (1941)

Amy Lind: You're not a very easy person to get to know, Mr. Grimes.

Biff Grimes: Well, that's the kind of a hairpin I am.

Biff Grimes: I uh, I guess a little kiss is harmless if it's all in fun.

Amy Lind: Even if it isn't in fun.

Biff Grimes: You mean - -?

Amy Lind: Exactly.

Biff Grimes: Well, wouldn't you like a nice, young man to marry you someday?

Amy Lind: No, not particularly.

Biff Grimes: So you don't believe in the institution of marriage!

Amy Lind: An outmoded, silly convention started by the cavemen and encouraged by the florists and jewelers. After all, what's marriage?

Biff Grimes: Wouldn't you like to have a home and kids?

Amy Lind: Certainly I would, but that doesn't mean you have to go through all the...

Biff Grimes: You mean - -?

Amy Lind: Exactly.

[she winks]

Biff Grimes: I'm gonna have a smoke.

Amy Lind: May I have one too, please?

Biff Grimes: Oh, sure. Hey! Don't tell me you smoke!

Amy Lind: Only when I'm bored.

Biff Grimes: Well, your mother's a bloomer girl, you're a nicotine fiend, are there any more at home like you?

Amy Lind: I have an aunt who's an actress.

Biff Grimes: Well, that completes the picture. I've been around, they can say an awful lot of things about Biff Grimes, but not that he ever gave a cigarette to a girl.

Amy Lind: There's something about the country air.

Biff Grimes: Hm?

Amy Lind: I said, there's something about the country air.

Biff Grimes: I like city air.

Amy Lind: Well... there really isn't any difference between city air and country air. They're both hydrogen, and oxygen, and -...

Biff Grimes: Air! You can't even see it, so why talk about it?

Virginia Brush: I don't want him to think I am staring at him. You look at him and tell me what you think of him.

Amy Lind: Well, the only one I can see clearly from here is the horse,

[hesitates]

Amy Lind: and I'm disappointed in him.

Amy Lind: [as Hugo and Biff speed by]

Amy Lind: Here they come.

Virginia Brush: [excitedly] They're just trying to make an impression.

Amy Lind: [bewildered] Do you think we'll ever see them again?

Virginia Brush: [excited whisper] The street runs in a circle; they should be back any minute.

Amy Lind: Oh for goodness sake, Virginia, cut out the nonsense. This is a pre-arranged date and we all know it. I've got to get back on duty by 11, so come on, let's shake our tootsies.

Virginia Brush: Amy!

Amy Lind: Oh 'Amy!' my Grandmother's hot water bottle!

Biff Grimes: [muttering to Hugo] She's fast.

Hugo F. Barnstead: [under breath] Yeah.

Amy Lind: [Virginia is disappointed that Amy didn't change]

Amy Lind: I'm proud of my uniform. It's a sign to the men that women not only have the same right to work as the men, but that in the eyes...

Virginia Brush: Ooh hush, Amy. You're not at a suffragette meeting now!

Amy Lind: [continuing her tirade] The tyranny for man or for woman. The stupid convention that says a woman will wear such and such. The...

Virginia Brush: Please, Amy, just tonight, try to be a woman not a pamphlet.

Amy Lind: [she stands up, looking at the sky] Women throughout the ages... oh, it's a lovely night.

Amy Lind: [Amy winks at a man in the park]

Virginia Brush: Amy!

Amy Lind: Yes, dear.

Virginia Brush: If there's something in your eye, Amy, I'll help you get it out.

Amy Lind: Oh, bosh. There's nothing in my eye, I just plain and simple winked at him that's all.

Virginia Brush: No, Amy. Either he's an old friend of the family's or there's something in your eye.

Amy Lind: I never saw him before in my life until a few minutes ago when I passed Fisher's drug store.

Virginia Brush: [excited] Oh, Amy. He followed you here?

Amy Lind: No. I followed him.

Virginia Brush: Oh, Amy.

Virginia Brush: [Biff and Hugo arrive in the park]

Virginia Brush: Now listen. We won't say a word to them. Just let them pass. Of course if they say something, we'll say something.

Amy Lind: And if they don't say anything, we won't say anything.

Virginia Brush: No. Just drop your eyes.

Amy Lind: Drop my eyes?

Virginia Brush: Yes. That'll show them we're good girls and they can't trifle with us.

Amy Lind: Well, for goodness sakes, what did we come here for if not to be trifled with.

Amy Lind: [Amy accuses her of asking Hugo out without being properly introduced]

Virginia Brush: Why I never did any such thing! I simply happened to mention that I was in habit of taking walks in the park with my girlfriend. And besides in moral I didn't wink.

Amy Lind: Don't be a hypocrite, Virginia. Spiritually, you winked.

Amy Lind: [Amazed at the chandelier] I just can't gt over that electric light. Isn't it dangerous?

Hugo F. Barnstead: [Amusing himself] Oh, not if you pay the bills.

Virginia Brush: [waiting to meet their dates] Now listen. We won't say a word to them. Just let them pass. Oh, of course, if they say something, we'll say something.

Amy Lind: And if they don't say anything, we won't say anything.

Virginia Brush: No, just drop your eyes.

Amy Lind: Drop my eyes?

Virginia Brush: Yes. That'll show them we're good girls and they can't trifle with us.

Amy Lind: Well for goodness sakes what did we come here for if not to be trifled with?