Jonathan Forbes Quotes in Pillow Talk (1959)

Hotel clerk: There's no phone number, but I have a forwarding address.

Jonathan Forbes: 241 Stoneybrook Road.

Hotel clerk: Why yes sir.

Jonathan Forbes: [slams counter] And you let her go.

Hotel clerk: Well, it wasn't my place...

Jonathan Forbes: No, it's my place, and I helped him pack.

Jonathan Forbes: You've been crying for 60 miles.

Brad Allen: Why don't you take her over for the rest of the evening?

Jonathan Forbes: Me?

Brad Allen: Yeah! Take her dancing maybe. She's dying to learn how to dance.

Jonathan Forbes: Wait wait. She doesn't know how to dance?

Brad Allen: Well naturally, she doesn't get out of the house very often.

Jonathan Forbes: What do you mean, "naturally"?

Brad Allen: Jonathan, believe me, you and Moose - I mean Miss Taggett will get along...

Jonathan Forbes: "Moose"?

Brad Allen: So what the girl picks up a nickname? You know, how cruel kids can be. Especially, when some is a little different.

Jonathan Forbes: Different? How Different?

Brad Allen: Well... You know...

[hesitatingly points to face]

Brad Allen: ... , just different.

Jonathan Forbes: [Pointing to a fat lady sitting at a table] That couldn't be her, could it?

Brad Allen: How can you tell?

[waves at the lady, who waves back]

Brad Allen: See? She's so friendly. C'mon.

Jonathan Forbes: Oh no! It's your muse. Happy Hunting!

[Gets coat, and leaves]

Brad Allen: Yes, indeed.

Jonathan Forbes: Owww!

Brad Allen: What?

Jonathan Forbes: That chair. It just bit me.

Jonathan Forbes: [after having awkwardly kissed Jan for the first time and seeing her unimpressed reaction] Well, they didn't hit the moon with the first missile shot either.

Jonathan Forbes: Brad, she is the sweetest, she is the loveliest, she is the most talented woman I have ever met.

Brad Allen: That's what you said when you married that stripper.

Jonathan Forbes: She wasn't a stripper. She was an exotic dancer... with trained doves.

Jonathan Forbes: In New York, you have air you can sink your teeth into. It has character.

Jonathan Forbes: What a delightful situation! The great Brad Allen, chopped down to size, floating down the river with the rest of us logs.

Brad Allen: Did she cry?

Jonathan Forbes: Cry? I never knew a woman that size had that much water in her.