Gangway (1937)

Jessie Matthews: Pat Wayne

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Quotes 

• Bob : I'll resign from the force and have the captain marry us.

  Pat Wayne : No, I can't let you marry a crime wave.

• Bob : I don't think you're a crook after all.

  Pat Wayne : Stop talking shop.

  Bob : Who's talking shop? I'm making love to you.

• Bob : I beg your pardon. I hope you don't think I'm following you.

  Pat Wayne : I can hardly think that so long as you're in front of me.

• Pat Wayne : That's the life, Joe. You know you're alive there. Working for a newspaper means something real.

  Joe : Sure. Nothing ever happens in England. Those birds in America have all the fun. Gangsters!

  Pat Wayne : Riots!

  Joe : Fires!

  Pat Wayne : Earthquakes!

  Joe : Revolutions!

  Pat Wayne : Floods!

  Joe : Stick-ups!

  Pat Wayne : Murders!

  Joe : Gee, what a swell country to live in.

• Pat Wayne : But, chief, I can't be a lady's maid.

  Daily Journal Editor : You won't be. She's no lady.

• Pat Wayne : I want action.

  Daily Journal Editor : Nedda'll give you all the action you can stand.

• Pat Wayne : I'm doing my best, madam.

  Nedda Beaumont : Who cares about your best? It's my best that counts.

• Nedda Beaumont : I see you served Lady Pendragon.

  Pat Wayne : [Looking over Nedda's shoulder at her reference letter]  Oh, yes, I... I did, didn't I?

  Nedda Beaumont : Why did you leave?

  Pat Wayne : Well, you see, her ladyship sort of disappeared.

  Nedda Beaumont : Disappeared? One can't just disappear.

  Pat Wayne : Oh, Lady Pendragon did. It was the strangest thing. But, one moment she was sitting there, and the next moment she wasn't.

  Nedda Beaumont : Well, what of it? A lady can't sit down forever. Maybe she had somewhere to go.

  Pat Wayne : A lot of the family still hold to that theory. But everybody else who goes somewhere has always come back.

• Pat Wayne : Just think, Joe, what fun it is to be a newspaper woman like the ones in the American movies. Wise-cracking with the boss, sitting around with the boys. Then the alarm, and off you go.

• Pat Wayne : You're going the wrong way. That's where the shooting is.

  Smiles Hogan : Cut the clownin', c'mon.

• Smiles Hogan : [Holding a gun on a Justice of the Peace who's in bed]  C'mon, Pop. Snap into it! This guy's an oil

  [earl] 

  Smiles Hogan : .

  Pat Wayne : Lay off, Smiles. Me and the oil will handle this.

• Pat Wayne : I'm not afraid.

  Greta Brand : Then why are your teeth clattering?

  Pat Wayne : Because I'm afraid. No I'm not.