Bruce Templeton Quotes in The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

Bruce Templeton: This vault of 10-inch steel plate will open only to the frequency of my own voice repeating this equation: G for gamma, B for beta, A for alpha, Omega for open sesame.

Edgar Hill: I want to talk to you a minute. Those phone calls, there is no question about it. She's an agent, operating for the...

Bruce Templeton: She's no more an agent than you are! And if you're the best the CIA can come up with, this country is in big trouble!

Edgar Hill: Now look here! We'll have to detain her.

Bruce Templeton: Mrs Nelson can leave here whenever she wishes!

Edgar Hill: What's that noise?

Bruce Templeton: What? Oh, well I locked her in the closet.

Jennifer Nelson: Hey! What in heavens name do you think you're doing?

Bruce Templeton: You talkin' to me?

Jennifer Nelson: Yes I'm talking to you! That's my suit on your line!

Bruce Templeton: Oh I'm sorry... that's a funny looking suit.

Jennifer Nelson: It's my mermaid tail. and would you please throw it back?

Bruce Templeton: Well it's kind of difficult. it's all tangled. Why don't you come aboard, and I'll untangle it for you

Jennifer Nelson: Well THAT's a little difficult too, since I'm BOTTOMLESS!

Bruce Templeton: Hey! You're the mermaid

Jennifer Nelson: Yes, I'm the mermaid

Bruce Templeton: Didn't recognize you with your clothes on.

Jennifer Nelson: Aaah! Aaah! Who are you? Who is he?

Bruce Templeton: Zack Malloy, my partner. He drops in every now and then to molest women.

Jennifer Nelson: That sign over there, that says "No Fishing".

Bruce Templeton: I wasn't exactly fishing.

Jennifer Nelson: Then what were you doing?

Bruce Templeton: Maybe I was hunting for mermaids.

Jennifer Nelson: I'm going to have you arrested.

Bruce Templeton: They're going to have you arrested, for going around without your bottom.

Bruce Templeton: We never did get to introduce ourselves did we?

Jennifer Nelson: Well let's leave it that way, shall we?

Bruce Templeton: It just seems I know owe you one shoe and one mermaid's tail.

Bruce Templeton: Are you or are you not the girl in the glass bottom boat?

Jennifer Nelson: I are ?

Bruce Templeton: ...And I'm partial to blonde foreign agents. Is that it?