Gracie Allen: Gracie Allen

Quotes 

• Gracie Allen : I bought two lovely pairs of brown leather shoes, and two beautiful navy blue dresses with white lace collars, and two hats exactly alike, and two red blouses.

  Peter the Waiter : Mrs. Burns, why do you buy two of everything?

  Gracie Allen : To make my husband happy.

  Peter the Waiter : I beg your pardon?

  Gracie Allen : Well, you see, when I come home with a lot of packages, he always says, "Gracie, send half of them back." So I do!

• Ronnie Burns : I don't want to do comedy, I wanna take a crack at serious drama.

  Gracie Allen : But Ronnie, we've done comedy all our lives and we're proud of what we've done, and we thought you were too. Well, all our lives we've hoped and dreamed that someday you'd join us. Well, this comes as quite a shock. I - I don't know what to say.

  Ronnie Burns : Dad, did you hear that? What a reading, what feeling, what emotion! What a dramatic actress she might have been if you hadn't put her in comedy.

  Gracie Allen : Really, Ronnie?

  Ronnie Burns : Sure, mother!

  Gracie Allen : Oh, George Burns, you ought to be ashamed of yourself! You've wrecked my career!

• Gracie Allen : [to Ronnie]  I know showbusiness will be just as good to you as it has been to your father and me!

  George Burns : He doesn't mean comedy showbusiness. He wants to be a dramatic actor. He doesn't want to be funny, doesn't wanna get laughs.

  Gracie Allen : Wonderful! That means you can step right into your father's shoes!

• Velma Rogers : So you're Ronnie's mother. It's hard to believe - you look so young!

  Gracie Allen : Well, thank you!

  Velma Rogers : I'm sure people must mistake you for sister and brother.

  Gracie Allen : Well, I have been taken for Ronnie's sister - but never his brother!