Pola Debevoise Quotes in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Schatze Page: I can't shack up with a dame I've never met before and she's crazy too!

Pola Debevoise: You don't have to. She'll come up and you'll see if you like her. If you don't...

Schatze Page: Is she any help to this?

Pola Debevoise: Let's see

[over the phone to Loco]

Pola Debevoise: Hey Loc, how much money you got?

Loco Dempsey: [on the phone] I got a quarter.

Pola Debevoise: Great. Pick up lunch on your way over.

Loco Dempsey: Ok, how many.

Pola Debevoise: Three

Loco Dempsey: Ok, I'll be there in 15 minutes.

[hangs up]

Schatze Page: Well that's a big contribution to a million dollar proposition. One whole quarter!

Pola Debevoise: Maybe, but she's awfully clever with a quarter.

Loco Dempsey: I wouldn't mind marrying a Vanderbilt?

Pola Debevoise: Or Mr. Cadillac.

Schatze Page: No such person. I checked.

Loco Dempsey: Is there a Mr. Texaco?

Pola Debevoise: I want to marry Rockefeller.

Schatze Page: Which one?

Pola Debevoise: I don't care.

Pola Debevoise: Men aren't attentive to girls who wear glasses.

Loco Dempsey: I'll say this for him: we haven't ordered anything yet under five dollars a portion!

Pola Debevoise: If there's anything left over don't forget to tell the waiter you want to take it home for the dog.

Schatze Page: I was nuts about him. Know what he did to me. First he gave me a phony name. Second, he was already married. Third, the minute the preacher said amen, he never did another tap of work. Then he stole my TV set and gave it to a car hop. When I asked him about that, he hit me with a chicken.

Pola Debevoise: A live chicken?

Schatze Page: No, a baked chicken; stuffed.