Princess O'Rourke (1943)

Minor Watson: Mr. Washburn

Quotes 

• Mr. Washburn : Your position in the royal family is most important. You're to have children. If possible, boys.

  Eddie O'Rourke : Well, that's not a full day's work. What else do I do?

  Mr. Washburn : Nothing else.

  Eddie O'Rourke : Nothing?

  Mr. Washburn : Nothing.

• Mr. Washburn : The next is merely you giving up your American citizenship.

  Eddie O'Rourke : What's that?

  Mr. Washburn : You give up your American citizenship.

  Eddie O'Rourke : That's it. Why?

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : It's customary in our family.

  Eddie O'Rourke : It's not customary in my family.

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : Your family?

  Eddie O'Rourke : Yes, I've got a family. I didn't grow on a bush.

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : I don't like your tone of voice, young man.

  Eddie O'Rourke : I can't help that.

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : You'll apologize, and immediately.

  Eddie O'Rourke : Or?

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : Or? Or, there'll be no marriage.

  Eddie O'Rourke : I was just coming to that.

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : What's that?

  Eddie O'Rourke : I'm not marrying "her highness."

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : You're not marrying her highness?

  Mr. Washburn : Let's not be hasty. Perhaps we should discuss this alone.

  Eddie O'Rourke : No, it's better this way. I'm not giving up any American citizenship. I've never gotten over how lucky I was to be born here in the first place. And I didn't ask any "highness" to get married. I asked a girl I thought was a homeless refugee who was getting a job as an upstairs maid. And I thought other things about her, too. You'd be surprised what I thought.

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : This man is demented.

  Eddie O'Rourke : I couldn't take an allowance from my wife and I couldn't ask you for permission to leave the room. I wasn't raised that way. But even that's not important. But what do I say to my kid when he asks me what I did in the war. You know what I have to say? Son, there was a big fight, the biggest fight the world was ever in, the most important. But I couldn't make it. I was at a flower show. I'd be ashamed of myself. And I thought that you were ashamed when you had to tell those woman that you couldn't sew or knit or cook or anything but you could learn something. Even knitting a sweater helps. And if it's knit badly, I'll wear it just the same. You knit and I'll fly an airplane. What do you say, Mary?

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : Don't you dignify him with an answer.

  Eddie O'Rourke : I want you to marry me.

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : You heard me, Maria.

  Eddie O'Rourke : I'm crazy about you, Mary.

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : Maria!

  Eddie O'Rourke : He can't do anything after we're married. We'll have a lot of fun, Mary, if we love each other.

  Holman - Maria's Uncle : Maria, our family goes back 1200 years.

  Eddie O'Rourke : That's overrated, Mary. Mine goes back to Adam and Eve.