Ted Baker Quotes in Born to Dance (1936)

Ted Baker: Hello.

Nora Paige: Hello, what's the thing about?

Ted Baker: Well, boy meets girl.

Nora Paige: Oh, I see. Well, boy loses girl.

Ted Baker: Boy gets girl back.

Nora Paige: Not so fast, sailor.

Ted Baker: You're not very patriotic.

Nora Paige: I am, but I'm not uniform-crazy.

Dorinda Durston: ...so he sees this building on fire and then just outside of town is this reservoir, so what he does is...

Ted Baker: He takes a plane, he goes over the reservoir, fills it with water, dumps it, puts the fire out.

Dorinda Durston: No! He missed. He hit the post office next door. Knocked it on its ass! It took him three tries. The town was awash; the groceries were burned. It was fire, flood and famine. If he could have managed plague, it would have been the four horsemen of the apocalypse in one PBY. I mean he was unique.

Ted Baker: Well, I'll tell ya there, missy. You sure do look purty when you're angry. Wah-huh.

Dorinda Durston: Oh, so you do impressions?

Ted Baker: Well, just that one.

Dorinda Durston: Uh-huh. Who was it?

Ted Baker, Pete Sandich: [astounded] Who was it?

Dorinda Durston: Was it James Stewart?

Pete Sandich: What are you, kidding me? Who did you think it was, Henry Fonda?

Ted Baker: Well, I'll tell ya there, little missy, you sure do look purty when you're angry! Wah-huh!

Dorinda Durston: Henry Fonda.

Ted Baker: John Wayne! Don't you know John Wayne?

Dorinda Durston: John Wayne? That was John Wayne? Do it again! I'll probably recognize it if I know who it is!

Ted Baker: [being serenaded by the other pilots after a botched exercise] This is first place, right?

[Al comes roaring up in a jeep, covered in fire retardant; the crowd falls silent]

Al Yackey: Cute. Now we know how ready you are. We're gonna be coming into fire season soon, and if we get a big one - a real big one - they're gonna be calling guys from all over the place. They're gonna be calling veterans, first-timers, guys from all over the country if they have to. And when they call me, they're gonna say, 'Al, whaddya got?' And I'm gonna tell them I ain't got nothin'. 'Cause you're nothin'! What you did today was nothin'! Hell, you can't even hit a smoking oil drum, and a drum ain't a tree! A tree can explode like a bomb! A tree can go up like a Roman candle! And an oil drum don't have any heat! In a real fire, there's heat! There's heat that can suck you under, flip you over! There's currents that can tie a knot in a windsock! And Baker - Baker, you're on the bus. I'm going to San Diego and when I get back tomorrow, I don't want to see you in here.

Al Yackey: [after taking a distress call from the smoke jumpers] Get on the radio to the Helibase. Have the choppers warmed up and standing by.

Ted Baker: [heading for the radio set] Libby Operations Shack to Helibase, come in.

Pete Sandich: Ted, those choppers are forty miles away. They fly at a hundred miles an hour.

Ted Baker: Libby Operations Shack to Helibase. Come in.

Pete Sandich: We're twelve miles away. We fly at 220 miles an hour.

Air Traffic Controller: Libby Operations, this is Helibase. We read you. Over.

Ted Baker: Air Attack 63-Echo, this is the operations shack. We will be handling this incident from here! Contact the jumper boss at Dhole Mountain and ascertain their exact location for me.

[Ted is hearing Pete's words in his head as his own thoughts]

Bartender: What'll it be?

Pete Sandich: Extra dry vodka martini. Don't forget the olive.

Ted Baker: Root beer. Don't forget the olive.