Ted Riley Quotes in It's Always Fair Weather (1955)

Kid Mariacchi: Where do you have to go?

Ted Riley: Tim's Bar on Third Avenue. It's a long way from here.

Kid Mariacchi: You're nuts. It's ten minutes.

Ted Riley: No, it's ten years.

Ted Riley: Look lady, if you'll excuse, you don't have to hang around with me all evening. I wish I didn't have to hang around with myself.

Jackie Leighton: But, Ted, aren't you in terrible danger?

Ted Riley: Yeah. Yeah, I'm in terrible danger. I'm in danger of believing that look on your face.

Ted Riley: I'm mixed up with some of the shadiest characters in town. As a matter of fact, knowing the inspiring and uplifting work you do on this program, I - I feel terrible showing my face in decent homes across the country. Boys, don't be like me. Live clean. Use Klenzrite.

Ted Riley: I think you're about the prettiest program coordinator I've ever seen. You know, eh, a fella's not safe alone in a cab with a girl these days.

Jackie Leighton: All right.

[Leans over and give Ted a long, long kiss]

Jackie Leighton: Okay. Satisified? I just couldn't face the boredom of fighting you off for the next ten blocks. Its the simplest method of my own invention: remove the initiative of the rude male and he'll retire in confusion. Now, while you're retiring in confusion, I'll do a little work.

Ted Riley: What kind of a screwball are you?

Jackie Leighton: To save you the strain of trying to understand me, I'll give you the salient facts: graduate of Barnard, summa cume laude; career girl; I'm fairly pretty - which is a nuisance; I attract a lot of men at first - but, I can always find a way of getting rid of them and then everybodies happy all around. In short, I can always scare them off.

Jackie Leighton: As Shakespeare says in The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 7: Most friendship is feigning, most loving - mere folly.

Ted Riley: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Well, in some ways, you and me and Shakespeare see eye-to-eye.

Jackie Leighton: See, you didn't bother me in the least on the rest of the trip. My own invention.

Ted Riley: That invention's gonna explode in your face someday, Einstein.

Jackie Leighton: I wouldn't bet on that.

Ted Riley: You know, there's a lot of things you shouldn't bet on; like that Shakespeare quote, for instance. It ain't The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 7. It's As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7: Heigh-ho, sing heigh-ho! Unto the green holly, Most friendship is feigning, most loving - mere folly.

Ted Riley: Well, well, well, right on the dot. Are you always this prompt?

Jackie Leighton: Yes. I'm - just a machine.

Ted Riley: Good, I love to tinker with machinery.

Ted Riley: Louie, you're a gentleman and a scholar.

Ted Riley: I don't get you. First, it was strictly - no dice, for which I can hardly blame ya, and now - you - I don't figure a broad like you.

Jackie Leighton: I don't get you. You talk like a muck or you try to. But, obviously, well, that Shakespeare quote.

Ted Riley: You know something, I used to think I was greater than Babe Ruth, Justice Hall and Dick Tracy rolled into one.

Jackie Leighton: What did they think you were going to turn out to be?

Ted Riley: Oh, nothin' much. Just a great man. I have a sneaking feeling I've let them down just a wee bit.