Patch Gallagher Quotes in Dancing Lady (1933)

Patch Gallagher: Yes, yes, yes, the top spot. Where if you drop, you've got twice as far to fall. Maybe I'm a sap for trying. And maybe I can make something out of you, if you can stand up when I get through with you.

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I've got good legs, Mr. Gallagher.

Patch Gallagher: Yes, so I've noticed; but, don't let them run away with you.

[last lines]

Patch Gallagher: Say, what is this you're dishing out?

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Can't you take it?

[Kiss]

Steve: So, you took Warner, eh?

Patch Gallagher: Yeah, I know she's not so hot, but with all the real talent going Hollywood, you've got to make the best of what you can get.

Steve: We'll be down to using midgets pretty soon.

Patch Gallagher: Well, work on her. Use a whip if you have to, she's got to be loosened up by the time we open.

Steve: I'll offer her candy, maybe she like's candy.

Patch Gallagher: Offer her anything, but, more money.

Jasper Bradley, Sr.: You didn't really mean to walk out on me just for a few costumes.

Patch Gallagher: Rather than send beautiful girls out in those, I'd let them go on naked.

Jasper Bradley, Jr.: You know, Papa, that's a swell idea.

Jasper Bradley, Sr.: That's the same idea that got you kicked out of school!

Patch Gallagher: Hey, look, those guys are a lot of silk hats and silk socks with nothing between. That's what all these dames fall for. Don't let it fool you. It never works out.

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: But...

Patch Gallagher: Dancing is your racket, Duchess, I know it.

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I'm not going to run out on you.

Patch Gallagher: Maybe I ought to speak Cuban! And it's the same in any language!

Patch Gallagher: I don't mix business with pleasure.

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Well, it'd be a pleasure to me if you'd mind your own business.

Patch Gallagher: Yeah? Say, listen, its my business to see that you gals keep your shapes, Duchess.

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: You mean to see that we don't give 'em away.

Patch Gallagher: Hey, listen, did you ever take a look at a dame who's been out too many nights? The customers out front just love it!

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Will you stop beefin'! You're not on the stage now.

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Shake.

Patch Gallagher: Now, will ya...

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Beat it! Yeah, I know. I'll beat it.

Patch Gallagher: Do you feel like going through that opening number with Mr. Astaire?

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: All right.

Patch Gallagher: Freddie!

Fred Astaire: Yes, Pat.

Patch Gallagher: Show Miss Barlow the routine on that opening number, will you?

Fred Astaire: I'd love to.

Patch Gallagher: I've been in this racquet for years. If you don't get a good break, you get a bad one. That's show business.

Patch Gallagher: Listen, Steve, Bradley can't do this to me. I'm gonna carry this show myself. I'm gonna produce it! I've got some dough! And what I haven't got, I'll get! I'll hock my car, my clothes, my house, everything!

Steve: That's great. And-and-and-and I got some, I got some money I been hoarding against the next Depression. And you can have every dime of it!

Patch Gallagher: All right! Drag it out!

Patch Gallagher: Even the creditors are wise. Hangin' around like a pack of hungry wolves.

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: But, don't you see, if you could show 'em a hit.

Patch Gallagher: You can't kid them. I'll be lucky if they let the curtain go up. They know a hit from a bust!

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: Oh, Pat, if its gonna be a bust, let me be there when it happens.

Janie 'Duchess' Barlow: I saw your face once, in the wings. It made me feel as if everything I was doin' was wrong.

Patch Gallagher: I guess I got that kind of a face.