Reducing (1931)

Marie Dressler: Marie Truffle

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Quotes 

• Stuttering Ticket Agent : Where are you going?

  Marie Truffle : New York. I want to go to New York.

  Stuttering Ticket Agent : You'll want to go by Buffalo.

  Marie Truffle : No, I want to go by *train*!

• Polly Rochay : [as Elmer Truffle snores loudly]  Well, I don't know how you could marry a man that snores that way.

  Marie Truffle : [laughing]  It was too late when I found it out.

• Marie Truffle : [to her daughter Vivian]  Aw, come, pull yourself together, darling. Forget all about it. I tell you, there isn't a man in the world worth worrying about. I got to go up now. Your papa's in bed again with his stomach. I'm worried to death about him.

• Elmer Truffle : Hello, Tommy.

  [to Marie] 

  Elmer Truffle : Who was at the door?

  Marie Truffle : Lindbergh to take me flying, but I couldn't go.

• Marie Truffle : [at the train station searching franticly under her blouse for her pocketbook]  Oh, there she is. It slipped. Oh, my land. Now how am I going to get it? Oh, what am I going to do?

  Old Man with White Beard in Train Line : Can I help ya, lady?

  Marie Truffle : You can *not*! There's no fool like an old fool.

• Vivian Truffle : Well, Tommy isn't smart or sophisticated.

  Marie Truffle : Aw, a woman doesn't want a husband who's too smart. A man that's a little dumb is a lot more restful.

• Marie Truffle : You know, my shape isn't what it used to be. As a matter of fact, I don't think I'm very good for a reducing parlor.

  Polly Rochay : Oh, nonsense! Your shape hasn't anything to do with it at all.

  Marie Truffle : Hasn't it?

  Polly Rochay : Just look at the people who buy hair tonic from bald-headed barbers.

  Marie Truffle : Hah, hmmm. I hadn't thought of that.

• Polly Rochay : I don't want the money. Whaddaya think I am, an Indian giver?

  Marie Truffle : You're a whole reservation.

• Polly Rochay : Is that your husband?

  Marie Truffle : Yeah, what's wrong with him?

  Polly Rochay : Nothing. Only he has such a peculiar expression on his face.

  Marie Truffle : Where'd you expect him to have it?

• Stuttering Ticket Agent : Where are you going?

  Marie Truffle : I'm going to visit my sister.

  Stuttering Ticket Agent : Well, where does she live?

  Marie Truffle : On Riverside Drive.

  Stuttering Ticket Agent : Madame, would you be kind enough to tell me what city you wanna go to?

  Marie Truffle : Oh, huh, huh, the city. Why isn't that silly of me? Yeah, I wanna go to New York.

  Stuttering Ticket Agent : You wanna go by Buffalo.

  Marie Truffle : No, I don't wanna go by Buffalo. I wanna go by train.

• Polly Rochay : Oh, I've been so terribly dumb.

  Marie Truffle : Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but I agree with you.

• Marie Truffle : Oh, baby, listen. I don't want you to miss out on the biggest thing in life - real love. Romance!