Richard Nugent Quotes in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Richard Nugent: Hey, you remind me of a man.

Susan Turner: What man?

Richard Nugent: Man with the power.

Susan Turner: What power?

Richard Nugent: Power of hoodoo.

Susan Turner: Hoodoo?

Richard Nugent: You do.

Susan Turner: Do what?

Richard Nugent: Remind me of a man...

Richard Nugent: Hi! Mellow greetings, yookie dookie!

Matt Beemish: I'm the court psychiatrist.

Richard Nugent: Come back in an hour. I'll be crazy by then.

Matt Beemish: As Menninger clearly points out, traumatic events...

Richard Nugent: [interrupting] The only traumatic event she needs is a good smack in the jaw!

Matt Beemish: She's my niece... but you're absolutely right.

Richard Nugent: [Jerry is sitting in his car in front of the Turner house] Jerry, what are you doing out here? Why don't you go inside?

Jerry White: I'm not welcome. I'm a square in Susan's social circle.

Richard Nugent: Nonsense, I'm sure Susan doesn't know you're out here.

Jerry White: She put me here.

Richard Nugent: Oh.

Joey: [Susan arrives at their table in a rage] Is this your daughter, Judge?

Richard Nugent: [shocked that he'd insinuate Margaret is old enough to have a teenage daughter] It's her sister!

Joey: Funny, you look enough alike to be mother and daughter!

Margaret: [annoyed] Sisters look alike too.

Agnes Prescott: I hate my sister.

Waiter at Tick Tock Club: [to Nugent after he has been yelled at, insulted, slapped, had champagne tossed in his face and been stuck with the check] Can I get you anything else, sir?

Richard Nugent: For instance?

Susan: Have you ever married?

Richard Nugent: No.

Susan: Have you ever been in love?

Richard Nugent: Yes I have. Tell me what kind of paper does this school run?

Susan: Oh, all the students read it.

Richard Nugent: I'll bet they do.

Susan: Did you have many ordeals before you became a success?

Richard Nugent: No, I...

Susan: You can talk to me. I want you to think of me, not as a newspaper woman, but as a friend.

Richard Nugent: Well, in that case, I'll tell you. I did suffer. When I was 10, my mother and father had a double suicide pact, they made it. I was sent to an orphanage. Some days they didn't beat me. Then one night I escaped, I ran away to New York. I used to steal.

Susan: What did you steal?

Richard Nugent: Beg your pardon?

Susan: What did you steal?

Richard Nugent: Crusts of bread... and things. One time I stole a valise. There were paints and paintbrushes inside. So I began to paint. Then they got me. I was sent to a reform school, but I escaped again.

Susan: Go on.

Richard Nugent: Back to new York. A weathly society lady saw my work, fell in love with me and sent me to art school. The rest is history.

Susan: How wonderful. How terribly wonderful.

Richard Nugent: Could we do this some other time? I've got a date.

Susan: Then you're not married?

Richard Nugent: No.

Susan: I knew you weren't. You just couldn't be.

Richard Nugent: Oh I've had some offers.

Richard Nugent: Ready boot, let's scoot!

Matt Beemish: But I've got a plan.

Richard Nugent: I've had enough of your plans and your whole family.

Richard Nugent: Thank you, Your Honor, may I go?

Judge Margaret Turner: You've just got here, don't you like our court?

Susan: Well, my attitude is that one female judge in the family is enough.

Richard Nugent: Did you say that your name was Turner?

Susan: That's right! My sister is Judge Margaret Turner.

Richard Nugent: Nice to have met the family, bye.