Mabel Anderson Quotes in Swing Time (1936)

Mabel Anderson: Beautiful, isn't it?

Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: What is?

Mabel Anderson: The music.

Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: What music?

Mabel Anderson: The music they're playing.

Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: Oh, yeah.

[pause]

Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: What made you think of it?

Mabel Anderson: Think of what?

Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: The music.

Mabel Anderson: [said sarcastically] Oh, I don't know; my mind was wandering, I guess.

Mabel Anderson: [Mable thinks she's talking to Pop and turns to a young lady sitting at one of the tables] Oh, listen girlie! Don't worry about me. I always talk to myself... you see, I'm my own grandmother and I have to keep the old girl interested!

Mabel Anderson: I used to go there in the summer as a kid. You know, before the war.

Everett 'Pop' Cardetti: Which war?

Mabel Anderson: [after having just been hit in the face with a snowball] You know, snow tastes just as bad as water.