Doctor X (1932)
Lee Tracy: Lee Taylor
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Quotes
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Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Are you going swimming with me in the morning?
Joanne 'Joan' Xavier : No thanks. Good night.
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : What will you do if I start to sink and yell for help?
Joanne 'Joan' Xavier : Throw you an anvil. Good night!
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Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : [to the Piano Player] Hey, Rachmaninoff - how 'bout the Prelude?
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[repeated line]
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Bad luck!
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Joanne 'Joan' Xavier : [Joan spots Lee on the fire escape] Who's there? Hey, what are you doing up there!
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Huh? I'm a, I'm a building inspector. I work nights so I won't get sunburned.
Joanne 'Joan' Xavier : I asked you, what are you doing up there?
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Well, um, I'm a somnambulist, I probably came up here to have my head examined.
Joanne 'Joan' Xavier : You come down from there or I'll...
[She points a gun at him]
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Daily World Editor : Say, you want to draw another paycheck, don'tcha?
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Certainly, that's my aim in life, but I'd like to keep out of the bughouse to enjoy it.
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Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : I can't get any dope.
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Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Listen, you lunkhead, I'm not clowning.
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Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Listen, I wanna get off this story. Put me back on crossword puzzles, covering woman's clubs, anything, will you?
Daily World Editor : Say, what's the matter with you?
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : What's the matter with me? Nothing at all. Only I spent all last night laying next to a bunch of stiffs, looking at a lot of goofy guys. I let a dame poke a gun in my stomach, and then I let a dumb policeman slip me a trick cigar.
Daily World Editor : Say, you want to draw another paycheck, don't you?
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Certainly, that's my aim in life, but I'd like to keep out of the bughouse to enjoy it.
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Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : That dumb, potbellied, flat-footed cop.
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Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : I think it's pretty swell. What do you think?
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Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Well, isn't that the funniest thing? You know, this is really all your own fault. You have absolutely no business photographing so attractively.
Joanne 'Joan' Xavier : Thank you.
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : And I have a habit of collecting pictures of beautiful girls.
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Joanne 'Joan' Xavier : Can't you realize what a scandal would do to my father's institution?
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Certainly I can, but don't you realize that I'm in a hard-boiled racket?
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Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : The public want to read about it. The more sensational it is, the more the son-of-a-guns love it.
Joanne 'Joan' Xavier : Is that all you think about? Sensationalism? Don't you ever think about people's feelings?
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Mamie, Xavier's Maid : [calling down from the edge of the balcony, as Lee Taylor is leaving the Xavier mansion] Hey!
Mamie, Xavier's Maid : Take *this* home to your grandmother!
[she then dumps a tub of water down on his head]
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : [snaps his fingers] Bad luck!
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[first lines]
Lee Taylor, Daily World Reporter : Are you bad luck?