Public Hero Number 1 (1935)

Jean Arthur: Maria Theresa O'Reilly

Quotes 

• Maria Theresa O'Reilly : I thought you had a grin in your system somewhere. Come out and give it to me again! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. That's right.

• Maria Theresa O'Reilly : You've got a swell laugh. Why don't you use it more?

  Jeff Crane : Well, I don't get a chance to. They don't come so goofy as you very often.

• Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Say, what does a girl have to do for a ride in your Buick?

• Maria Theresa O'Reilly : I gave you a marvelous chance to get rid of me. But, you grabbed me like a seal grabs fish.

• Sonny Black : They'll never get me in jail again.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : I bet your new hat they do.

• Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Dear little Dinkie, always ready with a dirty word and a push in the face.

• Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Can't you get it through your thick head that I'm proposing to you?

• Jeff Crane : I've got to hop off here, Terry. So long.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : So long. Not too long, though.

• Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Let me out of here!

  Train Conductor : No you don't, young lady.

  [to Crane] 

  Train Conductor : Anything else I can do?

  Jeff Crane : Yes, lock the door.

• Doctor Josiah Glass : McManus, my cleaver.

  McManus the Bartender : Hello, Doc.

  [Hands him surgical tools] 

  Jeff Crane : There's your twenty dollars.

  McManus the Bartender : You the victim?

  Doctor Josiah Glass : [drunken slur]  No. I am going out into the storm to answer the cry of suffering and distress. McManus, it's on nights like this that I realize the novility of my profession. I serve humanity and you serve drinks. You may serve me a drink, McManus, on the house.

  Jeff Crane : You may not.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Might as well. You won't get back on that road tonight. Am I right?

  [gesturing to drunk] 

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : He just washed in.

  Scottsdale Bar Drunk : [Drunken slur]  Crick overflowed the Sandswell bridge.

  Jeff Crane : We've got to get through.

  Doctor Josiah Glass : I'm on a case.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : And two bottles to go.

  Scottsdale Bar Drunk : [Drunken slur]  Better wait till it stops raining. The bridge is under three feet of water.

  Doctor Josiah Glass : Water! Water ruins everything. Now if that bridge was under three feet of whiskey...

• Salesman on Bus Annoying Terry : I wish I had a Buick.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : I wish I had a short length of pipe.

  Jeff Crane : [pulls lever in car, hits Maria's legs] 

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Flirt!

• Maria Theresa O'Reilly : You grabbed me like a seal grabs fish.

• Jeff Crane : Because, when I get around to it, I'm gonna see a lot of you. And if I started in now, you might get tired of me by that time.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Well, that doesn't make sense. Besides, the demand's awfully big for me. I might get tied up.

• Jeff Crane : What's your name?

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : Maria Theresa O'Reilly.

  Jeff Crane : [Nodding]  Cook me some, too.

  Maria Theresa O'Reilly : That's my name and I've had enough trouble with it from wise guys. My father was Irish and my mother was Italian and it's not my fault.