Wally Cook Quotes in Nothing Sacred (1937)

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Wally Cook Quotes:

  • Wally Cook: For good clean fun, there's nothing like a wake.

    Hazel Flagg: Oh please, let's not talk shop.

  • Wally Cook: You've lived here all your life?

    Hazel Flagg: Twice that long.

  • Wally Cook: Listen, my dying swan, this is no time to stop faking! You're gonna have pneumonia and you're gonna have it good!

  • Wally Cook: You mean to say you stood there and let me beat a defenseless woman?

    Oliver Stone: I did, Mr. Cook.

    Wally Cook: Where's your sense of chivalry?

    Oliver Stone: My chivalry? Aren't you just a trifle confused, Mr. Cook? You hit her!

    Wally Cook: That's entirely different! I love her!

  • Wally Cook: I got in touch with Oliver, er, Oliver Stone my editor. He's toe dancing in the street waiting for us.

    Hazel Flagg: I hope he's nice like you.

    Wally Cook: Well he's got a different quality of charm. He's sort of a cross between a ferris wheel and a werewolf. But with a lovable streak if you care to blast for it.

  • Wally Cook: How do you feel, sailor?

    Hazel Flagg: Hunky-dory, skipper.

  • Wally Cook: [after Hazel kisses him several times] The biggest fire since Rome!

  • Hazel Flagg: I don't suppose newspaper men marry - as a rule.

    Wally Cook: Not after 14 or 15. That's the dangerous age for the journalist. His ideals are not yet formed and he falls easy prey to elderly waitresses.

  • Wally Cook: I used to love New York when it went ga-ga over some celebrity. It danced in the streets with a neon light around its heart. I'm getting fed up with its trick tears and phony lamentations over you.

    Hazel Flagg: Be glad then for me. It makes everything all right in a way. What I mean is, I wouldn't want to feel I was really making all those people suffer.

  • Hazel Flagg: I hate you!

    Wally Cook: You're going to have plenty of reasons to hate me. I'm going to show you cards and spades and lying for the next 50 years. I'm gonna pay you back for every lie you told. I'm gonna flirt and lie and cheat and swindle right through to our golden wedding.

    Hazel Flagg: Yeah, yeah. Let me hit you just once.

  • Wally Cook: New York is gonna lay it's heart at your feet, while the whistles blow, the bands play and the cameras grind.

  • Wally Cook: Sit tight and tuck in your ears.

  • Wally Cook: Listen, Max, ask him what she's sick with.

    Max Levinsky: He told me. He said it's something like the DTs, only the dope can't pronounce it.

  • Wally Cook: Take that ice pack off your head and fight.

    Hazel Flagg: No, no. What's the use? Why fool them any longer?

    Wally Cook: Because I love you. Because I'm going to marry you and I don't want to spend my honeymoon hanging around Sing Sing blowing kisses to you in the exercise yard! Come on, stop dogging! You've got to be bathed in perspiration!

  • Wally Cook: Say goodnight to Papa, now.

    Hazel Flagg: Why? What are you gonna do?

  • Wally Cook: Listen, Oliver, I tell you I'm innocent. I was just as fooled by Old Black Joe as you were. I believed everything he said, just as you did. Now, Oliver, either you cut out these fat-headed monkey shines of yours and let by-gones be by-gones, or I'm walking out of this fish trap right here and now.

    Oliver Stone: You're under contract to the "Star" for five more years. You're not in the position to resign. Unless you wish to retire from journalistic efforts over that period.

    Wally Cook: Oliver, you're not going to keep me pounding out obituaries for five years?

    Oliver Stone: Those are my plans, Mr. Cook.

  • Dr. Enoch Downer: From New York, huh? You don't happen to know of a newspaper called the "Morning Star"?

    Wally Cook: You have the honor, Dr. Downer, of addressing that newspaper's most gifted representative.

    Dr. Enoch Downer: Moses in the mountains! You're from the "Morning Star"?

  • Wally Cook: [Defeatedly] I could do better in darkest Africa.

  • Wally Cook: [to Hazel] Listen, either you give me your word of honor you won't try that again or I'll spank your little - !

  • Wally Cook: Are you stewed or something? I came in her for congratulations. What's up? What's eating you?

    Oliver Stone: I am sitting here, Mr. Cook, trying to figure some way out of the blackest disaster that has ever struck down an innocent man since the days of Judas Iscariot.

  • Wally Cook: Come on, baby! Come on, keep moving snake brains! Come on!

    Hazel Flagg: I'll kill you! Banging at me like, around like I was a prized pig with a blue ribbon on!

  • Oliver Stone: What if this kid doesn't die in three weeks? What if he just keeps on living?

    Wally Cook: Why, I wouldn't let him do a thing like that to you, Oliver!

    [Oliver does a reactive take]

  • Wally Cook: [to Oliver Stone] And there's always politics, Oliver. Think what it means to be a senator! Your mail goes for free.

  • Dr. Steve Harris: [flirtatiously on board a plane] Now you tell me where you live, and i'll pick you up.

    Wally Cook: My dear doctor, I live on the front page of the Morning Chronicle.

    Dr. Steve Harris: On the what?

    Wally Cook: [Louder] On the front page of the Morning Chronicle, and you can pick me up for seven cents! Now climb back in your horse and buggy and try your bedside manner on someone else!

    Dr. Steve Harris: [Hearing the screech of the wheels touching down on the runway] What was that?

    Wally Cook: We just came down to Earth!

  • Wally Cook: [to Homer] They'll boil you in oil in Macy's window after they marinate you for a week in Gimbel's.

  • Wally Cook: Oh, come on, Oliver, where's your sense of humor?

    Oliver Stone: [after she laughs] You were going to marry him. He would have done to you what he did to the paper.

    [she stops laughing]

    Wally Cook: [angrily] Why that two-timing little fraud!

    Oliver Stone: Where's YOUR sense of humor?

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