Tess Trueheart Quotes in Dick Tracy (1990)

[last lines]

Tess Trueheart: Well, what are you waitin' for? A nice, safe desk?

Dick Tracy: Tess?

[Tracy tosses her a wedding ring]

Dick Tracy: You're one in a million.

'Kid': This is amazing, Tracy! What are you waitin' for? Come on, let's go! Come on, Metropolitan Bank! Come on, step on it! You know somethin', Tracy? I kind of like that dame.

Tess Trueheart: You'll get Big Boy.

Dick Tracy: Big Boy's on the street and they want to stick me behind a desk?

Tess Trueheart: They believe in you, Tracy. They think if you're chief of police, the city'll be safe.

Dick Tracy: Tess, there's about as much chance of me getting behind a desk as there is of me getting a new girlfriend.

[when Tess turns her head backwards, the Kid quickly snatches a bill that Tracy left]

'Kid': You two married?

Tess Trueheart: No. Would you like a broken arm?

[the Kid throws back the money on the table in disgust]

'Kid': I don't like dames.

Tess Trueheart: Good. Me neither.

[last lines]

[Dick Tracy breaks another date with Tess to pursue a villain]

Tess Trueheart: [sigh] Sometimes, I wish I had been a super criminal.

Vitamin Flintheart: Why, my dear?

Tess Trueheart: Because then I might get to see something of Mr. Dick Tracy!