Boys' Night Out (1962)

James Garner: Fred Williams

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Quotes 

• [the boys are discussing which one of the four boys will get it on with Cathy on Mondays] 

  Fred Williams : I'm busy Monday nights.

  Doug Jackson : That busy?

  Fred Williams : Monday night the Greenwich Little League Association meets.

  George Drayton : Little league? This is big league stuff, baby. Night games.

• Fred Williams : What would you do? If a close friend of yours was carrying the torch for a girl that was acting like a - tramp.

  Slattery : How bad is he hooked?

  Fred Williams : About as bad as you can get. When he remembers the score, he knows he's on the loser's end. But, when the remembers the girl, he forgets the score. He just stops thinking!

  Slattery : Some guys use their heads. Some guys just plunge.

• Fred Williams : [Slattery, the bartender, has just given Williams some good advice]  You know something, Mr. Slattery? You know something, Mr. Slattery.

• Cathy : Fred, what's the matter?

  Fred Williams : The matter? It's one thing for a girl to be - to go wrong. A guy'd have to be pretty narrow-minded not to overlook a thing like that. But to make me a miserable guinea pig? To use a guy for, for an experiment? To be a dirty, contemptible... *sociologist*! That's about as low as you can get!

• Fred Williams : In view of past history, I don't think Cathy and I will be seeing any of you again.

  Howard McIllenny : Oh, don't say that Fred. You're not going to let a dame like that bust up a friendship.

  Fred Williams : A dame like what?

  Howard McIllenny : Well, gee, Fred! You know, a dame who...

  Fred Williams : That does it. Stand up, buster.

  Howard McIllenny : I am standing up.

  Fred Williams : If you had any guts, you'd be taller.

• Fred Williams : It's a very important

  [little league] 

  Fred Williams : game, really. We're battling it out for sixth place.

• Fred Williams : Are you guys bucking for the snake pit?

• Fred Williams : As a famous philosopher once wrote, "If you could get milk for a penny a quart, you wouldn't keep a cow."

  Ethel Williams : No. Not if all you wanted was milk.

  Fred Williams : What else would I want from a cow?

  Ethel Williams : I don't know. Companionship?

• Doug Jackson : Of all the bonehead leads!

  Fred Williams : I'm sorry, partner. I'm just not with it today.

  Howard McIllenny : Slam, Game, and Rubber!

• Fred Williams : I thought you meant my ad. George's ad. He put one in too.

  Cathy : Where is it? Show me.

  Fred Williams : It's not in today's paper.

  Cathy : Yesterday's?

  Fred Williams : Tomorrow's.

  Cathy : And you thought I answered it today?

• George Drayton : Now we got to put that genius to work on one more little job.

  Doug Jackson : Right!

  George Drayton : Our companion!

  Fred Williams : Oh, come on fellas. Now, listen, let's not go into the details right now, huh?

  George Drayton : Just a small detail, Fred. One warm, delectable, luscious, juicy blonde.

  Cathy : [walks in from another room]  Hello, boys. I'm Cathy. When would you like me to begin?

• Fred Williams : You're not waiting around to see them?

  Cathy : Well, it isn't everyday a girl gets a chance to meet men who know how to share. I mean *really* share.

• Fred Williams : Stop showing off your teeth. Who do you think you are? Kirk Douglas?

• Fred Williams : [talking to himself in the mirror after a few cocktails]  How do you like guys like that? "Don't get yourself in an uproar, pal. They'll be here." If there's one thing I hate its guys who chippen out when the chicks are down. "That's a pretty fat tongue you got there bud."

  [doorbell rings] 

  Fred Williams : Do you got a ringing in the ears? "Probably comes from drinking tee many martonis." What do you mean, tee many? I had exactly through. Three!

• Cathy : It was like telling a girl she's not worth bothering with.

  Fred Williams : I tried bothering with you!